Damn. There must be a flu that affects only game devs (of adult games).
Imagine if triple-A gaming companies like CDProjekt Red had a Patreon. Would they get the same flu too?
Or better yet, imagine if everyday people who work regular jobs from nine to five, called their bosses and said they have an unknown disease/ they got mentally tired so they need to rest for a couple of months. But they shouldn't lose their job because they will get better! Just a break for a couple of months! What do you think would happen then?
In general, many adult game devs treat this as their job (some of them say so in their Patreon goals, stuff like 'If this game reaches $1k a month I will be working on it full time!' etc).
Stress comes with every job. People don't have mental breakdowns all the time by just working.
Fact of the matter is: A stranger on the internet is claiming to have a condition that renders them incapable of producing any work whatsoever. I'm not going to believe them without some hard proof. That's just me though.
Fact of the matter is, why should he give a damn what you think?
Like usual you people never look into it, you see a dev is ill, you automatically start complaining and assuming and basically come to it from the position that he must be lying without any reason.
Which is a position that I think tells us more about you than about the dev. Namely that you either have trust issues or would be someone who would tell lies to cover for himself in a similar situation.
And if you mention triple-A gaming companies, CDProjekt Red and I love them, no doubt about it, put publishing Witcher 3 back for what? 6 months?
Did you believe them when they told us fans it was just to make the game better or did you accuse them of lying as well?
Or how about all those triple-A games nowadays that are being published riddled with bugs that make them next to unplayable and then having to wait several patches in, just to finally play a game as it is supposed to be played, even though you paid for it weeks ago, or maybe months if you pre-ordered? Is that better than a dev becoming sick?
Why not approach each case as it's own? Check the facts, like in this case where people don't even need to pay, as long as Cedsense doesn't work on the game. Why not check if the dev has a history of delays and dozens of excuses, check if he usually delivers what he promises AND THEN draw a conclusion?
