For her to actually release it in 2 parts it would mean she would have to do extra work to make it make sense with just a half of the story.
That is just speculation. Eva never said that it will be in any way, shape or form, harder for her to release the game in 2 parts. She just said that is not how she envisioned the project, when she started. Other than that, everything is hearsay.
Anyway, I don't see a point in discussing about this any further. It's been almost 3 months since that decision was taken. This chapter and probably others will contain both Ian's part and Lena's part and that is ok.
Why does Eva no longer share fully colored sneak peeks in her weekly updates like she used to do ?
Now it's always i've been doing this and that with sometimes an unfinished illustration ... I think it will serve as proof that the development is progressing, build the hype for the next update/keep people interested and steer them away from the "milking" discussions.
You could also add:
- why doesn't Eva post the weekly status report every week?
- why doesn't Eva post anything from behind the scenes that will explain how she approaches writing and why is it so much harder to write the story now than it was in the past ?
- why doesn't Eva ask patreons to write StalkFap comments anymore ?
- why is communication not even a second thought? Even with that last teaser, she 'kind of forgot about the Iron Fleet' ... sorry, about the fact that she used that teaser already.
Some will probably answer with: well communication is a waste of time, it's better to work on the project, instead of writing posts on Patreon. And to that, I can only say that is not the end of the world if you spend 1 hour, out of 40, per week to do something like this. Maybe it will actually help, because you'll have to think about something else.
Update: The new status update arrived just on time - now everyone is talking about something different. We can talk about the game again.