You all act like Eromancer has some huge well documented history of abandoning games.
Is there any other game besides MatM that he's "abandoned"? Or has he only "abandoned" one game and you guys are acting like he abandons all projects he works on?
EDIT: I mean, I haven't known of the dev for long, and even I can see that the update progress is very, very slow. But among the novels of accusations and people complaining, I'm not seeing anything that really screams at him abandoning this in any way.
It all depends on your definition of the word "abandoned".
If you mean gone forever, Eromancer only abandoned 1 project, the 2D Pure Onyx (3D Pure Onyx started from scratch).
But if you mean spending resources on games, models or animations for months, and then don't bring them back again FOR YEARS, then he has abandoned 2 other projects (MatM and XXXIV) and around 10 enemy models that have been 3D sculpted and polished (and some of them rigged too) and around 30 more enemies that are in different phases of "development".
Take the January and February monthly updates as an example, he's wasting time on:
- A BACKGROUND CHARACTER (neither a player character, nor and NPC or a enemy, just a background character) for a boss battle that still doesn't exist, with a Boss enemy that's still not in game (although the model was sculpted more than 2 years ago) at the end of a stage that still doesn't exist either.
- 2 SPIDER MODELS (out of 3 models that have been "in progress" for 2 years) that are extra work to animate and can't have H-scenes because Eromancer hasn't figured out yet how Patreon censorship works.
Also, it is very crybaby indeed to complain about "only one animation, and it's a reskin". I appreciate reskins to a degree.
You missed the sarcasm in that sentence. During 1 year (2022) and with a team of 12+ people and an average of $20K/month Eromancer released 4 "new" H-scenes. Actually 1 H-scene with 4 variations.
The "only 1 animation, and it's a reskin" is not a "crybaby complain", but a sad - and sarcastic - statement of fact.
Just have a look at Eromancer's monthly "WIP updates" posts on Kemono and you'll see all the wasted work