Dude why you think so hard? with all that money Eroman and his team is enjoying life better than us, he is gonna make animation when he feel like it that's why it take sooo long, best to come back after 5 yearsYou also said that he hired 2 programmers in Jan-2023. It's been 8 months so... what have they been up to?
Are they still learning the very complex code this game has?
Was it just another lie? Or does it take 8 months to change the UI?
The income keeps growing, the team keeps growing, but the output keeps diminishing.
There is no such thing as a "perfect steak". And there is no such thing as a "perfect video game". As the old saying goes, "perfection is the enemy of good"
And this is EXACTLY the reason why Eromancer isn't fitted to develop a game. He's great as a Lead Artist and a decent marketing guy (when he doesn't shoot himself in the foot) but he has no clue on how to make a game. An art gallery and a game aren't the same (ESPECIALLY when said game is a Beat 'em Up)
I said it before and I say it again, he needs to hire a game developer, someone who understands how to make a game, any kind of game (preferably a Beat 'em Up, but anything will be better than Eromancer).
Also, Eromancer is not a perfectionist. Right now there are 50+ enemies already modeled and rigged - ready to be implemented in the game. If he was a perfectionist he would focus on a few enemies and try to make them "perfect". Instead he's jumping around many different enemies (and keeps adding new ones every month) and only puts less than 10% of them in the game. That's not how a perfectionist behaves. And that's not how a 10+ year adult video game developer behaves (because he's not a rookie - don't give the lame excuse that he's "learning" - he's been doing this long enough)
...Actually, that how a kid behaves. He starts working on an enemy, but gets bored and starts another, until he gets bored and tries a 3rd one. Rinse and repeat. That's how a child behaves, not an adult.