I know there is a lot of anger and yes, if this game had no merits then none of us would actually care. The LI's are attractive, the MC is decent (far from the worst, not the best, but he is pretty good). The story is pretty good, and the fact it is slow burn instead of the MC sleeping with half the city population in 3 days would normally be a good thing and make the rewards more satisfying. Instead, the only thing that burns slower is actually the development and progress!
I am convinced Sir Damned in milking the hell out of everybody, and/or ran into direction problems with Radiant. He has all these excuses on how he simply has no time, but his ever-active online presence elsewhere indicates he could put a hell of a lot more effort into this game if he chose to. Some games are slow burn due to story, or making the rewards more satisfying. I personally think the slow burn is to get people hooked while collecting donations, then coming out with one or two updates a year, to milk more donations. Then "almost" letting MC get with his wards, you finally feel like you get a built up reward. Then suddenly, the MC is like, "I got some place trivial to be, gotta run..... but I will do more next time!" Then it's side chick, next "almost ward scene", rinse then repeat. Poor for advancing the slowly manifesting story, great for building suspense. Ultimately, it frustrating waiting most of a year or more just to likely get closer, yet let down again.
There are so many low quality games, or woke games, yet those games seem to have active development because the authors want to continue the story for the people who are fans. SD seems to dangle carrots at those rascally rabbits who want to play the damn game, then miss deadlines because "Life, you know?" Meanwhile, he is profiting from donations and it just all seems like he is in it for the money, not the art or working towards advancing the story, and certainly not for us!
The wise who want to keep (and grow) their fanbase work to please said fans. SD would rather milk things and goof off on Twitter. A person with so many life events holding him back would not have so much presence elsewhere. It's the same as calling off sick from work, then posting pictures of yourself at the beach on social media. If you have time to post lame things on Twitter, you have time to work on your game.
