I haven't given any money. Its just funny seeing people butt hurt that an in development game is not drip-feeding 10min updates every month like most games. Over a year ago the dev said the artist was unavailable so he decided to refactor the code from scratch to allow more streamlined updates in the future and that it was going to be a while for anything new. He then ask his paying patrons if they wanted to release something at the start of the year or get the game in a state that completes the next corruption stage. They voted to wait and have a massive update. It is what it is.
If you consider the game dead then unfollow the thread ezpz. Personally, I like arguing online, so im havin' fun either way.
I like arguing online as well.... I also don't like people who jerk people around. I honestly don't care about the game at this point, the dev has lost me with their delays and excuses.
Now you can believe the dev if you want to, just like apparently most of his Patreon follows did but I have been screwed over by game devs far to many times to just trust, oh the artist bla bla bla, oh my homework bla bla bla, oh family issues bla bla bla.
Point is, if you want to do something you will. If you want to jerk people around you will. If you want to lie your butt off to see how gullible people are you will. Maybe the dev screwed over the artist and they left for good reason. Do you know all the specific details? If not then you are just trusting this dev at his word. I don't do that, I trust people who prove to me they are trustworthy.