How about the people like me who check in every couple of years and still 0 progress has been made on the main story. I understand an infinite number of issue can delay a game's development progress, but come on now. There are excuses... and then there are EXCUSES. I'm usually one to side with the dev, but in this one case, I just can't. It's unacceptable no matter how you look at it. Defend the indefensible if you wish, but I ain't playing along.
Well I did say:
I can't help but feel like a lot of people would be happier if you just checked in on the game once every 6-12 months.
So I would argue that you are taking the right approach if you want to keep following the progress of the game while minimizing your frustration.
But as I said in that same post and
FoxOfEmbers reiterated, due to poor management early in development the main story was 95% done years ago while almost one of the side content was done. All that is left to do is to write a couple of epilogue scenes to tie it directly into part 2, and that will probably be the very last thing they do for part 1.
Early on the devs promised a lot of side content with out realizing how long it was actually going to take to make, and many of the early devs had a tendency to work on pet projects rather than the actual promised content. So currently the development is focused on catching up on delivering all that promised content before capping it off. Now you might say that they clearly bit off more than they could chew and they should have cut their loses and just wrapped up part 1. And honestly I would be somewhat inclined to agree with that view.
But when they polled their patrons, they pretty overwhelmingly voted to finish all the promised side content. Now that poll was years ago, and I don't think either the devs or the patrons realized how long it was going to take to complete all that content. But considering their patreon is holding steady I think it is safe to say that most of the people funding the game's continued development are, if not happy, at least accepting on the current state of affairs.
And as long as the patrons are accepting there isn't a lot of reason to change course. Arguing with a bunch of pirates on a pirating website isn't going to change anyone's mind. If you want to change the course of development, your best course of action would be to join their patreon, get in the discord, and then arguing to change the minds of the other patrons. But anyway you look at it money is were the influance is.
