I pledged to Akabur for a long time, and I stopped a few months ago.
I mean, I love the dude and his work. I honestly think that PT and WT were one of the best things even today in all of the erotic/porn game business. He was the absolute king back then. But he is not anymore.
No matter how you want to defend SC34, you can't. The game's not bad, it has a very nice feeling to it, but that simply can't justify 2 years. 2 years and it's only that. There's a shitload of adult game devs that did 3 times what he did in those 2 years. As someone that gave him over 80 $, I almost feel betrayed. And I say almost because the truth is I don't even care that much anymore about his work, Akabur's done.
And it's not even all about the game. On his patreon, we can see things like "I don't believe in taking days off". Lol... When 70 % of his patreon posts last year have been things like "Hey, I played that game, was good", "Yeah that one wasn't good I'm disappointed", "Fucking russian government annoying me when I just want to play games on the PS4". Nice holidays in Italy too.
Before anyone jump on me : I don't care if the dev isn't working full time on his game. I don't care if he takes days off (and I think every game dev should once in a while). What I don't like is that he's selling himself on his patreon as a very hardworking man that builds his game higher and higher every day. That's NOT what he's doing.
I also felt let down as a supporter when I heard him he was doing his turtle game. Like WTF, SC34 ep 2 took one fucking whole year to come out (only to be cleared in 2 hours hahahahahaha
), he took all this time saying that it was in order to optimize the game and get way faster for the future updates, and then what ? He throws SC34 for a few months only to develop one game that consists in one big h scene (the game is nice, don't annoy me on that, that's just not the point). This is simply spitting on his supporters to me (I stopped pledging when he announced that shit).
I think that what is happening right now with Akabur is that he's getting free money (5000$ a month, in Russia that means you can live pretty, preeeetty well) without having to invest much time and effort, and he knows that to keep things that way he just has to make funny posts on patreon once a week.