1) They didn't spend those 2 millions dollars yet since this is just an Early Release. We still have about 75% of the game to go.
2) Most of the game on this site take way more than 2 years to be completed.
The fact they're releasing an early access, instead of the promised complete game, is for a cash injection. They
spent that money on 3 years of expanded staff to cover the untenable stretch goals of the Gofundme. This is all they have. They don't even have 9 scenes per girl. Kili recycles two of the animation loops of the earlier girls. You ask yourself how that happens if they had their shit together and "80% of the game" just waiting to be released.
Most games on this site are parody so can't be directly monetized and/or supported by dripfeed monthly pledges through their development cycle.
Subverse got 2 million dollars and years of time to complete the game first.
They didn't choose to go early access, pledge for ongoing development. They chose to produce a fixed price, preorderable videogame. They already failed, this is just the contractual minimum to square things with GoFundme for all the money they accepted.
They sold themselves as being the extra most bestest with real™ videogame™ production™ unlike anything thats ever been attempted.
>And all they have to show for it is a bloated
phone game cobbled out of
prebought bullethell-isometric combat assets with an 18,572mb footprint
If you expect this to ever truly be finished, with this being their best foot forward after years of devhell, you're just setting yourself up for some more cope when it never materializes.
If I was a betting man, absolute best case if they don't just fold entirely (as the playernumbers and "sales" aren't showing them as getting much new money, just 60,000 outstanding steam keys being claimed.) you're just going to see "22 chapters" converted into 3 more galaxy builds; the remaining 7 girls shovelwared out with massive overlap of recycled animation rigs
Just like killi, and in the endgame the big bad evil empress will lose her powers/purity from monster rape. Universe saved. No refunds.
If they weren't planning this, they wouldn't have thrown in the unrelated lategame cutscenes to pad the build and exposition dump their way through the galactic conflict plot.
