Ocean is cleaning up and reworking SG Season 1 ahead of the Steam release.
You seem content to point out the time since we had an update to the story, moving it forward, but that ignores the entire reason for the rework which has taken significant time away from moving the story forward.
Steam is a Big deal - a successful launch on Steam = a major increase in resourcing, allowing for the purchase of better/more hardware, more music licensing and even adding others to help with SG/WIAB universe development (like someone to coordinate music purchases so Ocean can spend more of his time advancing the SG story).
Here is part Ocean's Dev from Mar 16, 2023:
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Hello,
So, it's finally time.
... links for download
Changelog:
New with the Full release: - Added 979 new Renders to Chapter 2
- Added 2 animations to Chapter 2.
- Added 17 new renders to Chapter 3. (Removed the Said Fight cinematic.)
- Re-rendered 300+ renders for Chapter 3.5. (More on this in a future Dev Log.)
- Added 6 new licensed music tracks.
- Finished removing all music that would've needed to be removed in the future. (Including the cinematics music.)
- Added 6 new licensed music tracks.
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In addition, Ocean added in pathing supporting Sasha's LI path; making changes to the initial Victoria encounter; and is working on adding an in AVN phone for better immersion, all of which has been discussed in dev logs released every other week for SG.
If you support Ocean with $, it is your choice to continue or to stop.
If you are here taking SG for free then complaining that it is not being released in the timeframe you've determined for Ocean, then that is an Entirely different issue.
Ocean is The most ambitious of the developers I support with $.
I'm happy to do so and, if his historical performance and communication is a good guide for the future, I will continue to support and enjoy SG.
Would we like SG delivered more quickly with renders/music/animations/story equal to or better than what we have now - Of Course, but I'd like the same for EVERY AVN I enjoy. The reality is Wanting this has no impact on actually Getting this -- wanting provides No new resources to execute 'getting' SG or any other AVN with all the bells and whistles mentioned above.
If I can wait and hope
(often forlornly) for Isaac Asimov's Foundation series to be turned into a major series on TV/cable, and decades later it is, I can certainly give Ocean the time he needs to develop SG when I get to view the steps in that development every month.
Cheers!!