Nothing to be gained? this forum more or less made his games popular, this is where this kind of games are getting heavily promoted, i would never heard of his games if they weren't here.
It's his choice to leave but he might as well just ignore the hating comments (which doesn't happen all the time) without leaving, he maded it sound like his thread is full of trolls who constantly harasses him.
This game will exist on this forum with to without the dev. The gains of having a game available on such a forum is not really what is being discussed. The concern is whether or not a dev can receive a critical analysis of his games on forums other than this place. He can and does.
I don't know why he left. I don't care. I am here to discuss the game with you and people like you. If I want his opinion, I go to Discord and Patreon.
This explanation affirms even more that it is not the same. And you are assuring it by saying that here you are an anonymous person and in Discord you are not.
And it has nothing to do with dealing with trolls or not, it has to do with the closed environment and the chat format.
Just as I am not the same in any of the different environments.
The mechanics are different, live chat versus posts. You can be anonymous on either forum if you so choose, I am not on Patreon or Discord. Ocean's Discord server is available for anyone to join, as is this forum. There is an age restriction (thankfully) on Discord, which can be bypassed by rascally youth.
What is different? What does a dev stand to gain by using this forum versus Discord? How is this relevant to Ocean leaving this forum?