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Twitch leaks showed people were earning MILLIONS from donations there - people on 30k a year donating to people who are making seven figures, at the end of the day people are free to do what they will with their money but it doesnt give anyone the right to judge how the devs spend their time nor how people spend their money especially if you aint even the one spending said money. Ultimately STS is a weird game - its a multi layered game vs say people who run with Renpy and can churn out updates much quicker so long as they are willing. Here? NO assets pre-exist so are hand created and by multiple people (to whom the money your obsessing over has to be split between) and thats the reason its so succesfull as honestly its pretty damned unique as a game vs majority of what else is on the site. This game is nowhere near new on the scene - if your unhappy with how slow updates come or the content within them then you must be really damned new around it or being sanctimonious for no damned reason about what others are earning for no reason (especially if you are pirating just like most everyone else who complains).This - if I could spend my life travelling and living the high life, while people throw a bucket of money at me, and all I have to do is occasionally do a bit of work which nobody can judge me on how long I actually spent working... sounds like the ideal life. Even when an update is complained about - people will still buy into what's being offered. Problem is the people willing to pay, and the constant stream of new players who don't realise the trap they've gotten themselves into. Look at the thread on A Wife and Mother - there are constantly comments saying 'wow, just finished this amazing game, when is the next update?' not realising that people have been waiting several years already for bare minimum updates. Then there are all the superfans & theorists speculating what happens in 'the world' as though the characters are real people. Meanwhile Dev is spending 99.9% of their lives doing other things.
Even here on a piracy site little research is required to find out where a dev is regarding updates and community faith but then almost none dont get wrecked through the coals by complete free loading strangers like all modern cancel culture obsessed internet lurkers as everyone gotta judge everyone else. For everyone scoff i make at people who are braindead in repeating themselves moaning about say Waifu Academy getting sparse updates (despite this being TREND FOR YEARS - why expect otherwise) or MILFY CITY the most infamous fall out where a dev with what near decade long trend of quickly churning out games then moving on to new ones is someone supposed to be financially arrested because people would rather he just keep updating this one (no freedom of choice for you dev!) or even Radiant devs getting called out as fucking lazy milkers because it gets few updates despite day one clarity from then it it being not their only games being developed (and thus mass of entitled pirates demanding they drop longer established games for the one THEY prefer). I know where i stand with STS, i know how often itll get updates and what content comes. I judge based on that and i dont pay based on that, same reason the ones i do back with money are never just on a whim but if thats how people wanna blow their money then its their call whether i agree with it or not, sure aint my damned business.