He's very far from a money problem. Four days from now, on 14-Feb, it will be exactly 2 years since he first claimed work on the Tech Update vaporware has started. In the meanwhile, his monthly income at Patreon grew to almost $78k and then slowly deflated to about $65k last month.
The past year is 100% unjustified delay. There is no working demo of the vaporware he claims he's working on. There is no delivery in sight. All he does is draw backgrounds and wallpapers from time to time. And with all that he's only losing about $1000/month from subscribers who finally figure out what's going on and only 10-15% of his total subscriber base actually renew their subscription monthly, everyone else is on auto pilot, simply throwing money in his bottomless hole with no demands.
Just in the past year he cashed in well over half a million $ for aimlessly doodling a few hours / week. If he changes literally nothing in his m.o., he stands to easily make another million $ in the next ~2 years. As far as he's concerned: If it works, don't fix it.
F95 as well as all the other sites reviewing these games should take much more responsibility vis-a-vis signaling that there's a massive problem with this project. Otherwise, the game itself is dead because with every passing month, what has to be done to get the project back on track becomes crushingly more expensive vs. the alternative of changing nothing and just enjoying whatever still drips in, for however long that lasts (and the history of these projects is littered with cases where it takes a very long while for the drip to stop). Patreons should demand to see a working demo before paying a single $ more. If this far along it's not possible to show a satisfying demo, this project is in effect dead.
