F95 needs a new [INLIMBO] state, beside [ONHOLD], for situations like SS'.
We're ~53 days away from a whopping 2 years since work allegedly began on the Tech-Update vaporware. Even as delays became grotesque, all anyone has seen are rando drawings of wallpapers and backgrounds but nothing resembling alpha software that actually demos meaningful progress. Fact is, a (hopefully) once in a lifetime global pandemic has come and gone and the Tech Update is still nowhere to be seen in action.
Meanwhile, the dev keeps fueling hopes with these tiny side-updates nobody asked for as well as a never ending stream of promises on how serious he takes it, how many people he hired (he must be running a FAANG at this point), how many future updates he already drew in advance, etc. etc.
I don't know of any even half-successful conman who admits to what he's doing unless forced to. The onus is on the victims to figure out what's going on.
But it's also on the people who have the luxury of clearly seeing what's going on and are in a position to speak up. F95 is in this position. F95 is a beacon for news and info around these projects and what is said here goes as far as the Internet (googling) is concerned.
Fact is, what is being said on F95 has a direct effect on dev's bottom line. Less than 10% of all his patreons renew every month. 90% are on auto-pilot and unlikely to wake up unless someone like F95 speaks up and flags the project as being in deep trouble.
I hope F95 considers adding this [INLIMBO] state as SS is special enough in more ways than one to warrant the change, even though other games have been flagged straight [ABANDONED] despite their devs also trying SS' empty updates & promises scheme to some extent.
I also hope F95 decides to do something about the few SS apologists who've overrun this thread. Every other comment comes from this handful of accounts. Enough is enough.
