for no track record western porn games the abandonment rate is much higher, if go to the abandoned section most of them are first time western developer,26% of all games (32% of games listed on 2018 Mar 1 or before) on this site isn't "astoundingly high" - I still have 2:1 or 3:1 odds.
Uh, no. That's not abandoned (8 months to a year without an update) because this developer already shows long release times (6-7 months for several updates even before splitting the game into two versions) - it would have to be at least 6 months without any communication about updates by developer on their discord or patreon... or the dev states they have abandoned/given up on it. I follow several games with release cycles that are longer than a year, but the developers keep people informed of progress.
Either way, we'll see when we get there.
a lot of devs can talk, until they produce results its vaporware but we will see in 2 years