Y'know, despite regulars like myself who know what's going, at least via
King_In_Yellow re-posting updates and previews Discord and Patreon, I'm seeing first-hand why the team Kanye shrugs to the fairweather players. It's also causing me to scream internally, but it is what it is unfortunately.
We had people say we were milking people on Patreon for all we were worth when we first started, despite actively pushing monthly updates to get the game established. We had people say we were fleecing people and trying to scam money from everyone we could, despite every penny going into the game and the team (other than the artists, which is where all the money goes) essentially working for free for over two years. We had people say we were using AI art, despite us showing the sketches and early versions of the art, or the game hides a bitcoin miner, because it won't run on someone's Pentium 90 and and and
This isn't any different. We've tried to be as transparent as we can and we try and communicate what's happening as clearly as we can. This massive overhaul was postponed for about a year, simply because we didn't want people to have to reset. It wasn't a decision made lightly or easily, despite what people may claim. Ron and Shiny have both said in the past that it needed to be done, and explained the reasons why in detail. People are going to make assumptions and repeat claims they've seen elsewhere as fact. There's not much we can do about that.
For the record, a chapter select is in the planning, once we get to chapter 2, something we've also been vocal about. It's in the early stages, but it's coming When It's Ready. As is v1.1. We want to get this stuff out as soon as we can, but time is still, unfortunately, linear, and as long as that's the case, this is how things are.