And rightfully so. Was that a Ci-en post?
Yeah I follow them on Ci-en because Zeven was good and Grace was even better. Their next game looks awesome as well. It's even one of those devs that constantly post née preview pics without a pay wall.
Also the dev has a lot of reason to be mad as hell. It is 5 years later, the porn game market is a lot more saturated. Stuff that blew up 5 years ago would get shit on today, so you could say he missed out on quite some profit because of their actions.
Putting aside the allegations of stealing that we can't prove, what we can say for a fact is already bad enough.
Zeven came out when the market wasn't very developed and standards were lower. The game is good...for that time. If it came out today fresh on DLsite I'd give it a passing mark at best.
Or I might pass on it altogether because it uses the much worse VXace system thats so much worse than MV. I'm genuinely not even interested in the translation for this now. Having played the developer's later game (grace) which is so much better, that uses a newer system and even has animations, my interest in Zeven is basically zero at this point (and I already own it on DLsite!).
I totally get the developer lamenting that they should have negotiated a date of release in the contract.