She was having issues long before that was a thing and long before covid.
I agree. I never suggested otherwise. I'm only saying that the war complicates things and makes developing this game more difficult for her. But I also stated that I don't think that this is an excuse. It might make things more difficult, but it doesn't make them impossible, and she's had more than enough time to turn out another update.
Some of us were trying to play her games since 2017 when Holy Slaves came out. The site I was on then didn't get much news but when I got here I found out she'd abandoned that one not long after. Then she dropped this and the same behavior happened.
I was not one of the people who played
Holy Slaves before it was abandoned, but I was among the first wave of people to play this game, and have been consistently following its development since the first week of its release. So, of course, I also know about the
Holy Slaves fiasco. And I agree that her development of this game shows the same lack of discipline and lack of communication. However, one important difference between the two games is that she has continued to release new content for this game over a period of years. The new updates have been too few and too far between, but this game is clearly not in the same state as
Holy Slaves.
Russia didn't invade Ukraine until Feb 2022, 5 years after she started and she had already had this down as abandoned.
She's not the one who had this game down as abandoned. F95 did that. They've had it down as abandoned more than once. And they had good cause. But it wasn't actually abandoned. Rather, it was being severely neglected by an unreliable developer. I grant you that, from the points of view of the player and this forum, there's not a whole lot of difference.
I also don't believe the mental health problems. Last I heard she was a student and doing this for the money.
Yes, she was a student until the war broke out. I believe that she left school at that point, because she was attending a school in another country, and was traveling back and forth across the border during the school year, or so she once told us on her Discord. I don't know if she is now attending a Russian school or not. And yes, I'm sure she wants to make money off of the game. I don't see why either of those points would have a bearing on whether or not she genuinely has mental health problems.
If I recall correctly, she has claimed to suffer from some sort of anxiety disorder and some degree of chronic depression. I find her behavior to be consistent with the behaviors of other people I've known who had those problems, so I'm inclined to believe her. But, as I said before, that's not an excuse. Whether or not she has mental health problems, once she started taking people's money, she assumed certain responsibilities, and she currently isn't fulfilling them (and hasn't been for a long time). At a minimum, she ought to be a lot more transparent with her supporters about her development progress.
I don't know how it is with payments to Russia at the moment, but many companies do not support it. There are several Russian devs who have given up on creation due to restrictions. This is probably the case as well.
No, that is not the case for Alishia. She is still able to receive payments from SubscribeStar. She has trouble getting money from Patreon, but has stated that she can still manage to get that money a couple of times per year.