You claimed in a previous post that Saddog in the past was away for a whole year and you had proof of that, you mind posting said proof? The mods on this site might let a game go longer than 3 months before it gets the abandoned tag but iirc i've never seen an game go on 12 months without getting an abandoned tag while the dev was being radio silent. What i remember was that Saddog in the past did take his sweet as time before releasing an update, 5/6 months would have passed before we saw an update but in those 5/6 months we still got patreon posts or custom renders so we knew he was still around.
yes you are right... there was a stop of about 8 months before this update...
than he posted a message in June of this year...
what i'm saying is: the 3 months rule in this web site is not a proof ...
so if you discard this rule...: this game is not abandoned.
in any case here some link to prove that the abandoned mark in the title line mean absolutely NOTHING!
or better... it can damage developer who has worked hard on a game that is in an advanced state of development and players can very well be enjoyed in this version as is.
Links:
game that was declared abandoned by this site
in 2018 Katie's corruption (no less also the patreon page was removed)
https://f95zone.to/threads/katies-corruption-v1-19-3diddly.1838/page-111#post-825102
the game was completed in April 2020
in the 2019 Lida's Adventure with Patreon page live and a lot of supporters I was 1 of them
and i started to support when this site added the abandoned mark
https://f95zone.to/threads/lidas-adventures-ep-2-v0-94-terebonkoff.523/page-225#post-2934828
in the 2020 May/June
Project Sage ACT 1 declared as abandoned
https://f95zone.to/threads/project-sage-act-1-v0-19d-paperwork.9895/page-200#post-3702123
here you can read also a lot of my posts about...
and this post where I was elected as "HERO" for the fact that I have started to support the dev during
the abandoned STIGMA of this site.
of course I'm sure that there are a lot of game that I do not follow with this behaviour.
and here we go with the tons of game without mark (complete or abandoned) that was not updated for more than 3 months or years in sme cases (I know if the dev post a message it will be considered in progress) not so clever rule
https://f95zone.to/threads/new-roissy-celine-day-2-forcefer.22775/
https://f95zone.to/threads/dickboy-v1-3-bambook.24969/
https://f95zone.to/threads/alchemist-v0-0-7-witch-dev.7530/
(there are more for sure--- this is just what I have found on a quick research)
after that there are ONHOLD marked games that will never... or better has been no updated for 2/3 years
https://f95zone.to/threads/jessica-oneils-apocalypse-chronicles-ch-2-stoperart.17960/
The main thing for me is the fact that games evidently in advanced state cannot be compared with games that are filed attempt with only the first release and no more update.
games like The Tyrant or Project Sage cannot be compared to ONHOLD games that have just started a story with little content and that do not give any news about the future evolution from the author. (honesty of the author)
For games like The Tyrant there should be something like ONHOLD.
I think about something like "await-news" should be more accurate ... at least for 1 year
because 3 months of silence are not enough to declare abandoned a game so near to be finished.