Let me offer you a different outlook to
nicknicola's, and one most people in this thread will agree with, as opposed to his.
Basically everyone's opinion of the devs in this thread has gone from favourable to godawful in this past year because of their failure to come out with any real content for 2019 (F7 is pretty much confirmed to be coming out in 2020).
Add to this the fact that it has come to light that Bo Wei, the head honcho of this game, has been unapologetically stealing the work of multiple artists, and has been lazily reusing pieces of art (sometimes even the stolen ones) to a crazy extent. Hell, sometimes he even reuses full games (Warrior Guild and Lily's floor are just rehashed versions of his old projects).
Then there's Koda, Bo Wei's co-developer. It'll be easier to tell you an anecdote in order to have you understand why pretty much everyone hates him.
Months ago, Koda announced he was working on a "Spring cleaning" expansion for Tower of Trample. He said a full version with content for all 8 girls would come out "soon" and gave an estimated release date. Then when it was about time for his update to be done, he told us that the update was unfortunately gonna get delayed, and it would only have content for 4 of the girls instead of 8, content for the other girls was still planned, but it would come out some other time, he said. Then the same thing happened again: Another delay was announced and this time we were told the update would only have content for 2 girls as opposed to 4, they would be Cobra and Lily. Then guess what? The update which was coming out "soon" for sure this time, got delayed again, and now it turned out it would be an expansion exclusively for Cobra. But according to Koda there was no reason to fret, because this new expansion was close to completion! It was gonna be huge, and once it was released, the naysayers would finally understand why it had to be postponed so many times.
Then as the release date for this elusive update neared yet again, Koda told us there was a chance that he wouldn't be able to finish everything in Cobra's expansion, but he would be releasing everything he had done up to that point as "proof that he had been working all this time". And then the date came and went. Nothing got released and there were no news from Koda. Less than a week later, Koda released a "demo" for his expansion. It barely had any content at all, most people who even bothered playing through it got disappointed and/or became angry because of it. The only thing we actually had proof of is that Koda was a lazy asshole.
After releasing this terrible demo, Koda stopped working in ToT entirely, using Warrior Guild as an excuse. That game is a lazy rehash of one of Bo's older projects, and Bo himself said it was meant to be a very short palate cleanser, supposed to tie people over between real updates, but Koda saw it as an opportunity to be even more of a lazy hack and gave it his usual "Koda treatment": Giving it vacuous updates, always saying the full version was about to be released but never actually finishing it, giving himself an entire week's time just to add a couple of lines of dialogue to fucking default RPG Maker NPC characters. That shallow-ass game has gone through so many different versions now... We're in version 0.9.9 as of a THREE WEEKS, what's left to be added to WG is supposedly a minuscule piece of content, and Koda has already announced that this month he's gonna be having surgery... Oh, and he's also travelling twice to places where he won't be able to work... And did I forget to mention that recently he's been feeling under the weather for some reason which is why he hasn't been able to work at all?
It is BEYOND ridiculous.
Keep in mind that this whole thing, which is still going on, started early into the year. It's no surprise that a bunch of people want Bo to give him the boot so he can finally fuck off. The only surprise is that some people like
nicknicola still choose to defend him after all the times that they've been disappointed by him just like the rest of us.
I'm sure Bo Wei is just as lazy as Koda is, which is why he won't be releasing Floor 7 until 2020. The reason people are less up in arms about Bo though, is that he's much more subtle in his laziness and procrastination than Koda is. Some people theorize that this is the reason why Bo won't lay Koda off, because he uses him as a cover for his own incompetence. Sounds logical to me
