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In fairness, Fenoxo coasted off of Patreon money for years, with earning under 100K a month on Patreon (meaning less than 12 full time devs, who could be earning more money working in another field).You have a point. I defer to your expertise, and thank you for reminding me of the mobile flash build fiasco. I remember they stopped supporting IOS entirely despite there being a simple workaround for the issue that caused them to stop supporting IOS. So yeah, in retrospect, you're absolutely correct separate codebases would be a nightmare for them.
He has several direct employees and pays bounties on writing projects, while he's pulled back on his own development because a late 30/40 something can't feed the libido to write porn as a full time gig. The money that is being earned can't even hire a dozen fulltime writers on minimum wage in the US, I can't imagine what it would have cost to hire a team to do a full conversion to Java, given literal years of content locked in Flash.
In terms of porn games, Fenoxo is a behemoth, in terms of dealing with paying the wage that a real job would cost, it's fuck all.
I've been frustrated with TiTs progress for a long time, but there's really not enough money involved to get a proper IT team off the ground, it's just a bunch of people who make wank material trying to make a game, and if the main dev burns out, shit gets fucked a hundred ways from Sunday.
Most porn game devs are from developing countries for a reason, which is that USD goes a lot further when cost of living is rock bottom.