I have a hypothesis on why Irphaeus is delaying the updates so much:
Maybe he has already made a lot of progress in the game's content and not publicly releasing it.
Only providing exclusive access to patreons who have reached the Loyalty package first, then to the most paying patreons then public release it.
Let's say he takes 4 months for a decent update, releases it to the 'Loyalty' people right away, then waits 4 months before releasing it to his most paying patreons next, again waits 4 months to publicly release it. It sums up the 1 year wait between each update.
By doing so he gains the trust of his loyal patreons by priortizeing them over the other patreons and non paying players, so they keep paying him for his future projects, later acting as if priortizing the recent high paying patreons so that they keep supporting him, and finally releasing it to the public.
This might be the reason why most of the patreons who are supporting Irphaeus for a long time tend to support him so much although it's clear that he is lying because they know that actually he is delivering content regularly to them.
Maybe he has already made a lot of progress in the game's content and not publicly releasing it.
Only providing exclusive access to patreons who have reached the Loyalty package first, then to the most paying patreons then public release it.
Let's say he takes 4 months for a decent update, releases it to the 'Loyalty' people right away, then waits 4 months before releasing it to his most paying patreons next, again waits 4 months to publicly release it. It sums up the 1 year wait between each update.
By doing so he gains the trust of his loyal patreons by priortizeing them over the other patreons and non paying players, so they keep paying him for his future projects, later acting as if priortizing the recent high paying patreons so that they keep supporting him, and finally releasing it to the public.
This might be the reason why most of the patreons who are supporting Irphaeus for a long time tend to support him so much although it's clear that he is lying because they know that actually he is delivering content regularly to them.