There can be a hundred pages of explanation why they did this and that. It doesn't change the fact that anyone who opens up this game and followed its development is wondering what it's supposed to become.
It's going to be what it always was going to be, nothing about that has changed other than expanding the Sandbox. People here confused about that likely comes from others here spreading misinformation. The devs have not once changed what they've described the game to be.
It's just too much stuff mixed. I wrote about that in detail in my review, but just to sum it up: Beasts, Humans, Futa, homosexual stuff, sandbox, story, several demo maps, old abadoned animation system, new mini game system with very slow content updates, now custom poser but only on poses and without any animation feature, blank empty maps, few clothes with lack of customization, old and new hairstyles mixed up ranging from nintendo 64 graphics up to 2023.
This is what I would consider misinformation. There is no abandoned animation system. The mini-games are scenes that will be used in the campaign. The separate standalone animations you use in Sandbox is so that you can freely use them without them being tied to the campaign scenes. Again, the devs have talked about this. As far as the animations themselves go, literally nothing has changed since as early as when we only had the Oasis. There has always been Kerpali x Human, Male x Male, Female x Female, etc, no reason for them to change that now, especially when it doesn't hinder them. You also need to realize that just because they're pumping on 100 sex animations doesn't mean another area is being neglected. An animator isn't going to be coding bigger game mechanics, their job is to make animations. The demo serves its purpose to give an idea of what the game will be like to attract interest, that isn't wasted development, and I'm not going to repeat why the old map was scrubbed, you can go read up on that yourself, whether you're satisfied with the reasoning or not is up to you.
The only thing I do agree with you here about is the quality of hair and the lack of clothing options for the characters that's disappointing. The hair I know they have someone working on, but I don't understand why it took this long to get to updating them. They've always been low quality, and there are also other low quality assets I'm hoping they don't take this long to addressing. Steve has talked about the clothing being time consuming to add for all the characters, so I'm hoping they add some kind of tool or something so people can add clothing and fit them to the characters similar to Bodyslide from Skyrim.
Imagine they would focus simply on a list of things, just as an example:
Human x Human, Futa, sandbox, great maps and interior scenario rooms (for the sandbox, to create your custom scenes in it), a better programming system for events, bottom textboxes instead of speech bubbles, custom poser with little animation features, a polished camera system with auto fade option, an easy branch system (press X to do 1, press Y to do 2[...]), more outfits and clothes and the ability to change the color, cum/orgasm animations for all characters.
As mentioned above, their animators making animations isn't going to cause the rest of the game to lag behind, they're already doing what they need to be doing. It sounds like you want the Sandbox tools to be easier to use, and I don't know what to tell you other than you'll just have to dip your toes in to learn them like with anything else. Thankfully there's a bunch of player made maps you can reference to learn. Using the Sandbox you can already set something up so that you press (x) for (z) to happen. Also, the devs are active in Discord, there have been a bunch of ideas to improve sandbox from players that was implemented, it would be more productive for people to share feedback in the feedback channel than to complain here about what's lacking.
Right now you can merge two animations by tricking around to create a new one, but you can't tell a story with it because you can't really make the characters have an orgasm.
I do agree with you here. For this to be a porn game, doesn't make sense to me there's no option to make the characters climax on command outside of the specific animations where they climax. Players should be able to turn a normal scene into a creampie if they want without having to select a creampie animation.
And why is that? Because the devs try to do 1000 different things at the same time while making minimal progress in all of those areas. There's so much half finished stuff and abandoned animations lying around in it right now.
This definitely isn't the case. The main focus has been on Sandbox, and you can see that by how much attention Sandbox has been getting for like the past year. They've made a ton of improvements since Sandbox 1.0. If you compare the two, I would not say that's minimal progress at all.
Wild Life simply has the problem that it tries to please everyone and be a jack of all trades. People pledge and follow this game because it has currently no competition with their state of the art graphics and realistically well done animations, but if they had, they'd have a really hard time.
This isn't the case either. If you're in the Discord server you'd see Steve shooting down ideas all the time that are either out of scope of the game or would drag on development time.
Imo they should cut at least 50% of the stuff they're doing right now and immediately decide where they wanna go and then absolutely focus on that. You can still later add more features, ideas and ways to play the game. But decide for one core idea and get it done first.
Again, this is exactly what they are doing, this is exactly what they explained they were doing. The focus has been on Sandbox mode so that when they do decide to focus on Campaign, players will be able to make content using the beefed out Sandbox. They literally have said this.