You said it: FOR IT'S SANDBOX. And yet they continue with their combat system when nobody cares.... Serioulsy if I want a survival or a TPS game there are plenty out there and far better than Wild Life will ever be... This game should be a sandbox only with more content. They could have sold plenty dlcs. They don't understand what people want or how to make money. The only business model they understand is the "subscriber's milking"...
Amen. All I've ever wanted from this industry is a competent character creator and sex simulator. VAM has a god-awful interface and will never achieve mainstream appeal due to that fact. Illusion games had some promise but they haven't made anything better than KK which was released in 2017. Illusion games are nothing without mod support and community content yet Illusion (Illgames) just shits all over that. Wildlife is the only other game that can compete, and that's not saying much at all.
Should they have just stuck with the sandbox? Yeah, maybe. Could they have split it into a sandbox and then a normal game, have them as separate projects? They could have, though that would just make development take longer and wouldn't bring as many supporters to the project. Are they just milking supporters, as people keep saying? No, because they are actually working on the game, have a planned release period, share consistent updates, actually interact here and on other platforms, release builds on a schedule.
Now don't get me wrong, development could have gone smoother and been further along by now, and it would have been best to use basic skeletons that can be edited like in Illusion games (which I've even mentioned before, or 4 to have digitigrade legs for the male and female kerpali) that would even make sex positions easier to make as they would be more universal rather than tied to character skeletons and could be easily adjusted to account for something like kerpali on human. It would have also made new clothes easier to make.
But the devs are making the game they want to make despite the criticisms (and insults), and that's commendable I think. How many other games can't even get to a point this game is at while promising stuff on the level of an Illusion game? That includes VAM, which barely has anything there and most of what is there is locked behind a paywall while the devs of it try really hard to prevent piracy to the point new versions don't even have cracks now.
Apologies if anything is incoherent or rambling btw, I'm slightly sleep deprived typing this.