Honestly, it feels like you're trying to justify a scam (definition:
a deliberate attempt to deceive someone for money or advantage,
often through dishonest or even illegal
means) simply because the scammer isn't making as much as major game studios.
Let's be clear:
ten years is more than enough time to develop an open-world adult rpg, provided the effort was actually focused on that goal. Instead, much of it has been squandered on distractions such as:
- Producing hundreds of unnecessary sex animations. Realistically, most won't even make it into the final game. Since they all rely on different systems, the developer will likely allow only a handful of progressable, controllable ones for the player, while the rest get dumped on NPCs as static filler.
- Switching engines halfway through development.
- Rebuilding the map over and over again.
- Wasting time on public forums arguing with critics instead of delivering results.
- Prioritizing a "sandbox" concept instead of core mechanics.
- Designing countless outfits that serve no purpose because there are no gameplay systems in place that actually use them.
- Adding modding support before core systems are in place, which almost guarantees either that most mods will break and have to be rebuilt later, or worse: mod support itself will have to be remade.
It's mistake after mistake, stacked endlessly. But at this point, I don't even see it as incompetence. It looks deliberate.
And no, I don't care about their budget. The reality is this project is either one of the most catastrophically mismanaged in gaming history, or it's the Star Citizen of adult games: a project designed to drag on forever, fueled by promises and excuses.
Whichever interpretation you prefer, the red flags are undeniable. For me, the pattern is clear: this isn't just mismanagement. It's intentional.