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That would work if yansim wasn't made in spite. Alex's major driving force to make the game is it's detractors, as it all started with MikeZ harshly critising him about a prior project. Then 4chan hated him after he sperged out about not getting enough heatpats. Now the game exists as a means to fuel drama and attention from "gremlins" so he could prove them wrong.Y'know what I just realized?
(Btw excuse me if something similar was already posted. Not going through the entire fucking thread to check)
Literally all of this could've been avoided had Alex not announced his shitty game so early.
Let's see: no dealing with trolls, no hacks, no pedophilia rumours, no need to make all the debunks, no companies drama.
He could've sat there in his basement working 3 hrs a day on the game for 10 years at a leisurely pace, dedicating the rest of his time to write rape fiction or whatever and then release a playable demo with Osana and all that crap, saying it took him 6 months to make. And the people would be none the wiser. The code would still be shit but at least the speed he made it at wouldn't be known to anyone. Even if the project failed, he could've shrugged it off since it would've been just a side hobby.
In that scenario: in 2025 a playable demo with many features releases. Since it's not that bad nobody really bothers to troll the dev digging up pedo shit from his past. As there's never a shortage of retarded teens that wanna see anime girls murdering people he'd still get his Patreon and a possibly successful Kickstarter. Publishers would be much more inclined to work with him since none of the TinyBuild drama and the overall negative atmosphere around the game would've been off-putting factors. People would still volunteer to help, etc, etc...
While now he is a failure of a man replying to trolls instead of making an actual game, with a slowly declining Patreon. No respectable publisher will work with him, the haters and game clones will keep coming. All the OG fans of his will have graduated college and created a fucking family by the time YanSim releases, so the few supporters he has now will disappear soon enough, leaving nothing. Everything will eventually end up with the game releasing in 3 or so years, get a few sales on Steam with everyone else just pirating it for the lolz.
6 fucking years wasted, the last 3 or so with him living with blood pressure of a mad bull, depressed, his greatest achievement in life practically fucked for all intents and purposes. And all that because this idiot just had to brag to everyone that he thought up a semi-original game at a point in time when he probably didn't even know how to write a Hello World program.
Really the only opposing argument to this is "he wouldn't have the motivation to see the game through without the support of the fans". Fuck, if you believe in and care about a project strongly enough you could finish it even with 0 supporters.
Anyways, rant over. Like, dislike, ignore, etc.
Another reason why YanSim wouldn't be finished that way is that it wouldn't have generated money for him to live if he didn't go public with it. He got up to +$5k a month which is very much liveable, so he could work on development without a job or concern from his parents. Going private means no patreon, thus less time developing it, thus a higher likelyhood of burnout and yansim just being a failure.