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And beyond that, the steam community loves a good righteous review bombing, and community tagging can often mess with a game as well. Even outside of explicit malice, his game would almost certainly get flagged as Adult and Sexual Content just for the violence and panties alone, ruining his ability to reach his target market of children. With its buggy behavior, poor gameplay and awful performance, it'd likely fail on the merits of it alone.
He's also missing the critical element for any real successful jump from open to paid versions of a game - a material, obvious increase in quality or content. He blew his load on the demo launch way back when, setting up a single rival and leaving the rest in the void. Now, he's setting up the last one, with most of the rest of the entire game already out and free. Hell, arguably, the versions prior to the current drama were superior, before they had the removal of significant amounts of assets as volunteers withdrew and recanted. Its a hard sell for someone to even drop $20 for one more character using the same general mechanical loop as all the others - especially since if you want a 'finished' run, you can play that 1980's mode.
At this point I'd venture to say the games release itself has been cut. He's dropped crowdfunding, and he's dropped releasing it on the only digital distribution platform that matters. He could start gating builds behind a Patreon reward tier, but he knows as well as we do that all it will do is cut his player audience to mere hundreds, even if its at the $1 tier.
