With Apocalypse you could tell that guy was totally biting off way more then he could chew as far as complexity. Saw that one coming from like the second update on.
Pretty sure i didnt even knew about the game before....update 0.30 or something. But i do agree with you. All those different paths, including the side storys, would pretty much have blown Apocalypse out of proportion for a single dev. Iam happy tho that i was able to play his latest beta, had some nice new scenes.....for a "side/optional" path!
LegacyUser really just overdid it with his vision of a complex AVN. Pretty much, in reality, half a year waiting for an update, to get 5-10 mins of content in EVERY possible path....
Kinda sure it wasnt just about the money why he disappeared, but also...He biting off more than he could chew.
various reasons/excuses. Apocalypse due to no money (SS never approved him, and like other loli devs even if they did no one could sub without the cc transaction getting declined) and after a year he got tired of doing it for free. OI because the dev's wife was pissed at him (last believable rumor I heard), TSL because the dev lives in a 3rd world shit hole where electricity is unreliable (kinda need that for rendering). A bunch simply tucked tail and ran just because Westy was arrested (which had less to do with the AVN and more his other real life hobbies like peeping/recording his neighbors). I hope future loli quitters will at least give equally entertaining excuses as their AVNs for retiring.
Read the essay above for my opinion on Apocalypse.
Whats TSL?
Many tucked tail after westygate, i only know about one dev that actually, at least, finished his game and then disappeared. ( the family in trouble )
All those accusions that westy had actual real stuff on his computer and was even stalking his neighbor daughter..... pretty sure it had ALOT to do with his AVN, wasnt that the only reason why they investigated him? Making a shitload of money ( around 30k/month ) might make the goverment suspicous....is there actual any proof that the rest of the accusions were true ?
Anyway, this is a ton of Offtopic.
Being ONTOPIC now.....
Burned was kinda good. A , kinda realistic, slice of life. But IMHO kinda went overboard with update 0.3. Timetravel, dinosaurs, and all the wierd stuff.....i DID get a few laughs outta it, i'll admit, but....the beginning was a whole lotta different from what i expected the direction the game would go.
And since deaufosse isnt active here anymore, i guess both of his games can be marked as abandoned.
Too bad actually....i still liked Burned.....and LOVED Malignant....that was a fucked experience that i wanted to continue.... :/