Aside from funding being obvious a lot can cause this.
1. Personal life events
2. depression
3. lack of interest or lots of bad reviews
4. too much spam from people trying to change his vision
its not always cut and dry and a lot of devs are doing this as passion projects and dont receive much...
a good balance between story and action. that being said a crazy over the top story with annoying pointless suspense as filler is kind of insufferable.
with good art a long time between is understandable especially if its a solo dev. as long as the update isnt just like 1 scene or 5 min of play then id say 4 - 6 months isnt unreasonable.
Lately ive been playing a lot of 3d, but both have their merits. for 2D the art is usually more consistently good, and especially for the Japanese ones quite a bit longer with a more in depth story.
With games that are obviously Harem i go that route, but the ones with real story behind each character loyal all the way.
I never understood the whole cheating or NTR thing to me especially irl, its messed up.
Hear me out. Die hard is like the grinch. You have Severus Snape trying to steal Christmas from Whoville tower and Brucey lou willis comes in to change his mind. In the end after lots of persuasion Snape has a change of heart and gives back all the Christmas. Some say his heart grew 3 bullets...