Actually yea, I do not buy your mental health reason, even though I do understand it. It’s rather disappointing to delist the original completed Deity Device along with the cancellation of Saint’s Blood, and I won’t mince my word or pretend to be sorry about it.
Your creation is, from what I can see from the comments, pretty competent and not particularly offensive, so I don’t see that you have to be so ashamed of it that the correct option is to wipe it off the forum. The decision also kinda rubs me in the wrong way, as it reminds me of bunch of AAA studios currently going out of their way to delete their games and media, even if they are perfectly accessible.
There is 0 reason to go into conspiracy territory or point fingers at the creator for just deciding to not have the game up anymore. It just comes across as really unneeded to put it lightly.
You arent them, people are free to remove their work if they arent proud of it or want to convey it a different way. A perfect example from the fire emblem community being Midnight Sun (Which became a steam game). I’m genuinely surprised I have to explain this but here we are.
Tldr; Don’t accuse people of lying about their mental health for 0 reason, and don’t get angry when they decide to focus on other things besides just a hobby or decide to further refine it to their new tastes.
I understand his decision to delist his stuff, I will not even pretend to remotely agree with him on this, but he is free to do it, the end. If it helps him to move on from being stuck in the cycle of continuing with an unfinished hack then it’s a sensible choice for him.
I will apologize for sounding harsh in my reply. Best of luck to author in the future.
For the record, I never said anything about the author “lying” about his mental health reason.
“Buy into something” means completely believing something. So whatever, I might have accidentally used the wrong expressions there and can apologize to that, because english is a heck of a language.