They can but I'm talking about the hentai game industry itself. If talking about developer accountability gets people in a huff, then already something is a bit fishy. I wish there was some kind of 3rd party agency that regulates Patreon by doing status checks on games, an audit in a sense, so developers can't just have an ongoing project forever, be untruthful about the status of a game, and/or steer too far from the initial game expectation (unless with some kind of way to *legitimately* gauge community support). I find a lot of hgame devs want to pull up their big boy pants and be a professional game designer but leave at the door what actually makes something professional such as accountability, transparency, and at the end of a day a shippable (aka actually complete) product.Yeeeeppp, oh and get ready for few comments coming your way, most likely from "new users" that defend the game dev like they get paid for it lol
But to stay on topic, I would be interested to actually know why the switch from card battler to VN. I enjoy card battlers quite a bit (big fan of STS), but very few hgames get it right. That upcoming Knightly Passions game seems to be a strong candidate for something well done.