Ah so he indeed bans people, i suspected that his discord was too clean, no trace of complains, there is alot of devs out there that take criticism has hate and delete and ban reviews/messages like its bad, when its the only way to know what is wrong, i know there is some people that critic in a bad way but that doesnt change the point of ban's or delete reviews, Piracy can be hard for someone who just started but if that person plays well his cards and takes feedback, interacts, etc, piracy wont hurt that person, but when people act badly like that it only bring his true colors.
The game has potencial indeed, some stuff are clearly a time waster to say that the update has x amount of minutes, if he continues to act like this and gets greedy, he will lose some support and it could eventually lose it all.