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You can still interract with him once it's finished but he's no longer a companion.
Hugs had/has a history of mental health issues, mainly anger from what I can find. He also had a history of taking unannounced mental health breaks, which lead to long stretches where he wouldn't submit content. That would have been relatively fine if he was just writing a bunch of standalone stuff. But a pain in the ass for someone that was writing a companion, since not only did Berry require content to keep up with the main questline, but also the other questlines and companions.
According to most of the dev team, before one of his actually announced hiatuses, Hugs actually agreed to hand his work off to another writer. Said writer wanted to make some minor changes for their version of Berwyn's continued content (make Berry's ♥♥♥♥ slightly smaller, focus on controlling his libido) without going against Hugs' vision of everything, but Hugs was making check-ins to see if the writing was going how he wanted it to. Eventually, Hugs did return, ♥♥♥♥ happened, and Hugs got banned. What exactly happened at that point, only the devs and Hugs really know.
To those "on the outside" of it all, why he got banned is a complete "I said, they said" thing at this point. Hugs claims that he begged to return to the project, was banned out of sheer malice against him, was "abused" for free content, and that said content was stolen. Savin claims it was because when Hugs showed back up, he was being completely toxic and was thus barred from the project. There's also rumors that Hugs also tried begging to be made a proper paid writer instead of an unpaid community writer. I don't know if it's true or not.
His content being stolen, for both this game and TiTS, can be refuted because both products have clauses in the submission guidelines that say:
One, all control of the submitted content is surrendered to the project leader, so if the original writer either vanishes, willingly leaves, or gets banned, then the content can be changed without the original writer's approval.
Two, the project leader gets all rights to use the submitter's character and writing in their games.
Three, gives them the right to modify the submitted content in the future for potential expansions and arcs.
And four, the original writer is still the owner of their submitted content for use outside of the game, unless it was a commissioned work.
Those clauses in particular were a reaction to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ regarding Breeding Season, which ended up becoming Cloud Meadow. I would say it's also part of the reason why all of Hugs' content is still in both CoC2 and TiTS, instead of being completely ripped out and maybe ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up no telling how much coding in either project.
That's absolutely not a fact.
There would have been a companion with no new abilities for the last 5 levels, no dialogue, no interactions and no quests for the rest of the game. You don't think that would have stuck out a bit?
Theres definitely a valid reason to have a complete NPC vs a broken unfinished companion dangling forever.
Not to mention he was already probably the weakest companion, he would have become more and more unusable as time went on and he didn't get any combat updates either.
Unfinished content gets cut from games allll the time. Especially from RPGs. We just got to see it live.
Yeah, a one-and-done addition is a very obviously different proposition than continuing for the life of the game, which is probably going to be 3 or four more years.
We're not talking about "a new companion set" we're talking about updating his combat abilities every time they add a new level to the game - at minimum, three more times.
And that's secondary to the point that just leaving a companion with no content for the back 2/3 of the game - nothing since literally Winter City two years ago - would be a terrible idea.