GOD
CAN'T YOU PEOPLE WAIT?
The project isn't dead. It's being worked on. The team behind it have personal lives and do this as a hobby.
Just freaking wait. Go live life and appreciate the small things while you wait, until you forgot that a translation is being worked on, until someday you visit this thread and is surprised with a release.
Trust me, it'll be so much better this way.
There is a beautiful world outside, you just need to believe.
For real. Stop harassing the dev team, take a chill pill, and wait like the rest of us.
Remember, for instance, the AAI2 translation took 3, almost 3 and a half years to happen. But
it happened. It took time, because that's how these things
work.
Even if the dev team were wizards at Japanese-English translation, and managed to translate every single bit of text almost immediately, they would still have to format that text back into a form that fits in the game's dialogue boxes, fix any bugs that might arise from forcing the game engine to do something it was never designed to do (display English text and graphics), typeset and reinsert any image-based text that might need to be changed (like images of newspapers or signs), proofread all the text, proofread it
again...
You get the picture (I hope).
Also, they're literally not getting paid to do this. This isn't their job, or even a freelance hobby they make money off of. It's a passion project done out of love for the Ace Attorney series, and for Shu Takumi's storywriting (At least, I think so on the latter part lol).
So, seriously, just
cool it.
Harassing the developers will get you literally nowhere. They're not magicians, they're not going to just conjure up a finished translation instantly.
And on top of that, everyone has a limit to their patience. Like, even the most patient, least vindictive people out there will start to push back, or get angry, or even spiteful, after being harassed and bothered for too long.
tl;dr just stop for petes sake