HiHaHo
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yeah has been slow for a while then got full on abandoned ,the reasons given are well covered in the thread
Pretty fucked up to just abandon because of an early leak. Not like supporters would have stopped.
HiHaHo
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yeah and leak happen a lot later then all the times before as well ,so his plea to not leak was heard
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First it was excitement for the VN but he quickly realised that it was abandoned and than he got hit by disappaointment...
Honestly it's not just underestimating the amount of work involved but most amateurs have obviously never been taught good development practices which among other things involves more than a healthy dose of planning before you write a single line of code; every minute of planning at the start often saving you up to a day at the end so they're just making even more work for themselves than necessary. In the case of story driven games like this that planning would include a complete story outline with ending. The middle can be a little fuzzy cause over time you might want to add, remove, or change the order of things but you always need to know how you plan to end it.
Most patreon devs treat their stories the same way US tv executives do. They just keep them going and going and going as long as they're making money than as soon as they're not they either cancel it with no resolution or produce a halfassed ending that's both unsatisfying and doesn't resolve most of the dangling plot threads.
It seems kind of like a temper tantrum thing. Any patrons should be pissed, and that should ruin the chances of getting too many again.
HiHaHo
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yes and no,
yes they should be mad over how the dev stopped
no they should not be mad that he chose a stable job over the unstable AVN development income
Actually found out he didn't abandon. It was Patreon demanded he upload ID and he didn't feel comfortable:
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HiHaHo
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that was the start off the spiral , he did abandon and that was the beginning
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If I could find out where the script files are for most of these I would correct the horrible English!!!
What problem are you having? I ask cause Renpy script files are about the easiest to find and parse out there.
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this is very sad, this game was on my list to play once finished 
Especially since it was for a crybaby reason...this is very sad, this game was on my list to play once finished
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If I had been the Dev I probably would have done the same thing, maybe explained to people why it was a complete backstab, he told people to not release it until he was ready, then, people ignored him, one time too many (Sadly).
Probably would have only been a few more weeks, but no, people needed it NOW!!!, and couldn't wait.
There aren't many reasons better than that to say "Nah, I'm done."
Then again since he made that choice, there have been people on here giving him far more reasons to have done it.
PS: Yeah, I know people won't like this reasonable point of view, and will probably give me crap for it, but hey, this is the sort of stuff that normally kills games, people not listening to the Dev and ruining things for everyone.
Too many good games die for crap like this.
Probably would have only been a few more weeks, but no, people needed it NOW!!!, and couldn't wait.
There aren't many reasons better than that to say "Nah, I'm done."
Then again since he made that choice, there have been people on here giving him far more reasons to have done it.
PS: Yeah, I know people won't like this reasonable point of view, and will probably give me crap for it, but hey, this is the sort of stuff that normally kills games, people not listening to the Dev and ruining things for everyone.
Too many good games die for crap like this.