Simply because everyone plays the "new" episodes (because they are old) and knows how many sex scenes are inside them...
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The Academy is one of my All-time favorite.
Played when the first episode came in 2016.
I spend a lot of time on it, even from trying to make a very detailed walkthrough but never able to do it, too much complex for me to make a decent one.
Now he's go separate to the vdates games & have his on website which was great when i heard the news.
But the system of credits for paying the bonus scenes... I have serious doubt it will be successfull for him.
Damn I was glad to see Natalya in the introduction game but it's a killing mood thing to see "Pay Credit" when you played those type of game, you get yourself in immersion to really enjoy it and having those kind of sign is like receiving a slap to get back to the reality in a sense lol.
Played when the first episode came in 2016.
I spend a lot of time on it, even from trying to make a very detailed walkthrough but never able to do it, too much complex for me to make a decent one.
Now he's go separate to the vdates games & have his on website which was great when i heard the news.
But the system of credits for paying the bonus scenes... I have serious doubt it will be successfull for him.
Damn I was glad to see Natalya in the introduction game but it's a killing mood thing to see "Pay Credit" when you played those type of game, you get yourself in immersion to really enjoy it and having those kind of sign is like receiving a slap to get back to the reality in a sense lol.
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Reason for republishing the old stuff instead of releasing already finished new content is now apparent, enforcing this credit system. 
There are devs in this site that gives the latest release to the lowest tier and still get tons of money, it's all about taste of audience so it's not necessary to annoy people with these methods.
There are devs in this site that gives the latest release to the lowest tier and still get tons of money, it's all about taste of audience so it's not necessary to annoy people with these methods.
As a Patreon supporter I'm not very impressed with the delays thus far. It's not so much the time itself but the fact that he keeps giving himself defiantly short deadlines that he blows right past without regular updates. He also has continued to say he is confident he will catch back up to the planned release schedule - were this followed, we would be coming up on the release of episode 4, yet we still only have the teaser.
I get the issues people have with the credits system, but conceptually I don't see it as too problematic if it's relegated to the "bonus" scenes only, so the base game as it was previously released can still be played for free (which so far appears to be the plan). However, it's also dependent on how long until he gets the "buy credits" option on the website functional, and how much he is expecting for this option. Without that, currently everyone is required to be a patron for a minimum of a month to obtain any credits, which he applies to your account manually and is (surprise!) currently behind on applying for the month of April. So realistically you have to wait at least 2 months to get any credits this way. Not a good system and will definitely be an issue if the online payment system isn't functioning alongside the full episodes.
I get the issues people have with the credits system, but conceptually I don't see it as too problematic if it's relegated to the "bonus" scenes only, so the base game as it was previously released can still be played for free (which so far appears to be the plan). However, it's also dependent on how long until he gets the "buy credits" option on the website functional, and how much he is expecting for this option. Without that, currently everyone is required to be a patron for a minimum of a month to obtain any credits, which he applies to your account manually and is (surprise!) currently behind on applying for the month of April. So realistically you have to wait at least 2 months to get any credits this way. Not a good system and will definitely be an issue if the online payment system isn't functioning alongside the full episodes.
When he opened patreon account (in the middle of January), he said part 1/2 remakes were already finished (as other 2 new episodes), waiting for web site opening.
Now, the site is online and he says some tests have to be finished... That is a contradiction with what he said months ago.
There' no delay justification, IMHO.
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Maybe it was a bad choice of words and what he meant was that his part of the work was done (renders/story) but the code wasn't finished. Or while testing he found a massive amount of errors. Or his new coder is slower than he thought...
We'll probably never know because he often goes radio silence for weeks or months and doesn't share many specifics.
Zellio
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ROFL he's now switched to 'chapters'. Each day is now split in two. I wonder if that means you'll need to pay for more 'special scenes'
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The amount of bonus scenes didn't change so the price shouldn't change. I think its around 120 credits for all 3.
Since you can only save your game after finishing an episode or chapter, i guess it's a plus that we get more checkpoints. But it's not great for the flow of the story.
Since you can only save your game after finishing an episode or chapter, i guess it's a plus that we get more checkpoints. But it's not great for the flow of the story.
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DSP didn't disappoint when he named himself DSP did he
Bugged uploading mechanics?
could you access the patreon post? For all we know the launch confirm is an announcement of the date it will launch.
well having played the first 2 chapters I would say if you played the academy at all don't waste your time playing this version until the new episodes are out. At the pace he is going with the releases it won't be until next year. I was interested in the new bonus scenes but I can't purchase credits from the website since it is currently disabled and I am not going to do it through patreon. Another thing about the bonus scenes it doesn't tell you what you will unlock. There is a bonus scene with Annie that I am interested in but I don't want to spend credits and find out its just a handjob or something shitty. I wish it tells you what you will unlock but first the ability to purchase credits in the website needs to be fixed.
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On the up side that means i am not missing anything. Ttied playing the intro epsiode on my phone and it cut off over half the image. Tried on my ipad still couldnt see the full image. On the downside sounds like DSP is ripping people off.
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snakeplisskin
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Definitely, however this just seems to be next level bs. Unless he.changed his patreon i remember that was crazy expensive
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maybe he'll see that this business model doesn't work or atleast is not the best one...