- Thread starter TrueLoveGames
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R.I.P. Vicky, she was a real gem. Her image will stick with me for a long time. Like with Ayane from Connected, dev struck gold with her looks and personality. Devastating to see that one-in-a-million combo wasted on unfinished game.
- Feb 21, 2018
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Honestly, I think it will bother me more someone was allowed to upload AOA on Steam and nothing can/will be done about it than the fact the game may be forever abandoned. Feels like one last shit on this great game.
- Jul 10, 2017
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The story is for every girl to go through her paces with the MC in tow.
The mafia was already part of the story with the kid mobster collaborator and the girl mobster family member - those are integral to the plot and vivid enough in the game.
Jenny is using MC to stick it to her stuck up mobster bro while befriending the other daddy little girl of the other sugar daddy investor in the academy.
The things pulling the dev away might just be absolute dissolution of the studio, render guy fled or jumped ship, along with the game and released it on Steam, to which dev can only disapprove, coder guy could be the culprit also - we got a fix patch around here with the issues - often times devs have collaborators they do not praise, reward or keep their eyes on enough and when the bubble bursts, it is really the end.
The story was that set on going through the girl traumas - one at a time - and the update was this edged on coming out, there seems to be verry little patchy explanation in the game itself for the rush to dissapear.
I once said in another game discussion thread how much I loved this one and I got shot down in flames. I didn't see his point of view at all
Extraneous motives for utter destruction cannot be dissected or rationalised, we know gaming studios go puff, we know collaborators break ranks and go off on their own to use or publish whatever they get outta their break up, all these are documented in other games - even devs starting countless games and letting them all hang on the wings of the fans without a second thought. The nature of this we can all read up on and peace out.
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- Dec 29, 2023
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Creators don't owe fans anything. I guess the only exception, for me, is pre-ordering a commercial game. I'd lay money that the vast majority of people complaining about this title being abandon haven't given a single dollar in support. It doesn't seem like it's that hard to imagine a reason why a developer would have to walk away:
- Personal or family health issues. Especially partner or child.
- Development costs too much to maintain
- Development interferes with "regular" job or relationships
- Incarceration
- Military deployment
- Loss of job, residence and/or equipment used to develop
- Pulled away by a competing project
- Exhaustion/pressure/burnout
It's hard to grasp how someone, upon discovering one of the above, could still say "You're a jerk for leaving us hanging with this story!". Personally I'm thankful for what we did receive in this offering and I hope the dev(s) are healthy and doing well.
- Personal or family health issues. Especially partner or child.
- Development costs too much to maintain
- Development interferes with "regular" job or relationships
- Incarceration
- Military deployment
- Loss of job, residence and/or equipment used to develop
- Pulled away by a competing project
- Exhaustion/pressure/burnout
It's hard to grasp how someone, upon discovering one of the above, could still say "You're a jerk for leaving us hanging with this story!". Personally I'm thankful for what we did receive in this offering and I hope the dev(s) are healthy and doing well.
- Sep 26, 2023
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But that's the problem, it could be all the points you're mentioning or something else. But he gave no explanations and just left everyone speculate.
- Jul 17, 2021
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We also need to remember that with some of these devs, a few anyway, or at least the one I talked to, it broke his heart to have to abandon his game. It's why he hasn't been around in years now. Unless he's under a different name. He had depression issues to start with and abandonin his game, destroyed him. He couldn't bare tellin anyone why. Maybe that's just the one dev, but, it is possible others are the same. Devs are just normal everyday people like each of us. Eh, it is what it is.
- Dec 29, 2023
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I hear you and I respect your comment. I guess my point is, in this context, that folks can sometimes expect that an author should put the audience above himself and his own life. Since we don't know, or I don't anyway, the real reasons behind everything I'm going to assume that someone who gave so much would not act badly for no reason.
As an appreciator I'm going to want and hope that he/she would take care of themselves and their family as a priority. Maybe I didn't get any closure but if I'm really a fan and I really care then I should assume the "best".
Just thoughts... like I said... your words are just as valid as mine.
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- Oct 24, 2022
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I would like to have this glimpse of hope of a possible good ending to this story, but at this point I no longer doubt anything.i still have glimpse of hope he is secretly working on a game peacefully, saying the game is abandoned, without pressure and then one day drops the final finished bomb VN
- Jul 17, 2021
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He was only a few weeks out from completion andi still have glimpse of hope he is secretly working on a game peacefully, saying the game is abandoned, without pressure and then one day drops the final finished bomb VN
- Jan 13, 2021
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just imagine the hype train, deep down we all hope it will come sooner or later
- Jul 17, 2021
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Yeah. But we'd all probably have strokes or heartattacks and die.just imagine the hype train, deep down we all hope it will come sooner or later
author might have been caught in the war, and his house got destroyed, lost all his data for the game. he might be safe now, but gathering all assets and setting them up again might be too discouraging after what he just went through ?
personally, i'd like to get some information that he is at least safe and healthy, even if we never get anymore content for the game.
personally, i'd like to get some information that he is at least safe and healthy, even if we never get anymore content for the game.
- Oct 24, 2022
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Yeah, but not in the same week of release...just imagine the hype train, deep down we all hope it will come sooner or later
Aw, dang, I willingly kept myself in the dark about this game for a year and half so that I wouldn't be feeling so impatient about when the next update would be, only to read these last several pages of comments... =( Bummer, this was one of the best VN's I'd played thus far.
- Apr 13, 2022
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I would literally throw a few grand at TLG if he came back and finished this project. It was one of the best on here!! I miss jenny
I suspect that the developer doesn't actually own the rights to A.O.A. For whatever reason he had a split with his backer and peaced out. Which is why A.O.A can be put up on steam without being torn down, and the developer refuses to give the game the time of the day other than to assert the steam version isn't by him.
- Oct 24, 2022
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I think that since he doesn't want to continue with development, it would be interesting if he (or they) wanted to sell the rights and what he has in his possession (I'm referring to assets, the script and things like that) to another dev who is interested. This game had a lot of potential to be simply abandoned like this... Strange to see a game with beautiful artwork being thrown aside like this... It's a lot of work being wasted.