DPC almost spends as much in music as L&P makes from his VN, let that sink in that brain of yours.
We're comparing both devs products. DPC has a way better product, that's why he has his games on steam and 10x the patrons L&P has.
Also try to get a spine. All shit talk behind closed doors and when L&P shows up you bend over.
When you maximize your efforts by catering to what the market wants then ofcourse you are going to have people supporting you. Though I have nothing against him making tons of money even while giving poor quality renders. I for one need the quality. If I am playing the game of the biggest dev of the industry and I get such renders it is going to be extremely disappointing.
I need the quality in the renders of the games I play. If the renders have zero attention to detail and the visuals aren't appealing. I can just go and read the script because visually the game is only making me regret.
If this is the quality of renders then I can easily see L&P and majority Dev's pump out 5000+ renders in 6 months. It's no longer surprising. It's literally load the scene, put the characters, hit the render button. And since renders don't have any attention to details the same would apply for animations. All I can imagine them to be is extremely smooth and great motion because of a high frame rate, everything else still would look like this.
And seeing this my respect for Decentmonkey increases. They don't have such contrasts in render quality and pay attention to details and have tons of animation work all in good quality. The production work is definitely far superior.
in truth if quantity means killing quality then I don't want it.
And anyone who says that what's the point of quality artwork when you don't care about it then it's just your opinion. As some who primarily watches animated media more animation and art quality create a world of difference. In present date some of the popular shows are popular just because of outstanding artwork. Disney spends so heavily on quality, so do the Japanese anime industry only because there is a desire to give something high quality and it definitely reaps benefits.
L&P' s quality is not a waste. One of the prime reasons for him having less patrons is his slow development speed and lack of extremely hot content. That's primarily because the story has not approached it's high point it. What still causes lots of people to talk and play this game is the quality of art and story.