Just an FYI, you mean "taken with a grain of salt" meaning that you shouldn't place much value on the comment. the idea being that one grain of salt doesn't mean much and won't add much flavor. If you add a tonne of salt you're doing the opposite and giving the comment great value.
Most of your points are refuted by my last statement, we agree that the story requires a faster development.Some clarity regarding this propaganda post above
Number 1) You can get a half-point for it, not more. The slower games you chose was extreme cherry picking, I half-expected you to bring up "My Wife´s a Star" and "Because I love her" as well. But I give you that they are equal or slower in development. But saying that BaDIK, Nadia or FB are exceptional on speedy development is "very creative with the Truth"! Some other quality(!) game developers beyond the mentioned, who blow AWAM out of the water on terms of development speed: 1thousand, After Choices, Eva Kiss, Mutt & Jeff, Ollane, Double Moon, InsaneErotica, Nefastus. Even King of Lust, Usagitriplesix (who has a viable excuse for his speed) and Xagrim (The Promise has taken on more speed lately) are still quicker by a margin!
And most damning is the fact, that L&P has proven with earlier updates that he can produce quicker but he simply does not want to!
Number 2) With your permission, but that is BS! It is not the slow burn, but L&P´s complete inability to deliver updates with sufficient frequency! At the beginning he talked about AWAM taking 6-10 years in development, that is already really slow, but borderline acceptable. With his current update speed, AWAM will take further 27(!) years to finish!
Number 3) What a load of whitewash! Look at other slow burn games here on F95, you won´t hear many serious complains there. The Reason? The fans of these developers know that there will be consistently updates of some substance coming in with waits of 1-3 months.
Number 4) YES, he is milking! I doubt that all that many of his patrons would have started patroning him, if he stated from the start that AWAM will finish in the 2040s! But he knows he has enough suckers on board now and too many people don´t get the sunk cost fallacy. If you follow him just for his artwork, then it is okay, if you follow him for a finished game, you will be in for a surprise.
Besides, no one with an ounze of brain can truly believe that he will finish AWAM without massive changes to project maangment and workflow/speed! It does not work that way.
Number 5) Pardon me, but going for update size with a fixed render number is the wrong thing. You can produce e.g. 2000 renders which say nothing at all storywise. And in part we can see this in the 0.130 update quite nicely. If you would throw out 1/4-1/3 of the pics, you would still get the same story progression without quality loss, but a lot of saved time, would be a good thing considering that L&P get´s overtaken by snails on the left lane!
Number 6) Here we agree in part! That L&P has to change the direction of development if he wants to get AWAM completed, we agree 100%. But "a story larger than the rest" is a bit of hyperbole, "larger than most" is more correct. For instance the games by Eva Kiss or Mutt & Jeff are even more branching and variable than AWAM will be.
Is there anyone that seriously thinks her first will be Dylan? In the latest update he only got as far as Patricia got on day 5.
Oh. I always thought a tonne of salt would render a meal as tasteless and boring as I've found the Dylan route. Far too much of it and doesn't actually contribute to anything. Hence my early references to preferring to eat cardboard.
I have no doubt that many people are doing mental gymnastics trying to concoct a way for Dylan to have sex with Sophia immediately.
I play & enjoy AEA & Anna has a gorgeous look but if Sophia ever gets so cartoonish it will be a travesty. She's already at the outer limits of buxom & believable. She needs a breast reduction & putting back into the proportions she had when she started out. This stereotype of the curvaceous "Mom" has become exaggerated to a point where many MCs look like they've been inflated with a foot pump from a garage forecourt, when someone mistook them for a set of tyres. Sophia stays just the right side of this extreme. I prefer my pixel women to look like women who could actually exist without tipping forwards, or indicating they were coming round the corner 30 seconds before their face arrives.
Because apparently, they enjoy the glacial pace. Which, since it is their prerogative since they're the ones paying for it, is their choice. So those of us like me that pirate the game, means the rest of us just need to put up and shut up. Fortunately, there are those like me, with a little investigationing, can find games with devs that update quicker and with more content
All these games are either much younger or having so much more progress.
To be charitable, it's a lesson for future devs. The scope of this game is just unbelievably ambitious considering the size of the team and the quality of the renders. This game should have been maybe a quarter of the scope, maybe then we would have a completed game in five years.
Before coming to light. These are dark times though most have not yet realized it...the truth is out there!
a total L, &,P DEFEDER . he.s not doing anything wrong . only de,layed to the last.
none, as they increase;
in fact I only met these games here
OEM is the only way (my inner Hippie surfaces) - real or imagined Just sayin'.
Won't happen until the end because he would lose all the sweet Patreon money.
