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| Vee |

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Oh yea, I remember that one. It's almost always the good ones that get abandoned. Meanwhile the mediocre or even downright shitty ones keep chugging along for the most part.
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But simply vanish, some kept on hold or abandon and some are even now after 3 years simply sharing wallpapers and custom renders and scamming the new audience, some quit as the followers were not enough to make ends meet and begin working a job.

It's hurt us as we don't get to see complete story and are left hanging but it hurt some serious dev's too who quit due to personal reason's.
 
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JB08

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This condition is known as Dev's flu(flew) A.K.A Abandonment. Every great game is destined to have DEV which caught this disease. History is witness.
Come Inside
Estate: Dominate
Love and Submission
A.O.A

are some of the great games whose dev were prey of this incurable disease known as Dev's flu(flew). Stay safe fellow DEV's.:BootyTime:

If Dev has personal issues at least inform his patron's otherwise MAY LORD BLESS HIM WITH STRENGTH TO FIGHT Dev's flu(flew).

EDIT: ANYONE have locked wallpapers and custom renders of his patreon do share. THANKS!:D
Didnt the love and submission dev die? And AOA's update was done and day away from upload before everything got deleted right?
 

| Vee |

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Didnt the love and submission dev die? And AOA's update was done and day away from upload before everything got deleted right?
For love and submission I can't say surely(I don't keep up with abandoned ones, If he died than RIP) and A.O.A case is complex and he might be lying or actually the update was deleted and the Dev got heart broken and just deleted his patreon.
 

Bobhanw

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Didnt the love and submission dev die? And AOA's update was done and day away from upload before everything got deleted right?
Idk about love and submission but A.O.A was indeed about to get an update right before the dev disappeared now as to what happened? we don't know for certain some said he committed suicide some said he just died as someone else mentioned he could have accidentally deleted something and didn't want to start over and finally someone said he lives somewhere where making adult games s not legal and someone he knew found out about it so he had to shut it down
 

allanl9020142

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On a more serious note:
Acquainted was one of the few VNs I had high hopes for at the start of this year. I was hoping at least one of them broke out and even someday rivaled BADIK. At this point, none of them have panned out. Kind of the opposite really. I'm a little burnt out on this trend of VNs with potential just gaining a lot of attention then sputtering out before it ever gets anywhere. I might even just be losing interest in this medium of entertainment in general.
It's weird. It's like this market is over saturated but at the same time there's not much to play. Dev cycles keep getting longer and longer, they just slowly ghost the project, or they're just barely good enough to bother with.

There are maybe 2 or 3 games that I still look forward to and everything else is just:
1. Wait 7 months or longer (Although it feels like it's getting easier to count how many VNs don't take more than a year for an update)
2. Play from the beginning because I forgot everything and don't even remember why I found it interesting.
3. Say, "meh, that update was okay"
4. Lose a little more enthusiasm for the VN and VNs in general.
5. Repeat steps 1 - 4.
*Worst ones are the VNs that haven't updated in almost a year or more. I go back to the thread and think, "I don't know even remember why I found this good in the first place. Why am I bothering to check for status updates from the devs?"

It's whatever, I guess. I've either been too busy or too tired to really sit down and play all of these throughout this whole year anyway. I've got a whole queue of ones I haven't updated yet because I think "Yea, I don't want to actually make the time or have the energy to play this just to wait another 8 months to do it all over again". Plus, I don't have any skin in any of them so I can't really complain. Not anymore at least. Although, it's probably not a bad thing to slowly move on from AVNs. Unless another one comes along that can eventually replace BADIK and isn't going to require us to be following along for the next 10 years, I'll probably be done once BADIK is finally finished (maybe even before then, that shit's probably going to take at least another 3 to 4 years). Does anyone else share a similar sentiment or am I just kind of burnt out?

Still, not gonna lie. If there was an experienced dev smart enough to put Paris from Acquainted, Heidi from Bare Witness, and Tara from Chasing Sunsets all in one game, my interest would inexplicably come back. :BootyTime:
 
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darth_hiruma

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Idk about love and submission but A.O.A was indeed about to get an update right before the dev disappeared now as to what happened? we don't know for certain some said he committed suicide some said he just died as someone else mentioned he could have accidentally deleted something and didn't want to start over and finally someone said he lives somewhere where making adult games s not legal and someone he knew found out about it so he had to shut it down
Ah yeah AOA dev is asian and porn is illegal here.
 

dddkingddd

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On a more serious note:
Acquainted was one of the few VNs I had high hopes for at the start of this year. I was hoping at least one of them broke out and even someday rivaled BADIK. At this point, none of them have panned out. Kind of the opposite really. I'm a little burnt out on this trend of VNs with potential just gaining a lot of attention then sputtering out before it ever gets anywhere. I might even just be losing interest in this medium of entertainment in general.
It's weird. It's like this market is over saturated but at the same time there's not much to play. Dev cycles keep getting longer and longer, they just slowly ghost the project, or they're just barely good enough to bother with.

There are maybe 2 or 3 games that I still look forward to and everything else is just:
1. Wait 7 months or longer (Although it feels like it's getting easier to count how many VNs don't take more than a year for an update)
2. Play from the beginning because I forgot everything and don't even remember why I found it interesting.
3. Say, "meh, that update was okay"
4. Lose a little more enthusiasm for the VN and VNs in general.
5. Repeat steps 1 - 4.
*Worst ones are the VNs that haven't updated in almost a year or more. I go back to thread and think, "I don't know even remember I found this good in the first place. Why am I bothering to check for status updates from the devs?"

It's whatever, I guess. I've either been too busy or too tired to really sit down and play all of these throughout this whole year anyway. I've got a whole queue of ones I haven't updated yet because I think "Yea, I don't want to actually make the time or have the energy to play this just to wait another 8 months to do it all over again". Plus, I don't have any skin in any of them so I can't really complain. Not anymore at least. Although, it's probably not a bad thing to slowly move on from AVNs. Unless another one comes along that can eventually replace BADIK and isn't going to require us to be following along for the next 10 years, I'll probably be done once BADIK is finally finished (maybe even before then, that shit's probably going to take at least another 3 to 4 years). Does anyone else share a similar sentiment or am I just kind of burnt out?

Still, not gonna lie. If there was an experienced dev smart enough to put Paris from Acquainted, Heidi from Bare Witness, and Tara from Chasing Sunsets all in one game, my interest would inexplicably come back. :BootyTime:
jit trippin, the game is pretty, the dev is better than most on this site when it comes to 3d rendering for sure, but the writing in v.1 was so aids bro at least badik is coherent and consistent and the mc isn't an ape.
that said, the dev definitely had something with this project and the fact that its abandoned is disappointing nevertheless. like where is the passion?

also, i understand your sentiments towards avns as well, i'd call it burnout considering the fact that updates are so few and far between. having to start over as a refresher is what's keeping me from playing the long list of avns that i've personally subscribed to. its also the fact that hardly any indie dev on this site could fancy themselves a writer. producing a multi-media artform requires you to be a jack of all trades and often times, devs are just good at a few aspects of game development.
the fact that so few developers are even decent at writing makes it hard to muster the desire to keep up with an avn and the urge to just skip through or abandon them altogether is a great one.
 
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