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.
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.
Didnt the love and submission dev die? And AOA's update was done and day away from upload before everything got deleted right?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.
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!
yeah hes still making over $500 a month for free
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.
he didn't not posting any thing since May, tell you a lot about it!
"Day away from upload before everything got deleted" is the most "I got my homework done and the dog chewed it" level bad excuse I have heard. Did he really expect people to believe that
In AOA case it's less "dog ate my homework" and more "dropping out of school right before the math test"
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
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.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.
I see what you mean but I kind of disagree. I admit, "rival" was a pretty strong word there. It was more like I was just looking for a replacement for BADIK. I didn't like the last two episodes and I was looking for something at least good enough that wasn't going to take 1 year per update. I'm not saying Yuno's writing was great but it was good enough. Some of it didn't make much sense, a good amount of "texting-speak" even though it's supposed to be a story, etc. but I don't think the writing was that bad compared to others I've seen.
