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Not gonna make any comment on the game's worth since that's subjective, but please tell me you realise the reason the game has a small filesize is because it's pixel art? You do realise how huge texture files are in comparison, right?250 MB
Edit: My bad, I thought you were saying Aurelia was small , I now realise you were pointing out the filesize increase from v0.31 to v1.0 lol
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Post not directed at anyone, just explaining while filesize is low and that 250 mb is pretty huge considering how small the game is in previous updates.
Whats interesting to me is that the filesize almost quadrupled compared to 0.31. Either they added basically everything of what was in the pipeline, including the lose ends while animating every scene since 75% wasn't animated or maybe they done a lot of other things they didn't talk about.
We will see once the game comes out.
Its real simple. Its using Game Maker with low resulution. the amount of art is much higher than most porn games, from what I remember it was 80+ sex scenes combined but that was the old version. They're just only a few kb in size each.
Whats interesting to me is that the filesize almost quadrupled compared to 0.31. Either they added basically everything of what was in the pipeline, including the lose ends while animating every scene since 75% wasn't animated or maybe they done a lot of other things they didn't talk about.
We will see once the game comes out.
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Some of my very favorite games fall in the 50 KB to a few MB range... And for some others that are more in the 100-500 MB range, the music/audio often takes up the lion's share instead. When you don't need absurdly high resolution and ultra-detailed textures, turns out that you can do a lot with very little: the "size of the game" argument feels very specious, especially given that you know what kind of game you're buying in advance. This isn't $70 for 200 GB of the latest Call of Duty, after all, but you can certainly go that route if that's more to your liking.
I do, but Aurelia is not FTL or Steam World Dig with similar sizes, where devs put massive effort into gameplay mechanics etc.
It's a porn game, and it just dosen't have enough content to justify 20$ price tag.
He probably blew game size by some uncompressed audio and redundant assets. It's not like 1.0 will have 2.5x more content than 0.31 we have right now.
I already said before realistically we will get like 30% extra content from 0.31 build. Or less, because 0.31 was produced in 5 years, and 1.0 was developed for 0.5-1 year.
So yeah 0.31+30% extra content aren't worth 20$.
If you look on other games even from the same publisher Aurelia is nothing special, but somehow costs 33% more than their best games? Seems to match right with Mirthal's overconfidence and ego tho
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As sanshisan said it has like 80+ sex scenes? I think that's up there with the amount of content in a lot of other fully completed H games.
Ah I see what you mean now, I thought you were calling the 250mb small lol - yeah I agree, a sizeable part of that increase will be due to low optimisation, but we'll have to wait and see.
I mean this is where we'll probably have to disagree on the whole art/worth being subjective thing - but I genuinely think the art quality, writing, character designs and soundtracks in Aurelia are of exceptional quality and the whole package even just in v0.31 is already worth $20 to me. There are $70 AAA releases that have given me less joy, and therefore less value, than this random porn game hasIf you look on other games even from the same publisher Aurelia is nothing special, but somehow costs 33% more than their best games? Seems to match right with Mirthal's overconfidence and ego tho
Just my two cents anyway, nothing against you not finding the game worth it, but if you're curious where the pricing has come from I'd suspect it's from Aurelia's very high production value.
Don't worry haha, I do a lot of modding of these texture/sprite files (both for Aurelia and other pixel art games) so I'm keenly aware of how teensy they are!
I just misinterpreted SomeoneX22's comment as saying 250mb was somehow small, but I now realise that they were (quite rightly) pointing out how large that is compared to v0.31. As you said in your comment, we'll have to wait and see what that's actually come from lol!
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Aurelia production was 150% financed by Patreon
And yeah economy in my country is kinda shit, so neither 70$ AAAs nor 20$ porn games seems right for me compared to people with much more disposable income from EU and US.
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To be fair, the moment this game goes up on Patreon it goes up here. Doing an early release would absolutely torpedo the Steam sales. Sure, it's not very kind towards the patrons but it's not really my problem.
I doubt we can compete even with patreon - in numbers. And patreon can't compete with Steam. So our 500 downloads here can hurt only his ege.
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The pixeldrain link to 0.31 here alone has over 28k downloads and the thread nears 6m views. And in general, even outside of f95 you'll often find certain patreons having 3 times the favorites on Kemono than they have followers/subscribers. Piracy isn't nearly as niche as you think. I'm not saying anything along the lines of piracy being harmful, I'm just saying it's a lot bigger than what you assume.
Wow, I really underestimated the numbers. Still, more arguments in favor of lowering the price - more likely that someone will decide to support the developer. Well, again, let's see the content first.
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I personally think 20 bucks is okay because
But I also can't buy the game so that point is moot
But I also can't buy the game so that point is moot
I had beaten this game at 100% and I cannot wait for the full release. I have got exams tomorrow and I want to release my stress (and other things) with this game.
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Not like it matters but Weekend doesn't count, so it's been under review for 3/4 days actually.
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You're comparing release price to heavily discounted sale price, which is a little apple and oranges, no?
Witcher 3 release price was $70, and DOS2 I'm not sure but I'm seeing sort of $45-60 for the Definitive Edition right now - maybe the main game released around the $40 mark or something?
So that pair of games you're talking about is $110 at release, compared to Aurelia's $20 at release.
That's an 82% lower price
It's still up to you whether that's personally worth it for you. For me, for the sheer amount of content and quality in Aurelia, I think it is. For you, you might not like it as much, and that's fine as well.
Good luck with the exams dude and hope you'll be able to celebrate with this release hahah
Ok, not quite valid comparsion. Sons of the forest, full game, complete with coop and all, 30$. Enshrouded early acces with shitload of content AND coop multiplayer - 30$.So that pair of games you're talking about is $110 at release, compared to Aurelia's $20 at release.
That's an 82% lower price
It's still up to you whether that's personally worth it for you. For me, for the sheer amount of content and quality in Aurelia, I think it is. For you, you might not like it as much, and that's fine as well.
Of course, content quality and quantity is very important when setting the price. And of course, I'll see what about content first, before making a decision. But given what I saw in earlier versions of Aurelia, I doubt there will be so much content so it can be comparable to any "big" game prices. The one 2d porn game wich in MY OPINION got closest to that price levels - is old version of Summertime Saga before that clown cut most of content "to redraw".
But - of course, first we need to see it with our own eyes. Meanwhile, is 26 and 27 of november already.
So my question is - how about christmas release?)
It's 10AM in Argentina, still no release in Steam.
Its 15PM in Spain, 3 days passed, still no release in Steam.