You count content based on the combined total of the 2 versions? That seems weird, and a little misleading as they are essentially the same thing, just the content is longer on one. Yes the watermark thing is just one of the scenes but it's happened before in the last major update you did (its a lil rae black scene), the audio those stupid ads have is also included in that one, do better on that front. I misspoke when I said "SFW" but SFW standards for this site, and it's titled andi.mp4 though I fucked up there and I apologize.
I wasn't complaining about your patreon being taken down, I understand why it happened, I said that it felt as if you guys said "fuck it" after getting the new funding source in and just kind of wanted to put minimal effort in whilst reaping the benefits of the people who diehard support you. I am not saying this is the truth, it just feels the way with the way content has been rolling out for a while (the 7 stripper rollouts), you even held a poll in the discord asking like "hey guys, should we just make a new game? we're not really sure what else we can do here"
You guys seemingly add a lot of technical content this is a big game with a lot of moving parts, but then the question becomes why put out an update every 2 weeks then instead of taking the full month to finetune it? Also, can you elaborate on what that looks like outside of new game mechanics? A lot of people aren't really focused on the gameplay, and the technical stuff you guys do add at times feels annoying and tedious to deal with and more like a barrier (for example the whole teaching system for the hs update) when I think people mostly wanted to experience the character's questlines.
There literally is a scene with Peta Jensen & Jessa Rhodes (which would be appropriate with the characters released this update) Jessa Rhodes & Madison Ivy also have a couple scenes together.
My notes for you guys would to take a poll asking if people: prefer the "slave quests & romance quests" or would prefer more new paths with less mechanics but new questlines for new girls & existing girls (akin to Irene, Nicole, etc). Maybe do a ping or a subscribestar/onlyfans/discord post asking specifically the type of content they are looking forward to seeing in Become Someone.
I'm not saying drop the romance & slave quests completely (maybe roll them out like 2 or 3 at a time instead of drip feeding them one an update for 18-19/24 updates of the year. But it's a slap in the face to be paying every month to support the game and ensure that it doesn't die just to get content that I am not interested in playing unlike other games like Back To Freedom. You don't even have to create new map art, you guys can jump around and expand old paths like you have been doing, and just focus more on new questlines or giving girls a new questline outside of a date or slave route.
I know you are saying you classify content based on scenes, but a scene can be two paragraphs in the sauna and a picture, which is technically content you're right- but it's not the content people are donating money for. I'm going based off of content people who support and diehard want to play this game are interested in which is the clipped scenes (and images which I did not count) Just to clarify that I'm not saying remove this stuff, or stop including it altogether- but let's not bullshit here, most people would not consider it content or call it a "big update" based off of that.
I want to offer you an apology on your role, you do more than I thought and the upkeep of the sites including the long videos version is probably a lot so I commend you on that. I really do love this game and want to continue to support it, which is why I'm opening up and speaking about my opinion and taking ownership of my faults.
I want to clarify once again that this is coming from a place of critical thinking, and that I am sorry for downplaying your role, I want to see you guys get back to where you were financially and I do think the shift from the drip feed of little updates to "hey we added a new girl or two new girls each with a questline" or "we gave this girl a new questline, checkout her story!" would get you guys back into the swing of things and back to where you were.
1) The count, yes because those clips are total different lengths and sometimes the short clip isn't even a part of the longer clip. You'd be surprised but we have some players that enjoy playing both versions (hardcore fans and a minority I agree but they do exist haha). We will be more careful on the watermarks and I'm taking notes for those clips, when I find them I'll do my best to replace them with better ones.
2) For Andi, she is paying us to have that sort of "ad" in the game (we tried our best to not make it too intrusive) and as she is working with us on other projects it was a bit hard to say no to her.
3) Mybad if it seems like I said you were complaining on the patreon, didn't mean it that way. Not at all actually, but we had to implement quite a lot of changes after the patreon ban, including creating our own website to be able to continue the project, update the premium version to make it work with subscribestar API, ... since then, a lot of stuff that was automated and easy before became a bit more complicated. I can assure you that we are not planning to drop the game or milk players on the contrary.
3) We put an update out every 2 weeks because financially that has been what brought us the most money, we ran some tests quite a few times to release only an update per month, but being on gamcore's first page twice a month is what is really putting bread on the table.
4) Well, believe it or not, depending on the people what they want for the game can be very different. I think sometimes we should release the polls results that we are basing our decisions on with updates. Believe it or not, it would be way easier for us to make scenes with little text and 5 videos, we have been told to do the opposite for 5 years. Don't forget that you are one voice, we receive around 50 messages a day, and we have 12 million people playing the game including 40k donators who all have a opinion.
5) We will look into those scenes.
6) Funny enough, we literally threw polls after your first message to see what our players will say haha, don't worry we are going to listen as we always try to. Do not hesitate to join us on discord!
7) Well see, poll we launched literally ask us to make more romance & slave quests instead of adding new content to characters directly.
And we even get a complaint that there won't be anymore stripper stuff... we have such a huge player base with different wants and needs that sometimes it's a bit of a nightmare for us to take decisions
8) Well again, we have quite a few players, especially our biggest donator ever, ask us to include more scenes with pictures because he hates videos
9) Don't worry haha, I take no offense, I enjoy my time in the dark behind the scenes.
