Why is the answer of 14 to 20 episodes confusing to you?
I could imagine that DPC has a list of problems and dramas for BaDIK and works through this list step by step.
It's an estimate from DPC because he can't predict exactly how many episodes he needs for the problems and dramas.
Keep in mind that BaDIK is set at the beginning of the first year in college and if DPC wanted to, he could create more problems and dramas and run BaDIK until EP 50.
Speaking for myself, the problem is that a story needs more than just a list of events that happen. The events need to be linked by the actions of the characters, which in turn need to flow from those characters trying to achieve their various goals. Without that web of action the events will only ever be a list, no more emotionally gripping than the roster of candidates for the 2022 Olympic Men's Biathlon.
Now in theory, you can just keep advancing the narrative in an unending chain of events, as is common in soap operas and comic books. The problem, though, is that the characters are (hopefully) striving to fulfill their goals the whole time. So eventually they really ought to succeed (or definitively fail) at that long-standing goal. If they are stuck chasing the same goal endlessly, things will feel stale. But if they finally succeed (or fail), then not only is the goal no longer able to drive their actions, but these characters should be changed in some way by the experience: they just achieved (or are forced to admit they'll never achieve) their life's ambition, after all.
Now a good author can still make this sort of thing work, by allowing characters to evolve and adding/removing characters over time to shake things up. But that's much, much harder than telling a simple story with only the initial set of goals.
Looking at BaDIK, I see plenty of initial goals, but not a lot of opportunity for secondary goals. The only thing that might serve that function is if the MC does adopt a serious relationship with one (or two) of the LIs, and the story then transitions to how things change from their. That would be pretty ambitious, but a lot harder to work in a game that's primarily about cramming in as many lewd scenes as will fit.
So yeah, I'm nervous at the thought of this going much past three seasons.
tl;dr It's hard to keep adding new dramas to a story without the characters growing stale or altering things the audience initially liked about them.
Not really anything to analyze here. No numbers included except 80% done, which is kind of meaningless when you remember that DPC said he was 30-50% two months ago (which was obviously bullshit).
Oh yee of little faith.
As
shazba has already pointed out, that was not bullshit. DPC estimated he was 30-50% complete on January 1.
As I said at the time, that roughly translated to a 100% complete date between February 26 and May 14. The latest estimate (March 26 to April 2) falls squarely within that time frame. If anything, this makes DPC look consistent (or, more likely, underscores the value of wide error bars).
EDIT:
So 30-50% means 30%, 60-75% means 60%... but why even put the higher percentage out there? The fact is that these numbers were never realistic in the first place, but people do get hyped up at the higher numbers (which were ambitious at best and plain false at worse), and DPC is working in an industry where hype=patrons. People may not subscribe if they think a game is 4 months out, but make it seem like it's 6 weeks away and people will sign up. Again, all credit to the game, but the marketing - unrealistic/untruthful numbers and unneccessarily extended release times - is bullshit.
I love the game, but I hate what is becoming of the business model.
30-50% means somewhere between 30% and 50%. It's not complicated. If today's estimate winds up being true, back on January 1 we would have been around 39% complete. That's not only between 30% and 50%, it's relatively close to halfway between them.
What exactly are you complaining about here?
Huh never thought about that. She has sex with us on her parent's bed while subsequently cheating on Maya at the same time. Remind me why she chose her parent's bed of all places?
Probably because her own bed was too small for two people to sleep in with any degree of chastity. Josy obviously
wanted extremely unchaste things to happen, but I think she needed the fig leaf that things would stay chaste to help her get past the guilt of cheating on Maya.
That's my guess, anyway.
Don't your bosses understand that your porn game charts are more important that any pish they are asking you to do?
Hard to say. For some inexplicable reason the topic has never come up.
