What makes you think DPC is a millionaire?
Yeah but instead of spending a month or whatever he did on those animations he could have used it on something else that added value to the story. I doubt anyone would agree to him spending 2 months on an animation that does nothing for the story and is just there for no reason other than to show off.
So, for anyone still talking about Dev time (i did that too, full disclosure) here is some information i was able to collect, but take it with a grain of salt.
Regarding why this episode took so long (not particular order):
- Music issues, some say this took a week, some say this took a day to resolve. One of the bands that DPC uses contacted him, asking him to remove the song from the game (Its the band with the song in the opening menu of Seasons 1-2)
- His rig died, or rigs, not sure if that was to be taken literal (could be GPUs), but a sort of hit to his processing power
- Someone said that they remembers DPC saying that Free Roams are the most time-consuming things to develop, and as you know, this entire episode was one huge free-roam
- He also found out that there is a website that sells his game, and had to take care of that (not sure how long that took)
- Renders for higher tier Patreon supporters, if i understood correctly, he said that took up around 10% of the development time. he said he is going to stop doing that.
- Developing the new system for the party planning (However, he could easily decide create a new system for every episode/two, so that's not a one-off)
- The insane amount of new animations, which is everything from making the scenes themselves (most time consuming) perfecting them (which i think he didn't) and rendering.
Choose to look at this info as you wish, i choose to look at this optimistically: 10% time saved from renders, new planing game is ready, next update will hopully (probably?) not be such a big Free roam, and the one-off issues (music, rig), all of these are major factors that make me hope for 7 months.
HOWEVER - DPC is an artist first and nothing is stopping him from deciding to double the non-lewd animations and overhaling the new party game, adding more games, do an even longer freeroam, etc.
PDC is PROBABLY a millionaire thanks to Steam Sales, I've spoken to several AVN Devs that confirmed that the real money is in STEAM. I also heard that a different college-game dev made 3m$ since his steam release in Aug - DPC would've obviously made more (and he released TWO seasons), this is one of the reasons he is able to honestly say "I'll do this even with 0 patrons" - But i agree, that's VERY easy to say because that will probably never happen.
