I wish I was on his payroll. Could do with the extra cash. Also the things I have said aren't naive. Just know what I am talking about. But if that is your rebuttal then you clearly fall in the category of "Don't know what they are talking about slash salty troll.". So interacting with you is akin to talking to a particularly dense brick wall. Bring me a reasonable argument. That is all I asked, yet you couldn't. *Shrug*
IMO, that 2D art is the worst part of the game. Surely I'm not the only one that feels that way.
It doesn't sound as apocalyptic as it seems at first glance. There are 11 scenes left, and 3 of those scenes are short and he'll probably have time to finish them next week with 8 scenes left. Assuming he does 2 scenes a week and the longest scene in a week (350 renders), that leaves about 5 weeks. Will add a couple more weeks for animation. The estimated start time of the beta test is September 25, and the game's release is October 13. This is of course all the usual speculation, but I think I'm pretty close to reality. Late October seems like a realistic release date to me.
I think he does enjoy stuffing every episode with any and all content he can think of, but at this point he has little choice. With all the branching and characters, even a smaller episode is going to take more time. And if he cuts back on content or quality too much, fans will be even more disappointed, as it was all the rich content that brought them to the game in the first place.
And the bonus Madame Rose content everyone is really eager for.Dont forget the scenes that dont feel complete when he plays the whole episode and need extra renders and animations
It's the snowball effect, for sure. He wants to do more and more with each episode. But, alas, that means a longer development time with each passing update. He stated he wants to be the best in the AVN game. But to do that you have to keep pushing and pushing. The only downside to his work ethic is that he refuses to hire people and wants to do it alone. No reason to believe he can't. The sales, the updates and weekly progress are evident of this. However even just having a person on the payroll to do the marketing, or coding etc would take a load off of his mind to work more efficiently. But, as they say, "If wishes were fishes the world would be an ocean."
This week he did 4 so 2-3 scenes maybe more seems realistic that can be done 3-5 weeks if it holds. I hope your right about the date Josy would be a great early birthday present
We pretty much know where we’re at.
This end invalidated the entire analysis
toobad0912: As a longtime supporter, I can reliably say that DPC is a bit of a control freak, to put it mildly. I'm guessing you didn't read the rules on the Discord, which I think would have warned you about a few things. One is that you NEVER make any mention of any pirate sites, like F95, and don't bring up anything you might have read or seen on the BaDIK sub on Reddit, etc. Questions and discussion about the game itself, bug reports, and friendly chitchat are about all that's allowed. While some AVN developers do this for fun and are happy to make any money along the way, DPC is all about the Benjamins. He takes the view that any acknowledgement of the game outside Patreon, Steam, or GOG "hurts his business." I don't blame him, as he quit his day job a few years ago to focus on game development full-time, but it also seems likely that a lot of people who discover the game here do go on to support him or buy the game (ironically, it seems the angriest trolls who complain about the length of game development time are those who have never and will never pay anything).
Some one who can think rationally. Hurrah, knew there had to be more on this forum.
I don't know if there are any fans of Witcher games or Cyberpunk 2077 here, but the same thing is happening on CDPR official Discord servers. Full of egoistic CMs and their selectively picked moderators who are the best examples of what control freaks can achieve in place of any power. This came to the point of me and my mates proving that CMs are actually favouring their moderator friends in official polls and stuff.
I agree that it's the worst part of the game, but not because it feels out of place. It's because he hired a shitty 2D artist (FlowerXL).
Seems like a bizarre objection, since Reddit is just another place to discuss the game. Weird guy.
DPC is rather opinionated and has quite the ego. Reddit, like here, is full of people trying to tell him what to do. Or, at least, what that particular fan wants to see. DPC is also the guy who said "This is my project and my vision". So he made the decision to cut out a lot of the salty trolls (like the guy who thinks I am on the payroll LOL). His attitude doesn't serve him well. But it, seemingly, doesn't deter his 11k patreon subs nor the millions he made through Steam. So, as long as he sees the results I doubt he will see the need to change. So, yes, it can be seen as weird yet also justified, in his view, at the same time.
Yep and I'd expand on this a bit with that developer. I didn't buy CP2077 but I own all the Witcher games on Steam. I've seen a ton of censorship and conversation suppression by their moderators on both CDPR forums and Steam - their key censorship czar is a dude named "Sardukhar". If he doesn't like your opinion, he will absolutely get rid of your post and if you say anything you will be gone as well. Their moderation teams are a key reason I will never buy a game from CDPR again, even though I'm a Witcher superfan. Everything from that developer will be a permanent high seas exclusive as far as I'm concerned.
He wanted to own/be the sole moderator of the subreddit and when the creator of the sub refused, he declared it haram or verboten or whatever you want to call it. If the sub were called "BeingaDIKfans" maybe he wouldn't have made such a fuss? I don't know. Like most artists and driven entrepreneurs, he wants to control all the communication and marketing around his product. It may not be very realistic, but he can handle it however he likes.
DPC wasn't objecting to discussion of the game, he was complaining about paywalled content regularly being posted on the subreddit.
Obviously they didn't let DPC assume control, but I believe the moderators were more rigorous about not allowing paywalled content after this? Don't follow reddit, so don't know for sure though.You must be registered to see the linksbeen rumbled!
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