felicemastronzo

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I don't understand what you are surprised about, we went from 7 to 11 months for no real reason, now there is a reason why we will probably go from 11 to 13. What's the problem? Everything is fine. "It will be worth it."
 

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is anybody really surprised by this? like at all?? LOL
I am tbh, not because he did something that exponentially increases his work load or anything like that, but because doubling the framerate of animations was the last thing I expected him to do. I was honestly expecting him to say he created entire scenes with just animations and no still renders rather than doubling the framerate.
 

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Gotta take the time to brag a little (through the pain) about how right I was 4 months ago about DPC always finding a new way to extend development time. It was a couple weeks after he got his new hardware and people thought this meant he would finish the episode by July. LOL. What a joke that was. Back then I optimistically said it would take at least 9 months (release in September), at this point I wouldn't be surprised if it makes it into November. Maybe even further! Who knows at this point, not even sure if DPC does, cuz he's always waiting on the next perfectionist project to work on within the episode.

"I got some marginally better hardware to help speed up my ever-increasing development cycle? Time to double the amount of animation frames!"-DPC with a completely straight face.
 

OmenBR

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60fps animations and possibly ray tracing in episode 12 might be too much for my pc.
Maybe DPC could add support for AMD FSR2.0, that would be amazing!

for real though, did we really wait an entire year for 60fps animations or am i just tripping right now?
 
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I love how DPС uses the right time for bad news. Phantom Liberty is coming out as early as Tuesday and generally no one will care anymore, they'll go off to play Cyberpunk. It was the same thing with Starfield and Baldur's Gate.
Now of course it will be harder to calculate the release time, but I'm guessing it's the end of November.
 

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oh well, guess DPC is just living up to his game name by..Being A DIK...still cannot wait to play it when it comes out. one of my top 10 must play VNs. and like many people here i have many saves which will keep my playing new content for a few weeks after it comes out.
 

felicemastronzo

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I love how DPС uses the right time for bad news. Phantom Liberty is coming out as early as Tuesday and generally no one will care anymore, they'll go off to play Cyberpunk. It was the same thing with Starfield and Baldur's Gate.
Now of course it will be harder to calculate the release time, but I'm guessing it's the end of November.
And Milfy City 1.0....

The irony
 
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Orgitas

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Although I’m annoyed as much as the rest of you guys over this 60fps revelation, at least DPC mentioned how the fps increase improves the “jiggle”.
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The imagination runs wild.

I am not really opposed the 60 fps though it would have made more sense to use the AI program for that. More of an neutral stance to it all. Sort of like "Oh, okay. Nothing we can do. Will look cool though.".
 
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The imagination runs wild.

I am not really opposed the 60 fps though it would have made more sense to use the AI program for that. More of an neutral stance to it all. Sort of like "Oh, okay. Nothing we can do. Will look cool though.".
I would have preferred to see more of the story, perhaps some minor scenes that were previously left out due to lack of rendering capabilities. And Joshy could use some more cuddling and holding hands with Maya, I guess. But juicy boinking at 60 fps is also not bad, I won’t deny it :)
 
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felicemastronzo

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Although I’m annoyed as much as the rest of you guys over this 60fps revelation, at least DPC mentioned how the fps increase improves the “jiggle”.
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and do you want to put in the rustle of the Preps' robes? it will almost seem like you can hear the sound!!!

Oppenheimer is lucky that the intro to chapter 10 will not be in the Oscars
 

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I've seen people saying DPC is milking his fans and I have never agreed with that until now. Episode 10 will be a couple of months more than episode 9 and so we get slightly better animations. It is smart of DPC to drag the game out he has probably the most popular AVN around and make tons of money off of it. When BADIK is finished he will have to make a new game that may not be as popular and could halve the money he makes now. The way DPC is going now making more animations and making them slightly better and making a whole episode like 9 that doesn't really advance the game much at all I can see this still going and not even being up to episode 20 in 10 years. There will probably be a lot of people that play now that will be dead by the time it is finished. DPC may even want to retire before it ends unless he does what Freeloading Family did and just make endings for the characters halfway through the game.

Hopefully episode 10 will be better than episode 9. I thought episode 9 was overall pretty boring and really annoying with all the freeroam. I still haven't even finished the episode yet I've only done Sage, Jill and possibly Josy but I don't even remember half of what happened on most routes.
 

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I've seen people saying DPC is milking his fans and I have never agreed with that until now. Episode 10 will be a couple of months more than episode 9 and so we get slightly better animations. It is smart of DPC to drag the game out he has probably the most popular AVN around and make tons of money off of it. When BADIK is finished he will have to make a new game that may not be as popular and could halve the money he makes now. The way DPC is going now making more animations and making them slightly better and making a whole episode like 9 that doesn't really advance the game much at all I can see this still going and not even being up to episode 20 in 10 years. There will probably be a lot of people that play now that will be dead by the time it is finished. DPC may even want to retire before it ends unless he does what Freeloading Family did and just make endings for the characters halfway through the game.

Hopefully episode 10 will be better than episode 9. I thought episode 9 was overall pretty boring and really annoying with all the freeroam. I still haven't even finished the episode yet I've only done Sage, Jill and possibly Josy but I don't even remember half of what happened on most routes.
I wouldn't say he is milking. He is just his own worst enemy by wanting to do more than the episode that came before. If he were milking the fans... Well.. Go see the latest Milfy City update lol. So long in development with only 2 months of actual work done.
 
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Melissa fan

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I wouldn't say he is milking. He is just his own worst enemy by wanting to do more than the episode that came before. If he were milking the fans... Well.. Go see the latest Milfy City update lol. So long in development with only 2 months of actual work done.
Just because he is actually doing more work doesn't mean he isn't milking it. If he cut some unnessary filler, reduced the amount and length of animations he could be back to 6 months per update. If the game ends at episode 20 he could be done in 5 years and then lose his BADIK money but if he adds in some filler and makes animations longer and slightly better he can add 5 years on to the game and have an extra 5 years of all that BADIK money before he has to create a new game that may halve his monthly income.

I'm not trying to bash the guy because I and 99% of the world would do the same thing if we were in his position. If you are making an entertainment product that needs to have an end at some point and it is currently making 10k a month why end it in 5 years and create something new that could make 2k a month when you can drag each episode out to double the time. I'm sure everyone would rather have 10k a month for 10 years rather than 10k for 5 years and then possibly 2k a month for 5 years or even have to go back to a full time job.
 
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