Yup, I'm in a pirate forum because I have spent too much money paying in advance for games that I didn't like. So I came here and downloaded a bunch of AVN you can find on Patreon.
Most of them simply aren't worth one month of $5 tier subscription, and I just deleted it after trying them for half an hour.
This is
not one of them, and I would have considered pledging for it, if there had been a release every three or six month max.
If the Developer concentrated himself in
progressing the story instead of on useless minigames and upscaling frame rate (who does notice the difference between 30fps and 60fps... and if they notice it, are they willing to pay the cost in terms of more gigabytes to download and more time to wait to see the progress of the story??? Shouldn't upscaling framerate be postponed for a redo once the story is concluded???).
I also would have bought Acting Lessons on Steam after having finished it as a pirate download if it hadn't had that
forced sacrifice of one girl in the fire crap!
Because if Acting Lessons had at least one or two possible really good ending without trauma, it would be totally worth his $9 Steam price to me. I would happily pay up to
$20 for it.
But... hell! Not $5 - $15 every fucking months for I don't know how many months it took to complete it!
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Unfortunately (more for me than for DPC) I don't have the financial means of George Harrison who put
2 MILLION POUNDS upfront in the production of "Life of Brian"
because he wanted to see the movie...
(
N.B. He put 2 million Pounds upfront
ONCE,
not 100 thousand Pounds every month for an indefinite nuber of months... )
So, I'm not pledging $5 per month for the next four or ten years.
If at the end of the story he doesn't fuck up (meaning that there is at least a possible good ending with each LI and
you are not forced to let one die) I will pay for the finished product on Steam if it has a reasonable price, because
I do believe that creative work has to be paid.
Only
I do not believe that it is fair to ask for more money the more slow you are.
And
I don't think $60 is a reasonable price for a single episode!
And $60 is how much $5 tier patreons spent for Episode 10 alone... (and unless they don't download Ep 10 from here, they will get it with a consistent delay!!!
)
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Besides, I guess that George Harrison by putting 2 million Pounds upfront producing "Life of Brian"
wasn't just paying his personal copy of the movie, but probably he got an agreemente for
a percentage of the royalties...
like any producer gets. And which is
just fair.
Instead what are patreons doing?
They are acting as
producers at all effects until supporting producing costs is concerned, but then... when the finished product is put on the market, they're not treated as producers anymore, since... ONLY THE DEVELOPER gets a
return on
their investment!
Not fair at all...