Oh, i confused Burgermeister with Burke. My bad. My other points are still standing, though. She could have offered finacial help. If not for the entire tuition, at least a small amout to get some weight off Mayas shoulders and to make her independent from her father. But to be fair, that ones on all of Mayas friends. MC still has the 5k from his mother, right? He only used a small amout of it to fund the gym card. Instead of giving her some of the money to buy her some time until she can get a job to pay for herself, he decided to break into the office to steal the documents. I'm still interested in the story and i'm excited for EP11, but i think the gang could have handled some things very differently. They're probably just young and naive, but still.
The MC offered Maya the money from his inheritance in EP7.
MC: "I got $5000 in inheritance for my birthday."
MC: "It’s almost enough for one semester..."
Maya: "And then what?"
MC: "I don't know."
Maya realizes that this won't be enough and the MC wouldn't know what to do next.
The rich families could support Maya if they knew about it. Also, Josy asks the MC something very apt at the end of EP8. Why would anyone just give Maya money. In addition, the rich families don't know anything about Maya's problem. Sage is the first to find out about this at the end of EP7 and she tries to help Maya by asking her father for a scholarship for Maya. Jill Royce only finds out all the details of Maya's problem in EP10 and Russel (Rusty) Burgmeister doesn't know anything about it.
Yes, if Maya got the money from someone, she would no longer have the problem with college, but the problem with her father Patrick would still not be solved. That's why there is no easy path in history.
First, Jill isn't rich. Jill's parents are rich and I hope she has enough respect for her parents not to ask them to open their check books to every sob story she happens to come across.
Second, It was an ancestor of the Royce's who co-founded the college, most likely by giving a large endowment. The college is, most probably, a separate entity in itself and not the Royce or Burgmeister families.
Third, Jill's parents are, again most likely but we don't know for sure, not the entire Royce family and we don't know for sure just how rich they are, or how much influence they have over the college.
I don't know if Jill is rich herself, but she has more money. She inherited something from her sister Lana. I think it was Lana's life insurance. I'm just asking myself a question. Does life insurance pay out the money if the death of the insured person (Lana) was self-inflicted?
it's not even that clear how rich they really are. they have a major last name, but Jill's father is shown to us as a man who covers himself in ridicule in order to set up some partnership with anyone he meets at the preps party, we know that mourning for Lana has caused him to slip into alcoholism, and it falls to her mother to manage the family business.
very likely that they can still be considered enough wealthy (compared to MC, Maya etc), but I don't have these certainties that they can consider themselves really wealthy, even vis-à-vis a recently enriched like Burke
That was exactly my thought, why I recently mentioned “Romeo and Juliet” in a post and mentioned the name Paris. If this is really the case, so that the Royces are no longer so rich and only live off their name, a future heir to a large fortune could be the right son-in-law.
What if Jill and Rusty's date was intentionally sabotaged by Rusty's father by inciting Tommy to do it? What if the old castle master doesn't want a Loser Royce in the family.
These are thoughts, possibilities, nothing more.
The entire walkthrough. You can use it while playing the game to check what you should pick to get to the girl you like. Or you play completely blind to see what consequenses your actions will have.
I always do it like that. When a new EP comes out, there is no walkthrough and I am forced to play the game without a walkthrough and can only rely on my intuition and empathy. Then when the walkthrough is released, I can compare my decisions with the walkthrough. Almost all of the decisions I made myself, except for 1-2 decisions that are unimportant to the branch, agree with the complete solution.
I've been debating on here for a long time and one thing that always particularly irked me was the unstinting praise that was heaped on DPC. It use to be common for fan's to go on endlessly about what a great writer, great animator, and etc. that DPC was.
I largely agree with your post. And I readily admit that he's made a game that many seem to enjoy, his dialogue is often quite good. People seem to like his characters and the look of the game, and I thing it holds up in that regard with other games. But BaDIK being such a popular game has, in my opinion, done a lot of damage to AVN's in general. Why work hard on an intelligent and comprehensible plot when other's have cleaned up on something like this? Why not settle for mediocre animations when good animation is so hard? Why not milk your Patrons when DPC and others can get away with it?
Also on the success of BaDIK, I've had a theory for quite some time. If you've followed DPC's AVN career then you are sure to be familiar with the AL controversy. That was something that became internet famous across several platforms in this sphere. My theory is that he used that controversy to spread his brand far and wide, after all there's no such thing as bad publicity. If you look at his first post in the OP of this thread he makes a particularly cruel joke at those who were outraged by AL. Later of course he quit this platform, elaborately drawing the cloak of victimhood about himself.
It is your right to express criticism, but the other person also has the right to praise DPC.
DPC does not milk anyone because no one is obligated to become, be and remain a Patreon of DPC. Everyone decides for themselves and it is not a DPC decision.
I agree with you about the last one. AL was the best advertisement for DPC because it took a path that stood out from other AVNs and BaDIK does it again. DPC wrote in his Q&As himself that he wants to give us players an epic adventure. If other game developers can't keep up with this, it's not a DPC problem. He gives his best for us players.
Yes it takes longer and everyone agrees on that so they want new EPs quicker. That is a wish, but the reality is different. Everything needs it's time.