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Haha dammit I'm out of reactions, but this was funny, so this is my reaction: :ROFLMAO:

I'm going to be honest since we are on a "FFA site" I haven't paid a single cent to DPC, despite considering his VN one of the better ones I've experienced so far.

I do support thou 5-6 creators, and they tend to change over the months, I have probably only supported one longer than 4-5 months.

It might be right or wrong, but I honestly don't care, the reason I do it is because it's my way of saying "thank you" and, since I only support smaller ones, provide a bit of support for them to grow.

Then I log on here and feel absolutely no shame in downloading stuff for free when I feel like it.
 

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and how motivated would you be to end the story? :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
Well if I were in DPC's place I would hire people and a render farm. My parents didn't teach many things, but one of the few was that if you are going to work with other people's money do it well and optimized and above all fulfill what you promised to those who gave you the money.:BootyTime:
 

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Well if I were in DPC's place I would hire people and a render farm. My parents didn't teach many things, but one of the few was that if you are going to work with other people's money do it well and optimized and above all fulfill what you promised to those who gave you the money.:BootyTime:
Eh but that's (good) old wisdom mate, there's a case to be made when your income also relies on subscriptions that the trick is threading the fine line between taking too much time to produce/release something or just the right amount of time.

Then I got this mental image of a BADIK sweatshop in some dark basement with kids alternating work between producing renders and shoes laces.
 
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Then I got this mental image of a BADIK sweatshop in some dark basement with kids alternating work between producing renders and shoes laces.
I was thinking servers, but you're right, those Chinese kids get paid less, good thinking man.:KEK:
 

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He transition from 30fps to 60fps.
Doesn't affect the development very much since it comes down to how long the manual work takes. Maybe a week or two, tops. The reason he did was so that his computers wouldn't finish too quickly and stand idle. It was that or create more animations, but that would also add to the manual workload.
 
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Well if I were in DPC's place I would hire people and a render farm. My parents didn't teach many things, but one of the few was that if you are going to work with other people's money do it well and optimized and above all fulfill what you promised to those who gave you the money.:BootyTime:
And how would it help if renders and animations get finished long before he's finished with the writing, doing art and coding? Not to mention taking away something he enjoys doing will just make him get burned out on developing the game. They guy has said that the variety in the development is what keeps him going.
If you were a game developer, would you hire people to do some of the parts you enjoyed the most just because people think you should?

There are games that try to optimize things, like you suggest. One dropped from 7000 patreons to under 1300 because he "optimized" to get updates released earlier. If he did, as you and others want, and it all turns to shit, he loses most of his patreons and the game drops in quality, would that make you happier?
 
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Its a delicate balance but an update that takes over a year is not acceptable either.
Then what story should he cut? What paths and side girls would people accept him cutting? Because that's what takes time. Would people have been happier without any side girl paths and a quicker release? Quinn's exclusive scenes took at least a month to make in Episode 10, maybe he should have cut that? How about cutting Nora, Nicole, Riona, Lily? That would have saved time.
People want him to release the same path-filled high-quality game, but faster than possible. They want factory processed food with the quality of a restaurant.
 

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Then what story should he cut? What paths and side girls would people accept him cutting? Because that's what takes time. Would people have been happier without any side girl paths and a quicker release? Quinn's exclusive scenes took at least a month to make in Episode 10, maybe he should have cut that? How about cutting Nora, Nicole, Riona, Lily? That would have saved time.
People want him to release the same path-filled high-quality game, but faster than possible. They want factory processed food with the quality of a restaurant.
If he was still at 30 FPS then it would have been much faster.

Rio might not have much appearance in this update if DPC decides to wait to E12 to wrap that up.

Nora already broke up with MC how much more of here is there gonna be? Might be none

Intertwined has tons of branches yet V12 was early this year and V13 was later this year. Sure a few girls didn't get a ton of content but in some episodes of BAD some girls didn't get much content either

Or you know get rid of Madame Rose which everyone seems to hate and free up some time
 

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If he was still at 30 FPS then it would have been much faster.
How? He still isn't finished with the manual work, so how would getting the animations done faster make any difference? It would only have ment that they were finished much sooner than the game was and the computers just standing there doing nothing for months.

Rio might not have much appearance in this update if DPC decides to wait to E12 to wrap that up.

Nora already broke up with MC how much more of here is there gonna be? Might be none
OK, so cut Riona and Nora from the game. I'm sure that would have made people happy.

Intertwined has tons of branches yet V12 was early this year and V13 was later this year. Sure a few girls didn't get a ton of content but in some episodes of BAD some girls didn't get much content either
And you consider it to be a much superior game to BaDIK? I don't agree, but fair enough.
Creating content takes time. 5 main LIs and several side girls take time. He tried to only concentrate on a couple of main girls per episode during season 2 and people were not happy about that. So let's say, to shorten time, he cut down on Maya, Josy and Quinn from Episode 11 and then Bella, Jill and Sage from Episode 12, to release it a couple of months earlier. Would that make everybody happy?

Or you know get rid of Madame Rose which everyone seems to hate and free up some time
Madame Rose content so far takes 1-4 days to make.

People want him to cut the release time basically in half. Cutting small content won't do much. He needs to cut either a lot of characters or a couple of major ones.
So maybe having an Others path was a bad idea, maybe he should have just kept the 5 main girls.
 
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If eps are getting so large he could also expand the number of eps to make and cut them in half so instead what looks like christmas and new years split it into a smaller eps could do eps #a for christmas and eps #b for the. New years panty party and then get the fans an update at 6-8 months. Just a thought
 

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If eps are getting so large he could also expand the number of eps to make and cut them in half so instead what looks like christmas and new years split it into a smaller eps could do eps 13a and eps 13b and get the fans an update at 6-8 months. Just a thought
nah, he won't do it. Too much of a perfectionist to even consider something like that. And he doesn't have to publish content more frequently, which is the main thing why he won't do it, he is doing just fine financially.
 
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And I do pateron for badik, intertwined and u4ia. All are solid avns, but each have different strengths. In each of the last updates the fans complained that some girls
Got more content than others….
 

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Oh, of course, that famous "badass" Lily.
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She looks so confident, so assertive. Obviously, she was dealing with something worse.
I'm afraid to even imagine what.
Someone bad could have said a lot about it. Someone could, but not me, of course.
But why did she end up leaving the room?
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Where did her intensity go ?
Did the words of the school bully affect her after all?
She left the room with Cammy because of the very same reason: to protect Mona and Cammy. :WeSmart:

Besides she didn't leave the place completely, you know...waited for Quinn at the door alone. She listened to what was being said inside the room. She later found out that Quinn's a drug-dealer... and you know the rest. :D

Unlike you I think Quinn and Lily respect each other a lot. They have a very mutual seller-buyer relationship. Lily buys cheap weed from her, and so Quinn makes more money in this way. Because Lily and her friends were Vinny's customers, weren't they? ;)
 

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If eps are getting so large he could also expand the number of eps to make and cut them in half so instead what looks like christmas and new years split it into a smaller eps could do eps 13a and eps 13b and get the fans an update at 6-8 months. Just a thought
True, he could do that. It would mean that some would have to wait longer than others for their girls' content. It would also mean the overall game would take longer to finish developing since he would have to treat every part as a separate episode meaning more work. Instead of the game being done in 8 years, it might be done in 12 years, but with content released more often.
He might do something like that with the next season, who knows. The reason he says he hasn't is that he doesn't want to drag out on the game any more than he already is because he wants to be done so he can do something else. But if season 4 will be a different type of season, maybe it will be easier to do that. Or maybe the way he planned season 4 means they will be shorter over all. From the way he talks about it, that season 4 wson't be a normal season and might not even have 4 episodes, it could be possible.
 
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