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Thinking about that, it surely is a long term commitment, to work on a single VN for 3 to 5 years to come. But the final product would be a lot of fun for a long time, with premium quality. I can only imagine how many stories could still be put into this one, and stuff...If it does that, then it is kind of sad but I can also see why.
On the first point, it would be sad to see it end so soon because it could certainly go on longer, or at least could have if perhaps things has been paced out a bit differently. It does seem like things are coming to a head very quickly right now with relationship being narrowed down and such, and you have to wonder if this always was DPC's plan, or if they're purposely rushing it.
This is where we get to the second point, because when looking ahead the average pace of each episode's development, DPC is staring down the barrel of about 3-5 more years if they were to do 12, 16, or 20 episodes, and that is a lot of time for one game, especially given how hard they work on it. So perhaps DPC realises this and doesn't want to spend that long on it, so they've condensed their plans in order to finish in just 10 episodes. Somewhat telling was how they said they hadn't decided yet on the "scope" of Ep 7 which says to me that they are trying to figure out how to squeeze into the episode which might suggest they are trying to condense this into just 10 episodes.
I honestly hope it's not the case that they're doing this as at least 12 episode for 3 equally amounts of episodes per season would be more than enough and it would be a shame to rush to the finish line just because they don't want to spend so long on it.
DPC's plans surely seems to be condensing, judging by what we can see at this episode. This episode made me create a new save and clearly split my saves between going DIK affinity and CHICK affinity in order to enjoy all the content.
All in all, I hope that, as soon as this VN ends, DPC can come up with a new one not long after it. After all, his work is, to say the last, stellar. He's really got a big fanbase by now, and we will always want more