VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [DrPinkCake]

[Heycock]

Meanwhile, to change the subject a little from the same old haters.

Here is Badik new calendar.



This episode took 2 weaks. We also got our first almost date, the fall of autum at the end of ep8. Tecnically 21 September. However DPC has no obligation to stuck with that date since seasons never really change in one day. If that date would be official we will still be 1 month and a weak from Halloween. However we could be only one weak, for example from that party.
We also got the midterms, wich would be 1 month and 2 weaks after we started class. Not sure if midterms work that way and there is also the chance that the time skip from ep 7 lasted more than 3 days, althought i dont see it likely.

 

[Deleted member 2858499]

From what i understand Quinn is in the others category she doesn't have a solo route

Oh, thanks! I was wondering it too

 

[felicemastronzo]

Seems a bit odd. Lily mentioned than Quinn's prices were 30 % cheaper for the exact same products. If Quinn prices x2 are still 30 % cheaper, then the Pink Rose ladies have been deeply screwed for months. To the point Vinny really made the fool of them.

Not to mention Tommy used to hate Vinny. Buying drugs from his former rival must already be humiliating but paying him more than the double for it is a disgrace. Unless Vinny gives him a discount but it seems unlikely.

I don't think Tommy will simply be a client of Vinnie's, I think he will be what Lily is to Quinn, his agent for a new market for him thus increasing competition for Quinn (who Tommy wants to punish).

 

[Heycock]

I didn't check DPC's patreon lately, I'm glad it's that popular.

Also, while most of the time I don't agree with DavDR's strong opinions, here he has a point. A complete and round story is much better than a flat and prolonged one. If DPC thinks he can keep up the current quality for another 2-3 seasons, great, more BaDik for us, but deliberately prolonging it is not a good idea.

Well, the thing is, good idea for who?
For him? He is making tons of money and becoming more popular and famous. So clearly is not. And he is gonna do the best for himself as an author, keep working on it. Wathever he wants to do tomorrow it would help to had 30k patreons and not 10k.

For the story?. Well, eveyone will have his own opinions. Personally i was remembing this last days Acting Lessons. Althought sometimes it was fun, for 90% of the game was kinda boring, nothing really important happened. Untill the end, who was fantastic.
We dont know where this is going.

 

[DarkKiller]

Meanwhile, to change the subject a little from the same old haters.

Here is Badik new calendar.

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This episode took 2 weaks. We also got our first almost date, the fall of autum at the end of ep8. Tecnically 21 September. However DPC has no obligation to stuck with that date since seasons never really change in one day. If that date would be official we will still be 1 month and a weak from Halloween. However we could be only one weak, for example from that party.
We also got the midterms, wich would be 1 month and 2 weaks after we started class. Not sure if midterms work that way and there is also the chance that the time skip from ep 7 lasted more than 3 days, althought i dont see it likely.

I would add a couple more days to EP8, if you're on Bella's route, on the last free roam event she texts MC asking about Jill and says that she hasn't seen her around college that week so my assumption is that the episode ends 2 or 3 days into the week.

 

[always86]

That's just wishfull thinking coming out of your personal hate for the MC and BADIK.
Meanwhile in the real world:
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If it where for you he should have end the story by ep3 when he had 3k patrons. Now he had 18k. At some point you should just accept that he dont care about your preferences, but the preferences of the most.

There is also a good chance that BADIK will be the number one best seller on steam when it launches. Previous season got top 20, and he only had about 5k Patreons possibly less

 

[Hermith]

Well, the thing is, good idea for who?
For him? He is making tons of money and becoming more popular and famous. So clearly is not. And he is gonna do the best for himself as an author, keep working on it. Wathever he wants to do tomorrow it would help to had 30k patreons and not 10k.

For the story?. Well, eveyone will have his own opinions. Personally i was remembing this last days Acting Lessons. Althought sometimes it was fun, for 90% of the game was kinda boring, nothing really important happened. Untill the end, who was fantastic.
We dont know where this is going.

In the end if it's good for the story and the game it's also good for him. Sure he could milk this game for almost forever, but I'm sure he already figured it out by now. He can just stick to his plans for BaDik and after a well earned break he can start to work on new projects.

 

[Heycock]

I would add a couple more days to EP8, if you're on Bella's route, on the last free roam event she texts MC asking about Jill and says that she hasn't seen her around college that week so my assumption is that the episode ends 2 or 3 days into the week.

You re right. I actually choose Monday a little randomly. I just asume that every day passed we had sleeping sequence for the MC, like we haad the first episodes.

 

[Heycock]

In the end if it's good for the story and the game it's also good for him. Sure he could milk this game for almost forever, but I'm sure he has it figured out by now. He can just stick to his plans for BaDik and after a well earned break he can start to work on new projects.

Well but "good for the story" cannot came from your opinion, or mine for that purpose. You, me, whoever, could think that the story is becoming boring. But if DPC and most of the fans dont agree with us...
Couse they dont seem to agree with that statement.

And milk is a really strong word, we should avoid using it couse it's not fair. Icstor is a milker. He gave an update worth of 2 weaks of work after a waiting of 18 month. DPC just gave the biggest update any game in this site has ever seen in 7 months. He is not going to mil anyone, he is going to deliver his work as he always does to people who enjoy it and pay for it.

 

[tlarsen]

I feel like if he can keep up what he is doing now with updates and is still 100% invested in the story/characters himself then i don't see a reason not to keep working on it with how much he makes on this game and with how popular it is as long as it doesn't end up dragging out like other long running games on here who knows he might have already planned everything out or he might still be figuring some stuff out as the game progresses i personally definitely don't think this game will end after 3 or 4 more Eps there is just so much happening right now and plot points that haven't even been concluded yet not to mention each ep almost always has a bunch of new questions/drama added do i think the story/game will end when the Mc is done with college? no but i def think we will at least see when Sage leaves B&R and stuff after that

 

[Deleted member 2128394]

I just wanna come in and say that Dany is really fucking hot and I understand my man Jamie for having doubts

 

[shazba]

Well but "good for the story" cannot came from your opinion, or mine for that purpose. You, me, whoever, could think that the story is becoming boring. But if DPC and most of the fans dont agree with us...
Couse they dont seem to agree with that statement.

And milk is a really strong word, we should avoid using it couse it's not fair. Icstor is a milker. He gave an update worth of 2 weaks of work after a waiting of 18 month. DPC just gave the biggest update any game in this site has ever seen in 7 months. He is not going to mil anyone, he is going to deliver his work as he always does to people who enjoy it and pay for it.

DPC has said he pretty much has the overarching story planned out and he fills in the gaps as he goes along. If he sticks to that plan, and the game ends when it was initially intended to end, that's great. But if he pads it out, delaying the ending so as to keep the game going for as long as possible, that's when we'd have issues.

Milking doesn't necessarily mean delivering fuck all and taking money for it (e.g. ICSTOR), it also means dragging something on well past its used by date. The updates could be be large, but the story will start running all over the place if he won't let it end.

I don't think he's gonna do that, given that he already successfully ended his first game, and he seems like an intelligent fellow, so milking it would only sully his reputation.

It's entirely a moot point anyway. Right now it seems like we are somewhere near the middle. None of us have any idea what direction the story will take now that we have seemingly locked in a love interest.

But for now, the Interlude could be a while away, so let's just wait and see.

 

[BorgiaBou]

There's a debate going on right now over on the Dating My Daughter thread. If you're not familiar with it DMD was once one of the most popular games on this forum but that was when it was only about two chapters. If you were to play it now I think you would find that the entire 3rd and 4th chapters are a huge let down from the first two. In fact they're repetitive and boring.

Yeah i agree i used to play that game but now i didn't played it for over a year and i just noticed a new update is out and i'm not curious about it...

When a story is done it's done. Trying to milk it for more money or pander to fan's that can't let it go only diminishes the quality of the original work.

Imo this game could go for one more season like 12 episodes and maybe one or two epilogues cuz honestly i don't see what's to show more, i think 4 episode are enough to show one year of college for mc with all the hollidays (cuz apparantley these are one of the big highlights for this game, we will have halloween, pretty sure then christmas, new year and spring break in it) and 1-2 epilogues to show us some closure to the story of different characters... but of course if he wants to drag all 4 yrs of mc's college (or how many yrs the mc has in college) for the sake of we all know what then be it...

 

[Hermith]

Well but "good for the story" cannot came from your opinion, or mine for that purpose. You, me, whoever, could think that the story is becoming boring. But if DPC and most of the fans dont agree with us...
Couse they dont seem to agree with that statement.

And milk is a really strong word, we should avoid using it couse it's not fair. Icstor is a milker. He gave an update worth of 2 weaks of work after a waiting of 18 month. DPC just gave the biggest update any game in this site has ever seen in 7 months. He is not going to mil anyone, he is going to deliver his work as he always does to people who enjoy it and pay for it.

I think we aren't talking about the same thing. I said it would be better to stick to a complete and great story even if it's shorter, than to prolong it just because it's popular. Sure, the game is popular right now, everyone loves it, even some of the haters wouldn't be here if it wasn't their guilty pleasure, but if the quality would drop for a long period of time, it could change.

Also, I never said he is milking it or he would want to do that, I said he could do it and people aren't exactly fans of people like Icstor.

 

[Rouruki]

Dont know what I did wrong after I downloaded and move the resent update patch to the game folder just like the instruction said. But now I cant open the game.

This what happen after I patch:


PS> Didn't install any mods in this game before I patch it.

 

[Deleted member 2128394]

Reading the walkthrough and discovering that I was in fact not on the Sage path was one of the shittiest feelings ngl

 

[Hermith]

Imo this game could go for one more season like 12 episodes and maybe one or two epilogues...

If it would be up to me I wouldn't mind seeing our mc graduating and starting his family with his LI.

 

[BorgiaBou]

If it would be up to me I wouldn't mind seeing our mc graduating and starting his family with his LI.

That's why i said it needs 1 or 2 epilogues...

 

[varage]

I think i'll be happy with whatever DPC decides. I just hope the ending is like a little less burny though this MC seems like he deserves a stalker far more then Acting Lessons guy. I'm pretty sure he would make most the yandere's hot under the butcher knife if you know what i mean

 

[Heycock]

Milking doesn't necessarily mean delivering fuck all and taking money for it (e.g. ICSTOR),

It's a new argot for me. But I still think is unfair to use the word to describe both devs. One is efectively scamming his supporters. The other is, in your example, giving them what they want against the preference of some old players. If we called the first Milkstor, what goes for the later one.

Right now it seems like we are somewhere near the middle.

I agree. Its what i am trying to explain to the people who thinks its going to last 2 episodes.

None of us have any idea what direction the story will take now that we have seemingly locked in a love interest.

I think we have too many ideas. Some think we re close to the end, some think its going to last 30 episodes, some think the game is becoming crap, other thinks its better than ever.