I don't think I will be playing BAD for longer. First, obviously, every update has become 1 and a half year longer. Some progression with certain characters will take us 3 years to happen or even longer. Minigames are surely fun when you play them once. Not when you repeat it multiple times, after all, I believe people still play VNs because of stories, not because of gaming features.
We have a developer that doesn't accept criticism and also don't hire third party in order to reduce the timing taken for every update.
Some plot have been taking part of the game for too long. Maya's situation, that was pretty easy to resolve, took too long. I remember when the dinner at the burke's cliffranger brought a huge discussion between players for over a year between updates, everyone with a certain expectation about what would happen and when it finally came out, everyone was disappointed because nothing really happened on that dinner. Only the people who had f'ed Sage that were worried about her mother, but what about the people who never interacted with Jade in the first place?
Today, how can MC feel guilty, because Jade forcibly put her feet on his penis at class, even when he stopped her, but he still feels guilty like he might be one of the reasons why jade is having a divorce, just why?
When Jade is talking with Cathy at the bar on ep11, she doesn't even mention his name if that scene at the class was the only thing that ever happened between them.
Maya situation took too long to resolve and when it did got resolved, after mobilizing the entire university to resolve her problem, it was solved quite easily, as it should have happened in the first place. She could have gone in any bank and she would have known if she had a student loan in her name or not. Because any bank would be able to check that information.
Then there is the drug situation. I feel like this game was based on the 90's with that plot, except for the fact that it would be a time where everyone already have smartphones. All that the students do, mostly, are the use of marijuana what is already legalized in most places. There is no reason for such a big deal, when most people can just go to a pharmacy and buy it themselves lol. With this plot, we will take at least 3 years of our real life time to see Riona again. Since last time we saw her was on EP 10. Now hopefully she will be back in ep 12 and we will see some progression in this drug situation.
Then there is this "someone is agains't the dik's plot". We now know who is behind all this is Magnar. but I am sure it will still take at least 3 years to get some solution.
Now I wonder what is the purpose of DPC with Derik cutting his finger. The purpose of MC having to read about the relationship between his mom and dad even with spicy stuff in between. What is the purpose behind this, that takes the time of writing and progresssing a character storyline, takes times creating animations and renders and I still couldn't see a purpose. He could have done it like he did with Zoey. WHen MC told Bella about their relationship, or a mini chapter like the interlude, if he really wanted to introduce Lynette to us.
Again. I know some of these things won't be solved in the next 3 years. Most minigames will still take 60% of the time length we spend playing every update and 9 years playing a VN that I started playing when I on my 20's isn't that fun anymore. Maybe when he is finally done with the game, if I am still alive, I will buy it on steam and play it for a day and see what happened with all these characters, and obviously, with minigames turned off.
Oh, and he is still adding new characters, that he will probably spend some time on. Lets not even forget about that.
