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I don't get why it's still going. What's done is done at this point. You live and you learn. Then again, I was never a patron of DS's so I can't empathize with their frustrations, but still.I dont get the hate on DS here.
I don't get why it's still going. What's done is done at this point. You live and you learn. Then again, I was never a patron of DS's so I can't empathize with their frustrations, but still.I dont get the hate on DS here.
Holy shit, I love it that you seem to have endless of bad analogies for this lol.No it's more like saying a Steak costs $40 but because the chef couldn't finish it in time it costs you another $40!
If that's how you feel about your pledge, then it's completely OK. Be comfortable with what you pledge. Same with the creator. It's a free market. If people don't pledge (no demand), then creators simply don't create (no supply). If you want the project to go on, maybe people need to pledge to show enough demand for the creators to provide the supply.It's this attitude that will shut down the Patreon Gravy train!
As customers get wise to this poor attitude on the part of some developers they will simply npot patreonize them until such time as a game is completed or close to it.
Maybe, why not? I don't understand why you have to exaggerate everything and make it sound like it's the end of the world. In a normal working environment, it's common for employees to to try finish a project before the deadline. It's also common for deadlines to be extended. It's also common that projects are scrapped altogether before completion. It feels like you never worked in your life before or something. All of those things are common occurrence. It's nothing special, it's not the end of the world.And what will they do for money then? Go find a job where they ARE required to finish a certain amount of work or they fire them and find someone else who does finish what they start?
You think DS only gave you $40 effort? Wow, you are hopeless if you think that way. Your pledge is not equal to the price of the service. Your pledge is just a tip to say thank you for his work. That's why it can be $40, but can also be $1. The amount is up to you. DS' work stays the same.And you got $5-10K worth of support in that month in total! Yet everyone only gets $40 of effort?
Is that what you think is fair?
Good luck keeping that money flowing to you!
Why do you insist on beeing hung up on the number 40$ when this is simply the exact amount YOU decided to pledge?And you got $5-10K worth of support in that month in total! Yet everyone only gets $40 of effort? Is that what you think is fair? Good luck keeping that money flowing to you!
Yeah, I`m a morror probably.Sorry I just had to reply to you.
So the average person in a western Country works: 8 hours x 20 days = 160 hours per month.
According to what I see in the fan art section it can take 1 hour plus for a single render (Pros, please correct me.)
so for renders alone that is already 150 hours.
Now he still needs to pose his 3d models, I have no idea how long that takes, but I can not imagine that will be 5 minutes.
Then he still work on his plot and and writing. I'm sure that only takes 5 minutes....(not!)
There needs to be testing involved and debugging and debugging and writing actual code in unity. that must surely also only take 5 minutes.
Come on man!! Your dream of doing this work alone without working like a slave seems to be lacking some rudimentary math skills.
Well any logical thinking person understands that Patreon wanted nothing to do with the content he put out and stopped it cold! So when that happens you have to change things. If his content on his next game is good, people will support him, if its not, then they wont, but the game will be in the rules of Patreon.What I am saying is of Developers and their friends keep saying crap like this then people WILL stop funding their projects!
It's a poor attitude to have towards people who are giving you money ON A PROMISE then telling them I never promised you anything, I can stop and abandon you anytime I feel like it cause I only promised you a month!
How long before those Patreons start abandoning you back?
I feel mostly the same except that I found Eric quite an undeveloped character, that in the end he just became a block to all your routes and you had to eliminate him to follow the routes of the girls.BB was one of the greats of its kind.
A year ago BB got me into this kind of games when it popped up on Emp. Before that, the thought that a porn game could be exciting would not compute for me. Since then I've discovered f95 and lots of other great games.
BB got me to try it because of the quality of its renders. But the hook that kept me through the bitter end was the incest fetish. Porn videos have rarely explored this fetish properly as it requires way more acting and movie-making skills than what's usually available. A close third reason why I stuck with BB is its technical quality. Very often versions were rock stable from their first release and I've played by resuming from saves through 9 versions (v0.4 > ... > v0.13). This last feature is really amazing considering how easy it would be to have people run into dead ends if the dev doesn't really know what they're doing.
What I didn't like about BB is it became too much of a pointless grind. For the last few versions it was like DS didn't want to push the story forward in the incest direction even though it was an incest game. That sweet monthly pay was likely a strong stagnation enabler but I feel it was primarily that DS didn't want to dive the story into something truly perverted. He should've studied Lab Rats to see how it's done. Instead he focused on churning out a relatively small number of eye candy renders mixed with a pretty boring grind. BB was in a swamp.
BB's story has some really huge ups and downs. I liked the restrain of the characters against the unnatural sexual progression but DS managed to push that into completely incredulous directions. I also liked Eric. Rarely was I bothered by a video game character but this one worked my blood up to a boil and had me looking for the chainsaw and Quad Damage. Every good writer knows how to define characters in ways that bind them to readers' empathy. Once this voodoo doll is activated, the writer can strongly manipulate reader's emotions by simply adjusting what happens to the characters. Evidence shows there was no great writer behind BB but the story certainly had a few strong points and Eric was one of them.
I think I would've regularly paid $5-10 for BB. By far the no 1 reason I did not is the level of anonymity provided by Patreon. I know how long bank statements are archived, how utter shit Patreon's security is and how fast things can change in any country in a direction where something you did or say 10-15 years ago can come back and destroy you today.
So, @DarkSilver, thanks for the ride. I'm sorry to see BB go and I hope you are seriously looking for a way to finance yourself through payments that are more anonymous than what Patreon offers. I fully understand how mind numbing hard that is but I deeply believe the future is not bright in doing vanilla porn games censured by Patreon's Mind Police.
I must say that it is normal to lose patrons in this situation, because it is quite different having a male MC and a female one. It changes almost everything.Who was the sherlock again who said a female MC will be doing well and ensure DS staying on Patreon?
DS latest BB build. Patrons around 2900.
DS sets BB on hold and presents glamour. Patrons 2217
Yes this is totally going well for him.....
That's because they put 1 million times the work into it!Fuck Mate, do some math.
A Tripple A game gets bought by 1 million+ gamers.
DS has does not even have 4000 patrons.
So your choices are Support devs on Patreon monthly for them to make a living.
or there are will be very few porn games available.
There are a couple of people (ArianaB and Tlaero etc.) that does it for the love of the games in their own spare time.
But most people would like to be able to make a living if the do it full time.
No need for you to support him, but he does not owe you shit.
And you have to remember we CUSTOMERS aren't suckers who you can play Ponzi scheme games with and then when it blows up on you say "Well you only paid for a month of me in front of a computer, not a game!"Look I get it. You are frustrated. But you have to remember Patreon is not Kickstarter. There is no upper limit, no initial pledging. You are literally paying someone's wage to deliver a promise/vision/project. Every Patreon campaign runs its own shindig, anywhere from $1 up to hundreds. Are you not sure that the x guy who you're supporting will deliver? Pledge one dollar for a couple of months and see how it goes. Worst case scenario, you gave 2 dollars away, hardly enough for a burger. We can keep tip toeing around this all night but this is how it works... for now. @Skylaroo summed it up in his previous posts.
What you MEANT to say was THERE IS NO FINISH! I got your money and screw you that I decided to do something else!Holy shit, I love it that you seem to have endless of bad analogies for this lol.
You don't even seem to understand that it's not DS couldn't finish it in time. Time is not the issue for DS because he has no deadline. He can finish it next month, or he can finish it next year, or he can finish it next decade. There is no deadline.