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Same with sunsetriders for me. A pirated version was the reason I sponsored his patreon. I even told him before.
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Icstor for me, been supporting him since Incest Story 2 after pirating Milf Control and Incest Story 1.
Can pirating help a game? Sure, sometimes, word of mouth advertising and all that, for good/high quality games. Word of mouth backfires on mediocre/crappy games though and they of course lose $ as a result of pirating. This, so far, as been a good game and has probably benefited overall.
That said he, as a content creator/author, has not only the right but the responsibility to protect his intellectual property. If he fails to do so in many areas he would, essentially, legally forfeit any copyright or claim to the materials he created. Further with his pricing scheme in his Patreon he doesn't have to find a way to protect his game permanently, he just needs to find a way to keep it from being hacked/cracked for more than 5-7 days so that those who pay $40 feel justified in getting their content earlier than those paying $5, and those paying $5 feel satisfied they got it before it was cracked/broken/hacked.
If he can find a way to keep his game secure for a week+ from first release he'll be able to maximise his profits, keep his investors satisfied that they are receiving what they're paying for, and still benefit from piracy word-of-mouth advertising once the game get's hacked and released widely, even though he hadn't "intended" for it to be available for non-patrons.
Ultimately, in this sort of instance, overly aggressive piracy can backfire and prevent the creation/development of new or higher quality content as content creators need to spend more money and time securing their property rights that could be better directed towards content creation, and potentially shut down the entire process. As with anything it's a balancing act, and the arguments that piracy is somehow morally justified or ethical are as hypocritical as claims that content will never be pirated.
That said he, as a content creator/author, has not only the right but the responsibility to protect his intellectual property. If he fails to do so in many areas he would, essentially, legally forfeit any copyright or claim to the materials he created. Further with his pricing scheme in his Patreon he doesn't have to find a way to protect his game permanently, he just needs to find a way to keep it from being hacked/cracked for more than 5-7 days so that those who pay $40 feel justified in getting their content earlier than those paying $5, and those paying $5 feel satisfied they got it before it was cracked/broken/hacked.
If he can find a way to keep his game secure for a week+ from first release he'll be able to maximise his profits, keep his investors satisfied that they are receiving what they're paying for, and still benefit from piracy word-of-mouth advertising once the game get's hacked and released widely, even though he hadn't "intended" for it to be available for non-patrons.
Ultimately, in this sort of instance, overly aggressive piracy can backfire and prevent the creation/development of new or higher quality content as content creators need to spend more money and time securing their property rights that could be better directed towards content creation, and potentially shut down the entire process. As with anything it's a balancing act, and the arguments that piracy is somehow morally justified or ethical are as hypocritical as claims that content will never be pirated.
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Also the reason I bought Rimworld, Sunless Sea and Baldur Gate series. It would have been too much work to constantly download every new version of the game. I just bought it once I knew I would enjoy the game and let the updates come to me either automatically via Steam or mail for something like Rimworld.
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Unlike the rest of the world who work for free, and never ask for raises or expect more than they're offered up front? That's how a market works, you price something high enough until people stop wanting to pay for it and it stabilises. He's gained over $10k in Patreon contributions in 2 weeks, much less than his monthly content release schedule. Clearly the demand for his product is still higher than the price. Why should he give it to you, or anyone, for free when there's someone else willing to pay him for it? Have some sense man. Hell, one could argue just as easily that you're greedy for not wanting to pay him for his work, that sword cuts both ways, and one side isn't any more wrong just because it cuts the other guy instead of you.
As to his content release schedule, all things considered I'd say he's produced more and added more content than others in his field with similar products, of a generally higher quality if he could hire on a decent translator/editor. He may not be able to afford the salary of additional employees to help though...you know...being so greedy and all. This last patch was more about fleshing out the underlying game mechanics and getting the foundations of the game set for future development I think mostly, as he hopes that saves from this new version will be able to be continued to be used in the next, which doesn't work if he plans on adding additional content before the current end-point later.
I don't think so. I tried everything but i don't able to stop the scene with lingerie and massage. I even reduce her relationship with eric using the ikaruga's cheats. Its only reduce the scenes trigering amount. I don't really like ntr. So because of this i started the game over and over again because i don't want to even seeing the front of the mom's door, lisa, eric and mom inside. Only way to prevent the ntr is war with him. I can withstand the idea of the alice's massage scene but i don't withstand the idea lisa's seeing what she don't need to see even its can't be shown openly.
A little off topic here, but how on earth do you view or convert all the .iso images to a viewable format found in the download/photos section?
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check previous messages there is some people who explain how and even already have images files as a dl link somewhere (don't know where since I wasn't interested in checking it out so kind forgot which page it is)
So I decrypted the img files :
You must be registered to see the links?
Took me 20 seconds...
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