Did you just tell me not to pirate on a piracy forum? My sig is dedicated to you.Up to Episode 4 is available for free for everyone. That should be sufficient for promotion, and if they find it enjoyable, they can make a purchase to play the next episodes, and if it's not enjoyable, they can choose not to make a purchase.
So you have to pay to play every month - even when there’s no updates and it doesn’t get updated eventually for free ? That would make sense if it was an RPG not a fucking Visual Novel.Up to Episode 4 is available for free for everyone. That should be sufficient for promotion, and if they find it enjoyable, they can make a purchase to play the next episodes, and if it's not enjoyable, they can choose not to make a purchase.
I agree with what you said. Making payments every time is a mistake, and Icarus needs to find a solution.So you have to pay to play every month - even when there’s no updates and it doesn’t get updated eventually for free ? That would make sense if it was an RPG not a fucking Visual Novel.
I'm sorry, but there's no need to be so sarcasm. I also find the online version inconvenient to play. Making a payment every time you play is a mistake. I just felt a bit uneasy about people who want to enjoy the game for free without any contribution when developers work so hard to create these gamesHow much did Icarus pay you to say this? XD
(Sorry, that's just something a paid advertiser would say.)
I'm sorry, but there's no need to be so sarcasm. I also find the online version inconvenient to play. Making a payment every time you play is a mistake. I just felt a bit uneasy about people who want to enjoy the game for free without any contribution when developers work so hard to create these games
Well, I guess they changed their mind about it being online only, but the online version only cannot be used here, there has to be a downloadable offline version with it. Offline version sounds like it's a ways off.any update on the release for the DL version of the new update? been such a long time since the release of ep 4 and would like to continue the story to see what is happening. hope we see ch 5 for DL soon.
I'm sorry, but there's no need to be so sarcasm. I also find the online version inconvenient to play. Making a payment every time you play is a mistake. I just felt a bit uneasy about people who want to enjoy the game for free without any contribution when developers work so hard to create these games
Your behavior, proudly flaunting illegal activities on pirate websites as if it's perfectly natural, is also laughable.Lol,bruh,reading this on a pirate site,is just making me die of laughter.
I want you to read what you wrote,slowly...Your behavior, proudly flaunting illegal activities on pirate websites as if it's perfectly natural, is also laughable.![]()
Stop.......I'm dyingI want you to read what you wrote,slowly...
has anyone else noticed the Dev seems to have abandoned this forum as well?
| Yeah early they claimed people here in this thread were toxic because of not liking his approach to the title and then presenting the BS as half baked or whatever. Basically he presented the prologue then switched around as if they weren't entirely bitches. IDK you would have to go back and read some of the early parts of the thread. Anyway yes we were aware. |
Those are some great analytics. I'm always curious what devs can do to make content accessible but also allow them to make money, and I feel like the most successful patreons for AVN's I've seen regularly release their content for free on their own: Summertime Saga, Harem Hotel, Karlsson's Gambit, Eternum, etc. They all have fantastic quality, release the content for free willingly, and make money. Obviously these aren't the usual middle-of-the-road AVN's, but from what I've seen, every time a dev tries to cut off F95 or itch free users and dismisses criticism like Icarus is doing, it always ends badly. The free game downloads are them essentially forgoing the individual cheque for advertising, and so long as the quality is good then generally speaking they do well. Icarus is clearly too stubborn to get that.Accusing a game dev of wanting to make money with their game, as if it were an outrageous thing to do, is one of the most nonsensical things I've ever read on this site.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about how good or bad this game is. In any case, the dev is actually working on the game and releasing content, so of course he wants to get a reward for his work.
I'm not a paying subscriber, so I can only analyze his decision to go online from a practical point of view. I just had a look at his Graphtreon stats and it doesn't look like this decision did him much good so far.
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This graph covers the last 12 months. As you can see, there are three peaks coinciding with the January, March and July releases. The bump after the March release wasn't that high (it peaked at 85 patrons), but the other two are really sharp and surpassed 100 patrons from the 60-something he had right before the release. This means that Icarus has a number of loyal subscribers, but he also gets a bunch of temporary subscriptions from people who just pay when a new version is out.
Now, if you look at the right end of the line you can see there has been hardly any variation in September, when the fully online version was released. So much so that he's only gained 5 new supporters after the release and currently sits at 65.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong; maybe some people prefer to subscribe only after every other update, and that's why the March release was't as successful as the January and July ones, so the same was expected to happen in September. Maybe it's still soon and some people subscribe when the update is available for certain tiers. I don't know, but my initial impression is that the online-only version hasn't been a success.
hoshin0119 btw did you mean that the online version goes public after 3 weeks?