- Apr 27, 2024
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"underpromise and overdeliver"This is my observation about the update discussion based on what I've read and experienced with different games.
In my experience, communities on F95 are more satisfied and complain less about creators that release smaller but more frequent updates.
If you're a reasonable person and actually read what Tori says, you know that Tori is working on quality over quantity and packs a lot of stuff into every update, so you know that you just have to let Tori cook and just wait until release for a high quality long update.
The problem is, people don't like waiting. So, even if a creator puts out massive updates every 4 months. They will get a lot more negativity from the community than creators who put out small updates every month.
The other thing is about setting peoples expectations. If people expect an update every 2 months and it's delayed, even for a legitimate reason, they won't be happy as their expectation was broken and they will feel slighted.
My advice to creators would be to set expectations that will be met 100% of the time. This could be done by limiting the scope of updates and trying to work ahead of the timeline. Aka, if you set an expectation of release every two months, complete the smaller update in 1 month and work on the next one so you can guarantee consistent release schedules.
This isn't a criticism of Tori from me, it's just what I've observed based on reading most of the comments in this thread and other communities.
the problem here is that as things get delayed, the fanboys (and sometimes the dev himself) hypes up the upcoming update to justify the delay. "sorry it's not coming in july, but i think you'll all agree what i'm cooking is worth it!" the hype builds and builds.
so now you've got people expecting a complete remaster of the game with new hi-res art, culminating in a sex scene that we've all been waiting for. even if the update would've been considered very good in any other circumstance, there's absolutely no way it can live up to this amount of cope/hype.
i'm not trying to be doom-and-gloom, i'm just trying to reset expectations back down to reality: i think a lot of people are going to be disappointed by this update. switching AI models is itself a gigantic risk... to over-invest in it with months and months of remasters without any user feedback, and going back and changing old scenes people already loved.... it's kind of a recipe for disaster.
i like this game and want it to succeed but we should all buckle up, this thread might be a bloodbath when the update drops