That's what I noticed too, he's trying to be a perfectionist for some reason, there is no need for that as you can't make everyone happy no matter what you do, wish he just listened to the fair criticism and moved on applying those
That's the least impactful reason Ashen disappeared. He had some real life issues going on. Like an ex that was mentally F'n him during the time he took to take care of his parents. He never made that public. He even said he was close to un-aliving himself and depressed. I talked to him everyday for a while checking in with him. He seemed happier, and was helping me with some things as well, then one day he just went silent on everything. The negativity on F95 just added to his own real life depression, which sucks. I just hope he didn't actually go through with his plan...
That sucks. With the vast amount of lying devs I can see people being skeptical and disappointed with the updates, but that doesn't mean they should shit at the dev...
I'm fairly convinced he's going to quit. The writing is on the wall (And it isn't blurry ba dum tss) , discord announcements alluding to the continued development of the game being weighted by reception? So a large reason on why he's continuing the development is to get ego stroked for his project instead of... you know, wanting to actually do the project?
According to what he wrote in Discord and Patreon there would be even more Ari content + new characters (for which I dislike remaster even more now), so I doubt that was the reason of remaster. He said it was due to his AI-instruments is outdated and it took him too long to create CG. Though that could be another lie, because now we see that it wasn't the case because he already spend more time on remaster than on previous updates all together.
He ever commented about the style change?
I am now something into AI myself and I could tell you that current pretty standard tools without any additional plugins and so on could do it pretty well. It wouldn't be as fast as simple generation of arts (generate single 768x1344 pic on RTX 3090 ~ 13 sec, apply hires and adetailer to fix artifacts with face and increase resolution to 1024x1792 ~ 25 sec.) because you will have to use inpaint tool to mark certain area on art and fix it through positive and negative promt, or use Photoshop to fix it mannually, but it isn't impossible and entire scene with several variation of CG could be done within a day. Dev said he also do some hand drawings, so it should be even more simple for him than for me, who have zero skills with photoshop and could only rely on basic AI-tools to fix generation mistakes through inpaint.
Dunno. I was able to recreate pretty complex outfit from one light novel to the girl I generate almost perfectly within just one hour of trying.
wait, the last post isn't public on patreon? so you had to have been subscribed when he paused payments to see the message?
Exactly. I love a good slow burn, but things need to progress with each update, not a bunch of random stuff appearing that only detract from the focus, which is the cuckolding fantasy. There is no need to complicate things, just adds lots of teasing and dirty talking while slowly but surely ramping up the NTS play from fantasy to reality. It really is that simple, we don't need whole subplots about non related stuff.
Like they go to some random ass maze and participate in some random ass ritual with random ass people and Stans on here say, "Yeah, it's great!". The entire part of the game makes zero sense. It was bad writing.
I thought I was the only who was confused by it. Hahaha
Everyone was confused by it, since it came out of nowhere. It's only purpose was filler in the form of really weak group exhibitionism and yuri. It is so bad that even Terrace noped out and vanished, so the netorase actually went backwards .....
I don't mind some yuri NTS, but it could've had way better context to it...
To Tori's credit, I have to admit that the spanking scene in the Mall Changing Room turned me on.
