RPGM Abandoned Bones' Tales: The Manor [v0.20.0a] [Dr Bones]

[MadGenuis]

I really wonder how a supporter of this game can hold various months without getting an actual update and then keep supporting on and i'm serious in asking this.

How? how its possible to support a game in which updates consist on the sprite & frame of the same scene but redone for the 50th time because of the hecks of it?!
please someone answer me because no matter how this game art looks fine, yet i'm afraid the updates being put are just not different and there's literally 0 game story progress whatsoever!

An actual supporter of Bones will likely give you a different answer, but my personal guess would be a combination of Adoringfan's suspicion about people not being aware or caring that an automated process keeps giving their money to someone else, and the

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. Essentially, the more time and money a person spends on something, the more time and money they will be willing to continue to spend on that thing in the future; the longer a person has been a supporter, the more certain they have to be that their investment will eventually pay off, and the more frightening stopping one's support - thus potentially wasting one's investment so far - becomes.

But then again, sometimes I seriously think that certain people play an entirely different game than the rest of us. Some of the five-star reviews that occasionally show up for this... well, to me at least, I find myself asking "Are you sure you meant to review this game?" I mean...

One of the most promising and satisfying games of the hundreds if not thousands of Games I've played, I have almost as many hours in this game as I have in Kingdom Come: Deliverance (a little over 200). The Best game you'll ever play second only to Claire's Quest in Recent times. (Even my Fiancé agrees)

if there will be a top 1bilion games this game will take the first place
everything was perfect characters, scenario, story, and our trusty ghost
I can't get over this game
ill be waiting for the updates :$

The game is just a cannon! Sticking in it for 10 hours. As a result, all in semen and sweat fell asleep exhausted)))
100 by 10. I have not seen such games for a long time, but I replayed in a large number of adult games

This game needs to be played, One of the best games ever, the situations, the characters, the design are just too good, it understand itself very well, the developer knows what the people is searching in this game.

Talking about quality, this game is one of them. all aspects of this game are diamonds to me. I still remember when I found this game 3 months ago, after finishing everything in the game. From then on I always check when a new version comes out. and it was quite tiring, but I don't regret it. it's really awesome and i'm thankful for it

Absolutely perfect game! Mr. Bones, you created a masterpiece! I’m enjoying every second I spend playing this game, and I hope to see an update soon! Did you consider making a sequel, maybe The Manor 2, where MC could go to the neighbour’s house, maybe add more characters into the game? Anyway, keep up with the good work!

Outside of the reviews specifically mentioning The Manor or Bones, I would never have guessed that these regarded this game. I get it, it's fetish material and it has fairly unique art-style, but holy shit. Talk about making mountains out of molehills.

Also, special mention to this review since it actually seems relevant to the question:

Let's get this out of the way: If you haven't played this because of the RPGM tag, you're missing out.

Secondly, while I do believe there are people who are milking their patreons/subscribestars while drip feeding their fans content, this is not one of those games. The hilarity of people complaining about this being a scam while not paying for it is not lost on me and honestly just goes to show how good the game is when they get that upset about not having any more bt manor to play.

It also is refreshing to have the writing be non-broken English and such that I do not regret having the ability to read. Only nit-pick I have here is that not ALL of the interactions were changed after you advanced the story with the character. This being said, most of it was and the unchanged ones I suspect will be changed in the future. The art, as the previews show, is great not to mention animated and as far as I'm aware this is all being done by one guy balancing between two games so... yeah.

This is something truly special and I for one cannot wait for the full version.

Update:

EDIT: This last review was from April 2021. Also relevant: the emote in the "update" is Hide The Pain.

 

[cocomiel1]

An actual supporter of Bones will likely give you a different answer, but my personal guess would be a combination of Adoringfan's suspicion about people not being aware or caring that an automated process keeps giving their money to someone else, and the

You must be registered to see the links

. Essentially, the more time and money a person spends on something, the more time and money they will be willing to continue to spend on that thing in the future; the longer a person has been a supporter, the more certain they have to be that their investment will eventually pay off, and the more frightening stopping one's support - thus potentially wasting one's investment so far - becomes.

But then again, sometimes I seriously think that certain people play an entirely different game than the rest of us. Some of the five-star reviews that occasionally show up for this... well, to me at least, I find myself asking "Are you sure you meant to review this game?" I mean...






Outside of the reviews specifically mentioning The Manor or Bones, I would never have guessed that these regarded this game. I get it, it's fetish material and it has fairly unique art-style, but holy shit. Talk about making mountains out of molehills.

Also, special mention to this review since it actually seems relevant to the question:

EDIT: This last review was from April 2021. Also relevant: the emote in the "update" is Hide The Pain.

That poor soul

 

[DatWanGai]

An actual supporter of Bones will likely give you a different answer, but my personal guess would be a combination of Adoringfan's suspicion about people not being aware or caring that an automated process keeps giving their money to someone else, and the

You must be registered to see the links

. Essentially, the more time and money a person spends on something, the more time and money they will be willing to continue to spend on that thing in the future; the longer a person has been a supporter, the more certain they have to be that their investment will eventually pay off, and the more frightening stopping one's support - thus potentially wasting one's investment so far - becomes.

But then again, sometimes I seriously think that certain people play an entirely different game than the rest of us. Some of the five-star reviews that occasionally show up for this... well, to me at least, I find myself asking "Are you sure you meant to review this game?" I mean...






Outside of the reviews specifically mentioning The Manor or Bones, I would never have guessed that these regarded this game. I get it, it's fetish material and it has fairly unique art-style, but holy shit. Talk about making mountains out of molehills.

Also, special mention to this review since it actually seems relevant to the question:

EDIT: This last review was from April 2021. Also relevant: the emote in the "update" is Hide The Pain.

People write reviews with their arses more times than not.

The first review - blatant lie, I truly have played over 100 different H games of nearly all different genres and this game doesn't even come into the top 30 even though I do enjoy playing it. They do stuff really well, but tons of other games do them equally well or better. And 200+ hours? In this game?? Like hell.
Second review - Either shill or they made this review during better times lol
Third review - Shill
Fourth review - Another shill
Fifth review - Probably an actual review, they only said their personal opinion and didn't even try to talk you into it.
Sixth review - The most obvious shill. Nothing about this game says "perfect", even the parts I like I would say it's good at most.

 

[387240560]

Yeah art looks great

 

[HDP77]

Creating an expansion of this game into a city or a school would be the best game in the world.

 

[SouthDwarf]

The developer made a new long discord post today to talk about the updates and about himself (Someone posted this on the thread for the other game, but I thought it would make sense to post it here also):

Basically, he was taking a break, the update for the other game might come before the end of the year (but it wouldn't surprise me if he takes longer knowing his track record). Also, he reinforced that he will only work on the next update of The Manor after the update for the other game is done. Besides that, the 'kidney stones saga' might continue indefinitely.

 

[MadGenuis]

The developer made a new long discord post today to talk about the updates and about himself (Someone posted this on the thread for the other game, but I thought it would make sense to post it here also):
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Basically, he was taking a break, the update for the other game might come before the end of the year (but it wouldn't surprise me if he takes longer knowing his track record). Also, he reinforced that he will only work on the next update of The Manor after the update for the other game is done. Besides that, the 'kidney stones saga' might continue indefinitely.

Again?

 

[SouthDwarf]

Again?

I Guess it shows how repetitive his behavior is that something posted in March is quite similar to this post he made today.

 

[AnonBeast]

Personally I have nothing to say on this as for the community as a whole they'll likely not believe him because he's been using the whole kidney stone thing for a while, whether it true or not is up to the individual.

 

[skadoodle21]

The lad whiped the kidney stone thing again what a legend, fair play to him though will probably manage to keep his goblin-like supporters on patreon for a few more months.

 

[snakeater]

Kidney stone - REVAMPED - The sequel

 

[TwoHeavens]

all jokes aside I expect the manor to get an update some time mid to late next year at this rate.

 

[secretsonny]

The developer made a new long discord post today to talk about the updates and about himself (Someone posted this on the thread for the other game, but I thought it would make sense to post it here also):
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Basically, he was taking a break, the update for the other game might come before the end of the year (but it wouldn't surprise me if he takes longer knowing his track record). Also, he reinforced that he will only work on the next update of The Manor after the update for the other game is done. Besides that, the 'kidney stones saga' might continue indefinitely.

TL;DR - I haven't worked on anything. Please remember my Kidney stones that I got when I was 2 months late on the last update as they are my going to be my excuse going forward. No update this year btw.

 

[Adoringfan]

You know kidney stones are avoidable, it's usually excess calcium or other minerals in your diet. Don't eat or drink things that cause it and you won't get kidney stones. It's crazy we are back to this though.

 

[BackRunner]

Had a relative who had kidney stones. Not that big but big enough to cause him to be hospitalized.
Took some meds, and changed diet. Took him 3 and half months to recover.
Whatever the doctor is doing, it isn't taking care of himself..... that or he is taking in too much milk

 

[Adoringfan]

Had a relative who had kidney stones. Not that big but big enough to cause him to be hospitalized.
Took some meds, and changed diet. Took him 3 and half months to recover.
Whatever the doctor is doing, it isn't taking care of himself..... that or he is taking in too much milk

He does love milking his patrons...

 

[Ohhboyy]

He does love milking his patrons...

Prank em John.

 

[BruceMcGivern]

The developer made a new long discord post today to talk about the updates and about himself (Someone posted this on the thread for the other game, but I thought it would make sense to post it here also):
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Basically, he was taking a break, the update for the other game might come before the end of the year (but it wouldn't surprise me if he takes longer knowing his track record). Also, he reinforced that he will only work on the next update of The Manor after the update for the other game is done. Besides that, the 'kidney stones saga' might continue indefinitely.

So i learned a lot from previous responses from the fellow members and man one thing its clear at this point.

He doesn't care lmao he clearly IS milking the damn out of people by doing nothing like the patreon and subscriberstar is not for supporting the game and instead its for supporting a living rent free of bills lmfao

if he HAVE to pause the supposedly work then so its pledge pages but we live in a society & world where if there's an opening for income then u must take fully advantage of it at finest!

Well see you until next update at 2027 because either the dude releases another smug of remaked scenes or the kidney stones gets him as he claimed in the past in case of something happening he will lend its work to a trusted friend if that's what i recall?
and if that's true for the best its better he just toss this game progress to someone competent and energetic about it. yet again this game expectations are the lowest since its a work done by 1 person at a slug pace to get from point A to point B of ages

 

[Dandoru]

That poor soul

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He's completely lost... Poor soul

 

[Dandoru]

So i learned a lot from previous responses from the fellow members and man one thing its clear at this point.

He doesn't care lmao he clearly IS milking the damn out of people by doing nothing like the patreon and subscriberstar is not for supporting the game and instead its for supporting a living rent free of bills lmfao

if he HAVE to pause the supposedly work then so its pledge pages but we live in a society & world where if there's an opening for income then u must take fully advantage of it at finest!

Well see you until next update at 2027 because either the dude releases another smug of remaked scenes or the kidney stones gets him as he claimed in the past in case of something happening he will lend its work to a trusted friend if that's what i recall?
and if that's true for the best its better he just toss this game progress to someone competent and energetic about it. yet again this game expectations are the lowest since its a work done by 1 person at a slug pace to get from point A to point B of ages

man, one thing is a photo of an arm connected to a serum, and another is the examination of kidney stones, whether the report or even X-ray/ultrasound or whatever you want to call it (obs: in my native language the name "ultrasound" for example it is the same type of exam where you can see the baby while in gestation) big "F" for this game.