I guess I see it as "I'm a lazy and inconsiderate fuck who is hooked on instant gratification so I'm gonna say screw the Dev and all his hard work and skip directly to the parts I wanna see and call it a day."
But that's just me. I guess I'm just a relic of a bygone age where people were appreciated and respected for the work they put into something. To the point were people would want to see ALL of their work. Not just the good parts.
Are there parts of the game I don't like? Yes. I hate the grind as much as you do. Just the feeling of accomplishment at the end of all that grind is like nothing else. So I will gladly do the grind for the bigger reword.
1. Videogames are suposed to be fun, not an unpaid form of work so you can have satisfaction by having to work more than the time you spend on games by default already does.
2. If cheats weren't something the dev would aprove he wouldnt incluide that IN THE BASE GAME, specially when the devs actively keeps ignoring his money supporters DEMANDING that he stops being an asshole treating his playerbase with an ever increasing amount of grind on a game that by its very nature should be about having all the breeding options or at least the base races chunk of it available from minute 1 so you can concentrate on getting the right hybrids or the perfect trait gifted neph for whatever task you have to fullfill.
3. If the dev did such a "hard word" as you claim, the areas that we would be unlocking would have been new ones. Not previously available ones that he decided to block with the excuse of game progression. Specially if you are to unlock already existing races. Like sure, he did added the Seraphim's heaven, the 2 bunnies areas, and probably another that I dont remember and added races variants by like I said many times. Adding one nice thing by fucking up a previously nice one. Cause even something amazing on paper like the Seraphim's heaven to capture the Seraphims happen to be an area that you have to unlock to capture the same nephs that before spawned in the Esoteric Glade. I dont know about you but at least I expected a exclusive Seraphim subrace to spawn there. Still waiting....
4. That era you mentioned is when devs weren't greedy and lazy content givers cause they put time and dedication into making a game enjoyable. Also we didnt had as many options available so curiously now in an attempt to keep up with the ever increasing market devs release half baked games that are barely decently playable but that are out so people can toy around with their mess and gain tons of money even if it comes with a storm of criticism for not taking the time to even bugtest the things they release. And this is coming from somebody who defends that an ancient game like Jedi Academy still is superior to the upcoming Jedi Survivor cause where's Force Lightning? Force Heal? Using blaster rifles? Blaster pistols WITH a double bladed lightsaber?
5. Im so damn tired of folks bringing the whole "Acomplishment" BS on games cause you folks seem to be blind by the idea that a overcoming a torture gives you a sense of pride that makes the whole process of working your ass out to that point compensates all the anger, annoyance, frustration and straight up boredom you have to face up to that point. Get it to your damn heads. IT. DOES NOT. MAKES IT WORTH. the tediousness you have to face until you reach that point in which you're having fun. A fun that you may only start to get when you skip half of the game progression or grind as hell thingy. Let me give you some examples on my own, which made me fall in love with this game when it was on version 0.723 and how is that on version 0.760 Im starting to despise it:
- When I began playing this game you started with all sex positions available. Positions like the Misionary. Loved it and it got me hooked into the game.... Now, in order to unlock that I need to first do the dumb quest of TidyPony, to unlock the dragons area to then, by paying 80 favor that I need to gain by selling a minimal of about 20+ nephs. So up to that point I can start having that sex position while attempting to breed.
- On my first playthroughs I wasnt sure if my fave were the Dragons or the Succubus. Both races I could have sex with on minute 1 but their barns required some extra money to gather them. Still I could have sex with them if I wanted to. Now, although the dragons progression hasnt changed much. The succuby have been completely locked out of my regular gameplay loop cause now they're the last race I can unlock otherwise Ill soft lock myself on the stupid cockblock gates.
- Before if I saw a wild neph that I liked and wanted to capture it, I just had to be fast enough on the clicks and Ill be able to capture it by sex. It felt a bit tedious but it truly felt like you were trying to tame the neph by sex. Now however, its all stats based and more than once I saw a nice neph that spawn in that variant very rarely and I happen to not have the enough traits to capture it and because I dont know every fluid preference of each neph type I happen to not have enough fluids to capture it.
- Portals.... Do I even need to explain myself on this?
