The_Knut
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If what they're telling is true there wont me much point due to the bugs, unless you just want to gimp yourself by looking at the gallery only.
Everything I've read in here and the continuing decline in updates from this dev makes me realize they've become reliant on the revenue stream they're getting but also just can't actually produce enough quality content to justify the amount they're getting...
This is why I will happily continue gleaning content from here.
I don't like this "monthly" model of support without monthly updates. There are too many instances of folks who come up with something that appeals to a niche audience, produces enough content for said audience with minimal funding, then once they've cultivated a large enough revenue stream they start cutting their production until one day they just disappear altogether.
This is why I will happily continue gleaning content from here.
I don't like this "monthly" model of support without monthly updates. There are too many instances of folks who come up with something that appeals to a niche audience, produces enough content for said audience with minimal funding, then once they've cultivated a large enough revenue stream they start cutting their production until one day they just disappear altogether.
0nymous
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If you were a programmer, you'd know that sometimes: you find a bug. You fix it. You compile the program and run it. And you find three new bugs.
That being said, you are correct in the case of this game. Both QA and fixing things on RPGMaker is not rocket science. It should be a matter of two weeks after a new alpha build, but I'm willing to bet the testers are volunteers so they don't even have deadlines.
If there even are any testers.
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This is an excellent game so far, but I'm not a fan of how stuff happens without your input. Yes I was fooling around with Leon, but maybe I didn't want Claire to lose her virginity to him. An option to avoid that would've been appreciated.
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It's insane to me that no one has responded to this after 3 months. I'm stuck as well. Can't even access the menu to try and teleport.
In fact, I see 7 other posts just like yours reporting the same thing and no one has responded to any of them.
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I finally found the solution. Had to join some random guy's Discord where he had posted a bugfixed version of the Empyrean map file. Not sure why I had trouble finding it here and why it's not in the OP, but I'm attaching it to this post.
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Are you kidding me? The quest literally just started. What's the point in having literally one scene in a quest (not to mention a scene where you ingest a pill that's supposed to turn you into a "slut puddle" supposedly fairly quickly) only to immediately put the quest on hold until the devs update it?
I was really enjoying this game, but the amount of quests that just suddenly STOP is getting annoying. Especially for a game that's evidently been in development for 7 years.
I was really enjoying this game, but the amount of quests that just suddenly STOP is getting annoying. Especially for a game that's evidently been in development for 7 years.
「S」- Man
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Honestly. If this project wasn't a erotic game and for that reason, wasn't so for away from public scrutiny from youtubers and other mainstream game media outlets, it would be denounced as a scam a long time ago.
The_Knut
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I find it really weird how the quests are done on this game, it would make more sense if the dev released complete quests instead of piece by piece ones like we have right now, there's too many quests that are incomplete and only make the player feel bad because they end suddenly, without a climax.
voerman
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Imagine Chris Roberts would turn Star Citizen into a porn game. The sky would be the limit!
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I concur with some of the points you've made. I, too, have recollected from my experiences of playing through claire's quest of there being some form of "fragmentation" and/or "disjointedness" as to how the quest lines are being developed. I think the dev needs to hone in on completing important quest lines as they are in their entirety, rather than start one quest line, move to another randomly unrelated quest line, and then develop each quest on a portion-by-portion basis.
It just creates unnecessary scope creep in the long term imo, because now we have a bunch of unresolved quest lines that returning players probably would not even remember owing to how long of a time gap it has been between updates and whatnot.
Plus, some quest lines actually have intriguing outcomes, so releasing only small bite-sized portions of the content without providing some form of closure in a timely manner, is just kind of disorienting for players (especially for returning players i.e.).
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I would wager that these "testers" are probably staffed on a "pro-bono" basis, so there probably may not be any real "drop dead date" being stringently enforced for when they have to report on some of these bugs during the quality control or QA phase of the project.
True. One year of waiting for the update to be a "technical update"
All the while banking 50000$ a month haha
I was very optimistic about Claire's Quest. When they were churning out updates, one after another, I even paid them. I understood that they had trouble with artists, they redesigned certain characters and remade several scenes.
Alright.
But... you're telling me that in over 6 months there have been zero updates? How about we also talk of the wasted art that goes into pointless art for Lunar year, halloween, valentines, whatever.
Pointless, serves zero purpose, wastes money and time.
Their ambition is to have another continent full of content while polishing up current ones. Cool. How are they going to do that when they even fail the usual 3-4 month update cycle?
By the way, about the scattered content; It's actually done intentionally due to interests of the patrons or straight up as commission. Good chunk of the ranch and ranger content was commissioned.
Sadly you are right. I can't pretend that this is not the case. The game won't be finished so i only hope that we will get some spicy amount before it is shut down for one reason or another.True. One year of waiting for the update to be a "technical update"
All the while banking 50000$ a month haha
I was very optimistic about Claire's Quest. When they were churning out updates, one after another, I even paid them. I understood that they had trouble with artists, they redesigned certain characters and remade several scenes.
Alright.
But... you're telling me that in over 6 months there have been zero updates? How about we also talk of the wasted art that goes into pointless art for Lunar year, halloween, valentines, whatever.
Pointless, serves zero purpose, wastes money and time.
Their ambition is to have another continent full of content while polishing up current ones. Cool. How are they going to do that when they even fail the usual 3-4 month update cycle?
By the way, about the scattered content; It's actually done intentionally due to interests of the patrons or straight up as commission. Good chunk of the ranch and ranger content was commissioned.
A damn shame too. Claire as a character deserved so much better and a actual ending to her story.
Ronia
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Who'd have thought that giving someone a massive monthly paycheck without any legal obligation attached to it would have negative long term consequences? It's shocking. Truly.
The project will get for sure updated. It isn't the end but it's very dubious how months go without updating the main game or making progress.
I doubt it will get updated unless people start speaking with their wallets and stop subbing until the work schedule improves.
Alternatively it goes the opposite way where they just continue growing because people have automatic payments enabled or whatever and can't be bothered to turn it off.
I hate to be bitter like this as I've in the past vehemently defended this project. At some point though you start looking for actual progress.
At very least I do have some devs that I actually trust with my money.
honestly there is only 1 dev i would give any money and this one is not itill never give money to people who give crappy updates that cant stick to some digree of a scgial
Because it is far from complete. The main story hasn't progressed at all. Half the questlines are pending. Some even have 1 quest in and nothing else.
Game does however have decent amount of content though.