- May 13, 2020
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I've been in the discord, and was a patron, and sure.. He is relatively active in the discord, but he's not answering any questions that actually matter, that's the problem. Maybe he'll talk when someone has a question about a character, or someone praising him for how amazing they think the game is. But when it comes to "when's the next update?", that question never get's answered. "It's a work in progress", "It'll be ready when it's ready".
"It'll be ready when it's ready"..? It's been 8 months man! He's posted nothing on his patreon but wallpapers at the end of every month, and a "sneak peek of episode 3!" where we basically get a picture and that's it. No status updates, no reassurance that any progress is even being made, no communication whatsoever. I think those are very reasonable things to expect from somebody that you're paying money to every month. Whether it's intentional manipulation or just a byproduct of unprofessionalism, it doesn't look good either way.
One thing that I can't complain about is the quality of the game. The concept of the story isn't anything earth shattering, it's pretty basic but it's done well, and the art is some of the best I've personally seen and because of this I still find myself trying to give this guy the benefit of the doubt sometimes. I used to defend him and try to convince myself that the quality is going to be worth the wait. But the only way that I could see myself having any interest in this guy's work at this point, is if the amount of content in the next update is proportionate to the amount of time it's taken to produce the content(in accordance with the rate at which updates were previously being produced at).
So if the previous update took him 3 months to create 20 minutes of content and he releases the game in December or beyond, I'm expecting an hour(+) worth of play time, unless somehow, someway, the update is soooo amazing that I end up abandoning that metric ^, but I highly doubt that will happen.
I don't think people are going to be very forgiving this time around if he's been collecting patreon pledges for 8 months and comes out with an update that has 20 minutes of playtime and is anything short of spectacular.
I hope I'm wrong though. I guess only time will tell.
"It'll be ready when it's ready"..? It's been 8 months man! He's posted nothing on his patreon but wallpapers at the end of every month, and a "sneak peek of episode 3!" where we basically get a picture and that's it. No status updates, no reassurance that any progress is even being made, no communication whatsoever. I think those are very reasonable things to expect from somebody that you're paying money to every month. Whether it's intentional manipulation or just a byproduct of unprofessionalism, it doesn't look good either way.
One thing that I can't complain about is the quality of the game. The concept of the story isn't anything earth shattering, it's pretty basic but it's done well, and the art is some of the best I've personally seen and because of this I still find myself trying to give this guy the benefit of the doubt sometimes. I used to defend him and try to convince myself that the quality is going to be worth the wait. But the only way that I could see myself having any interest in this guy's work at this point, is if the amount of content in the next update is proportionate to the amount of time it's taken to produce the content(in accordance with the rate at which updates were previously being produced at).
So if the previous update took him 3 months to create 20 minutes of content and he releases the game in December or beyond, I'm expecting an hour(+) worth of play time, unless somehow, someway, the update is soooo amazing that I end up abandoning that metric ^, but I highly doubt that will happen.
I don't think people are going to be very forgiving this time around if he's been collecting patreon pledges for 8 months and comes out with an update that has 20 minutes of playtime and is anything short of spectacular.
I hope I'm wrong though. I guess only time will tell.
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