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His nts route was bugged and went so into ntr territory. Was honestly looking forward to them fixed it as the game did have potential. Looks like dev just cut and run with that patreon money bag
honestly I was noticing that the dev was not having a good time with criticism. There seemed to be a language barrier there as well...lots of very odd misunderstandings around clearly made points. Thinking a compliment was a criticism..etc. the Dev (Stranger/boolah) if anyone would accept my two cents..took way too much onto their plate with all the features they started with and were adding and removing during the development. They also had too little interest and not enough understanding of the non NTR paths/stories. Multiple times I had conversations in which the dev was entirely unaware of why people would like any form of NTS or non NTR story that wasn't just about humiliation. So I think in the long term it might be a good idea for them to take time away from this game as it seemed to be a bit out of their comfort zone. getting criticism seems to be a big stress creator for them so I honestly think game development on a small scale is probably not a great choice for them...gamers are brutal unrelenting assholes as we all know.(or at the very least we are unrelentingly critical of everything.)
Gamers should always be critical, especially regarding plot lines, graphics, and storylines. The question is, what kind of criticism is it? Am I criticizing because I don't see something I want to see and insulting the developer, or am I accepting their taste and making constructive suggestions for improvement? I've supported Strangerhome from its initial release until now, and he's always been open to criticism that contributed to improvements, but there are so many trolls here who personally attack the developers, no matter what the issue. If a game includes NTR in its mission or is even based on it, it can't include a harem; that would be illogical. A purely romance-focused route is understandable, but what's the point of that in a phone game? Strangerhome underestimated the negative criticism directed at him personally, as it's incredibly demotivating, and perhaps he'll learn to handle it better in the future. Sad Pepper experienced something similar.
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It didnt need harem but did deserve a proper nts since they included it. They went humiliation nts without a heads up to the player and that will always bite back. These days a lot of people are becoming less okay with that as more stag nts games are made. It sucks this game is done cause it really could have been good, and started very well. Unfortunately last update just wasnt handled great.
Yes, you're right, his community also criticized that; the scenes were swapped in both routes, and Lisa's actions didn't fit the route either. He was told that too. He really made a mistake there. I think the task was too big for him, especially with the AI chat, which had many problems until almost nothing worked properly in the end, and the regular updates he was supposed to provide.
game was good then the dev lost the plot after the rework, made a mess of it with all the routes. AI chat feature was arguably the worst idea as it cost him money to run & bugged to the max but I will give credit and say it was an interesting and unique feature.
But generally I think this was for the better as the game was definitely not going to last 2 or 3 more patches as you could see the progression / dev time being used poorly and him having no clue how to pace or push the story forward, some updates just felt mega rushed or jumping the gun way too soon.
if he just kept it 1 route, NTR only, I honestly think it would have been a banger game. The NTS route despite good CGs was just a messy route that never made any sense.
But generally I think this was for the better as the game was definitely not going to last 2 or 3 more patches as you could see the progression / dev time being used poorly and him having no clue how to pace or push the story forward, some updates just felt mega rushed or jumping the gun way too soon.
if he just kept it 1 route, NTR only, I honestly think it would have been a banger game. The NTS route despite good CGs was just a messy route that never made any sense.
I think he shut down the game and himself to completely overhaul it and then relaunch it because there were simply too many problems he couldn't handle in the regular updates anymore. The more updates he had to release, the bigger the problems became, especially with the AI chat. He should completely rework the game and restart it; that would be best. I don't believe he's completely quit; no one who creates a game leaves it unfinished—that would be far too detrimental to their ambition.
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The NTR path wouldn't have been bad if he didn't have GF best friend basically outing her affair with that blowjob photo at the end. Also the whole "film us having sex" felt really out of place like fans of ntr route cared aobut Mia's affair with Lucas progressing and not this.
When i asked the dev where he is going with this he said something in the sense that it will be clear in next update alas well here we are.
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As someone that has been writing and publishing on the internet for hte last 15 years it's very much a FNG problem. You have to go over it and be able to discern the actual critics from the attack disguise as critics and not let it go up to your head.
Yes there are people that will give genuine negative feedback even if you don't like it, and also yes there are people that will just attack you over anything and nothing to get you to do exactly what boola did. Shut things down.
Now that said, the AI feature was a genuine mistake. How can you implement something that cost you, lone guy with just a lil big of patreon money, what little you can gain? I'm not even speaking about the bugs here, just as a PURE business decision that was bad. OR at that point he should have just bitten the bullet, made an actual chatbox and sold THAT on one of the dozen site where you can do so.
Now the only thing I can hope is that Boola get thicker skin and learn from this as callous as that sound it remain unfortunately true. If you expose yourself and your work you better get ready to get punched in the dick by people that would love NOTHING more than to see you crawl in misery at their feet.