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talk about milking it.
You know, this makes me wonder - is finished main story would be a detriment to the actual production or not?

Think about it this way - CoC2 and TiTS are kinda is similar in model to Games as a Service or Early Access. Game is continuously supplied with new content/reworked and polished in order to keep people playing/eventually finish it.

But like, do they have any benefit of actually finishing it? Unlike Early Access, they get money monthly and not by sales. So they are closer to Game as a Service model, being free-to-play with paying offering you some benefits. This is a single-player experience, so the closest parallels would be... gacha games? Since most of them are PvE only and add story content constantly. Genshin is probably the easiest example to compare, being the most well-known right now. They add major and minor story content once in 40 days and every year release a new chapter of an already laid down story plan. Thing is - there is no way the game is EVER going to be actually finished. There will 100% be new story line after they are done with their original 5 year plan.

However, how will the things go with CoC2? Will they get any benefits from actually rushing to get the main story done and THEN filling the rest of the areas with content? Chances are all it would do is cost them supporters, since the game is, "technically" done. No early access game I've seen put their endings into the unfinished version. Only when the game is actually out of EA does the ending get added. No dev wants to technically finish something that isn't actually finished.

So of course they want to milk it - I feel like it's the most beneficial way of them making the game from the developer perspective, as they can release updates that aren't pushing the game closer to it's eventual finishing line at all. It's possible that, if they rushed the main story and then started adding new content post "release" the game would still be really profitable, I can't really judge, but I can see the devs feeling like there is a finishing line after which their funds would get lower and lower and they don't want to approach it.
 

NODOGAN

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TiTS story is certainly better angled than CoC2, that moment on Dhaal when we find the capsule and the projection of Victor says he love us and is proud of us got me feeling something (Can't believe Savin wrote it but hey a broken clock is right at least twice a day lol.)

Also Mechanics-Wise I feel TiTS does character classes better, each class has it's own niche, Tech Specialist are immortal tanks, Mercenaries are the natural enemy of swarms and Smugglers are high single DPT machines (at least from my experience, hasn't played a Psychic yet to know their role, I will eventually, waiting for them to be finished.)

Compare that to CoC where the Charmer is the best support and DPT to ever exist, Mages can always hit anything in their path like a truck and Warriors/Thieves...exist.
 

MangaKing

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You know for all the fairly valid complaints, this could be way worse, I mean it could be way better as well, but at the bare minimum these guys are still releasing content, even though it feels like it getting less and less, I've seen too many devs get somewhat big and tend to stop doing anything and coast, and while I tend not to like a fair amount of stuff, there is also a ton I do like that does get released every once in a while like the MooHaus stuff, or basically any impregnation stuff, and I'm glad they are still developing stuff, still some bull with somethings but I'm still glad
 
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You know for all the fairly valid complaints, this could be way worse, I mean it could be way better as well, but at the bare minimum these guys are still releasing content, even though it feels like it getting less and less, I've seen too many devs get somewhat big and tend to stop doing anything and coast, and while I tend not to like a fair amount of stuff, there is also a ton I do like that does get released every once in a while like the MooHaus stuff, or basically any impregnation stuff, and I'm glad they are still developing stuff, still some bull with somethings but I'm still glad
You see the funny thing is the fen games are one of the best if not the best text porn games we have right now.With all of the drama and shit decisitions the bar is still THAT low.We need to be better smh
 

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Ehhhh....no. it's actually the exact opposite.

Trials in Tainted Space is actually ending significantly earlier than initial plans. It was gonna go on for another....7 years or so at minimum. And that was the scaled down version already. Now it'll probably be done in the next year or two.

And it's had the exact opposite of feature creep. It's repeatedly been gutted of features it was planned to have. Characters, planets, ships, systems, etc.

TiTs problem is in a completely different arena.
Nobody cares about the main story of TiTs, basically zero people are clamoring for TiTs to end.
I generally tend to agree with you with most things but I think you're speaking in behalf of way too many people when you speak of TiTS, I certainly care more for TiTS' main story than CoC's.

And while TITS may have had feature removals, it has content creep. So many utterly useless side ventures and shitty characters. If I see another fucking "taur carries you with their dick that's inside you and walks around" scene added I'm going to kill someone. That's what people speak of when they mention TiTS being bloated. They'd rather make useless hyper content than move the story on.

Speaking of, I believe Fen at some point lost any and all motivation regarding TITS a few years back simply because he was so desensitized of all the extreme fetishes lol. I ain't sure but I recall him losing "all sex drive".
 

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I generally tend to agree with you with most things but I think you're speaking in behalf of way too many people when you speak of TiTS, I certainly care more for TiTS' main story than CoC's.

And while TITS may have had feature removals, it has content creep. So many utterly useless side ventures and shitty characters. If I see another fucking "taur carries you with their dick that's inside you and walks around" scene added I'm going to kill someone. That's what people speak of when they mention TiTS being bloated. They'd rather make useless hyper content than move the story on.

Speaking of, I believe Fen at some point lost any and all motivation regarding TITS a few years back simply because he was so desensitized of all the extreme fetishes lol. I ain't sure but I recall him losing "all sex drive".
Oh no hardcore porn made him desensitized to anything sexual,who could have seen that coming?In all seriousness,peopl,i beg,keep both of your hands on top of your desk and dont fap to this shit ffs.
 
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Thatguymercy

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Yknow what thinking about it the story of Coc 2 is relatively simple. Kas is the big villain (for now) and is going town to town unleashing demons and stealing souls while you and your party clean up whatever bullshit she started. At least that's how I'm summing it up in my head, I honestly think the devs would've had an easier time developing shit if they just finish the main story. I mean your main goal is to chase down Kas and Kas is tied to the main story, so why not finish the main story to establish the rest of the playable locations?
I mean I rather that than wait six months waiting for an update with a single side quest and content expansion for a random character I don't even like.
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Heyyyy, finally finish the first draft to theRooh scene lol. Pleas tear it apart because I barely use any paser and this shit is, well, shit lmao
 
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NODOGAN

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Replaying the game cuz bored, just realized something funny: The whole Orc Warcamp quest is written mainly by Savin and Tobs...and that quest gets how to deal with groups of NPCs the right way since you can basically choose wether you wanna help Arona or instead fuck over her tribe and force them to disband.

See if they could keep their egos in check and maintain that consistency of player agency (Big IF I know but roll with me here) it could had made a big impact in the Kitsune Quest, now...imagine if there was an option to just do Evergreen's quest OR burn down the whole Kitsune tree?

What if you got to meet more Elf Druids after Hethia's initial meeting if you were nice and negotiated things with her? What if you learned of their plea and how the Kitsune's parasite-ass tree is killing the Wyld Tree and then you could either side with them to remove the Kitsunes from the forest (and get access to some cool Druid Location/Items/NPCs/etc) or side with the Kitsunes if you wanna get Kiyoko out of the Orb/Buy items from Kohaku/do whatever else can be done in the Kitsune's parasite ass den?

I know they would never do this because the kitsune are the baby project of the manbaby himself Tobs, but if that wasn't the case then surely it would be great to have more of our decisions have an impact and shape the very land our character travels through.
 
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