Damaged Goods is tagged on the WoS page as one of his other games. I don't even go to the other pages to see what's on them, though. Honestly, if you really wanna continue this game and feel it's worth it, maybe you could find someone else to do the renders and not even worry about him anymore. I've never played WoS, or My Sweet Neighbors, but looking at the games just from the pics, comments and reviews on here, DG is definitely better. Those other 2 games are just like the majority of other VNs on here and this one at least seemed like it's own thing.Probably never as I don't think Sin cares about Damaged Goods at all anymore. For numerous reasons.
1) He makes more money with WoS. He makes like $200 with that but was only making like $100 on DG. In spite of DG being significantly more popular in the forums and reviews than WoS never made enough money to satisfy Sin. A complete wanna-be ripoff of My Sweet Neighbors is more profitable than an awesome original game with a female protagonist, unfortunately.
2) He doesn't even bother to return my messages anymore. Last time I messaged him I asked him flat out "Want to work on a DG update?" It has been like a week and he has never replied back. I think Sin doesn't like me at all for some reason.
3) Try to compromise and be like "Want to work on DG at 1/3 capacity and WoS at 2/3?" Nah, fuck that he won't give it that much love.
4) Sin was a bit insistent on adding certain things to DG and at times doesn't like to listen... For example, I never planned to add that completely black dream demon character. Sin saw that they had something like that in "Dreams of Desire" and thought it would be good to just add a demon for... reason... Then I'm like alright let's add an angel too... That angel is just one of our female students and has no wings and doesn't look anything like an angel...
5) The last update on DG was shit. Sin did shitty renders with no backgrounds and doesn't give a fuck how much I had to adjust the story to fit it to cover for it. Do you think I wanted him to render completely black backgrounds? No... You think I was like "Hey go ahead and not give Kelly any neighbors or anything around her house... Just make it an empty foggy void..." Hell no... Sin normally does GREAT renders, but the last DG update was trash that he rushed through because he was working on WoS on the down-low.
6) Sin removed any mention of Damaged Goods from Patreon, Instagram, Discord, his profile, and so on...
I honestly don't think Sin even cares about DG at all anymore. He is completely unmotivated to work on it even just a little bit. Either it's because he hates me, or he is a control freak and doesn't that doesn't like working with anyone in collaboration (as that means less control), or he is too intimidated by the size and scope of the project... Maybe it is because it wasn't making the money he demanded... Frankly, I don't know his reasons maybe it is a little bit of all of these or something else... Not really sure what his reasoning is, but I have no faith that Sin will want to continue development on DG in the foreseeable future.
Anyways if Sin hits me up and is like "Let's work on DG..." I'll be like "Sure thing buddy." Then we will be working on it pretty much right away.
I think that sin is more concerned about another Abandoned Tag decreasing his reputation further thus costing him some money than he is about actually abandoning the project thus his attempts to drag out an "On Hold" Tag as long as he can.
You know... If Sin comes around and wants to work on it we can revive it, but I don't forsee Sin ever working on it. So... It's abandoned as far as I know.
#4 Was rubbish (ie, I agree with you). Didn't fit the narrative at all.4) Sin was a bit insistent on adding certain things to DG and at times doesn't like to listen... For example, I never planned to add that completely black dream demon character. Sin saw that they had something like that in "Dreams of Desire" and thought it would be good to just add a demon for... reason...
5) The last update on DG was shit. ...
What he actually wants to say is that I seem to be a money-grubbing piece of shit who just wants to milk people without giving anything. I can't let that portrayal stand.1) He makes more money with WoS. He makes like $200 with that but was only making like $100 on DG. In spite of DG being significantly more popular in the forums and reviews than WoS never made enough money to satisfy Sin. A complete wanna-be ripoff of My Sweet Neighbors is more profitable than an awesome original game with a female protagonist, unfortunately.
2) He doesn't even bother to return my messages anymore. Last time I messaged him I asked him flat out "Want to work on a DG update?" It has been like a week and he has never replied back. I think Sin doesn't like me at all for some reason.
4) Sin was a bit insistent on adding certain things to DG and at times doesn't like to listen... For example, I never planned to add that completely black dream demon character. Sin saw that they had something like that in "Dreams of Desire" and thought it would be good to just add a demon for... reason... Then I'm like alright let's add an angel too... That angel is just one of our female students and has no wings and doesn't look anything like an angel...
5) The last update on DG was shit. Sin did shitty renders with no backgrounds and doesn't give a fuck how much I had to adjust the story to fit it to cover for it. Do you think I wanted him to render completely black backgrounds? No... You think I was like "Hey go ahead and not give Kelly any neighbors or anything around her house... Just make it an empty foggy void..." Hell no... Sin normally does GREAT renders, but the last DG update was trash that he rushed through because he was working on WoS on the down-low.
I think that sin is more concerned about another Abandoned Tag decreasing his reputation further thus costing him some money than he is about actually abandoning the project thus his attempts to drag out an "On Hold" Tag as long as he can.
yeah, but look what he is doing. that's such a toxic behaviour, posting a 1star review like this.There is a saying...there's one side, there's the other side, and the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
As you now have a better understanding on how fragile life is, it is my hope that the two of you can eventually mend your relationship. Bitterness is a nasty thing to carry around and will haunt you always. So be forgiving to each other and take a few days to reflect and allow emotions to settle. It is a good day to be alive.
Frustration makes humans say and do things we normally wouldn't say and do. I'm sure the majority of population has done it at least once or twice in their lives, just out of sheer frustration and misunderstanding.yeah, but look what he is doing. that's such a toxic behaviour, posting a 1star review like this.
How are you going to talk about health but have light mode on for F85 at the same time? Think about your precious eyes.Never forget that health is the most important thing.
That's too bad. I'm sorry for the both of you. We have only one thing in life we can control and that's our own behavior. Take the high road.yeah, but look what he is doing. that's such a toxic behaviour, posting a 1star review like this.
I'm not a perfect person.Dear Community, Dear Yih. Since you Yih are making arbitrary decisions again, I would like to say something about it.
For those who don't know yet, I had a 5x 2 cm tumor in the angle of the jaw directly on the carotid artery. I had surgery earlier this week and almost died of respiratory depression from the anesthesia. That I can speak to you today is a miracle. They were able to remove the tumor and I am soo infinitely grateful.
I am still in the hospital and am very weak. But with the help of my friends, I still want to speak out about all these statements of Yih.
I think you deserve to know both sides of the story. And not Yih's subjective perspective.
First of all, I would like to say that I am shocked and humanly very disappointed by such disgusting reporting by Yih!
He knows full well that I had a tumor, that I had been given this diagnosis. That I was really struggling with it. And was emotionally at the end.
To behave in such a way is not human.
Even if you have a quarrel, common sense dictates that you should not talk about sick people in this way.
I would never do this.
I would therefore like to clarify to you dear community:
Some time ago I received the terrible diagnosis of having a tumor in my throat. It was a routine examination. I told the doctors that every now and then I have a lump in the corner of my jaw. They did ultrasound and then sent me for MRI. Since I am claustrophobic, it was a borderline experience because I was completely immobilized and had to stay in that tube with contrast for a long time. When that was done, I got the diagnosis. This hit me to the core!!! Me? A tumor?? At my age?! WTF!.... And then this one was right on the carotid artery too. The surgeon literally sits on the bomb while defusing it. One wrong cut and I bleed to death.
I had to deal with all this information first. That was not easy. But I tried not to go crazy. Fortunately, it worked out somehow.
The day of the surgery came closer and closer. And the time had come. I was taken to surgery. Before that I had made my will. At my age it felt very surreal. I always thought such things are done when you are 70+. Then the anesthesiologist missed the vein twice and I had fucking pain in my hand. After that I was given sufentanyl. An anesthetic that is
1000x stronger than morphine and 500x stronger than heroin. I already developed respiratory depressions. Fortunately, the surgery went well and they were able to remove the tumor without hitting the carotid artery.
However, when I woke up I almost suffocated. My lungs did not manage to breathe by themselves because I was too sedated. It was a 2 hour fight for survival until I was reasonably stable again.
Since then I have been in the hospital. I have very severe pain, but I see small improvements day by day. And I hope that I will soon be able to walk again and eventually resume my normal daily life.
Especially in view of the facts described, I find such a nasty portrayal of my person very misplaced.
I can understand every fan of DG that he is annoyed and that everything is going so slowly.
Therefore, I would like to take the chance today one last time to share my thoughts with you.
Well, you gave me that impression. Personally, I never worried about the dollars and cents of it all, and only wanted to have fun making a great game. If we were making $2 or $2,000 it really didn't matter all too much to me. In the private discord messages you deleted back in the day you were constantly concerned about money, and you complained about how little we were making... You gave me the impression that you would want to abandon things if we didn't make enough money, or enough money fast enough. Which lead me, as your writer, to have to post some urgency about our needs to make the game, not a total financial flop.Yih writes in his first argument that it is only about money.
What he actually wants to say is that I seem to be a money-grubbing piece of shit who just wants to milk people without giving anything. I can't let that portrayal stand.
I have always told Yih that developing a VN has certain production costs.
First you need a good and fast PC with decent GPU power. Such a render rig can cost 3-10k quickly, depending on the specs. A 3090 RTX alone costs close to 3500k in my country. Yih always wants to have the best renders, so I offered him to bear the investment in the GPU himself. I paid a lot of money for the gaming/render PC back then. I also bought the assets from the different platforms. Had to find a file sharing provider and and.
With that I had costs for DG until the last release of about 8500$.
I was happy to pay that from my savings because I believe in the project and my arts and I was aware from the beginning that this is my passion and hobby. And I will never get rich with it. That is not my intention either. My intention is to give you a cool time with awesome renders.
My goal is that only the running costs are covered at some point, so that I can create as much content as you want without compromise.
With all expenses (host, electricity, hardware, assets, etc) that's a few hundred dollars a month. And that's it.
To say I'm only doing WoS because it makes me $200 instead of $100, very misleading.
The project is supposed to be fun for everyone and in the best case scenario it should pay for the running costs. That is my credo.
Accordingly, I don't understand why Yih misrepresents it so completely.
He himself owns a small laptop with which he is not able to render. Besides, he has never had to spend a cent on DG. He merely sacrificed his time, which I give him credit for. But he never invested money for DG.
Saying that WoS is an absolute rip-off wannabe, I also think is just a way of expressing your discomfort.
Many know, and of course, I know, that you have a problem with WoS. Because I have my own project, which I enjoy sooo much. Especially in this hard period of my life.
It's amazing that only the same people always express themselves very negatively about WoS, who at the same time love DG and are friends with you.
Coincidences do exist.....
It's not about "Bashing You". The whole drama about WoS was started by you... We were a team, and we were both planning on working on that together. What did you do? You worked on it by yourself without me on the down low. Had you taken ten seconds to talk to me privately and said something like. "Hey, about the new game. I was thinking I'd rather go it alone as a solo project. If you want to proofread or bugfix or whatever that's cool, but this is a personal project I'd like to do alone. For me..." I'd have been on totally okay with that. I'd have just let you have it all to yourself, and I'd even polish your Engrish up a little for you when you say certain things that hit the ear wrong, or fix the bugs if you needed a hand I'd have been at your service. That's NOT what you did though... You know what you did? You went completely BEHIND MY BACK. You were working on it on the down low while you were also working on the last DG update (Which suffered greatly because of that...) Then you totally released it on your own without even running a copy of it past me before letting it out to the Patreon supporters.You are of course free to bash me over and over again, write me bad reviews, encourage people to do so. Making me look like a failure and a looser on the forum. You are welcome to do that. If you can then still look at yourself in the mirror. You have to live with this guilt not me.
Also your threats to ruin me, I found very sad at the time. But now that you are doing this, I find it even sadder.
I would never do something like that. If you have problems with each other, then you clarify them among themselves and do not lead a public discussion.
But since this is unfortunately not possible with you, you force me to this post.
I did ask you this. Here is my direct question verbatim:You didn't ask about this either, by the way:
"Want to work on a DG update?
As I have already described in detail, I am in the hospital and connected to a lot of cables. I could not write to you personally! My friends have written and published the announcements on my Discord and my Patreon. So that the fans were not in ignorance. Since you read my Mercury's Notes too, you can't claim you didn't know either.
Your arbitrary decisions are really incomprehensible.
But you are the boss! You made that clear to me a long time ago. There can only be one boss and I am your employee who has to work and otherwise keep his mouth shut.
I have understood!
Minimal efforts go a long way in these matters. Would it kill you to once every couple weeks to be like "Hey dude hows it going?" or "Hey how have you been?" It's been like the only time you want to hit me up is when you want me to work on something which hasn't been for a long time thus you haven't spoken to me in ages. Plus you kicked and or banned me from your discord sever in light of recent events. I wasn't even active in there, but I noticed I'm not on that channel anymore. & If you aren't the one that booted me it was one of those yes men that work under you.The claims that I don't like Yih are simply moronic. Otherwise, I would certainly have worked with her for so long and carried all the initial investments.
To claim that over and over again now is simply uncool.
Adding demons to a story is a MAJOR THING. That CHANGES EVERYTHING going forward. It shifts the genre into a completely new direction with more fantasy elements. It's not a minor temporary element we are talking about here. It's like adding Jaws to the Titanic movie... Less thoughts go into the ice berg, and more so into the shark. Even so, we can make it work with the demons.Yes I wanted to include a few small elements. But then you always gave me a lecture why this or that doesn't work. Why I'm an idiot for doing such things. That no one wants to see my ideas and that I can't do anything. But only on instructions from your side I am able to produce something.
In addition fits of course also the boss factor again.
It is clear to me that I must subordinate myself and may say nothing myself.
Only your ideas are valid, otherwise.
Make a list of every single release that you have made. Then put a poll for "Which release had the worst renders?" The one with the missing backgrounds is going to win that hands down without a doubt. It's not even a competition. I'm not saying you are a bad artist. You are a good artist, but you aint perfect and fucked that one up. Micheal Jordan has shot plenty of airballs, and Magnus Carlsen has been check mated thousands of times. Nobody bats 1000.This, of course, is the crowning glory. Telling me that I am not able to make renders. Let's be honest. You're the one who, "kindly" put, has no artistic talent. Now to say I only produce shit that you have to patch is just ridiculous.
I already told you then that your required huge enviroments don't fit in the VRAM of the 1080tis. It's only 11GB. But you wanted huge neighborhoods and canyons and 5-6 G8 models in a scene. Any DEV will tell you that's almost impossible to do with a 1080ti.
But you wanted it anyway and I tried what was possible. I got everything out of the machine and even had hardware failures because of those scenes. Which cost me money again. Not you! Cursing around like that now shows your true character Yih!
What efforts have you made to prove to me, or to the fans of DG that DG is not dead to you?To set you straight about me "supposedly" killing off my projects.... This is such a blatant lie.
My first game " A guys dream" was more of a demo. Yih aborted that game right away and without telling me what it meant.
Now he is killing DG again without my approval too.
And portrays me as a dev who doesn't keep his word.
You just don't do something like that.
These are LIES to hurt me.
But I'm cool with it. I don't want a fight with you. It's just too toxic for me. You want to see me down. Ok. I'm pretty broken up, too. But I'll get back up and keep working on my projects.
Your representations are wrong and you are trying to kill me with it on the forum.
I really haven't done anything bad to you.
I have always assumed that DG will continue once I am able to pick up a better GPU. An RTX. That would have made the rendering problems go away.
But all this stress, all your rendering, the way you treat me. It's all soooooooo toxic.
And I have to stay away from it to avoid more damage. I hope dear community, you can understand this.
I don't leave anyone hanging, and if I don't get in touch directly, it's for serious reasons.
I don't know what will happen with DG. I would have had interest it to work on. But being treated like this is not the way i wanna work.
I know that a war of roses is now being started by Yih. By leaving the pitch as a loser. If he wants it that way, that is entirely up to him. But I won't stop with my projects. Also, I will not speak badly about Yih in the forum in public, because it just does not belong. I think I said a lot about the points.
Since he hurt me so much, I'll focus on WoS now. If things do calm down, I'm always ready to work on DG, but on my terms.
If, contrary to expectations, I am dragged through the arena by him, i will stop communicating with him. And I am not respond to more "bad" news about me, which aren't true.
I wish you guys a nice Weekend. This post took a lot of my energy and took almost 4 hours, and I am very grateful to my friends at the hospital for taking the time to write everything down.
Never forget that health is the most important thing.
In this sense...
Yours
Sin
I'm always seeing forum posts asking "update when?" along with several private messages, "update when?" It's frustrating not being able to give anyone any new information on that. Sin has had the render orders for over 6 months now. He hasn't made a single render to my knowledge.i think WoS just destroid this game and your friendship/teamwork. both of you could have done something great with this game and over time it would have grow bigger and better. i remember sin saying he wanted to add a male protag. game because they are more popular to generate some income. yeah sure you doubbeld the income but to what cost. now you both say shit about the other. if you guys would have made a game with a strong fem. lead without adding supernatural stuff this would have been one of the best in its genre. just look at after choices with free pass. he already at over 400$ of support since march because he is doing what you guys could have done too. and as an ex-patreon i have to agree with yih that over time it felt like sin abandoned damaged goods. just look at the patreon. damaged goods is just mentioned like "oh yes im doing another game its called damged goods" no pics nothing for it just a short description. thats why i stopped my pledge on patreon a month ago. it was all about WoS. @ yih. going to his game and give it a 1 star rating really wasn´t a nice thing to do. and sin if its true that yih had to get his info about you from patreon thats not better. you could have one of your friends write to yih before all others whats going on. you guys both need to learn to communicating better.
so this are just my thoughts on this. i hope that sin fully recovers from his illness and maybe in the future you guys can be good to each other again.
I think money was one of the main causes. If we hit like $1,000 or at least like $500 instead of $100 after a couple of months we never would have had a reason to make a male protagonist game to generate funds in the first place, and we would be much further along in Damaged Goods right now.It is sad to see this kind of thing, I have played both games (DG and WoS), and DG to me is a clear winner. Why? easy, it is different. It is sad to see a game with such potential got abandoned like this
If it is because of money then, of course, you are not gonna get an instant $500-$1k on Patreon in a couple of releases, it takes time to build trust and fan base. This whole drama will only hurt your name and will affect people trust going forward for sure
I don't want to say anything, but your accusations are really extreme. Have you ever been so sick yourself? Have you ever had a major surgery yourself?I'm always seeing forum posts asking "update when?" along with several private messages, "update when?" It's frustrating not being able to give anyone any new information on that. Sin has had the render orders for over 6 months now. He hasn't made a single render to my knowledge.
In that same time frame Sin has made 4 releases of WoS, and the moment I said enough was enough when I saw "renders for the 5th update are already in the works". Each day it becomes more and more clear to me that sin doesn't care about Damaged Goods AT ALL. Not even a little bit. That makes me angry because of how much I love this game, and love working on this game.
I'm gonna sound like a completely insensitive prick for saying this, but the fact that he would go all "But muh tumor!" to get sympathy is just another excuse. If my sister that died of cancer was still alive she would be rolling her eyes at that sort of behavior. If he got this tumor how is he working on update #5 for WoS? Something doesn't add up... If he is really laying in bed sick knocking on death's door drugged out of his mind, then how is update #5 in the works like he was boasting about before? There is no "I'm gonna take a few weeks off to relax and recover" post. Pause that Patreon? Get real... He is a real trooper when it comes to cranking those WoS updates out. He isn't slowing down on that at all.
I believe him he is in the hospital and really sick, he has got no reason to lie about that. I hope he does get better, not just in terms of health, but also in terms of his integrity. Know how he is gonna keep production up like he always does? He doesn't really gotta pose anything himself. He gets his uncredited unnamed hire to do that for him. So, when he gets home all he needs to do is push the render button on his machine, and go watch tv. It's all posed out for him already and then he just gotta code the renders in, and he may even have someone to do that for him as well.
If Sin was at least showing a minimal effort when it comes to Damaged Goods we wouldn't be in this situation right now. The more he screws around and doesn't produce anything for Damaged Goods, or show any efforts of that changing in the future the more I want to expose it as abandoned so that people don't get the wrong idea.
When it comes to Damaged Goods his behavior has shown me that he is just flat out a quilter. I want him to come out here, and prove me wrong or prove me right. So far he is proving me right, and that is a small moral victory, but I'd much rather he prove me wrong.
Yes, Sin if you must know I have been very badly injured before in a car wreck going over 50 mph. It's no fun sitting in a neck brace getting windshield vacuumed out of your scalp as they stitch and glue you up wondering if you will be able to walk again. I know what it is like to be out of commission due to physical health problems. I have been there and done that. I agree, it is no picnic.I don't want to say anything, but your accusations are really extreme. Have you ever been so sick yourself? Have you ever had a major surgery yourself?
If so, then you can certainly allow yourself these comments!
Otherwise, you should keep your mouth shut and pay respect to all cancer patients.
To make fun of me is truly the crowning glory.
Do you know how I work?
I have my friends who help me and believe in me. I lie in my bed, pumped full of painkillers and write via laptop and teamviewer.
You make me sooo mad!
But you know what, fuck it.
Community I need a mediator!
I can of course continue to work on DG. Just to show the world that you can't beat anything with your crap comments.
So as soon as I get out of the hospital I need a mediator to mediate.
I won't be contacting you personally anymore.
There will be a new patron page set up just for DG.
There is a new Discord.
And you write your story.
I'll supply the arts. But as I said, on my terms.
And I will discuss everything with the mediator. And not with you.
So if someone agrees, DG can be brought back to life soon.
But to communicate directly with Yih with all the suffering, and what he throws at me, I'm not willing to do that.