- Nov 18, 2022
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Yup, these are my thoughts exactly. The plan sounds fine on paper but honestly is insanely unrealistic. According to his public post he'll use the money to FINISH DBA, and some things about that don't add up:So making a whole new game spending more time and possibly making less money in the end sounds like a bad plan, unless they are planning to have a complete game and sell it on Steam for $40 and get more than 100 people to buy it
For one thing, the money earned will most definitely not be substantial. It's a game that will be easy to finish, and I sincerely doubt they'll be charging more than 15 USD for it. You can buy actual full length porn indie games like FlipWitch for 15, so a short game that has less content than DBA is definitely not going to go for too much.
And if DBA COULD have been finished with a budget, why in the world did he wait until going bankrupt to actually CARE to finish it? To any that don't remember, for the past 2 years they've been posting nothing but engine "updates", small details that should be considered fluff like cloud shadows and the animation of the world. Story updates were scarce and only ever hinted. And there were no public/patreon update releases. Now my memory on this is fuzzy but Oni claimed they've been withholding updates so they have content on their Steam release.
Despite that, it makes absolutely no sense to withhold update releases when most if not all of your patrons are literally giving you money to get early access to your game. What did this idiot thing would happen? People will just give money for nothing? So the only thing I can think of is they haven't been working on the game.
So with that in mind, what will a meager budget do for DBA? Imagine if the game sells a thousand copies at 10 USD, so he'll have 10K, and then what? How do we know that the money will actually go into DBA and they won't piss it on "engine updates"?
Lastly, the fact that they have the money to make this new game makes no sense when they're going bankrupt.
Something doesn't smell right here. But whatever.