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Les_Riggs
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Am I reading this correctly?
So taking a huge paycut (as much as $20,000, if what I've read is to believed), isn't worthy of any praise??
How many other devs would do this? None of them I'd bet.
Devs deserve to be paid for their work (amounts decided by no one else but those that pledge), and they don't deserve anything if they don't provide a service.
So by rights, he could've posted nothing for the entire month of February if he wanted to.
Yet, he still did. And he still put v17 out as promised, albeit a couple of weeks late.
He suspended payments because he knew that there would be no immediate continuation of DMD on Patreon,
that v17 was going to be pushed back by a couple of weeks after it's original release date (Jan 25th), again because of Patreon's timely intervention the week of it's release, and that new game Melody wouldn't be released for a further six weeks (March 23rd).
Doing something like this just shows that MrDots cared more about the future of the game than the money.
It would have been so easy to just let the fans still pay the money and give them nothing in return.
And he still did this at a cost, losing 25% of his total fans, despite the gesture.
He should get massive praise for that but I'm not surprised in the slightest that he hasn't...
Is there way to enable the console, and use that to edit the stats of Chapter 1, to better fit things for Chapter 2?
atlas114
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if you "restart" Chapter 2 (from Load from Ch.1) you can set stats/relationships/key items the way you want without console editing.
I am using the Walkthrough to get some of the extras, because I am whore like that haham I met the requirements for one and did not receive it anyone else have this issue? By far this has become a fav of mine!
Magixian
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All this talk about patronage and income got me interested. Thought I might share what I found.
Mr.dots was doing around $12k before tax+patreons cut. That number almost tripled before 'the purge'. You'll ofc adjust your living expensed based off your income, but with such an increase over the months leading up to it, I'd think he'll manage 1 month without a payout avoiding major repercussions. And yes, things would be an uproar is he didn't release the planned v.17 update. Don't see him doing that as a gesture, but more as an necessity.
Mr.dots was doing around $12k before tax+patreons cut. That number almost tripled before 'the purge'. You'll ofc adjust your living expensed based off your income, but with such an increase over the months leading up to it, I'd think he'll manage 1 month without a payout avoiding major repercussions. And yes, things would be an uproar is he didn't release the planned v.17 update. Don't see him doing that as a gesture, but more as an necessity.
armion82
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You are in big mistake.He was making 12k jan 2017 when reach 1000+ patrons.Easy to count that with 3175 patrons he makes around 25-30KAll this talk about patronage and income got me interested. Thought I might share what I found.
Mr.dots was doing around $12k before tax+patreons cut. That number almost tripled before 'the purge'. You'll ofc adjust your living expensed based off your income, but with such an increase over the months leading up to it, I'd think he'll manage 1 month without a payout avoiding major repercussions. And yes, things would be an uproar is he didn't release the planned v.17 update. Don't see him doing that as a gesture, but more as an necessity.
armion82
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I'm still on the pure Daughter route for my first run. According to the chapter 1 guide I can open the MFF route with Elena on day 12 but it doesn't say anything about that interfering with any rewards or any of the routes. Can I still get the MFF feature with Elena on the pure Daughter route?
Also, is there a reward guide (or even rewards at all) for chapter 2? Maybe that could help me in this to see what this potentially affects. They were very useful in the Chapter 1 guide to decide how to navigate the routes. I'm assuming my decisions in Chapter 1 affect Chapter 2 rewards.
(God, this Chapter stuff is really dumb. It should just be one game.)
Also, is there a reward guide (or even rewards at all) for chapter 2? Maybe that could help me in this to see what this potentially affects. They were very useful in the Chapter 1 guide to decide how to navigate the routes. I'm assuming my decisions in Chapter 1 affect Chapter 2 rewards.
(God, this Chapter stuff is really dumb. It should just be one game.)
I see, thanks. What about the pure Daughter route thing? Is that only relevant to that one reward in Chapter 1? Or will I lock myself out of exclusive pure daughter scenes if I have her fool around with Elena?
The Chapter 2 guide in the OP seems a little less detailed. It also doesn't mention any point requirements for scenes. Are those not a thing anymore in Chapter 2?
Elena can fuck right off then, thanks.
I probably should've gone with the harem route, it seems less stressful for a first run. But the faithful roleplaying is a lot of fun too.
I also kinda liked the rewards, even after finding out about why they exist. They are a nice addition. I'd like more of them in later versions, just with ingame tips instead of a guide.
Magixian
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Fair. It was worded abit badly. What I meant is, he was making that amount of money earlier on. He then disabled showing the information like you pointed out. Since then the patreonage number has tripled. I speculate he's doing more than triple that income, as mrdots showed reliability which over time. Which should attract more committed payers instead of those tipping in a lower amount to see where this all goes.You are in big mistake.He was making 12k jan 2017 when reach 1000+ patrons.Easy to count that with 3175 patrons he makes around 25-30K
It was only specuation on my part, and a rough hyphothesis based of a very low amount of data. Just thought it was funning reading a few pages back, that dmd-update was released as a gesture and talks about how exceptionel it was of him to forego one month of patreon-income. That is of course nothing I would bring to the table to as a definitive explanation of why x and y is happening, but it shows something measureable in this context. Sure hope nobody would advance some agenda based of such little information. But as you share, I might be wrong there
Never really thought of the creators boosting their numbers by buying own 1$ patreon level access. Guess that is a thing.. Luckily for mrdots, what numbers showed before he disabled them publicly is the average$ increased. I presume in general average$ normalizes after 10$, which in any case makes a decent monthly income most people could live a few months off. Even with project and living cost.