I haven't played this game since version 7 or something. This time I'm trying to set up my saves a bit cleaner, but I'm somehow not able to become Madeline's servant after defeating her. Previously I got the choice to take the seal or return it to her, but now that is no longer possible. I can only confirm to destroy the seal with no other option.
Don't defeat her. Accept her tea sidequest, keep fighting and losing to her, eventually she will enslave you.
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This was in March, the update was ready.
Don't forget the artist is back and "of course means that development is back in full force."
Ah, alright. Thank you. By the way, is there no longer a way to restore soul shards? Are you supposed to run out of them now to get stat boosts? Feels a bit like the gameplay doesn't match the narrative anymore.
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- Mar 22, 2020
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Yeah, soul shards recipe was removed in 7.5. You're supposed to lose now for a stats boost. If you think this defeats the narrative of the game, then you're about to enter a wild ride. Nothing makes sense in this game, so the soul shards thing is only the tip of the iceberg.
- May 19, 2020
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Agreed with disliking the soul shard revision. At first soul shards were treated as important:
First implementation: MC had to walk to the Gladien Lake with the foreboding music playing and you had to manually choose how many other champion's soul shards to sacrifice. Katrina even scolds you for this after you lose to her 8 times.
Second implementation: Player presses "PG UP" to select how many f. soul shards to exchange for your soul shards. Katrina still scolds you after 8 losses.
Third implementation: You literally cannot die. Instead of dying you come back with a power boost. The only way to lose in this game is to willingly walk into a scripted loss.
That last one is basically like playing a game using cheats and breaks the immersion of being in a world fighting against impossibly stronger goddesses.
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so whats the current status of this game, did they find another artist or is the previous one coming back
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New here?almost half a year since last version
- Aug 9, 2020
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yeah 3months ago, as you can see the dev is going way better since the artist is back
xdd
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I guess another problem is that the dev is working at the same time on his new game (Maple Hill) so it's even more delay. Meanwhile the artist needs time for recovery and has a giant workload. I would say just hope for the best and don't harass them there are plenty of games to play meanwhile.
- Mar 22, 2020
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Please, do not create any excuse for Deka's delays. There is literally no reason whatsoever. Even before MHC, we had about one update a year. It's not because he has a giant workload. It's the norm with him. And Shakie's workload isn't as big as Deka makes it out to be. He actually commissions her for the strict minimum (Like 3-4 CGs per chapter + dialogue images). She's far from overworked.
- May 19, 2023
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I don't create excuses, I just have a high level of empathy for developers. For me this is not a work project where deadlines are kept at all costs, for me this is a hobby and that's how I handle it. I mean it can always happen something in real life or you can fuck up your code so you get thrown back for days or weeks. But i give you the point that if you know you can't release in time you should'nt make announcements above it and tease the community.
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Is not booting up your own game also a way to say "fucking up your code and be thrown back for days or weeks" when most of the releases, you can quite literally be softlocked 30 seconds in normal gameplay because you merely have done what Deka can't do with his own game (aka booting it up?).
The guy literally deserves no empathy. If it was any other dev, I might give him the benefit of the doubt, but Deka's monument to the Femdom games community has been built on incompetence and tapissed with countless lies. The day he cares, he'll have my respect.
By the way, please don't give me the "it's not a project where deadlines are kept at all costs and it's a hobby". The guy quite literally has "New Domina every 45 days" on his Patreon and pretended to be a big shot game dev, having a great team, a brand new studio, all the time and focus to work on the game whilst in truth, he's just some dude making a porn game on RPG Maker. I ain't making this up, that's Deka himself who lied to his patrons about all this shit.
The guy literally deserves no empathy. If it was any other dev, I might give him the benefit of the doubt, but Deka's monument to the Femdom games community has been built on incompetence and tapissed with countless lies. The day he cares, he'll have my respect.
By the way, please don't give me the "it's not a project where deadlines are kept at all costs and it's a hobby". The guy quite literally has "New Domina every 45 days" on his Patreon and pretended to be a big shot game dev, having a great team, a brand new studio, all the time and focus to work on the game whilst in truth, he's just some dude making a porn game on RPG Maker. I ain't making this up, that's Deka himself who lied to his patrons about all this shit.
- May 19, 2023
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Okay reads like you had your past with him, I started with 9.0 so I can't complain much above it. I can understand your frustration above waiting to long for new content and reading to many excuses very good but on the other hand he served us a great game that I wouldn't want to miss in my collection.
As I said before, I agree with you that he should improve his communication with the community and be more honest about progress. But again i wouldn't rant that much above promises made, you can play his game for free and the support is on a voluntary basis as far i could see there is no content behind paywalls. If you are not satisfied by his work just don't support him.
Actually, in the first post, there's a warning saying that the developer does not condone sharing the Patreon exclusive content, which includes the game itself (the game is uploaded by F95zone upload team). Therefore, it can be said that the game is actually intended to be "behind a paywall" (Patreon), and the only reason why we can play it for free is because F95zone will share it regardless of Dekarous' complaining about it.
Also, in the spoiler under the Overview section, you will find this:
So, the only truly free release is 1.0, which features Katrina's realm. All other releases are not intended to be free.
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I do agree that gamedev is often underestimated. Even RPG Maker games are not exactly easy to be done (especially if we are talking about good games). It is a multidisciplinary work, which involves programming, artistic work, storytelling and so on. When you put lot of simple things together, it becomes a complex work.
However, people are not wrong when they complain about Dekarous, as there are a lot of gamebreaking glitches from past releases that are still in the game (I think that glitch that happens when you enter a wrong door in Franziska and breaks the game still happens).
And well, that ~45 days per release is still in his Patreon, the last release was about 8 months ago and the next one is not even supposed to bring the next Domina. He should at least remove that sentence from his Patreon, as it was far from accurate in the last 3 years.
I agree that Dekarous is (probably) the most responsible of Domina's delays, but the only reason I don't completely agree with you about Shakie is because I don't know if she is working in other projects besides Domina. If she does, that would be a valid reason for her to be overloaded (2D arts are somewhat hard to make, there's a reason why most games uses Daz renders or Illusion assets; if Domina is not her only commitment, it could give us a another reason for "why so much delays?").
Since the probability of Dekarous pushing his lack of commitment in the artist's behalf is far above from zero, I simply can't say a thing about Shakie's part in the release's delay. There's just not enough information for it.