VN Ren'Py Abandoned Dual Family [Stream Extras] [Gumdrop Games]

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Deleted member 207916

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Oh my. This must be the most embarasing update if you can call this update from Kyle and Gumdrop i had ever seen. First you have to click like 100 times before you start the game, next background is to white that you can't actually see what you're clicking, after that there's "Part" button". Now don't be mistaken if you thought that part button works like you can select parts from previous updates, no no no, it works like "Part ways". Instead of puting regular "Quit". Then there are couple of clicks without any sense where some fella whatches monitor and answers "yes or no". Like wtf. Is this what those morons payed to get? And after that there's unskipable piano game. In all honesty i didn't even play that part, instead i used "Unren" tool. Conclusion there's nothing. Download this at your own choice. I highly recommend you to save your time and skip this non update. Dear God i think it would be better if Kyle didn't release anything than this scam of codes. What a waist.
 

Seraphi23

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Updates 1-6 seem fairly normal nothing out of the ordinary. The guys money is rising and rising each month. Peaking at around $10,000. He got in the Incest game market when the getting was good. There was no covid back then, people had jobs. Apparently he was working with a small crew of a couple of guys he hired to write and render for him. To my knowledge the other 2 devs he was working with were like. "Um... hey can we get some of that cash too buddy? We are making like 10k now, and it kinda sucks working for free." And he is like "Who is this we you speak of? That's my money bitches" So he shakes off his team mates that helped him build the game, and then he is on his own having done his first scam he got a little taste of scamming oh and it tasted good. Unclear when exactly he ditched his team.

Updates 7,8 & 9 gradually got worse and worse. At some point he probably picked up a drug addiction. He probably wasn't use to having all of that money.
Don't know anything about his team and stuff, but I was one of the patrons since initial release, and the game has been progressing at a decent pace up to the point of the infamous Patreon purge of incest & other fetish projects. The page has been blocked, and while he was able to unban it, since it didn't really have any actual incest at that point, the development instantly stumbled hard. Many other projects didn't recover at all at that time, some devs found various workarounds ("unofficial patches" etc.), yet this one dev has dragged on updates for a year trying to postpone the inevitable inclusion of the forbidden content and risk another ban, thus loose 10k$/month (at which point I unsubbed), and since the last update released has brought the story to the point where avoiding actual incest was impossible any longer, the game has pretty much been put on hold, without any official announcement of course because why would he want to loose 10k$/month for doing nothing. Why the heck did many people continue to support him on Patreon after that for years is completely beyond me, one could probably write a scientific paper on psychology on this.
 

Dependable_223

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Guys, chill. I've no idea why you think this is going to be yet another one of his excuses and scams. It doesn't make sense to keep this going until his "big reveal".

His scam was going on just fine, why would he change his MO completely? There was literally nothing that would prompt it, so it's not like he was forced to do one final push.

He had way too much time to not complete the game. He mentioned having a team, and certainly had the money to hire people, so within the scope of a year (or three years since Act I Part IX), with the money pouring in, he could have had the game completed and fully tested behind the scenes. (I only say a year because it was a year ago that he admitted he was a lazy ass.)

If that's what happened, he's now executing a perfect strategy in the way of milking his baby.

If he commissioned a CGI artist and a copywriter, their job is complete. He can reduce the number of hours for his programmer to a bare minimum as well, but still retain him to fix bugs that will inevitably appear once the game is in the hands of players.

Suppose he has the game ready. He'll reveal the Prologue today. In a gesture of "good will," he'll release it for free to all. Supporters or not, we'll all get access to it. It makes sense, he'll gain people who will want to get in on his February 28th release of Act I (Part I-X).
Last year he promised that he would give out the game for free to all patrons who supported him even just once between Part IX and Part X release. They're going to get the Act I release by end of February.

Once he whet their appetites, it will be two months until the release of Act II (April 30th). So those who sign up in February will pay for February, March, April and likely May because Patreon and Gumdrop operate on Pacific Time, so unless you stay up and download the game immediately when it drops, most of his supporters will be charged overnight (for them) for May, and even if their bank (or Paypal) doesn't clear the transaction, they'll simply lose access, so they will have to renew it for May to get access.
Next release is July 4th. So those who don't cancel in the meantime will be paying for May, June and July.

And boy, did he increase his Patreon rates in anticipation of that. He gets ca. 5 months funding from his most avid supporters and it goes up to almost four times his previous rates. So if his patron count jumps up to, say, 1000 and his average jumps 2x (from $10 to $20), he gets $20,000 a month, adding up to some $100,000 over those five months.

And I'll bet he'll have "extra content" for those who stay after July and will tease his next game (that will take another five years to develop).
jezus what a wall of text, my question is do you still feel the same ?? :devilish:
 

fotogaik

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jezus what a wall of text, my question is do you still feel the same ?? :devilish:
Lolnope. But the level of denial from his patrons is amazing. People are still holding on to hope that he'll actually deliver by end of February.

I still have no idea why he didn't wait until 1st of March for the reveal. He'd have all the extra funds for March.

I know he's a lying piece of shit, but let's entertain the thought that he really did hire somebody to write the game for him, who developed a full game only available online, but uploaded this train wreck to MEGA so that gumdrop could fuck over his patrons.

Whoever that was, reveal yourself and get the praise!
 

macadam

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look at 7AM.. guy had 667 patrons.

it's 2PM, guy get 607 patrons.

that 60 patron in 7 hours... must hurt painfully imho... (i mean, i barely got 6, i can't even imagine losing like 10 time my total patron in 7 hours LOL)

no idea how much he had before this... sad thing.. happening.
 

Kakato

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Moders banned him if I'm not mistaken. He can create fake account however.
Probably missed this episode. When did it happen ? I don't recall this. May be it was during summer. I'm generally off the site for a few weeks during that period.
 

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look at 7AM.. guy had 667 patrons.

it's 2PM, guy get 607 patrons.

that 60 patron in 7 hours... must hurt painfully imho... (i mean, i barely got 6, i can't even imagine losing like 10 time my total patron in 7 hours LOL)

no idea how much he had before this... sad thing.. happening.
I think more people will cancel their pledge after this fiasco. And lets not forget about "remake". In all honesty no body asked for this. His supporters were quite hyped about part X. If he fails to deliver on Feb 26 any content at all in that remake part I i think that more people will cancel their support. Right now i belive that he'll risk alot if he doesn't release anything. There's a chance that his supporters will have enough. Also if his remake update comes it better be good cause either way he's risking alot. Release nothing might lead to rant and angry mob, release something and it isn't good can lead to same result. He created this environment for himself.

As for a part about his patreons and other supporters, i think he didn't feel any major blow. like you said he had like 667 pledgers and after a while that pledge dropped to 607. 60 to him doesn't mean lot.
 

Kakato

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Imagine nothing comes out on the 26th and he delays it for X months. hahahaha. How will his sheeps react? LOL
 

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Imagine nothing comes out on the 26th and he delays it for X months. hahahaha. How will his sheeps react? LOL
Well i think that's no longer an option. You see ever sinse he released this crap people were quite negative about it. Just go to his OP, there's a public post regarding recent release where people are quite angry if not disapointed as well. Some of them all ready canceled their pledge, others will wait Feb 26. I don't think there is anyone who likes this crap at all. If he didn't release this shit he might get away with it. But now his supporters are actually pissed. Release nothing on Feb 26 will surely make people to cancel their support, not all but lets say 30-40% and right now he have around 600 supporters. Release something on Feb 26 and it's bad will lead to same result. In a strange way i would like to thank him for this release crap so ohers and his supporters can see what kinda fraud this dev is.
 

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By Wodan´s hat, I am having oxygen issues from continuing laughter! I downloaded this "update" fully knowing that it is a superscam, but I had to see it with my own eyes. What a pile of crap, au, can´t stop laughing, it is so hillarious! Whoever made this, he/she has serious problems and it is not the patrons. Gumdrop is either hooked on some serious sh.. drug or has mental issues of the highest order, because I doubt a scammer halfway sane would post such an "update", his intention would be keeping the lambs, eh, patrons sticking to the honeytrap.
I estimate that there is a truckload of him in the personality of the son, who in DF is a ticking timebomb.
 
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