Possible? Sure. Just like it's possible that aliens will land on your house.
If he has patrons throwing him money, he gets complacent and lazy. If patrons start quitting, he can claim that since people left, it seems nobody is interested in seeing the game finished, so he'll just abandon the project.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Best case scenario, somebody with actual interest and skill takes over the project (and the Patreon page) from him and exchanges publicity (for the actual developer) for a cut of the profits from Dual Family. Gumdrop Games starts regaining patrons and as long as Dual Family is being developed+a year, Kyle gets a cut of Patreon revenue.
Would that be good for everyone involved? Sure, players would get the game, new dev gets a running start and Kyle gets free money for a while longer, and if quality is good, he will probably more than double his patron count. It would all be down to the actual terms of such an agreement.
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He moved to his own website where he is using CCbill to take donations. CCbill has the same restrictions as Patreon so he is pretty stupid. fee wise CCbill is just as bad too
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Your best case scenario is to rose colored. This is his baby he is not going to give up his baby until it goes splat.
The actual best case scenario is him finally giving up his scam and just closing his patreon, as he has enough money to make it to retirement. (but I am going to guess this guy is really bad with money. )
I do not want anyone to take over the project anyways. They should start their own and actually do what this game was suppose to set out doing. Father focused on daughter. And Son focused on mom. Instead of father forcefully being hooked up with the niece as the main love interest. Being forced to deal with her shit with no way out. (The game literally gives you an old dragon quest choice of "But thou must")
Only played the sons route once and it seemed he gets pulled into a lot of directions. Also with him having more chemistry and probably a bigger chance of banging his sister aka the daughter first.
I think he's American. He accumulated somewhere between $250-$400k. If he's young-ish, it's way too little for retirement even if he invests it well. Cost of living would eat that money up before he even made it to 50. Buying a house would eat up all that money as well.
And yes, that scenario is definitely rose tinted. That's why it's a best case scenario. I don't think there's anything else that would work out better if you want the game to be finished and if you don't want Kyle messing with it.
Second best case scenario, project management and game development is handed over to somebody competent and hard working, while Kyle stays on board to write text for the game. This one avoids the problem of giving up his baby.
We don't know what's happening. We only have Kyle's word that he's too lazy. But since he defaults to lying, we don't even know if that is true or if anything else happened.
For all we know, he could be dead and somebody took over his Patreon campaign (we know Kyle had some skill in making games, this current owner has demonstrated none).
Another possibility is that he's having second thoughts like Tlaero had over a year ago. She pulled out of writing adult games because it felt uneasy to her and that caused a massive drop in revenue for Tora Productions despite there being a plan of succession in place (Mortze would hire some writer to continue).
He might have finished college and got a real job now, maybe he's in a relationship and his SO would hate what he used to do for ages.
Since Gumdrop defaults to lying all the time, it's impossible to tell.
And yes, that scenario is definitely rose tinted. That's why it's a best case scenario. I don't think there's anything else that would work out better if you want the game to be finished and if you don't want Kyle messing with it.
Second best case scenario, project management and game development is handed over to somebody competent and hard working, while Kyle stays on board to write text for the game. This one avoids the problem of giving up his baby.
We don't know what's happening. We only have Kyle's word that he's too lazy. But since he defaults to lying, we don't even know if that is true or if anything else happened.
For all we know, he could be dead and somebody took over his Patreon campaign (we know Kyle had some skill in making games, this current owner has demonstrated none).
Another possibility is that he's having second thoughts like Tlaero had over a year ago. She pulled out of writing adult games because it felt uneasy to her and that caused a massive drop in revenue for Tora Productions despite there being a plan of succession in place (Mortze would hire some writer to continue).
He might have finished college and got a real job now, maybe he's in a relationship and his SO would hate what he used to do for ages.
Since Gumdrop defaults to lying all the time, it's impossible to tell.
I am pretty sure the guy is at least North-American. When D+D go to dinner, they do not have wine or something, because the daughter "is not old enough", even when they are celebrating and the daughter must be 18. For instance, here in Germany drinking age in public is 16 for Beer and wine (14 if parents are present), 18 for harder stuff. Private consumption is unregulated. But these are the stricter rules since some Millenials went to binge-drinking excesses a couple of years ago. When I was a teenager, the usual handling was being able to look over the bar without standing on a stool for anything below 16%. The rules and their enforcement were much more relaxed back then.
Anyway, going by that, the game plays in a region with harder alcohol laws and it is right to assume gumdrop comes from there as well.
As for your musings about the Character Family in the game: In parts you are right, in others not. The Dad is not faultless, he was something close to a workaholic, in part due to his nagging wife, until he grew a spine and tried to repair the marriage. He acknowledged that he has do to something.
The daughter is clearly a Daddy´s girl and has partly Elektra-Complex, but it becomes clear in the game and Xmas special, that while D+D share interests and a deep connection this was enhanced by the fact that the mother has a clear favourite among the children, the son. For the mom, the daughter is an afterthought and has been for a long time. (maybe in part because she is so close to her dad?) There is mutual hate between mother and daughter in the main game. Actually I am not convinced that all "dream sequences" of the Dad were dreams. One or two were close to reality enough that they could have been really the daughter, at least up to a point.
The son is a douche bordering on psycho with a faible for Milfs and he knows it.
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By social engineering you may try to find something. But I think this guy is smart and cautious enough to hide himself like most of the good scammers and/or dirty money launderers. Though even the smartest can act very stupid time to time.
I only played the father route, but it ends just as you're about to possibly sleep with the niece. The game teases you over and over and makes you reject her. Then ends right before you give in to your desire. Almost like it was intentional.
has to be said, the tone in his discord from his cult members has changed dramatically over the last couple of months. Since he admitted to doing nothing for a few months (in reality its years but anyway) nobody there seems to be ready to drink the kool aid anymore...... looks like the penny has finally dropped, Shame Part X is very unlikely to do the same....
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So let me get this straight ... u mean to tell us Scamdrop didn't work on the game for a few months ?? Did he ever work on it since March, 2018 ??
Thug life, I guess. Nobody can be that stupid to keep paying him to officially sit on his ass all day and do nothing productive. But the again, it's Scamdrop's fans we talking about, I wouldn't expect them to cancel their pledge. Since all the members of the f95zone community (especially users who still read the comments on this thread) are smart ppl, it's safe to say that all those 674 patrons he still has are complete idiots. Period. Kids should stop spending their mom and dad's hard-earned money on Gumdrop's lazy ass and start dev their own game or pay some escorts for sex. At least, they'd get their money's worth without being scammed.
Hopefully his patrons will finally stop paying that scammer and start paying devs who deserve loyal supporters and actually give a fuck about their fanbase.
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So, I just checked into Scumdrop's discord, and looks like there might a release date announcement soon.
If our boy Scumdrop releases an update this month, Imma "release" myself inside Kylie Jenner and her bestie Anastasia Kou blah blah. Her sisters and all their girlfriends can join the campaign for a good cause.
Pls screenshot this post, i'm not trolling !!
He's patrons leave him (went from 674 to 636, yass
) and now new promises need to pop up to keep the money coming. And his followers will believe the shit he tells them.
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