- Mar 17, 2019
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First of all, I apologize for the long o'holding silence. With the discontinuation of the weekly status reports, we were certain at the time that Month 1 would be released shortly afterwards, but as time has taught us, unfortunately this was not the case.
From a technical point of view there wasn't any setbacks, but in terms of personnel. The state of health of some of my employees has largely deteriorated to such an extent that work on Month 1 was not completely stopped, but slowed down considerably and it was therefore impossible to present a new release date.
Unfortunately, we are not a multimillion dollar corporation that can simply cope with setbacks if a few employees are absent. Everyone who works on Ecchi Sensei, with the exception of me, does it on a part-time basis. Nevertheless, my employees have defined roles and areas of responsibility that cannot be transferred to others. In certain areas I could look for a replacement, but the replacement would first have to be familiarized with the very complex topic. For core tasks, which e.g. Latecomer occupies, it's absolutely unthinkable to get a temporary replacement on board.
Long story short, and this might sound like a cheap excuse to some, but rest assured - We still have an urgent need to continue Ecchi Sensei.
I am very aware of the displeasure of many, and I read again and again from pessimist's and people who've got no idea that Ecchi Sensei has been canceled, or that the dev got no drive anymore and blah. Eat my shorts! My entire team and I are excited to continue with Ecchi Sensei and even if my arm fell off, I would continue.
Once again in plain text: To our regret, Ecchi Sensei Month 1 is very late, but none of us is even thinking about discontinuing the project.
All Tier 7+ Patrons among you, who already have access to future updates in the form images I've created for the updates after Month 1: Day 22 + 23, as well as day 24-26 know that I have already done preparatory work in order to be able to fully start after Month 1.
I assure you that as soon as we're absolutely sure that we have a release date to announce, we will let you know immediately.
I hope this sign of life will calm your minds and that you're going to be patient with us a little longer. You can decide whether it was worth the wait or not. But we won't give up. That much is certain.
With this in mind, I wish everyone in love a happy Valentine's Day and everyone else a good start into the new week.
Stay healthy and if you meet people who claim Ecchi Sensei will be canceled, you can tell them the following from me:
"BlueCat said that people like you... *insert a swear word* and *insert another swear word*. Also, you are... *insert insult* so *insert swear word* and *insult the mother of the person*. ALL HAIL BLUECAT! Peace."
From a technical point of view there wasn't any setbacks, but in terms of personnel. The state of health of some of my employees has largely deteriorated to such an extent that work on Month 1 was not completely stopped, but slowed down considerably and it was therefore impossible to present a new release date.
Unfortunately, we are not a multimillion dollar corporation that can simply cope with setbacks if a few employees are absent. Everyone who works on Ecchi Sensei, with the exception of me, does it on a part-time basis. Nevertheless, my employees have defined roles and areas of responsibility that cannot be transferred to others. In certain areas I could look for a replacement, but the replacement would first have to be familiarized with the very complex topic. For core tasks, which e.g. Latecomer occupies, it's absolutely unthinkable to get a temporary replacement on board.
Long story short, and this might sound like a cheap excuse to some, but rest assured - We still have an urgent need to continue Ecchi Sensei.
I am very aware of the displeasure of many, and I read again and again from pessimist's and people who've got no idea that Ecchi Sensei has been canceled, or that the dev got no drive anymore and blah. Eat my shorts! My entire team and I are excited to continue with Ecchi Sensei and even if my arm fell off, I would continue.
Once again in plain text: To our regret, Ecchi Sensei Month 1 is very late, but none of us is even thinking about discontinuing the project.
All Tier 7+ Patrons among you, who already have access to future updates in the form images I've created for the updates after Month 1: Day 22 + 23, as well as day 24-26 know that I have already done preparatory work in order to be able to fully start after Month 1.
I assure you that as soon as we're absolutely sure that we have a release date to announce, we will let you know immediately.
I hope this sign of life will calm your minds and that you're going to be patient with us a little longer. You can decide whether it was worth the wait or not. But we won't give up. That much is certain.
With this in mind, I wish everyone in love a happy Valentine's Day and everyone else a good start into the new week.
Stay healthy and if you meet people who claim Ecchi Sensei will be canceled, you can tell them the following from me:
"BlueCat said that people like you... *insert a swear word* and *insert another swear word*. Also, you are... *insert insult* so *insert swear word* and *insult the mother of the person*. ALL HAIL BLUECAT! Peace."
- Mar 17, 2019
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Lmao. He'll never release it, at this point he's just giving excuses to scam as much money as possible before pulling the plug.
You do realise how profitable this game could become, and how this delay has set that back? Even if he only cared for money, which he does not, I'm sure they wouldn't just end it here. They will finish this game. Because they have the motivation to do so, this is not a financial issue. Also, the patrons who pay towards the game willingly do it. It is not a scam at all
He'll do a ICSTOR. Do nothing and give news every couple months to keep milking those morons for as long as he can. He doesn't even need to show anything, just saying he's working on it is enough to keep those sheeps happy.
- Apr 28, 2017
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So essentially its a completely artificial fault in his system of making the game that could remove months of unnecessary mergers if he just released the game normally without breaking it up and stitching it together again. Especially considering how much money they are making a month hiring a competent coder to actually put the game together is reasonable. I'm not a patron but I dont see why anyone should give money to someone that is essentially creating delays on purpose when there is a solution right in front of them.
- Mar 17, 2019
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It's not putting them together that's causing things to take so long though. What exactly do you expect to change if they just released it as a whole thing every time, beyond increased upload and download times?
- Mar 24, 2018
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Unfortunately, we are not a multimillion dollar corporation that can simply cope with setbacks if a few employees are absent. Everyone who works on Ecchi Sensei, with the exception of me, does it on a part-time basis. Nevertheless, my employees have defined roles and areas of responsibility that cannot be transferred to others. In certain areas I could look for a replacement, but the replacement would first have to be familiarized with the very complex topic. For core tasks, which eg Latecomer occupies, it's absolutely unthinkable to get a temporary replacement on board.
Anyone who has never run a business will not understand. I do, so I do. Can't wait for the update!
So, was absent due to Valentines, and can confirm and back up Bluecat's statements. Sorry people, but we'll get through it together, though due to warnings I will keep it very clean and professional and tell you naysayers you're simply misunderstanding and very incorrect as to who Bluecat is.
Happy Valentines!
Happy Valentines!
- Apr 28, 2017
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That's exactly what is taking such a long time though. Maybe in this instance staff issues contributed but its still five months achieving pretty much nothing in terms of development. If the game is released normally and file size compressed than the five months compiling month 1 would instead be spent on normal development. There are plenty of large games on this size that manage this. There is no reason why BlueCat couldn't have made the game that way after going through this headache with week 1.
While health issues are slightly more believable than the usual patreon hgames "I'm sick guys for real" death throes thanks to corona, I'd like to know how far progress is and how much there is left to do.
I've read through several of the patreon's weekly updates and so far all I understand there's a team, and that they're busy at work. Who are the team members, what are their typical roles, and what have their tasks been during this merge? I know at least one team member is a proofreader, however I can't imagine what he has had to proofread in a merge without new content.
Has the entire team been slapping their foreheads against their keyboards since June 20th (day 20+21 final release) in an attempt to code new features?
I've read through several of the patreon's weekly updates and so far all I understand there's a team, and that they're busy at work. Who are the team members, what are their typical roles, and what have their tasks been during this merge? I know at least one team member is a proofreader, however I can't imagine what he has had to proofread in a merge without new content.
Has the entire team been slapping their foreheads against their keyboards since June 20th (day 20+21 final release) in an attempt to code new features?
- Oct 18, 2019
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Someone is sick and its a main man on the team.
If you want more answers you should be supporting and or on Discord. If your not then why do you care what someone does. Not costing you anything. As far as week 4 from what i know BC does his thing then the team does the rest. His team is working on month 1 not week 4.
If you want more answers you should be supporting and or on Discord. If your not then why do you care what someone does. Not costing you anything. As far as week 4 from what i know BC does his thing then the team does the rest. His team is working on month 1 not week 4.
- Sep 22, 2017
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I think you should be required to provide some ID to create an account in this forum. Reading some of the comments here, I am 100% sure a lot of you probably aren't even in high school yet. Bunch of entitled kids that never pay for anything and all they do is complain. No wonder you can't stop talking about milking, it probably wasn't that long ago that you stopped breastfeeding.
- Mar 17, 2019
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No it's not. It's the bug fixes and better implementation of mechanics that's causing problems, and they'd still need to do that, even if it was released as one big release every time.
That's true. It looks like the majority of time has been spent on rewriting the entire games code, enhancing the games mechanics, and translating/proofreading it etc. Having it in one file instead of 3 wouldn't really change any of those tasks, the game would still need to be overhauled as they've been doing whether they're merging the 3 weeks or not
- Oct 25, 2018
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I love breastfeeding!
But that doesn't change the fact that developers are at risk 24/7.
We need to donate more!
I'll leave one of my favorite screenshots here!
In terms of that screenshot and with plenty of respect, developers don't owe you an explanation for anything. You don't own them, and if they bother to give you a reason as to why a delay has happened, you can either believe it or not. Regardless it is their game, and just because you've played it, it does not mean that you are owed anything. If you won't believe an excuse, don't bother asking for or looking for oneI love breastfeeding!
But that doesn't change the fact that developers are at risk 24/7.
We need to donate more!
I'll leave one of my favorite screenshots here!
- Sep 22, 2017
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"We" Like you would actually ever support any game. Good one! Imagine getting shit for free and wasting time on a forum complaining that the people that are providing you with the free stuff, aren't working hard enough.We need to donate more!