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breaks from what?The even more funny thing about this is, they could've mentioned they were doing holiday breaks etc in the patreon non-update just so there was something in there.
breaks from what?The even more funny thing about this is, they could've mentioned they were doing holiday breaks etc in the patreon non-update just so there was something in there.
Unsurprising that you haven't been following the information on what's going on given that 90% of this thread is people complaining. The game has a number of features that have never worked such as the phone that's caused most people game breaking bugs. The method of tracking decisions is also super clunky and breaks saves in between versions, so your decisions in each weeks are currently meaningless for all subsequent weeks. The merge is meant to fix all of these current problems so they can not only work as intended in the current content, but set up a solid foundation for all future releases. Latecomer got sick in January (which I have to remind people was during the height of the covid pandemic, because some people think the sole dev getting sick during a pandemic isn't a good excuse) bringing work on the merge to a standstill for months. Even after getting better Latecomer hasn't been able to work full time. It still shouldn't have taken this long, but there's a lot more going on than just slapping together 3 weeks of content.Been lurking a while, thought I'd make an unwelcome contribution. I really enjoyed the game content that existed, particularly the dark mind stuff. It's a really great collection of fetishes, right up my perverted streak. Now for the however.
I am a software developer with over 20 years of experience. It is beyond me what this legendary "merge" issue that has caused all the delay could be. My guess would be a source code merge issue, but that seems impossible. There is no way that a source code merge issue could cause a year's worth of delay (or anything longer than about a month in a complete shitfest, where the source control server catches fire and you have no backups). In the worst case scenario, they should have been able to recreate all the content from scratch in about 3 months using copy and paste. It's not like renpy is hard to code for. Either there is simply no work happening, or the people working on the project are utterly incompetent. What is clear is that the lame excuses that keep getting trundled out are pure bullshit, that's the truth Skummy, believe what you want. Then the concept itself, while awesome doesn't seem achievable. I was extrapolating timelines based on the development speed of the project before it ground to a halt. At the rate they were going, it would have taken 50 years to complete one year in game, so they would have had to get a LOT faster.
It is a shame, because, as I said, I really enjoyed the game.
Don't need Skummy to answer this one. Content is coming out this year one way or another. Either the proper merge comes out soon or Bluecat has already switched to plan B and we're getting a scaled back merge just so new content can start being released. The latter doesn't bode well for the future of the game, but at least there will be releases again.take your time skummy stay safe mate
btw can i ask a question and pls be honest with us without any bias answer do you think they can make it this year?(case of omicron they might affect the team again who knows) or we should just move on and accept that this master peice become... well you know one of those games.
cheers mate.
I have the same opinion personally, the merged game would be huge.I for one would be quite content with a week 4 and a week 5 release non merged the story continuing without integrated galleries is just fine as long as the story continues. and merged its going to be too big to d/l anyway...
The merge will probably actually be smaller than Week 1, as far as download size is concern. Week 1 was terribly optimised, in that regard.I for one would be quite content with a week 4 and a week 5 release non merged the story continuing without integrated galleries is just fine as long as the story continues. and merged its going to be too big to d/l anyway...
Everyone is free to have their own opinions. But you seem so sure. Since we have not seen one single speck of proof other than highly misleading and useless status updates about things that nobody cares about every 2.5 months, i.e. never once has Bluecat said when we will see new content, how curious, how can you be so sure that the supposed merge is actually being worked on and that they have made any progress at all? Do you have some information that all the rest of us are lacking?Unsurprising that you haven't been following the information on what's going on given that 90% of this thread is people complaining. The game has a number of features that have never worked such as the phone that's caused most people game breaking bugs.
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It still shouldn't have taken this long, but there's a lot more going on than just slapping together 3 weeks of content.
You are absolutely right, but Bluecat is the one getting all the money each month, other than what he doles out to the other team member(s), so the buck stops with him. I think the incompetence excuse works for 4, 5, maybe even 6 months, but at some point he is still collecting many thousands of dollars a month that he could have used a long time ago, or even today, to hire someone that will actually do some work. It moves past incompetence to willful deceit to just look the other way while his developer does nothing for over a year. How many posts has he made in the "Recruitment & Services" forum here or elsewhere to try to find someone else to complete the merge?Yes, bluecat should've noticed before now and done something about it but I think his belief in his team actually is just incompetence as skummy keeps saying. Latecomer is the one who's actively lying and is the actual reason for the delay.
Had you just finished reading my post I mentioned that Bluecat may have already moved on to plan B. Indicating I don't know for sure any work is being done on the proper merge. I'm working on the same progress reports as everyone else here, I've just been paying attention to them in spite of the difficulty. As for new content I'd guess March or April. If the proper merge is basically done, as it should be, then it should be tested soon and publicly released before the end of the month. This would mean either a late February or early March release for the first days of week 4. If they switched to plan B then the scaled back merge probably won't be released until February meaning a late March or early April release for the beginning of week 4. Since the scaled back merge would presumably drop all the extra features causing problems it really would be little more than slapping the existing content together and shouldn't take long to do. If there's nothing out by the end of April I'm hitting the ignore button at the top of the thread and washing my hands of this game.Everyone is free to have their own opinions. But you seem so sure. Since we have not seen one single speck of proof other than highly misleading and useless status updates about things that nobody cares about every 2.5 months, i.e. never once has Bluecat said when we will see new content, how curious, how can you be so sure that the supposed merge is actually being worked on and that they have made any progress at all? Do you have some information that all the rest of us are lacking?
In your opinion, when do you think we will see actual new content?
AnimeKing already answered most of your questions. As for this, some people don't recover in 3 days and quite a few have long term consequences from covid. It doesn't take much for respiratory infections to have permanent effects on people's health and ability to work. It's also not been a year of nothing happening. It was 3-4 months of nothing followed by 9 months of slow progress. Just because the update hasn't been released doesn't mean nothing has been done. I don't like how slow it's been either, and I wish Bluecat had hired another programmer when Latecomer got sick, but I'm also not going to behave like you smarmy shitstains out of impatience. Even triple A titles see delays that last several months, and that's with a whole team of programmers getting paid to do the work. Try to remember you're dealing with a passion project where all the workers have real jobs they do on top of making a game most people play for free.Sole dev getting sick during a pandemic is an issue, I will grant you. Might have delayed things by a month maybe, if it was quite bad. I had covid a couple of weeks back. Was off work for three days (work from home), but I know other people have had it worse. I cannot possibly conceive that it would " bringing work on the merge to a standstill for months". "Even after getting better Latecomer hasn't been able to work full time" because? We are talking about a year where nothing has happened.
If I remember right, they confirmed that it wasn't covid that he had but rather he has long standing health issues that took a turn for the worse at that time. Which also begs the question (and many people were asking this when we found out about this) why not have a backup for that scenario? Bluecat was aware it was an eventualality and still had that person be the person the entire merge hinged on. Personally, I can still count that as amateurism and incompetence on bluecat's part but now that that same person is lying to the team to secure their posiition they should honestly be let go immediately (or at least as soon as the merge finishes if it truly is close which I hope it is).AnimeKing already answered most of your questions. As for this, some people don't recover in 3 days and quite a few have long term consequences from covid. It doesn't take much for respiratory infections to have permanent effects on people's health and ability to work. It's also not been a year of nothing happening. It was 3-4 months of nothing followed by 9 months of slow progress. Just because the update hasn't been released doesn't mean nothing has been done. I don't like how slow it's been either, and I wish Bluecat had hired another programmer when Latecomer got sick, but I'm also not going to behave like you smarmy shitstains out of impatience. Even triple A titles see delays that last several months, and that's with a whole team of programmers getting paid to do the work. Try to remember you're dealing with a passion project where all the workers have real jobs they do on top of making a game most people play for free.
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The teacher (You) moved with his family to a small town after accepting a new job offer. The game starts with day 1: his first day at school and of new life in this small town. The education minister of Japan built a large 25000-meter squared campus to test a new education system for the all-female student body.
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