former patreon - pulled my support today, enough is enough and even on discord after the promise that more details would be released there instead of on the patreon page it was yet again lies.. If only it was possible to enquire if this falls under Fraud
Thanks for doing this. I wish all that donate to Ecchi Sensei would to do the same. Those that continue to donate, despite all Bluecat's clearly BS excuses, are a big part of the problem. Sure, some devs will be greedy, and refuse to pause donations despite not working on their games for months at a time, or longer in Bluecat's case, but the donors are the ones that allow them to do so, month after month.
As a donor myself to quite a few games over the years, games like this one gives other devs a bad name. I tend to add and remove my support regularly from devs, depending on their release progress. I am happy to support devs that communicate regularly and honestly with the fans and strive for a 3-4 month release cycle. I can even accept occasional delays, since life happens. But, once a dev gets complacent, and switches to the 8+ month release cycle or worse, I am done, and switch my support to more deserving devs. To me, it just doesn't make logical or economic sense to pay every month for content only every year or so. I know how long it takes to develop these games, and it is quite a lot of work in total, rendering (not in Ecchi Sensei's case), postprocessing, writing, basic coding, sometimes translating, proofreading, and bug testing, but working 2 or 4 hours, even a few times a week, and rendering at night, should easily allow any dev to release something reasonable every 3 or 4 months. Even if it is short, it keeps the fans interested. If a dev can't even do that, they aren't taking game development seriously, and should not accept donations.
I actually think the Patreon model is key to many great games here, but if donors never pull their money when a dev starts to switch their work model from producing regular content, to endless excuses, many devs will continue this type of bait and switch behavior.
Honestly, there are dozens of games here that are very good, many of which get very little support, where the devs actually care. Bluecat, or whoever actually made the game Ecchi Sensei we see here, since Bluecat seems to not know how to do anything related to "his" game, doesn't deserve one dollar while these other devs are out there are working to provide content for their fans.
