^ Thanks for the explanatory post. Shame really, if they'd thought out the necessary shortcuts from the start to suit their adult audience (with whom gameplay doesn't sit as a natural partner to erotica) things might have gone a lot better. Or not, of course. Who can tell for sure? But with the gameplay shortcuts installed the addition of some extra erotic renders to improve the balance towards the adult content would, and still could imo, make it an excellent game all round.
The way Patreon seems to work, though, you misjudge your audience and miss the early surge of enthusiasm/support upon launch and you can't get it back. I see quite a few Devs opt for a introducing new game rather than persist with an old one that hasn't done as well as hoped. I'm not sure the strategy works, a fragmentation of effort doesn't impress any that I've noticed. Ah well...
Hi Guygee,
Let me try to explain the thought process behind this decision. What we've recognized over the course of development that we are essentially developing two games (I think that someone from the previous pages also mentioned that) which was extremely consuming and resulted a game which, at the end, lacked from both end. It is really frustrating to see that your work attract less attention while you are pouring a lot of energy to that. It's not anyone's fault just probably bad market placement. We realized that we have to make a choice, focus on one genre and try to excel only in there.
Our decision was to move toward the erotic content, mainly beacuse there is a clear interest for that and the RPG genre market on its own is probably too saturated. Also, I do have to mention that F95 is great place and the distribution of the content to the other forums are almost seamless. (It really amazed me when I first saw that our game is already uploaded to other sites and generated 26k+ downloads)
It doesn't mean that we will abandon Fall of Ashenburg entirely, in the future we may branch out the non-adult content from it and try to succeed in a different area, as you suggested as well.
Right now we will try focus on bringing new elements to the erotic genre, honestly I think there is a lot we can bring to here as well. While there are great games here and there in overall I'm personally not impressed by the overall quality. I hope that we will be able to show you something with can make difference.
As always, we would like to hear your feedback, anything you expect or you would like to see in this new game. Please share it with us!
Alteus
