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Nihil5320

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I cam here two years ago on f95 interested in the game, I now stay for the thread and see the downfall of scamlius
I remember the lies like the project being funded by a porn site, or "we need money for motion capture"
Fuck scamlius
Hah, yeah this gets even funnier when you look at some of the lies they made :

It is reported that the University of Michigan will provide an action capture laboratory, and Studio FOW will provide English CV and overseas publicity support. There will also be Yubi modelers who have participated in the Assassin Creed series participating in the development. The second work seems to be a puzzle-solving game, but the development focus is still on the quality of the painting and the performance of the animation.
Because the University of Michigan letting a Chinese porn game use their mocap studio is totally legit and a thing that happened... surprise surprise half a decade later Helius is begging for money to start . I mean who would rent a mocap studio or commission mocap piecemeal when you can build an entire studio for an indie title with a budget in the single digit millions?

Helius has scrubbed a lot of his original claims from the internet but you can still find references to them, like the above, if you search for the original studio/project names ("PHplusSTUDIO" and "Project H").
 

psycho-pooch

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It is reported that the University of Michigan will provide an action capture laboratory, and Studio FOW will provide English CV and overseas publicity support. There will also be Yubi modelers who have participated in the Assassin Creed series participating in the development. The second work seems to be a puzzle-solving game, but the development focus is still on the quality of the painting and the performance of the animation.
Who the fuck in the right mind would believe that shit?
I know what happens when too much blood goes to people's dicks but this is just brain dead.
 

Purple_Heart

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It is reported that the University of Michigan will provide an action capture laboratory, and Studio FOW will provide English CV and overseas publicity support. There will also be Yubi modelers who have participated in the Assassin Creed series participating in the development. The second work seems to be a puzzle-solving game, but the development focus is still on the quality of the painting and the performance of the animation.
 
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I really don't understand what the fuck is going on in the dev's mind anymore.
Like what's the point of adding every selection of anticonsumer psychologically exploitative practice that completely disrespects your time in a game that they vouched will feature no microtransactions at all.
Pretty sure that's a big fat lie and the dev will give in at some point.
I mean, the infrastructure for monetization is already there: you've got battle pass, card packs (with apparently useless non-recyclable duplicates), daily missions, weekly exp caps, rotating shop stock along with other fomo bullshit.
How the fuck does anyone look at all of this when designing a game and think this is fun?

Really hope one day someone cracks this game makes an "all content unlocked" version.
 
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Minervha

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darkdraconis

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anyway I was bored so I'm here for the tldr if anyone's kind enough to lemme know? last I was here was back when 0.4.9 got uploaded here
 

hoondo

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still no update? lol I was kicked out of Discord for protesting racist comments made by Chinese people. Several years have passed since then, but the game doesn't seem to have changed at all. Although the number of sponsors has decreased, it is very frustrating to see new sponsors still being deceived.
 
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How do we know that Helius don't go to some jetset party in his latest Lambo, every night, while browsing f95 and laughing at us pathetically. €50K is a big money. He just have to sleep for 6 months and he can get another Lambo to choose. Or he can just sleep for a year and he can buy a decent house fully furnished (If you don't live in US or Europe).

The amount of pathetic updates makes me believe that he only assemble a team for just a month once a year for the mandatory update, and spend the rest sleeping while throwing a penny or two for the talented but starved artist to render a pretty picture every month to keep the "hopes" up.

If only Illusion have scamlius money so they can hire proper programmers and don't have to close shop. *sigh...
 

HardcoreCuddler

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I think people should probably just see it as the developer being hilariously honest and not being used to seeing that, instead they are used to the large capitalist developers who hide decisions like these.

I doubt people are upset that the game sucks, they're more upset that it isn't out yet/it isn't what they wanted. It's probably fair that everyone does want it to succeed.
actually, we're upset that the game isn't want we wanted AND that it sucks
What are you guys upset about, exactly? Are you upset that you were 'scammed'? Because not all of you were paying for the game. So who are the people in the other group?

There are other games, many, out there that just have no complaints despite the typical, typical, typical schedule of progress slows to 1% at the 99% mark. And the patrons are giving them money, they choose to do it and still do it. I am usually confused and shocked when a game just goes and dies, despite years and years of crowdfunding, and people don't seem to usually have much of a reaction. There are many huge titles out there, let's just talk about Divine Arms for one. Are people even upset about that? For some reason, no, no one gives a damn and that game is essentially abandoned. It's a crowdfunded game that is in the queue of a queue. This is called a 2040 release at the earliest.
I'm upset that I wanted to play a nice game I was willing to pay for, but the game is shit so I won't even bother. I'm more than a drone, and unlike the patrons, I realise that paying $36 for something unfinished is fucking idiotic. I'm disappointed that this game isn't want it was advertised to be, and hell, it isn't even what they are advertising it as right now, BECAUSE NONE OF THE FUCKING GAME DESCRIPTIONS INCLUDE ANY GATCHA ALWAYS ONLINE MULTIPLAYER, you moron.
 
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