Yeah, they would do it because cash grabbers are known for their efforts for actually finishing their games
>willingly comes into "Adult Games" forum
Why the hell play a low quality STS copycat in order to earn tidbits of low quality porn at all? It sounds outright pathetic.
Thanks, here's the fixed version of previous post:
This logic doesn't seem that simple and can also be inverted relatively easily: if pure animation viewer approaches were more profitable then wouldn't the majority of adult games adopt this model?
Are you living in a parallel universe? The majority of adult games are indeed like I said visual novels and animation players, which hardly have any gameplay (if clicking through dialogues is some sort of gameplay).
Majority isn't visual novels and animation players.
bruh is F95 your entire world? I almost feel pity.
This game is a touch older than 3 years, the Patreon launched in 2016 and it existed before that. Daisy in Summer (the first prototype) was 2015. Development probably started in 2014 when Epic changed their licensing for UE but it was solely on ZOD Forum at that point.
This site also has untranslated games and a genre that basically only exists in japan literally doesn't change anything. My point still stands, either present your own stats like I did or continue coping...
Is this the trial version? Many animations are missing compared to the Prologue version
Coomers ripping out the literal excel spreadsheet to prove that years of paying for a scene viewer actually worth it
Ngl I think your example is kinda skewered. I use the latest pages with filters to find games too and using your own example, if you showed some of the games posted you'd see most of them are 2dcg/3dcg(a good chunk of 2dcg and 3dcg games are similar to VNs being games that are more dialogue based - Summertime Sage is an example of a 2dcg game)... Meaning a lot of them lack actual gameplay in the sense of what Helius originally promised with the combat mode and are more like visual novels despite not having the visual novel tag. I'd recommend everyone curious to try this and take a look at the games left. Go to the Latest Updates page and click the 'X' on VN to filter them out, then under exclude tags filter out 2dcg and 3dcg and you'll see there's significantly less games available. Now if you also filter out abandoned games and games onhold you're left with a whopping 1k games, and if you looked at some of those a lot of them are still lacking gameplay.
Leave MY Purple_Heart alone, you
Those games DO have gameplay mechanics and they are NOT just animation viewers AND most of them have nothing in common with virtual novels(unless you think having a dialogue system is same as being a virtual novel?). For example, you eliminated Karryn's Prison(KP) for being a 2dcg game and basically put it in the same catagory as virtual novels but KP doesn't have any similarities to virtual novels or animation viewers.
This is why I said a good chunk of 2dcg/3dcg games and not all of them. I recommended looking at the games left with your filters and with 2dcg/3dcg filtered out because this is what I do anytime I come to this site to see what's new or have been updated. If you search using these filters you will see most of them are heavily dialogue based and lacking actual gameplay, unless you consider choosing between multiple dialogue options as form of gameplay. This is why I said they're similar to visual novels and not identical and named SummerTime Saga as an example.
I've played those games that you keep dismissing as "virtual novels or similar" just because they are 2dcg or 3dcg. They are not even close to being virtual novels, majority of them offer actual gameplay in the form of either turn based combat(such as karryn's prison), beat-em up(such as eris dysnomia), puzzles(such as the genesis order) or dating sim(such as teaching feeling).
FWIW while I'm saying they lack gameplay I do try some of them myself so I'm not just talking out of my ass, though if you consider puzzles and dating sims as gameplay we probably just disagree on what counts as gameplay. Just for clarification I'm not referring to games like Hero Party Must Fall, The Imperial Gatekeeper, Flower Charm Sequel, etc that obviously have gameplay loops. If you take a look at the 3dcg tag right now it's mostly full of Ren'Py games that are purely dialogue with no additonal mechanics other than point and click or sandbox at best, but even then, sandbox in these types of games amount to opening a map to click on and load into a different area - no creation/exploration. You can just read the tags for the games to see this. 2dcg games suffer from this to a lesser extent, but then again there are almost 2x more 2dcg games than 3dcg so I can understand why this wouldn't seem the case if you don't scroll through the pages or are more lenient on what counts as gameplay.
