HTML Female Agent [v1.20.1p] [Crushstation]

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Marlin Brandy

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>Lament about writing
>Lower expectations
>Use funny/pop-culture/great author quote
>Fish for sympathy
>Don't change your process, It Just Works™
>Promise another deadline you won't meet
>Laugh all the way to the bank
>When patrons start getting testy, release a crumb of content
>When the game starts gaining momentum, release a rework
>Start the cycle anew
 
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Thanks very much for all the supportive comments, here, on Discord, and in DMs. They say everyone is their own worst critic, and I felt like every encouraging message was a signal for me to keep pushing on despite all the doubts and fears that swirl in my head when the going gets tough.
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And that right there is one of, if not the main issue here. Crush can stall and delay all he wants because his Simpy Steve patrons not only let him, but thank him for it.

The day they call him out on his BS is the day he finally gets the kick up the ass he needs to actually get the game going somewhere.
 
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Marlin Brandy said:

>Lament about writing
>Lower expectations
>Use funny/pop-culture/great author quote
>Fish for sympathy
>Don't change your process, It Just Works™
>Promise another deadline you won't meet
>Laugh all the way to the bank
>When patrons start getting testy, release a crumb of content
>When the game starts gaining momentum, release a rework
>Start the cycle anew
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What, you don’t like free money? 6k per month lol
 
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Yeah it's generally the only available route to assume that consistently paying customers are satisfied customers. While that may not be strictly true according to what we know about human nature, I don't believe that human nature is going to change radically in a week or even over the lifetime of FA development.
 
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My money is on him posting later today about releasing early access at the end of the month. One of the patrons got restless and actually asked about a release date so maybe he has delayed enough and will sit down and finish the update.

EDIT: Well, obviously the smart money is never on Crush actually accomplishing anything.
 
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Nope said:
My money is on him posting later today about releasing early access at the end of the month. One of the patrons got restless and actually asked about a release date so maybe he has delayed enough and will sit down and finish the update.
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i just came to check this week's lame excuse for another delay
this lying milkman has best job at the planet - making porn story with no deadlines, responsabilities or any obligations toward his subscribers
basicaly this lazy ass is paid 1,5k usd per weekly report:"sorry another delay"

if patrons really want to move this game forward they should just stop giving money before updates.
they just need to tell him to change tiers from monthly into per major update or cancel subscription themselves until update is release. i'm sure this will give us more progress and in the end more supporters to him.
 
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Here goes excuse of the week guys!!!
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Hey guys! I have good news and bad news to report.

The good news is that I've finally blasted through my block. This wasn't the traditional 'writer's block' where you stare at a blank screen unable to think up any ideas; it was extreme difficulty getting the draft ideas to a point where they felt sexy and fun.
Now it feels like everything is zipping along. One of the big problems I was having was dialogue choices and just dialogue in general. (Which is a problem on a girls' night out, because girls kind of like talking, right, and also a problem from a gameplay perspective because without dialogue choices you're just playing a slideshow.)
I made some changes to characterisation and pace – basically slowed the scenes down, and just let the characters breathe a little – and now the dialogue is flowing and the character relationships feel more genuine and interesting. That makes everything just feel hotter and it also allows for more plot development since the girls can talk about the club without actually being in the club.
I'm so excited and relieved because I was having serious doubts that I could do this at all, and now it's just a matter of time. (Last week I wasn't even sure that it was good, but this week I do feel pretty confident that you guys will like it.)

The bad news is that all this extra time I've spent battling through the block means that I'm seriously behind schedule.
I do not know if this episode will be ready for early access by Halloween. I hope so, and will do my best to make up the lost ground this week, and I'm now advancing quickly. But there's only so many words I can write per day. This took way longer than I dreamed it could, and it's going to be tight.

I'm aware I've missed several deadlines with this episode already, so I'm going to do my absolute best to get this cracked this week. But I wanted to give you guys a heads up on the situation and admit that it may not happen. I'll make a report on the 30th, hopefully with good news.
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You had one job...
 
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A (likely small) part of how this happens is maintained by what we say here. If people didn't arrive at Internet discussions to criticize the lateness, we wouldn't have others self-identifying as defenders of the FA release schedule. This causes these defenders to double-down on their monetary investment in the game. Given the rate at which things happen, many people would otherwise completely forget about the game between releases.

I can't say that this would drive it down to obscurity, however. Crush realizes that constant Discord dialogue with fans is a way to keep FA fresh in people's minds even when releases do not happen. Plus, people with a disposable cash tend to throw it away on subscriptions that go on forever with little or no payout, and therefore forgetting about the game only reinforces this phenomenon.

I'm not saying to stop criticizing of course--truth needs to be said. I'm just explaining how this happens.
 
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Marlin Brandy

Marlin Brandy

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rbx4 said:
A (likely small) part of how this happens is maintained by what we say here. If people didn't arrive at Internet discussions to criticize the lateness, we wouldn't have others self-identifying as defenders of the FA release schedule. This causes these defenders to double-down on their monetary investment in the game. Given the rate at which things happen, many people would otherwise completely forget about the game between releases.

I can't say that this would drive it down to obscurity, however. Crush realizes that constant Discord dialogue with fans is a way to keep FA fresh in people's minds even when releases do not happen. Plus, people with a disposable cash tend to throw it away on subscriptions that go on forever with little or no payout, and therefore forgetting about the game only reinforces this phenomenon.

I'm not saying to stop criticizing of course--truth needs to be said. I'm just explaining how this happens.
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I'd like to believe that we've deterred more people from supporting (or beginning to support) these kinds of business models with our discussions here than kept on the stranded ship.
At the end of the day, I can't fault Crush for being the way he is. He's certainly intelligent and savvy to maintain this kind of support after all the setbacks, and it works enough that there's really no incentive to change.
I was semi-ironic on my last post. I really do admire his ability and talent. FA as an idea was great and I loved playing through it the first couple times. But it's been a wild ride.
 
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