He keeps testing the waters to see how little work he can actually do. I think he might have found the limit with this release.
Ofc, no one likes to think that they are paid money for something bad or being victim of a scam, so they started to adapt this bandwagon mentality with similar minded inidividuals and create echo chambers in which they can convince each other that everything is great and their money well spentProblem with patreon is that everyone mostly adopts a group/bandwagon mentality.
This isn't the first negative review, but Crush's comment has always been the same, and it comes in a form similar to this:
"Great points being raised here, thank you for your feedback! I will address these concerns in the next developer update".
Next developer update:
"I received a lot of feedback, thank you so much for playing and giving your opinion".
they wont, most ppl would just stop supporting or switch to 1 usd tier. The remaining subs don't mind the slow update....
So yeah, who knows if people on patreon would ever hold crush to a standard as simple as update the game every 3 months, which is so flexible for the type of game and content that he should easily have been able to keep up with it.
It is basically why I lost interest in the game. Personally I do not give a fuck about how slow updates are if the stuff delivered is actually interesting. Initial premise was good but for whatever reason the game devolved into the cookie cutter 'let's corrupt our protagonist' story that are dime a dozen here.iirc the game was not good at changing MC's personality according to players' choices. You can pick all the slutty choices and suddenly in a paragraph MC is shy or reluctant and vice versa. The only thing appealing to me was the vast amount of customization and clothing for the agent. But the lack of feedback from your customization and clothing make them feels meaningless most of the time.
"Maybe he's just a deceptive scamming asshole" is certainly a new approach to defending Crush. And it's not actually a good one, because unlike "maybe he's the most incompetent developer, project manager and writer ever", it judges him as person instead of as a professional.Maybe Crush took 1 month off and didn't tell anyone and didn't want to shut his patreon down. And so this would technically still be a 3 month update. But to us it appears like a 4 month one +2 weeks one. So then Crush's character flaw is not being transparent and honest.
You can go one step further, initially it was sold as a sort of James Bond-esque idea where the heroine can use her body, her abilities, and her gadgets to succeed. In the older version, the first couple of short missions after the lifepath, that training in Scotland and that fling with the swedish guy (which I'm aware is still in this version) are a testament to that.It is basically why I lost interest in the game. Personally I do not give a fuck about how slow updates are if the stuff delivered is actually interesting. Initial premise was good but for whatever reason the game devolved into the cookie cutter 'let's corrupt our protagonist' story that are dime a dozen here.
The path of playing actually proactive character instead of hapless victim #7577 was promised at some point but never delivered upon.