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

[Tallyhoe]

I think he released it earlier than he wanted to because of the negative comments in the previous post. And now even more people complained so it’ll be interesting to see if he will actually work on it like he said or if he will continue to idle for months before getting to it.

 

[asdfasdf12341234ACSACA]

Quoted from the discord:

"What I do think is a big deal is that this is the only sex scene we get in a short update that has been in the works for 4-5ish months. I know I am beating a dead horse and understand that high quality writing takes time, but the pace of development is just too slow for a linear text based game. In looking back through the progress reports there is no way the summaries of 80 hour work weeks or 12 hour days are accurate unless the three scenes in this update were each rewritten a dozen times. Even then, the final product we got is still kind of sloppy, I noticed two dead links and multiple instances where the game just said “add x later.” What was being punched up for weeks on end? My trust in the dev reports and the amount of work put into updates is waning, and while I still love the final product overall, following its development in the last year or so has caused more disappointment than enjoyment."

With enough injections of sanity maybe the bubble will burst.

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".

 

[Gbob]

Yes only a blowjob scene and almost all the update involves a night in the club with a lot of dialogues.

Does this update include the random events during shift?

 

[Deleted member 2372719]

Quoted from the discord:

"What I do think is a big deal is that this is the only sex scene we get in a short update that has been in the works for 4-5ish months. I know I am beating a dead horse and understand that high quality writing takes time, but the pace of development is just too slow for a linear text based game. In looking back through the progress reports there is no way the summaries of 80 hour work weeks or 12 hour days are accurate unless the three scenes in this update were each rewritten a dozen times. Even then, the final product we got is still kind of sloppy, I noticed two dead links and multiple instances where the game just said “add x later.” What was being punched up for weeks on end? My trust in the dev reports and the amount of work put into updates is waning, and while I still love the final product overall, following its development in the last year or so has caused more disappointment than enjoyment."

With enough injections of sanity maybe the bubble will burst.

damn that Discord post was a very gentle demolition

 

[Deleted member 14950]

Bro, what are the chances he simply ran out of gas? It's been 5 years and 2 restarts, after all.

 

[Cazzo_duro]

you can be our hero , you know?

I don't have the game, otherwise I would have already shared it. What I wrote is information read on Discord and elsewhere.

 

[depechedNode]

Bro, what are the chances he simply ran out of gas? It's been 5 years and 2 restarts, after all.

It's only possible if he was saying the truth all along and he was just incompetent. Then these might happen after that:
- Close the patreon while saying that he can't continue anymore and can't stand taking money from people without giving back or
- announcing that he'll be hiring a helper or asking help from the community.

If he's not telling the truth, then he knows what he's doing and has an experience with crowd control. In my experience usually if a dev is talking too much, writing essays for status updates, then he/she is not working that much as he/she claimed. Bigger the word salad, the more excuses you'll get.

 

[the_jaron]

I think at this point he should forget the Life Path until there's more meat to the game and hire a writer, give them the beat sheets and then he can edit to his hearts content.

 

[lifegetsweird]

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[Deniz31]

With each update a feature existing goes away. Why the fuck not allowing me to pick shoes? And someone else doing the artwork but still wardrobe is really small and not giving us a chance to pick what we wear outside of bar.
And there's no way we can know for sure but I'm pretty convinced that until last 1-2 week minimal work was done and crammed at last hours.

 

[jonhywonder123]

After this update, I feel like we are definitely being put into a trance at the club sooner rather than later

 

[cheesepie]

Quoted from the discord:

"What I do think is a big deal is that this is the only sex scene we get in a short update that has been in the works for 4-5ish months. I know I am beating a dead horse and understand that high quality writing takes time, but the pace of development is just too slow for a linear text based game. In looking back through the progress reports there is no way the summaries of 80 hour work weeks or 12 hour days are accurate unless the three scenes in this update were each rewritten a dozen times. Even then, the final product we got is still kind of sloppy, I noticed two dead links and multiple instances where the game just said “add x later.” What was being punched up for weeks on end? My trust in the dev reports and the amount of work put into updates is waning, and while I still love the final product overall, following its development in the last year or so has caused more disappointment than enjoyment."

With enough injections of sanity maybe the bubble will burst.

Before the bubble bursts, has there ever been any outline of an ending or even the branches that lead to main subplots? All I could find was this, nothing to indicate MC's mission will end...

"a breakdown between two factions of the organised crime syndicate that controls the red light district the brothel is in. As the conflict escalates, it threatens the whole DEVILFISH operation, so the Joint Task Force starts secretly intervening in order to maintain stability – a targeted assassination here, a drone strike on a meth convoy there, a tip off to the cops about drug deal A, intercepting the cops before they get to drug deal B...whatever it takes to keep things fucking normal until DEVILFISH is rendered."

And that's the problem with branching stories, if there's no plan, each major choice should exponentially add to number of endings. E.g. for BJ in KL nudes get leaked, does it affect anything IRL? In current form with each linear update taking 4-5 months, it's a mathematical certainty that Crush will need years, then decades, to wrap up the main story.

Surely at least one patreon has got the brains to demand he finish a full outline? That's the only way this ends in our lifetimes. If Crush ever sees this, typical corn endings are whore, drug addict, mistress and saint. Okay, now back to self flagellation.

 

[jonhywonder123]

Before the bubble bursts, has there ever been any outline of an ending or even the branches that lead to main subplots? All I could find was this, nothing to indicate MC's mission will end...

"a breakdown between two factions of the organised crime syndicate that controls the red light district the brothel is in. As the conflict escalates, it threatens the whole DEVILFISH operation, so the Joint Task Force starts secretly intervening in order to maintain stability – a targeted assassination here, a drone strike on a meth convoy there, a tip off to the cops about drug deal A, intercepting the cops before they get to drug deal B...whatever it takes to keep things fucking normal until DEVILFISH is rendered."

And that's the problem with branching stories, if there's no plan, each major choice should exponentially add to number of endings. E.g. for BJ in KL nudes get leaked, does it affect anything IRL? In current form with each linear update taking 4-5 months, it's a mathematical certainty that Crush will need years, then decades, to wrap up the main story.

Surely at least one patreon has got the brains to demand he finish a full outline? That's the only way this ends in our lifetimes. If Crush ever sees this, typical corn endings are whore, drug addict, mistress and saint. Okay, now back to self flagellation.

this update added an ending branch of sorts
if you choose a certain option after the blowjob

 

[Deleted member 5377183]

It's hilarious that people are still picking apart the dev's posts for clues to justify their Stockholm syndrome, I love periodically checking this thread to see how long the con can last

 

[Nope]

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.

 

[SomeThrowawayAye]

I think the update was pretty decent. The BJ scene and the internal monologue behind it all was well written but yeah, the timespan between updates does not correlate with the amount of content/scenes at all. It's actually insane.

 

[RestIn]

Problem with patreon is that everyone mostly adopts a group/bandwagon mentality.

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 spent

 

[k-]

Lol he wrote more for the updates than the actual update itself.

 

[Derrida]

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".

You called it, from the discord, from the horse's ass so to speak: 'Hey guys, thanks so much for all this conversation and feedback, of course I'm reading it all and taking notes. I'm experimenting with something today that I hope might impact the writing speed issue – report to follow if it's useful.'

He reminds me of a politician, dangling some fanciful solution in front of voters. Except problems in politics are often actually complex, here it's just someone manufacturing difficulties so they can keep the pace of development slow while maximizing retention on patreon. Genuinely, there are writers who could have completed the first draft of a novel in the timeframe of Crush's updates. In 6 years those same writers could have written multiple. No one expects him to write to the pace of a Sanderson or whoever but just some basic accountability for his process and his own schedule.

 

[Streetcarbon]

Ow shit, this scam is still ongoing?