Senor Smut
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It takes Crush more than 14 days to produce a turd.
PitayaPear
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As long as he is raking in a 6 figure income, why would he change? Genuine question. The fact of the matter is if he had actually worked and released the game 3-4 years ago (which he easily could've done) he would've missed out on close to half a million dollars of Patreon money. And he knows this.
Whether or not he is doing it intentionally is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that he is making a very comfortable upper middle class income quite literally doing nothing but writing a report every month. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, why would he do anything to rock the boat? And yes, releasing new content is rocking the boat when people are happy to give you money for zero content.
Westerners hate paying for games, but they love supporting game devs. The same fan that happily supports Crush's 6 figure income with a 20-30 dollars a month Patreon subscription for years on end would've foamed at the mouth in anger if Crush had released the game finished all the way back in 2017 and asked for a 30 dollar pricetag upfront. It is to the benefit of all western indie devs to drag out the Patreon process for as long as possible to milk your audience, because you know that once the game actually releases sales will be minimal.
All these suggestions on what Crush should do is worthless because Crush is winning and winning hard right now. If he had worked hard at start he would've lost out immensely. From his perspective, why fix something that isn't broken? Why go down a path that would've ruined you if you had gone down it a few years ago?
Before any white knights come with a "very well thought of rebuttal":
Yes, Patreon shows 5k a month.
No, Crush does not get the whole 5k to spend in anything he wants
Yes, there are some fees as with any payment service
Yes, there are taxes (guess what, everyone has to pay taxes on income)
Yes there are other collaborators but anything about payment for those collaborators is pure speculation.
The nice thing of Patreon is if you are on USA is that you can declare that money and not be subjected* to federal or statal taxes as they can be declared as donations and/or for working purposes.
*You still pay taxes but you can get a huge discount out of it.
Not sure where you read that nonsense. Patreon creators are treated by the IRS as a self employed small business. They are subject to both regular income taxes (about 22-26%) and self employment taxes (15.3%) You can count Patreon fees, your PC, and some other items as a business expense which is one small plus.
dont get me wrong... lets say he get 2k from it... 2k a month i pay my bills and with a lot of free time he might have, he could work on something else, making 2k a month extra be very welcome
Deniz31
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You guys forgetting elephant in the room, anyone believes he's doing this full-time?
I believe he believes he's doing it full time.You guys forgetting elephant in the room, anyone believes he's doing this full-time?
Editor open: Working
Searching for something mildly related to Bangkok: Working
Looking at pics/porn: Working
Watching some motivational speech video: Working
gymnopedies
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You forget: writing junk reports to look busy, I think that's most of the work time he spend
Well, credit where it's due, seems like he's showing up at least regularly for now... baby steps. In good faith, I'm going to assume he is really trying to finish this.
So where I see the crux of the issue is accountability, and would agree on the "junk" assessment of the reports. Surely he can do better: to make reports and changelogs TIME BOUND (E.g. Eva Kiss), or SPECIFIC + MEASUREABLE (E.g. DeepSleep).
Hope we can see something with a timeline (i.e. release will be DATE) or measurable (i.e. this week I wrote NUMBER words) rather than meaningless (e.g. I worked 1 scene in 3 ways, 40 hours per day 10 days this week, on code nobody can see) because in the end, we'll typically only get 1 playable scene per update, provided it not a reboot which actually subtracts content.
See you when next release drops!
gymnopedies
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We have long since passed this stage. Accept it, he doesn't love you anymore.
Senor Smut
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Dude, dates "stress him out." He'll release when the Universe tells him the time is right (perhaps sometime in 2026).
Troqu
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He's been working alone for over 2+ years, but has had no contact with the Patreon owner, which would mean he wouldn't be getting paid.
Some parts of it might be truthful.
BeccaBoo
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Latest update
Hey guys! It’s 8.26PM and my brain is mush. I wanted to finish the thing I was working on then report, but I am sticking to Monday transparency.
Last week I said I was waiting for feedback on that week’s “Test 3”, which had just dropped – this was more of a hit and everybody seemed to like it. (ENF is popular with more than just Javier R and Ashani it seems )
I ended last week’s report by saying I was going to try to streamline the design, which I felt wasn’t working in my test playthroughs (and was getting mixed feedback from testers). I did that, and have been working this week on:
Adding decision points that didn’t previously exist. These are crucial for making the game feel less like a slideshow and more like a game.
Based on tester feedback I rewrote an important NPC relationship, (basically to make him less of a dick, which was actually undermining the heroine’s likeability for being into such a douchebag).
Took out a sex scene that wasn’t really working, and replaced it with a totally new one.
Got partway through reintegrating a popular Lifepath scene I wanted to cut, but testers wanted me to keep; we’ll see.
Pushed this all out for testing and feedback.
I’m working flat out I need to crash now. Thanks everybody for the patience and support, I’ll get straight back on it in the morning.
Hey guys! It’s 8.26PM and my brain is mush. I wanted to finish the thing I was working on then report, but I am sticking to Monday transparency.
Last week I said I was waiting for feedback on that week’s “Test 3”, which had just dropped – this was more of a hit and everybody seemed to like it. (ENF is popular with more than just Javier R and Ashani it seems )
I ended last week’s report by saying I was going to try to streamline the design, which I felt wasn’t working in my test playthroughs (and was getting mixed feedback from testers). I did that, and have been working this week on:
Adding decision points that didn’t previously exist. These are crucial for making the game feel less like a slideshow and more like a game.
Based on tester feedback I rewrote an important NPC relationship, (basically to make him less of a dick, which was actually undermining the heroine’s likeability for being into such a douchebag).
Took out a sex scene that wasn’t really working, and replaced it with a totally new one.
Got partway through reintegrating a popular Lifepath scene I wanted to cut, but testers wanted me to keep; we’ll see.
Pushed this all out for testing and feedback.
I’m working flat out I need to crash now. Thanks everybody for the patience and support, I’ll get straight back on it in the morning.
So he basically is taking out things that "dosn't work" for other things and call it progression.
I choose to believe but the motivational cookie phrase of "sometimes you need to step down to advance" is being taken too seriously.
Also thank you Chrush for making a character "less douchebag", how could our heroine could survive with such a douche character while being infiltrated inside a Prostitution Bar in Thai where all customer are known to be respectful. Thank you Crush! Our heroine mental health was at risk.
I choose to believe but the motivational cookie phrase of "sometimes you need to step down to advance" is being taken too seriously.
Also thank you Chrush for making a character "less douchebag", how could our heroine could survive with such a douche character while being infiltrated inside a Prostitution Bar in Thai where all customer are known to be respectful. Thank you Crush! Our heroine mental health was at risk.
I swear I've read this same report before, they always follow the same template.
PickerLewd
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I don't know anymore if the reports are from the events at the Thai bar or from past events. They have already driven me crazy with so much back and forth
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philyb
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I play this game every year or two and it feels like there is almost no progress - or if there is then a chunk of content was removed on top of it. How is he working flat out? It has essentially turned into a VN with barely an illusion of choice. I am confused.
My honest take is that the events of the "transparency report" are still from the life path -introduction-.I don't know anymore if the reports are from the events at the Thai bar or from past events. They have already driven me crazy with so much back and forth
So i guess i must correct my statement to; "Thank you crush for making a CIA/MI6/The AESEAN ones i don't remember agency less douchebag! How could our heroine survive being inside the top statal intelligency agency with someone not being nice!"
But as someone said, Crush follows a pattern; He isn't happy with som scene already done (he never say which one) so he "replaces it" with something fitting. Then he isn't happy about a random sex scene (he never say which one) so he makes another. Then he adds some stupid thing with 0 value (like the grandma being spy and now this douchebag character) so he can really justify he is advancing on the develpment "hey guys! I just re-made everything i already did but.... NOW OUR GRANDMA WAS A WW2 SPY I AM WORKING 26/9!!!!".