a message to the dev....
greetings first, make of it what you will if you even bother to read it, but know i have no ill will towards you or bad intentions from this message, just hopefully a constructive criticism and advice, i'm a fan of your ANN first and foremost
this thread created almost 3 years ago and according to the latest updates page and it was viewed nearly 2,6 million times, now i'm not an expert on the mechanics and the data that goes behind what makes an AVN popular or profitable here, but from the pages i visited with around or similar number of views (even if it's just repeat visitors) and with the level of your renders you should at least have anywhere from 150-200 patrons but you only have 41 (i'm not number shaming here, read the rest) now why is that?
in today's climate i don't think it's enough to sustain a living and depend only on working as an ANN dev full time, so i'm assuming this is a side hustle for you, now i wasn't here from the beginning and i have no idea of your development cycle
[I'M not virtue signaling below, and i'm not against piracy especially in countries where corporates fucks doesn't adjust their prices to fit adequately with the local currency, the cases of which i resort to it it's More About Convenience Than Price for me, but especially i feel compelled to pay the devs that share their work for free here]
i became jaded a long time ago to all sorts of mainstream porn and amateurs, and after i found this forum i thought i hit the jackpot, after rustling with myself about the ethicality of downloading for free because most of the AVNs i viewed and liked its promo renders at the beginning the only way to support developers was patreon (i'm not a fan of this paying model and even if i can't because they don't accept my payment method) i'm more of a (tell me how much your work worth and if i find it reasonable i will pay you for it at once (steam model)
now i live in Germany and here we have a full censorship for steam and gog, so you can't purchase AVNs at all, also a lot of the devs here doesn't have steam pages, after awhile i found out you can buy steam keys for ANNs from kinguin (the only place) and a lot of these keys are for beta testing so you have to be quick and check the adult section every day or you might miss your chance and not all devs sells keys outside of steam, so this year i purchased nearly 150 keys for AVNs and i only played couple of them just to offset the handful of ANNs i downloaded here for free until last week when i travelled to France i changed my store country to it and the floodgates opened and i spent 400€ in the NSFW section on steam even for AVNs i already viewed and the rest of them except for hentai i wishlisted them (around a 100) for another round of buying later
back on point, at the beginning after i downloaded and viewed a handful of AVNs from here i became jaded to those also, except for 2 tags that still does it for me (NTR, pregnancy) so your AVN fit the criteria, around April i found this page through the pregnancy tag, i downloaded v0.9 it was a decent AVN but short, over the next couple of months i checked this page couple of times for updates to no avail and forgot about it until today when i checked latest updates there's a new version so i downloaded it and viewed it
it took me 5-10 minutes omE.................. Really, after almost 4 months!!!!!?????????
so that's when i decided to check your patreon's page and read the Changelog to find out there's only "3450 unique renders overall" in the span of three years!!!??? that amount to 3-4 updates to some devs here!
now clearly there's not enough financial incentive to work more on this AVN (for different reasons maybe: lack of updates, short updates, not enough marketing efforts, not enough time, ROI not worth it etc...) even though here you can find worst quality AVNs than this have more support! now i don't know if it's a hoppy or side hustle or both
and i don't know the mechanics and what goes on with getting accepted to sell your work on steam but your AVN doesn't have anything out of the ordinary to not get approved on steam! so why not try your luck there?
there's an AVN there (most popular i think) with around 12k overwhelmingly positive reviews and most of them mentioning boobs!
now i'm sure that one is far more superior even though i bought it last week but didn't try it yet because no pregnancy but in your AVN you have 3 big tits, 2 decent boobs, now imagine you have a steam page with couple of promos to the models with big boobs i'm sure you'll have yourself another decent source of income, then maybe and only maybe with acceptable financial incentive you'll devote a little more of your time to your project and we can have ourselves more frequent updates that's more than 5-10 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!! one can only hope
good luck and all the best