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The update frequency is starting to get to the point where I am completely forgetting this game exists.
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I mean the game on the search says 4 months so considering the amount of renders etc.. f95 games usually this is kinda reasonable waiting period
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I don't plan to get too in-the-weeds with Brett or Kobalt. Kobalt's scene is similar to Blizzy's from Chapter 8 -- a guy talking to his screen, while MC watches. I just want people to see why MC made a horrible decision that basically fucked his life and credit score, for the next several years, while also making him critically risk-averse. Brett's scene will mostly play out like it already did in Chapter 1, but his entrance to the scene will be a little different, and Nicki's reaction will be a bit different.
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I am not saying its unreasonable, just commenting on the effect it has on me.
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I don't know if I'd describe the MC as particularly risk averse. I presume that's something you're planning to develop in the rework to explain why he missed his original shot at Nicki. Fair enough.
Still, I do think there's a subtle but meaningful change to the game if we see exactly why the MC bought into the Kobalt hype. When it's just an offscreen background event, we will accept that it was a dumb, drunken decision the MC made that ruined his life before somehow shooting the moon. We're ready to move on to the main story. But once we see the sales pitch with our own eyes, consciously or unconsciously we are going to judge the MC's decision ourselves. Was he a rank idiot? Was he the naive victim of a ruthless Svengali? Was he a ballsy investor who got screwed over by fate before finally making good? We'll all have our own take on it and each of them can be valid, but that judgement will linger.
Ultimately, I don't think that helps the game because it's an irrelevant distraction that will cloud our view of the events that really matter. If we think the MC has a history of making bad decisions, that undermines his assessment of Wren's efficiency when running a charity. If we think he already got burned by a pied piper once, we're going to be hat much more annoyed when he buys Risa's sob story in the present day. That sort of thing.
There's a benefit to keeping the MC's blunder nebulous, at least in my eyes. I think you can keep that ambiguity while still delving into how badly the experience scarred the younger MC, but it becomes harder the more you make Kobalt Koin a real item rather than a generic snake oil. But as always, it's your story and this is just my opinion.
That's why it's so handy we have these forums! Debating picayune details gives us something to do while we wait, and stopping by regularly lets us keep up with the important news.
- Sep 26, 2019
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It's been a while does this compressed still need to add the patch for the good stuff? Or is it already added?
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Thank you but That's not the version I was asking about. I know S.o.L.'s compressed has the patch. I'm asking about bob69's April fool's compressed version
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yeah cause wanting money for his hard earned work is greedy, his early access prices are reasonable he doesnt charges a arm and a leg for early access lol o and if you are patient he does put them out for the public eventually yup that's totally being greedy
hello guys ! what is the difference between the classic version and the vanilla version in the download list please ??
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Not soon sadly, don’t think there’s supposed to be any Brittani content in the next update. Hopefully at Brittani’s next shoot her mom will be there and you can have her join in. Seems like she will do anything for a little money.
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Id show her mom some money and then give it to Brittani and tell her get the fuck out o and of course afterwards id take Brittani on a nice date. Her mom is to vile for me to stick my dick in. To rub it in id make sure to buy Brittani a really nice expensive dress so her mom can see it and get jealous when she goes home the next day.
Nonono you want the sith lord version trust me
Some people will pay for the game to support even if it is available for free everyway. That's called support. For the rest of the people never spent a dime, just give it to them already. Visual novels are a charity project.yeah cause wanting money for his hard earned work is greedy, his early access prices are reasonable he doesnt charges a arm and a leg for early access lol o and if you are patient he does put them out for the public eventually yup that's totally being greedy
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Britt's mom (and Brittani, for that matter..) will return in Chapter 10.
Hrm. I was going to leave this subject alone, but I suppose it's worth talking about. I'm not going to touch on the idea that this is a 'charity project.' I kind of understand where you're coming from, even if the wording feels a bit dismissive of my efforts.
What I will say is this: my supporters have been very good to me, and I see it as my responsibility to be good to them in return. That means trying to provide a good value proposition for their support. That means not undervaluing what I do, and what they contribute.
I really try to give a good value for my various subscriber tiers, and keep the price low enough to be accessible to most people. As I've grown my subscriber base, I've actually reduced the cost of some of my benefits, and added new content for the support tiers. The cost for the 'demo build' used to be a ludicrous $50, and I felt so awkward when people actually paid it that I dropped it to $15. The cost of the Sneak Peek feature used to be $15, and I dropped it to $5. Nude pin-ups, etc. were $5, and I dropped them to $2, incorporating them into the Wanton Weekends feature. And I post free weekly updates, every Monday, with teaser art.
In addition, I think I make my paid release-to-free release timeline is pretty generous. $15 gets you new updates (including demo builds) as soon as they're ready. $5 gets you the release a week ahead of the public release. $2 gets you the release three days ahead of the public release.
And I do things like the Halloween or April Fools updates, for free. And when I do things like update from v0.55 to v0.57, adding 100~ renders and a whole new scene, I don't put them on a new release timeline. I just release them as though they're extensions of the most recent update. I promise, I could tier-lock those at $15 and make myself some money, if I was really that greedy. But, I think it's fun to surprise people with little updates like that.
Finally, there's a good reason not to release my demo builds publicly -- because they're not done. My supporters at that $15 tier understand that these things are in a rough shape, and unfinished. So, they put up with missing images, broken variables, etc. But, if I threw them out unfinished and suddenly a lot of people were making new save files with broken variables, incomplete paths, etc. it would just turn into a giant mess. Release windows are hectic enough, without the added stress of a ton of people working with broken saves.
I pride myself on putting out finished updates with very few errors, and part of that is due to the rigorous play-testing and feedback, which I get from my supporters.
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