Maybe it's difference in US (I assume they're from USA) but 5k nearly 6k $ in my country is a big fkin amount of money you can use that sum of money to hire like 3 artists and 3 coders here , ngl. And another reason this game is not being funded is they seems too shady in the progress and make ppl think this is another scam and not put the money into it. Being slow is good if you want to do something big but it aslo make people feel skeptical about it. Finally most ppl come to this game for... you know the animation , without it ppl have no reason to investigate into the game.
That being said, they choice the animation as the main point of investigation maybe theirs biggest mistake or they have a big plan behind that.
ngl, i dunno where you live; but it's not the case in usa and in europe, you barely afford 2-3 guys for that kind of job, depending the state/country.
again we have talk about it : DON'T judge by your country or even city, you don't know their situation (price of life, taxes...)it's different. i assure you that 5k RAW for two is not what you expect in their country for that.
and we don't talk about """"coders"""" who know how to make a script in RPG maker or """""artist""""" who opened a book "how to draw my own manga". we're talking of ppl that can start and end a program for 3d Character creation and animation, without help, let's be serious here for 2 sec please.
won't argue about the rest, it's your opinion, and we have talk about it many time before.
just 2 things : if ppl don't fund= no project that's how it work
and they've made so much things for this project already. i dunno for big plans but that's definitively not a mistake ...
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a little apart, not focusing you and don't take it for you(as you are not really in that case) :
ppl are being harsh about something they don't know how it work, they don't follow (at least, not enough closely), and they don't paid.
i have the weird feeling that some here hate the devs for no objectively good reason.
Take their places for 2min, i mean not literally, you won't be able to do 1% they actually do, but just imagine it :
>you've made a previous simulation game, that was well received, you decided to make a 2.0 version of it because you are passionate, and it don't fit your today standards, you have greater plan for it.
>2017 the first year, you plan and realize it will not be like the previous game it will be more complicated,and decide to start from scratch, some of the previous game community come and fund you. cool !
>2 years passed, bases and basis for the cctool are done, you even add some cool features and you've made some advance on your animation tool too, but the founding don't change mush. it's normal after all their is not much visual change.
>2020, the project really take form, money goes okay, nothing much but it's decent. you really need to start to protect yourself law wise, banks argues nothing simple... but meanwhile you have done great, keeping adding cool features. Renamed your project and changing your plan.
>2021, so far so good, but problem start appear, it's planned anyway. but the founding start to go down, and decided you better crunch and make more release, focusing more on the animation(because most ppl want it apparently) but you need to continue actively working on the cctool too.
>2022-2023 problem accumulate and for the most part it's not on your side, founding have lowered a lot. but passion : you continue working and keeping your patreons informed and start advertising on other platform that might be interested in your project : Fur affinity, E621....
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you actually make a CCtool way more customizable than 99.9% and more or less easy to use of what the market offer, the cctool is optimized, mostly bug free, the animation update is close to be useable by your standards, still not much founding.
Some question for you now (the * is my opinion) :
during this period:
-you see "insert whatever you want" (like little but good, crappy, scam ...) projects similar to yours at some point, having way much more founding than you have actually. Getting more popular than yours for some random reasons you don't really understand. advertising ? don't seem to be the case. advance ? not really too.
How do you handle that ?
*As fuzzyFerret it will make me depressed. probabbly continue working on the animation update because yeah it will boost the project popularity. i'm sure...
-in some pirate website they have released your program for free
How do you react to that ?
*difficult to answer, well i've done that before, because of money issue or for testing before buying.
will make me upset but not really against the downloader, more the uploader. maybe having a little discussion on these website make things better ?...
-on some of these websites they discuss about your game. cool ! ... cool ? not sure, a lot of them seem to be really angry and harsh, making some odd comparison or even invent some fact. calling you a scammer, milking your patreons. without speaking of the arguments of slow dev and bad dev choices.
what will you do ?
* for most of them, these ppl don't paid me a penny, not following closely and downloading illegally my project !
but still insulting me for free, commenting how bad my choices are and how slow the development of the program is without knowing a bit of what is game dev.
i'm still depressed and upset, how the fuck i can discuss with theses ppl ? speaking to them might just result getting me more depressed and upset and getting them more against my project but still downloading it... and even if i do what purpose did it serve ?
i will be even more drepessed now, even if i know it just a part that don't like it, it will hurt me a lot.
a final word : every ones have his own opinions, but it's better to keep it for you if having absolutely no knowledge in this subject and didn't even do the slightest bit of research your own and just to say : blah blah blah no arguments it's a scam anyway.
it's like, you saw on the TV a guy getting hit by a truck, and you say "meh he deserve it, lol".