Others Completed Future Fragments [v1.0.1] [HentaiWriter]

[syviryn]

HW posted an update in the Discord; the game is still not approved for release, and HW is still choosing to delay the release of the game 2-3 weeks after it is approved - this time less for dodging the Steam sale for an early Jan release and more to "both generate keys and bugtest".

The absolute earliest we get the game is lateish-January if HW holds true to 2-3 weeks but would not be surprised for the Feb announcement at this rate

 

[dragonsix6969]

HW posted an update in the Discord; the game is still not approved for release, and HW is still choosing to delay the release of the game 2-3 weeks after it is approved - this time less for dodging the Steam sale for an early Jan release and more to "both generate keys and bugtest".

The absolute earliest we get the game is lateish-January if HW holds true to 2-3 weeks but would not be surprised for the Feb announcement at this rate

i not surprise if he put date 2077

 

[Lailaichi]

there never was a future fragment, and never will

 

[Dinglederper]

there never was a future fragment, and never will

It's called "Future" Fragment because it's in the future, thus by definition the game's release can only ever be...in the future.

 

[iamnuff]

So the game is done

What makes you think that the game is done?

 

[Adirtymexican666]

they told us, they have been doing progress reports for a good while. all the scenes are in and most to all critical bugs are fixed. this is from the developer them self a bi weekly report. it isn't merely assuming like some others have. they literally were not able to submit the game to steam until it was ready...and they had around 2 weeks of further time to work on it up to today.

if it somehow still isn't done,what is anyone suppose to think?

 

[Ryahn]

I can't stop you guys from not believing us but HW has nothing to do with us deleting posts. Sure he spams reports or opens tickets asking us to handle things. Its a 50/50 chance that we will do something. The recent cleanup that I started was due to a discussion we had in our staff chat and about how we need to handle dumpster fire threads like this, a little heavier.

Believe what you want, but none of us are paid by devs. I really wish I could quick my day job and handle dev drama.

Anyways back on topic.

 

[Magister Masquerade]

Gonna be honest, I'm pretty sure that was all an attempt to shut people up and their "reports" are basically made up.
If the "reports" says the game is complete and yet the game is delayed... again... then why do the reports say its done?

Calling it now, the game won't be released, and HW will go into hiding.

Either the game isn't complete and is nowhere near completion, the game is barebones and has nowhere near the amount of content promised or HW has been sitting on his arse writing fake reports to keep the money farm milking.

They already had a release date before and stumbled right by it without a peep, then made some weird vague posts that didn't explain anything while changing the release date on Steam and banning anyone that talked about it. This was a while ago. This is likely why people are skeptical.

If the game is somehow finally done then great, I eagerly await to see what they've been doing all this time, but being a veteran of crowdfunding games, I would keep my expectations in check to see what content remains beyond the demo and its quality.

But if this truly is finally a release for them, then I will cast away my shock and disbelief and offer them congratulations, I guess.

I can't stop you guys from not believing us but HW has nothing to do with us deleting posts. Sure he spams reports or opens tickets asking us to handle things. Its a 50/50 chance that we will do something. The recent cleanup that I started was due to a discussion we had in our staff chat and about how we need to handle dumpster fire threads like this, a little heavier.

Believe what you want, but none of us are paid by devs. I really wish I could quick my day job and handle dev drama.

Anyways back on topic.

They are vicious and unprofessional on their Steam forums where they have more control and ban users who ask even actual appropriate questions, i.e. when they walked by their previous release date without a peep and people were asking if something happened, they didn't just delete the posts, but banned people from their steam forum with ridiculous things listed in the 'reasons' slot, and a Steam community moderator has said to one user I've spoken with that the developer is a real headache to work with, lmao.

So I get it, and I really don't think you're being paid by them or anything silly like that, but I mean at this point the devs' preferred behavior is hardly a secret so you really can't blame people for raising their eyebrows really really high.

 

[Ryahn]

They are vicious and unprofessional on their Steam forums where they have more control and ban users who ask even actual appropriate questions, i.e. when they walked by their previous release date without a peep and people were asking if something happened, they didn't just delete the posts, but banned people from their steam forum with ridiculous things listed in the 'reasons' slot, and a Steam community moderator has said to one user I've spoken with that the developer is a real headache to work with, lmao.

So I get it, and I really don't think you're being paid or anything hilarious, but I mean at this point the devs' preferred behavior is hardly a secret so you really can't blame people for raising eyebrows really really high.

This is new to me. I don't follow what dev's do outside of F95 unless its brought up in our mod/staff chats. Even with cleaning up the thread, I haven't gotten to that type of discussion. But this does make more sense now.

 

[IMNOVIRGIN]

I can't stop you guys from not believing us but HW has nothing to do with us deleting posts. Sure he spams reports or opens tickets asking us to handle things. Its a 50/50 chance that we will do something. The recent cleanup that I started was due to a discussion we had in our staff chat and about how we need to handle dumpster fire threads like this, a little heavier.

Believe what you want, but none of us are paid by devs. I really wish I could quick my day job and handle dev drama.

Anyways back on topic.

All due respect, While I understand that our bitching can get to a point of dumpster fire level. I do believe that we should be able to warn potential supporters of suspicious actions.

If anything, I think there needs to be a warn system. Where a Mod comes in and says "Ok, that's enough for today. 7 day ban on all [topic]" and anything after that point, people get warnings. Along with a clear understanding to Developers that they can share their content on this site but they don't have a right to control the opinion of their game and that spamming baseless reports will lead to warns.

But deleting shit then expecting people to move on isn't going to work.

 

[Ryahn]

All due respect, While I understand that our bitching can get to a point of dumpster fire level. I do believe that we should be able to warn potential supporters of suspicious actions.

If anything, I think there needs to be a warn system. Where a Mod comes in and says "Ok, that's enough for today. 7 day ban on all [topic]" and anything after that point, people get warnings. Along with a clear understanding to Developers that they can share their content on this site but they don't have a right to control the opinion of their game and that spamming baseless reports will lead to warns.

But deleting shit then expecting people to move on isn't going to work.

We mainly delete stuff to prevent the off topic/derailing. But warnings/thread bans will be handed out going forward.

 

[LowLevelLesser]

I really like the game and I understand the frustrations of both the development team and supporters but I think this project might end up a commerical failure due to the near total loss of goodwill at this point. The sales might end up kinda disappointing along with many folks complaining that it doesn't live up to the hype and people just refusing to give the dev any more money due to the long development time and bad behavior. The dev also admitted they've already been burned out on this whole thing since long ago.

This is definitely one form of "development hell".

 

[AviaS]

If you want to see what the combined demos have available, check out my gallery map pack. Load it as a custom map using 0.49 for the best results (links below).

Cannot download gallery pack. Somehow it's forbidden but my home PC and browser isn't under some administrator settings.
Could you or someone upload it anywhere else please?

 

[GummyPants]

Cannot download gallery pack. Somehow it's forbidden but my home PC and browser isn't under some administrator settings.
Could you or someone upload it anywhere else please?

It's also available on the official Future Fragments Discord. Look for the map packs channel, it'll be the latest entry there.

 

[Lailaichi]

someone need to knock the door and tell the dev its past 2023 already

 

[Getoffmypenarmods]

someone need to knock the door and tell the dev its past 2023 already

Oh really now. Just before they were about to "finish" the game, their scene developments went from like, 3-5 scenes a week, to 1 a week in their progress reports. Because the last scenes were obviously "bigger" and would take more time to make. Then, they would submit the game to steam, which could take a lot of time for them to approve. And then they would take 2-3 weeks to polish the game after approval.

Well, now on the discord they say that steams automated approval process failed. And steam would have to switch to doing it manually. Which will take more time, and of course, steam doesnt work over weekends, so it will take even more time. "Unfortunately".

Of course, I'm not saying they're lying about any of this. But to me at least, i find that each time they bring up anything time related. It becomes funnier each time.


The game will not release before February. (I do acknowledge that they said it would most likely go into manual review in a previous message, but I find it funny anyways that HW takes every opportunity to place blame wherever they can at any moment as to why things are so slow. Bringing up Valve not working on weekends is just too funny)

 

[ThatWeirdGuyWithaWeirdHat]

Oh really now. Just before they were about to "finish" the game, their scene developments went from like, 3-5 scenes a week, to 1 a week in their progress reports. Because the last scenes were obviously "bigger" and would take more time to make. Then, they would submit the game to steam, which could take a lot of time for them to approve. And then they would take 2-3 weeks to polish the game after approval.

Well, now on the discord they say that steams automated approval process failed. And steam would have to switch to doing it manually. Which will take more time, and of course, steam doesnt work over weekends, so it will take even more time. "Unfortunately".

Of course, I'm not saying they're lying about any of this. But to me at least, i find that each time they bring up anything time related. It becomes funnier each time.
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The game will not release before February. (I do acknowledge that they said it would most likely go into manual review in a previous message, but I find it funny anyways that HW takes every opportunity to place blame wherever they can at any moment as to why things are so slow. Bringing up Valve not working on weekends is just too funny)

At least this time it's a Valve issue. Like what do you expect HW to do, review it for them?

 

[Getoffmypenarmods]

At least this time it's a Valve issue. Like what do you expect HW to do, review it for them?

No, I don't blame HW for Valve taking their time. I'm saying that the repeated pattern of HW doing the same thing time and time again was funny, and continues to grow funnier each time. It's bizarre to see it happening, the continuous slowing down of development and blame deflection is something I have never seen happen to this capacity. Nothing comes to mind that rivals it, at least not to me right now.

And it's something I see you, and the people in the DC continue to ignore. In my original message, I brought up a point that could have been, and should have been adressed but was entirely ignored, that being the slowing down of the scene implementation in the weekly reports. The "point" of my message wasn't the steam review part. It was the pattern that has been around since the game's inception, up until 9 years later, just before its release.

If something doesn't come up to push that release further away, of course...

 

[ThatWeirdGuyWithaWeirdHat]

No, I don't blame HW for Valve taking their time. I'm saying that the repeated pattern of HW doing the same thing time and time again was funny, and continues to grow funnier each time. It's bizarre to see it happening, the continuous slowing down of development and blame deflection is something I have never seen happen to this capacity. Nothing comes to mind that rivals it, at least not to me right now.

And it's something I see you, and the people in the DC continue to ignore. In my original message, I brought up a point that could have been, and should have been adressed but was entirely ignored, that being the slowing down of the scene implementation in the weekly reports. The "point" of my message wasn't the steam review part. It was the pattern that has been around since the game's inception, up until 9 years later, just before its release.

If something doesn't come up to push that release further away, of course...

If you have seen any of my posts from either earlier in this thread, in the less moderated thread, and/or in the old ULMF thread, you'd know that I am very well aware of how bad he is at release dates and delays. I've ragged on him about it in his own damn discord. I've just stopped caring because that particular point has been beat to death for years, to the point where even the mods are tired of it and are actively cleaning the thread of it.

Yes HW is bad at release dates. You've cracked the code. You've solved the riddle. Congratulations. No one actually cares anymore. I don't defend HW because of some hope that the game will come out sooner rather than later, I'm apathetic to that. I'm arguing with you because no one here will shut the fuck up about this one point, cluttering page after page of this thread with the same thing over and over again. Like yes we are well aware how he is, thank you for pointing it out for the thousandth time.

 

[kasdiddd]

This game isn’t coming out for many more months. Do people think the dev will give up $7000 a month so easily? Game’s been mostly done for years. Stretching the game extra years to add some pointless lore has made the dev hundreds of thousands. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you, fool me 999 times, this shit is almost a scam. The game’s been delayed with excuses so many times it’s comical