My point is that the Klauss thing didn't hurt their revenue in the least. Yeah, some people complained here and there were cries, but in their Patreon there was apparently no damage at all.
Yes, because of cross promotion. We have no idea how favorably or negatively Klaus would affect the game because they completely undercut it with the cross promos. Hell of a great business decision on their part, I'll give them that.
Oh, I did, I don't post here at all hardly.
Here's the thing about 'cross promotion': by itself it doesn't generate much (if any) revenue. Few people who support Developer X, are now going to pay good money to Developer Y just because Y's game was promoted by X, WITHOUT ACTUALLY PLAYING THE GAME. The existence of sites like this one, where you can get the game for free, is too well known.
You're correct, but the cross promotion only started after the rape. None of those players had the months of build up a lot of us here did. I'm sure they got into the story a bit, but the tone whiplash is a lot less harsh when it's only been building for an hour or two.
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The rape shit made the game blew up because this thread was hot for a month and a half after the august update. In a couple of weeks it generated more buzz than the year before. A lot more eyes in a short amount of time = more potential backers after all. It was a blessing in disguise for the devs. There was a good amount of cancelled pledges from older patrons though. Ptolemy even got butthurt over criticisms from people not liking the twist in the story.
I saw someone mentioning taking over Qleafs work partially in another thread, and Haley's Story was on that list, so I think we're good on that department.
I'm taking up the banner with his support, he has been teaching me and I have already updated 2 of his guides. I will be doing Haley and 3 other games, possibly more, but for the moment just the four VN's.
I'm thinking it will be tomorrow, depending on where you live. From the discord it looks like they are still finishing up. The update with the most amount of choices so far has 9 choices, I'm wondering if this one will have more or be more dialogue centered.
I do — I'd certainly be outraged if my sister was raped — but that doesn't necessarily mean I think he needs to be the solution. To the extent that the game indulges in revenge fantasies I think it will fail the plot disruption. If it centers the resolution on Haley I think it has a better chance of succeeding.
Of course. Because experiencing and deconstructing narrative on Patreon's schedule is deformative and unnatural. People who took in the whole thing at once are experiencing it more correctly and more authentically. People who don't encounter it until it's finished will have a vastly more intentional experience, and moreover the one that the writer(s) intended.
I feel like we've had this conversation before, but I'll leave it at this: This is pretty much how TV works, so if they can't work around that, that's not my fault as an audience member, but theirs as writers.
I doubt you'll see more than a total of 6 meaningful choices. There might be more but some of them as of late have been more window dressing questions than anything else.
Different media have different norms. Do orchestras walk out after the first movement and ask you to pledge your support in order to hear the second? Do (most) movies? No. Further, television is paid for in advance. Patreon-funded games aren't.
The sticking point appears to be the number of renders, which on Patreon was reported at 752 (including animations), which is about double the usual amount.
Maybe dumb question but who is Qleaf the writer or animater?
Neither. Qleaf was a writer of walkthroughs for several VNs, including this one.
