Ragnar

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No, as I understand it, earlier in this VNs development the time between updates was shorter, but the development time has slowed down, which seems to be what usually happens to single dev games (especially when they start to get money).
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Ragnar

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I don't really see it that way, my assumption here is that Az started this VN when he had a lot more time and a lot of ambition. Maybe my positive attitude towards people will wither away and die eventually, but right now I want to assume the best out of people.
The funny thing about western vns is that one would think that more money = better render machine = shorter render time = faster updates, but for some reason it's almost never the case.
 
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Saramago

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The funny thing about western vns is that one would thing that, more money = better render machine = shorter render time = faster updates, but for some reason it's almost never the case.
And that's what devs usually promise. But sadly what usually happens is more money = better render machine = more elaborate scenes / more (pointless) animations and with higher fps = slower updates.
 

Banshee647

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When is the next update damn
3 weeks ago he reported that the big environment build for the next update was done, that was probably holding up the development of the rest of episode 11 as it was supposedly only 1/3rd done up to that point
 

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The funny thing about western vns is that one would think that more money = better render machine = shorter render time = faster updates, but for some reason it's almost never the case.
Well that's part of the problem. The funny thing is people (like you) think that more money means faster development.
And based on that assumption they feel they can make the argument more money = faster development.

This isn't necessary the case. The only thing that more money could bring is maybe faster renders. That's only one part of developing a game. And the render process itself can usually done in batches. Setting up a scene and everything around it takes a lot more time then the actually rendering would be my guess.

Writing goes faster with more money? Nope.
Posing and setting the scene goes faster with money? Nope it doesn't
Does money make the creative process go faster? nope.

If someone earns enough they might hire some people to do stuff for them, but that comes with a half of dozen other potential problems.
 
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