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Stop spamming the thread with "do not play". You are safe to play the game, just don't load an old save. There's a massive yellow disclaimer on OP that's pretty hard to miss when you go to download. If people brick it at that point, it's on them.

The game did in fact get updated. It went from 18.2 to 19.0 beta 4. Is it bug free? God no. Hence the literal beta in the name.

The older members should know better but they're instigating spam, harassment, and insults. I posted the changelogs & passwords and reported it for the update. Doing so does not mean I am the leaker. Stop creating mass hysteria and panic, anything further will just result in a thread ban. If you need to reply to someone about bricking their save direct them to the massive yellow disclaimer on OP.
 

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I was wondering how long it would take for someone to leak the beta. Runey is taking forever on this one. It's been on the $10 Patreon level for 'beta testing' for *checks notes* 5 months.
 
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Imagine a business model where there is this site I will call, say, Sponsor. Sponsor lets people sign up to sponsor an artist/creator's project with monthly automatic payments. These payments are not linked to productivity, just time. At $1,000 a month, if you complete your project in 3 months, you have made $3K, but if you complete the exact same thing in a year, $12k. The system rewards reducing your productivity and dragging out your product release, as it were.

"Yeah, but if you drag it out, you lose sponsors" you reply. True, but other factors are at play.

1. The longer your project takes, the more eyes fall on it and the more exposure to new sponsors, so the ones you lose are generally replaced, often by more of them.
2. Some of the wealthier folks literally sign up and forget. $30-100 or more per month are nothing to them so they just let it ride. If you are not particularly greedy, you can theoretically stop production entirely and still count on $500/month pretty much ad infinitum, but don't worry, there is still #1 above, people coming on board.
3. This process is so obvious - sometimes people know it going in, other times they discover it when they miss an update but the paycheck doesn't reflect it - but it is so obvious that most people do it, which normalizes it. If everyone was completing these in 3-12 months, then the one that takes 4 or more years, with 6 or more months before minimal and bug riddled updates, and no end in sight, would stand out. But they don't particularly stand out, because it is the norm now.

It is the simplified premise of operant conditioning that if a certain behavior is consistently rewarded that behavior is continued, even expanded.

This game was one of the first I downloaded, years ago and I liked it a lot. Updates seemed slow, but at least consistent. Fortuitously, just as I was preparing to "Sponsor" it, the updates pretty much went glacial and I also came to understand how the sponsor model can be exploited. I will gladly pay $60 for a completed version of this near-masterpiece but if I had gone with just $10/month back then I would now be down more money than I spent on my 3 most favorite mainstream games plus their DLC with no end in sight.

By all means, support creators you think deserve it, but be cautious, the conditioning is strong and the rewards hard to resist.

After a cursory proofread, I do feel I am being a bit harsh to this particular work and author, as I mean it that I find it one of the superior works in this genre - adult games - and my observations are of a general nature. If they see this, I hope they understand my frustration and go on to prove me wrong, and thus prove that this does not pertain to them.

If you read all this, recommend games to me that are both excellent and appear to avoid this practice. Something in this vein, if possible. THANKS!
 
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