Don't know if it's a bait or not but..
I am not againts 3-4 month per release schedule. However, i expect content worth to 3-4 months time period. It all depends on the next update. First release was great and most of the people loved it, including me. That's why we are so patient with dev but as i said before, all depends on the content for the next release.
I've played most games on this site. Barely any of those updated monthly has branching more complex than 2-3 path, and probably none of them has any focus on the story. Because with monthly update you have to put in an update a lot of sex stuff to interest people and that way games swing from erotic scene to erotic scene without really anything inbetween. Monthly updates are just irrational and cancerous for a gameplay of almost any game other than linear VN. 3/6 months per update is rational time-wise. Yes some devs abuse it but I see that timeframe as a clearly superior to a monthly updates. Hell, monthly updates would disappear with Patreon cuz they exist only because of it. I wouldn't wait for an update to the game that is clearly underdeveloped but when I see a game like this, Valiant Warrior Astrid, Wife & Mother etc. I can wait half a year easily because I know what dev is capable of in such a timeframe. But hey, I preferred 1st version of Wife & Mother so I'm definitely not a typical player.Don't know if it's a bait or not but..
There's a lot of good games(some already completed) with massive branching, actual storylines and HQ renders that have and had updates every month or month and a half.
You said - ''Monthly updates are plain stupid and all they do is to cater to horny crowd's demand while breaking the games itself''.. I don't even know what to tell you.. You probably still wait for ''Teacher's Pets'' update.
Like 90% of the games that take 3 months or half a year for one update don't deliver the good amount of content that should be there after this really long development time or they get abandoned/onhold tag and we never hear about them again, because devs milk their patreon community after a good start and premise.
That's right. It all depends on a dev. This one released significantly above average game and should take his time. For me, if his update can reach the same or similiar size as the first version in a max 6 months it's worth it. More than that says that he won't finish it ever. 1 maybe 2 updates will tell what's dev is capable of.
Originally, they were quite upfront saying that they intended to do bi-monthly releases so patrons knew what they were signing up for and yes it's been longer than that but they did say what they had been working on. The soundtrack. As previously said by @Olivia_V, it would have made more sense to speak about both the game and the soundtrack to keep patrons informed about development. The impression is that the team seem to have lost its way focusing on other things beside development so it's up to them to clarify things once again.
Yeah they seemed so focused on the sound track on the Patreon... They seemed so aloof, the comments from most of the patreon supporters were pretty miffed. I didn't complain myself since it seems rude, I just ended my Patreon until I think development is back on track.
same with JOHN and Red Room.
The real problem of gggb are not the choices, which enrich the game *a lot* and ore totally welcome. The real problem is that barely halfway through the game the story and characters became really dull, mainly because the developer stripped away from the game eveything that wasn't "politically correct" sex. Whereas it could have been really really interesting to follow different facets of the MC in different situations, it's a while now that I couldn't care less about how things evolve.
