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Phenomamd

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I understand if the game is like a triple A game that the suits control but indie games really cant afford to have their fans turn their backs to them.
They also can't afford to lose out on potential subscriptions because someone decides to dump the game update within minutes of it being released.
I'm certain this has been discussed previously but the reality is the vast majority of people are not patient, therefore being able to inhibit an immediate leak has a very meaningful benefit for income because people will cough up.
Every comment that complains about DRM in this scenario is 100% just being obtuse.

The DRM allows him to protect his incentive for his patrons, ultimately protecting his income.
Without said income, he cannot afford to work on this game.
Look at Denuvo, it may be cancer but it obviously works.

I'm well aware this was wasted effort in trying to enlighten you guys, since it's more a matter of entitlement than anything else. I've never paid and I likely never will. Yet even I, a fellow pirate, can see and understand why Fallen has to put effort into his DRM.
 

moze99

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They also can't afford to lose out on potential subscriptions because someone decides to dump the game update within minutes of it being released.
I'm certain this has been discussed previously but the reality is the vast majority of people are not patient, therefore being able to inhibit an immediate leak has a very meaningful benefit for income because people will cough up.
Every comment that complains about DRM in this scenario is 100% just being obtuse.

The DRM allows him to protect his incentive for his patrons, ultimately protecting his income.
Without said income, he cannot afford to work on this game.
Look at Denuvo, it may be cancer but it obviously works.

I'm well aware this was wasted effort in trying to enlighten you guys, since it's more a matter of entitlement than anything else. I've never paid and I likely never will. Yet even I, a fellow pirate, can see and understand why Fallen has to put effort into his DRM.
Pretty much this. I've pirated more than my share of games, but I'm also self-aware enough that I know that piracy is generally a net negative. Some companies embrace it, the best companies meme it (imo), the companies that get hurt the most tend to be the indie devs.

Say you release a game, sell 50k copies at 20 bucks a head. That's a cool million that goes down to 650k when steam gets it's cut (I think it's still 35%?) Then the government takes 50%. 325k is your payday.. split among staff and expenses you might outsource. Now imagine a small 5% of your legit player base is mirrored in pirates. Stuff adds up and can put definite strain on a dev.

I also am kinda sorta against patreon being used for game development. It's too easily abused, so I can understand pirating as a reaction to bad business practices related to monthly donations. And as someone who used to supply audiobook rips to a pretty big audiobook torrent community.. I know for a fact that most pirates stay pirates. Only a very small percentage of pirated copies get converted into actual sales.
 

moze99

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Still, I find what the resident crackers in this thread do to be pretty neat. I'm not patient enough or anything to dig into python for the find a key to the digital lock.
 

moze99

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Can you temme one thing which is that do we get 0.38 in it any saves ?
I'm fairly sure they just crack it. The save is on you.. Some games do have a "skip to new content" option, so I'd look for that. I believe this game probably has it too, since the history of this thread seems to indicate a lot of people saying so.
 

kialera

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I'm fairly sure they just crack it. The save is on you.. Some games do have a "skip to new content" option, so I'd look for that. I believe this game probably has it too, since the history of this thread seems to indicate a lot of people saying so.
This game has that too, but it skips to the new content in that specific version, so since there was a delay in the cracks and we jumped from 0.37 to 0.39 there technically isn't a skip to the starting point of the new content in 0.38. However, it's pretty trivial to play 0.37 until the ending point and put a save there, since ren'py saves carry over to the new game without you having to move any files.
 

moze99

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Ah, yeah. Ren'py saves are in the Appdata directory if I recall right. So, not too likely to even come with the game itself in most cases.
 
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rostabu

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actually according to backstory there were others and hana is rather good at sex, how many others is only hinted at....
 
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