Hi, can someone help me understand this, please. April Patreons are going to get THEIR rewards in May even though they aren't Patreons in May (v0.40 & v0.41) okay, I get it. But are the May Patreons going to get the same as the April Patreons and even one more? (v.0.40 - v0.42?) In addition, those of May, until when will they receive the corresponding month?! How are we doing in August?!
We're talking about as of the date (right now) May 20th, the last days of May, the poor April Patreons are getting barely anything, only ONE update in almost two months. That, in addition to the fact that almost two months have passed since its last update, the developer publishes it only for the VIP and Mega Man tier. Are you serious?! You haven't updated your community for almost two months and the day you do you release it as if it were corresponding to that month and despite that, you make the Patreons of the Fan tier wait ONE MORE WEEK... Really, I'm the only one who doesn't get it? (I might be very dumb for thinking like that, sorry.)
I can understand that in april, the developer had "a great inspiration" to plan and start another project that he had been planning for a long time (yes, in addition to the still unfinished IWH, IWH: Gravure and the Aiko project) called: Innocent Wife Hana, which due to disagreement with the script, better left him "cooking" while he advances with IWH.
I completely understand that the developer has other plans for projects and decides to give them a direction at first, but I don't understand THIS developer's desperation to start working on them (for IWH: Gravure even created a demo) before even finishing the "main" game. In the middle of developing his "index game" he is starting to work on scripts and illustrations for the "saga" of the game (I theorized that Innocent Wife Hana is going to be a prequel) and on another new project with nothing (apparently) related to Hana.
I know that Fallen Eros wants to take advantage of all the attention and publicity it's getting now thanks to its good game. Having ideas for future games and sharing them is a good way to keep and cause the attention and curiosity of new or regular users, but right now, due to its apparent bad organization, I fear that at some point it will start doing what other developers do when they chew more than they can swallow (they end up abandoning it or the projects).
On the other hand, I must say that it's somewhat contradictory to mention that you can't expect much from a developer who (as he puts it) "creates the artwork, writes the dialogue, programs the game and manages his pages" (*cough* including his F95 thread *cough*...) on his own.
Must it be hard to handle all that? Of course you do, but for that very reason, because you're a one-person development team, wouldn't it be best to completely end a project before you start planning and developing a new one? Because at the end of the day, he "prioritizes quality over quantity", right? Anyway.
Going back to the "main" topic, as far as I understand, "monthly updates" still exist and will probably continue, but the wait and delivery time is getting longer and longer (what "monthly update" refers to). If the waiting time for each update is increasing, and the developer's lack of organization is consuming it, it can really be a serious problem for the developer and their projects in the future.
Thanks for taking the time to read it and sorry for my bad English, I used Google translate.