Forest wizard name - Radagast, BTW.Nope. Forest wizard, Pip, and Larry, all useless as far as i can tell. Ive looked everywhere and there's no Flitwick painting.
(Original post from February 2021)Actually, this time, I downloaded it from their website for free.
And I did support them when I first played.
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I also donated a smaller amount in October. However the reason I stopped was simply because I don’t find the amount of progress reasonable.
I wish more support would mean more progress, but I see zero evidence for that assumption in the amount of content they are producing and releasing.
I’ll set what I think is a reasonable amount of content to be in the December 2021 release and if they even come close I’ll apologise;
5 new full lewd scenes (1 for each FMC plus 1 for a secondary character preferably Ginny)
New clothes for the FMCs (skirts or tops)
New locations (they’ve already announced 2 so this is easy)
2 new mini games (1 each would be ideal, but I’ll be realistic
Some core story progression.
When you are right, you are right. I honestly don't get it. It would be so easy to do as you suggest. The whole rebuilding thing has become so confused I can't follow what is going on anymore. I no longer expect genuine progress, only sideways movement. Sadly, for everyone concerned, I think events (and other games hitting the same genre) are going to overtake this one.The decision to move efforts in to rebuilding the game while making no forward progress is bizarre. Half a worthwhile Susan scene and a random elf one is simply no progress. There really shouldn’t be a reason that an artists could have produced a new lewd scene for each girl and possibly even variants of those scenes with the other girls.
The story rebuild isn’t bad for reference, it’s the complete lack of worthwhile new content that I find the problem.
AKABUR?Crab is also aping one of the most popular intellectual properties in the world
I agree to and extent that you can’t judge a game by its Patreon. That said I do think it’s reasonable to criticise high earning games like this, that claim to have large teams for stagnating. I laid out a reasonable set of expectations 10 months ago and they didn’t even hit half marks.Never try to judge a patreon funded game by how much money it pulls in per month. For every Team NLT that puts out worthwhile content on a regular basis that matches how much money they pull in per month, there's 20 games that pull in that same amount and put out almost no content in comparison, and around 100 that make barely enough money to justify continuing, and a few hundred that put out a few updates, fail to gain steam, and wind up abandoned. So passion projects like Fantasy Valley get left at the wayside pulling in a few hundred dollars a month and eventually get abandoned while projects like Innocent Witches or Something Unlimited pulls in tens of thousands of dollars a month, make no progress, and have done so for years because they get by on "parodying" (stealing) a preexisting IP with attached nostalgia to bring in money. There's no denying that Innocent Witches has phenomenal artwork, but Sad Crab is also aping one of the most popular intellectual properties in the world, so there's really no point in complaining. You'll just get modded for it.
The biggest challenge to a game like this should be producing artwork, but a full time artist should easily be able to produce far more on a month to month basis. The real question is where is 24k going? They supposedly have a team of ten working on this.When you are right, you are right. I honestly don't get it. It would be so easy to do as you suggest. The whole rebuilding thing has become so confused I can't follow what is going on anymore. I no longer expect genuine progress, only sideways movement. Sadly, for everyone concerned, I think events (and other games hitting the same genre) are going to overtake this one.
This is sort of my position. I feel like once you hook Patreons in you have to really fuck up to loose them.I visit this thread once a year or so just in the off chance there is any real progress and I can play the game again because I love their art so much. Sadly, as it seems, another year wasted. I cannot even fault the Devs, they have surely found their audience in Patreon and every bad review on F95zone they read they probably salute with a glass of champagne. From all the games I follow, they have by far the highest pay on Patreon.
Don't get me wrong, I do want them to be successful, but I wish actual development & progress would be rewarded. But their audience seems happy with the 3rd, 4th? revision of the plot and yet another mindless mini game, and us, the pirates, will have to live with what we get for free.
My only hope is that eventually they will run out of ideas for mini games and old plot revisions and they finally do implement some main girl sex scenes.
See you end 2022..
Can't blame the artist for the lack of lewd scenes with the main girls. They only make the scenes the devs pay them to make. The devs wanted a garbage scene with an elf so they paid the artist to make one.(Original post from February 2021)
I really don't understand how an artist hasn't been able to produce a new lewd scene for each girl and possibly even variants of those scenes with the other girls.
I agree I’m not so much blaming the artist as asking the question why the budget isn’t being used to produce the content that the vast majority are playing for.Can't blame the artist for the lack of lewd scenes with the main girls. They only make the scenes the devs pay them to make. The devs wanted a garbage scene with an elf so they paid the artist to make one.
Let's be fair, Akabur makes actual parodies and is a very talented artist, he's kind of above the judgment for the straight up theft that most parodies around here enact. Akabur was making porn parodies before patreon was a thing, before crowd funding was a thing, and he maintains a consistent level of artistic quality that very few artists in the rule 34 field can match. He also doesn't have a history of wandering away from projects or treading water and getting nothing done. Star Channel 34, as much as fans may not have liked it, never dipped in quality of art and it had plenty of lewd content and sex scenes. The fact that he's moved onto a new project without finishing it is a shame, but it's at the very least a project people are interested in. Shit, without Akabur there would be no Innocent Witches and IW still has less content in it than even mods of Witch Trainer have. Akabur isn't immune to criticism, but he's far more deserving of a pass than most devs around here are.AKABUR?