As a fellow free-loader but also ex co-dev (writing duties non related game) who has been behind the scenes and burned out, it gets dumb when on a piracy forum, free-loaders with hands on their junk have nothing better to do than neg a creator.
There's many threads on F95 where people are happy with how things are going. Threads where this isn't the case are mostly turning upside down due to developers becoming slower and slower over time for no apparent reason, or when developers are being caught contradicting themselves or start straight up lying to their supporters, which in this case has been proven and backed up by facts many times.
Threads like this one are the way they are for a reason. And that reason is not as simple as saying "Free-loaders are haters!" because following that logic, every thread would be a complete shithole, which that's not the case.
That aside, fact is the current dev-cycle is already past the 3 month mark, and so far it seems that barely anything's been done. Yeah great, he's worked on a closet and apparently he's also working on an animation which I'm assuming is for the missing minibranch from the previous update. If I had to take a guess, I'd say it's related to the "hot scene" at Jess' home that stoper mentioned previously. Probably another Conner/Jess sex scene, but who knows.
Already stated that the covid/post covid updates (2) are hopefully one-offs and updates go back to previous cycles which still had the same B$ when it was a day/week/month late.
Sure, would be nice, but stoper himself has made it clear many times as to why his updates take as much time as they do, and none of it has got anything to do with Covid. Not only that, but the arguments he's made have mostly been debunked to being untrue in the past, as mentioned by
Tennoujirex.
Also, about 2 years ago stoper's development cycles had already started to slow down drastically, but at that time you'd see way more positivity and actual discussion revolving around the game itself rather than the terrible development speed. Sure, there were people just hating on the game, but you'll always have those in any thread no matter what. Thing is, over the span of roughly 2 years stoper devolved from one of the most respected developers (atleast in my book) to one of the worst.
Literally everything is pointing at another terribly slow development cycle, if not slower than the last one considering he's barely managed to do anything within the past 3 months apart from setting up his new computer with a RTX4090 (which he himself said would hopefully speed up development) and doing "maintenance" on his old computer's GPU within the first month according to himself. The second month he didn't work (while only telling his supporters about it very casually the next month, which one could call hard milking/scam by the way) at all. And now the third month was apparently "bad" because he's got his yearly several week lasting sickness, talking about it like it's some unknown virus from outer space that luckily left his body before dying.
Wouldn't be surprised if all he's got done during this 3 month period is the closet and a couple renders for the animation. So if anything, this dev-cycle is most likely gonna be a 10 month one, again. If not more.
My opinion or thoughts? Barely anything he says is the truth, and he might be working on other projects without telling his supporters about it. And he's not under much pressure yet to change anything as he's on a more or less stable €2000 income on Patreon, which is decent pocket money if he's working on other projects aswell.
Cheers
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