VN Ren'Py Jessica O'Neil's Hard News [v0.65] [stoperArt]

[GingerSweetGirl]

It's ok that there aren't many lewd scenes planned, the real problem is that nothing else interesting is happening. The plot is moving at a glacial pace and is actively detracting from the game's enjoyability. It's just plodding forward one tiny step at a time.

 

[AlfredBundy4]

Judging by the devblogs so far, majority of the update is likely gonna be Jessica at work and/or more investigation on the vigilante case somewhere in the city. I don't expect anything spicy to happen unless you like the Connor events as that's the missing branch to end the current day after Jess returns home from Parker.

Biggest questionmark tho is still when the update is even going to be released. Already 8 months into the cycle, and it's usually 2-3 more months when stoper comes up with a devblog saying how it's almost ready or something along those lines, which not even that has happened yet. Might actually end up being the first update taking a whole year of development while probably providing another tiny 300+ render update. We'll see, but at this point nothing can really surprise me anymore.

I'm actually sincerely betting on never. It'll always be something that keeps him from making it.

If it ever does come out it'll be 2024 or beyond for sure. I'd be stunned if anything happens this year and I'm not trying to be lightly humorous like usual.

 

[keefer43]

There will content with Jessica's new closet. Are you not hyped??

Like I said before: it's the sexiest closet I have ever seen.

https://f95zone.to/threads/jessica-oneils-hard-news-v0-55-stoperart.15081/post-10090228

 

[GingerSweetGirl]

I'm actually sincerely betting on never. It'll always be something that keeps him from making it.

If it ever does come out it'll be 2024 or beyond for sure. I'd be stunned if anything happens this year and I'm not trying to be lightly humorous like usual.

Imo the Patreon isn't strong enough to survive a whole year without an update. He needs an update this year, otherwise there may not be an audience left to buy it. Truth be told, I don't think he cares one way or another.

 

[AlfredBundy4]

Imo the Patreon isn't strong enough to survive a whole year without an update. He needs an update this year, otherwise there may not be an audience left to buy it. Truth be told, I don't think he cares one way or another.

Definitely. My viewpoint is based on him just not caring either way.
When pressed with the option of doing ANY work or coming up with yet another insane lie, you don't want to do it anymore.
Health is real and people that make VNs also get sick. Absolutely. I'd even say that it draws in people that are mostly stuck at home with health issues. It's a hobby and way to make money when you can't...work. Yet, to either do any work at all or present your subs with yet another insane, obvious lie about your health going triple down the drain (lol) just screams "I don't want to keep making it".

The only dilemma then becomes to shut down the Patreon or ride it as long as people pay...and he chose the latter, IMO. Why not? Free money.

I just don't think he's actively working on it or plans to anytime soon. Clearly.

 

[palmtrees89]

Imo the Patreon isn't strong enough to survive a whole year without an update. He needs an update this year, otherwise there may not be an audience left to buy it. Truth be told, I don't think he cares one way or another.

Yeah, he's gotta release something soon. That said, I doubt his Patreon will collapse even if it were to take him another 4 months, making it exactly 1 year for this update. He'll still have 400-500 patrons happily throwing their money at him for absolutely nothing.

It might not be as much as ~$1900 which is what he's currently making per month, but considering that there's been a bunch of patrons who (no shit) literally requested for stoper to keep charging them money the month he paused pledges due to his "illness" back in May I believe, it is quite apparent that there's some actual lunatics trying to burn their money. There's seriously been people commenting stuff like; "Don't stop charging us money".

I think the reason for that is quite simple. Believe I made this comparison before, but it's like a junkie trying everything possible to get their fix. Even here on F95 you see people like that. "I'm gonna subscribe in the hopes that the game may continue.".

These people don't realize that they're only reinforcing stoper's behavior. It would probably take another whole year without any update before even the most diehard fans start dropping like flies, but I'm pretty sure stoper knows how to feed them little breadcrumbs aka the next 300+ render update so that this does not happen anytime soon.

It just is mindblowing how little content a developer has to provide for people to keep paying for this crap. In comparison, developer Lewdlab from "Midnight Paradise" took more than a year for their latest update, and they're sitting on 1700 patrons. Difference here is that their update had more than 2000 renders, bunch of animations and a massive script with decent story progression, whereas stoper will probably provide only a fraction of that with his 300+ renders and 2-3 animation updates. Both games are being shat on in their respective threads, but they're not dying out either.

And so I believe this will go on for a couple more years unless stoper decides to straight up abandon his game, but even then he'll still make a decent amount every month as can be seen with abandoned games like Milfy City. It's complete idiocy.

Edit: Oh, and I'm certainly not trying to say that stoper is bulletproof or anything incase that's what it sounds like. It all comes down to, well, time. He is constantly losing support, slowly but surely.

 

[Gearz24]

Judging by the devblogs so far, majority of the update is likely gonna be Jessica at work and/or more investigation on the vigilante case somewhere in the city. I don't expect anything spicy to happen unless you like the Connor events as that's the missing branch to end the current day after Jess returns home from Parker.

Biggest questionmark tho is still when the update is even going to be released. Already 8 months into the cycle, and it's usually 2-3 more months when stoper comes up with a devblog saying how it's almost ready or something along those lines, which not even that has happened yet. Might actually end up being the first update taking a whole year of development while probably providing another tiny 300+ render update. We'll see, but at this point nothing can really surprise me anymore.

I think you got it right, looks like another shit sandwich without the bread,it is hard to believe that people keep supporting this shit

 

[dolfe67]

It just is mindblowing how little content a developer has to provide for people to keep paying for this crap.

Yeah just having a relative successful launch and a year or two of hard work and then you can do the bare minimum, you're set up for several years. No wonder some devs are starting multiple games in the hope of the "jackpot"

 

[Rodrigo Tannuri]

Don't forget about Anna...

Who is Dee? From witch game?

 

[xCalon]

Who is Dee? From witch game?

Dating My Daughter

 

[adrian12]

Does anyone has an info on when the next update will be released ?

 

[Obranyi]

Does anyone has an info on when the next update will be released ?

Milker Dev posted an hour ago new "interesting" blog, waiting for someone to share what he said there, like I saw beginning he is "working"

 

[IIKEKWII]

"Working on a pretty big scene at the moment " more like another scene with connor and 10mins tops game time Let me guess update will come next month now??!!

 

[Jozef Minge]

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Hi, everyone.
Working on a pretty big scene at the moment. Almost 100 image so far, and I still have another small branch to make. It's probably bigger than I initially intended, but I go where the flow leads me. And it's always hard to resist showing Jess from all angles.
After this one I have another relatively big scene at the end of the in-game day. I was planing to add another scene(s) from the next day, but it's been a while since you've played anything, so I'll release it as usual with Jess getting to bed.
The image here is not from the upcoming update, just testing something.
Have fun, and thanks for the support.

 

[palmtrees89]

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Hi, everyone.
Working on a pretty big scene at the moment. Almost 100 image so far, and I still have another small branch to make. It's probably bigger than I initially intended, but I go where the flow leads me. And it's always hard to resist showing Jess from all angles.
After this one I have another relatively big scene at the end of the in-game day. I was planing to add another scene(s) from the next day, but it's been a while since you've played anything, so I'll release it as usual with Jess getting to bed.
The image here is not from the upcoming update, just testing something.
Have fun, and thanks for the support.

Thanks for sharing.

This devblog is pretty much confirming that the next release is towards the end of the year considering that he's said almost the exact same thing last year around the halfway mark of 0.55.

Last year around the same time he's been talking about another branch "not many people would want to play", considering if he should add it or not, and another event after that. Some time later came a devblog of him saying that this last scene would turn out to be "bigger than initially intended", almost the same wording as it is here, which then took another ~3 months.

Truth be told, this whole thing sounds like a copy-pasta from last years devblog with a couple words replaced and added. lol

Oh, and regarding this one; "And it's always hard to resist showing Jess from all angles.". Anyone with a bit of knowledge in DAZ&Co knows that simply moving the camera in a scene to show a character in different angles is among the least time consuming things to do, but stoper obviously makes it sound like he'd have to set up the scene from scratch entirely. One could literally make 50 renders of Jess in different angles with nothing but moving the camera around and then pressing the render button again, which the rendering is a matter of minutes with his 4090. Stoper on the other hand is saying this with a purpose, and that purpose is to make it seem as if he's putting alot of extra work on himself, having to "restrain" himself from doing that, when infact it's straight up nonsense.

And if he was truly concerned about his supporters getting anything to play with (hence his comment about another extra scene he "planned" for the day after), he would have released the last scene for the current PD months ago. This is nothing but a pet on his own back trying to look like the good guy for his supporters. That whole sentence is complete nonsense as he can release the day and keep working on the next one anyway, planned or not.

 

[Obranyi]

Thanks for sharing.

This devblog is pretty much confirming that the next release is towards the end of the year considering that he's said almost the exact same thing last year around the halfway mark of 0.55.

Last year around the same time he's been talking about another branch "not many people would want to play", considering if he should add it or not, and another event after that. Some time later came a devblog of him saying that this last scene would turn out to be "bigger than initially intended", almost the same wording as it is here, which then took another ~3 months.

Truth be told, this whole thing sounds like a copy-pasta from last years devblog with a couple words replaced and added. lol

Oh, and regarding this one; "And it's always hard to resist showing Jess from all angles.". Anyone with a bit of knowledge in DAZ&Co knows that simply moving the camera in a scene to show a character in different angles is among the least time consuming things to do, but stoper obviously makes it sound like he'd have to set up the scene from scratch entirely. One could literally make 50 renders of Jess in different angles with nothing but moving the camera around and then pressing the render button again, which the rendering is a matter of minutes with his 4090. Stoper on the other hand is saying this with a purpose, and that purpose is to make it seem as if he's putting alot of extra work on himself, having to "restrain" himself from doing that, when infact it's straight up nonsense.

He is like always pretend that he is "working", yeah I'm ''working'' on pretty big scene, WOW And in result update will be 15-20 minutes with sex with Connor and teasing with others

 

[Ragnar]

I go where the flow leads me.

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[Jozef Minge]

Thanks for sharing.

This devblog is pretty much confirming that the next release is towards the end of the year considering that he's said almost the exact same thing last year around the halfway mark of 0.55.

Last year around the same time he's been talking about another branch "not many people would want to play", considering if he should add it or not, and another event after that. Some time later came a devblog of him saying that this last scene would turn out to be "bigger than initially intended", almost the same wording as it is here, which then took another ~3 months.

Yes, he said something similar in the middle of August last year. Like I said some posts above - September!

 

[bobbo69]

It's funny that he mentioned that he made almost 100 images so far after 8 months, some Dev makes that in a week, guess he's been real busy

 

[palmtrees89]

It's funny that he mentioned that he made almost 100 images so far after 8 months, some Dev makes that in a week, guess he's been real busy

Yeah well, those 100 renders are supposedly only for this "big event", and there's likely some more prior to that, but if I had to take a guess I'd say he's maybe 150-200 renders deep. Still has to "add" another branch and the last event which is apparently going to be rather big aswell. Either way, last year when he was talking about all those "branches", they turned out to be basically non-existent. Those events were mostly just cut short due to previous choices and/or a handful of different renders to replace dialogue with different dialogue. But in stoper's world, those "branches" require a month of work, if not more.

I personally don't see a release happen before November, if even that. Guess one can only hope that I'm wrong and Jozef Minge's guess is more accurate, but I doubt it.