The thing is creators of these games, they don't live their lives to make you nut and be happy. And just because you can't relate to other peoples life situations doesn't mean they don't exist. The tax payers paid for your college education, don't fool yourself -)
Well then technically I guess I did pay for part of my education then because I pay taxes but I digress. However, I didn't wrack up hundreds of thousands of $'s in debt for an education that I may never use was my point. There are a ton of extra options that dont result in mountains of student loan debt (community/state colleges, trade Schools, etc. etc.). It's not about relating, I could name a ton of job's that are short handed that pay great and have great benefits that nobody applies for because it's real work. I don't need to relate to someone to know that their situation sucks but if they don't try to fix it then their screwed anyway. Trying to rely on making a porn game as a life solution sounds like a pretty unrealistic way of living.
Sorry but this misconception is all too common and almost entirely wrong. Maybe this was a thing 2+ years ago, but with so many DAZ 0.1 games being released, new games aren't getting much money unless they're exceptional or the Dev is already well known.
Using their hobby skills to add to their income is not a "life solution", it can be a bandage though. Like if you study and need loans to keep afloat. Make use of your skills to Monetize your hobby so you require less student loans until you can graduate and get a good job. Or if you laid off and between jobs, it can help you afloat while you get a new one. With those world wide pandemic going on, there will be millions of people losing their jobs and there wont be a "just get a better job, or even get any job easy" after this.
All the while people shouting at you for "milking it" unless you pump out a release every month right?
Funny I have worked since I was in my teens. Always had a job, longest break was a week or two at most. Why? Because I was willing to do whatever it took to put bread on the table. When your broke and your stomach is growling is not the time to be picky about work. Had a full time job when I was going to college. Did online and night courses to earn my degree, some of that while deployed in war zones. Brotha where there's a will there's a way, just got to go do it. As far as the pandemic goes that's been here in the states for what? A few months at most. There are companies still hiring, still work to get done. I go to work every day, were still short people cause people would rather sit at home and let welfare pay their bills. Houses still getting built, roads still getting fixed, trucks still driving, grocery stores still open. Oh no this great killer disease is going to kill us all, right? There are 7.? something billion people on this planet. Were overpopulated anyway. More people die from the normal flu every year for me to lose my mind stressing about some "pandemic".
No, I didn't say his pandemic is going to kill us all. It will certainly kill a lot of people. Maybe even friends of yours or family members. But the whole isolation and lockdown is killing the economy and jobs. But hey, you just show how you can't relate again. I hear they need a lot of volunteers in New York, maybe you should set off? The pandemic not being scary at all right? Now its health workers that is the front line in a war zone you can't even see.
You can say exactly the same for the "release when finish" way. No one expecting the game, there's nothing forcing them to make it advance. Hell, even when they don't have to worry about the money, because they did a kickstarter, and have people expecting the game, because they already "paid for it", many never effectively release something.
I see that there is again someone who would like some centralized "quality control" solution. I think the features of this site give everyone enough information to decide what developers they want to support. Everyone can check the update history, read the reviews, see the screenshots.
I always do my part by letting everyone know how trash I am, so everyone knows what they are getting into, I am doing my part!
Sigh, so wrong on so many levels.
Comparing a global pandemic that threatens milions of lives with the risk of investing a few dollars in a bad project is a bit sick.
I vehemently disagree on that part. This site makes no real distinction between core and peripheral content, sexual orientation vs. individual acts, even existing vs. planned features and content are inconsistent sometimes. Lack of exclusion filters and the split between "tags" and "genres" doesn't help either. On the specific topic of patreon farming alphas and abandoned games I am not aware of any distinction between games with a playable full release plus ongoing development (Minecraft being a prominent non-porn example), true betas (i.e. polish and bugfixing of mostly feature-complete games), crowdsourcing projects (Slave Maker slaves, mods) and the worthless v0.001 alphas which would barely qualify as tech demos and exist only to rip off forgetful people.
if only games not ending but pushing out infinite updates was our problem...
That is not always a sign of quitting, especially if the game has tons of choices, it gets progressively harder to add (as much) content.
Ok, f95zone is not perfect, but I still think at the moment there is no better alternative platform to provide information about adult games.
Oh I agree there, I just want the option to bleep out the demo trash when it suits me e.g. when I'm in the mood to actually follow a story through or for grindy gameplay loops where the payoff would be missing. For example status prefixes for "Early Access", "Demo", "Continuous Expansion" and so on because those actually support both inclusion and exclusion filters.
Of course, some additional tags for development status would be desirable.
