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mrdonkyman

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Are devs okay with this?
Okay with what? That their game being pirated? No, what dev are? This is a pirating site, the site as a whole does not care for permission from devs to upload their games.
If you are referring to something else, you will have to be more specific.
 

Arikania

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they get less money that way, rule of thumb for patreon games. Unless you are ultra rich, wait for the full game if you want to actually spend money.
That's indeed a flawed business decision from Maiden Gaming: they are overly commercial, which turns against them time and again. Pity, since their games are really good.
 

Arikania

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I too play fem protags exclusively, but even though I myself'd never play him, I agree that adding a male protag would elevate the game.
 

mrdonkyman

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I too play fem protags exclusively, but even though I myself'd never play him, I agree that adding a male protag would elevate the game.
they should add male characters in character creation as well because some people dont want play female characters
They would have to change how they go about making content for that tho, since their games so far, and the system they have up right now is geared toward losing and submitting and a female character. So to add a male, they would have to add way more women, and add quests that instead of losing, you have to win combat to save some girl. Get girls as rewards for doing some quests, and get girls from bribing, which means you need gold.
So the female player would be: loss, corruption, seduction, political favor for sex, rape, blackmail, and maybe more.
while the male player would be: economy, battle (winning), seduction, bribing, rape(?), blackmail(?) and maybe more.

So you could not even just gender-bend the character and it would work, they would have to add entirely new writing and some coding for it to work. For a player base (due to past games) that is mostly interested in playing as a woman from their past game, due to the name of the game (the game is more or less called '"female ninja" Sword of the Assassin') and that they are most used in dealing with female-centered games makes them unlikely to add a male player anytime soon or even ever. Like, it might show up when the game is finished in 1.0 as a 1.1 or 2.0 update. But that is the only reasonable time frame, since they would kill the game if they worked on two branches at the same time.
 

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Okay with what? That their game being pirated? No, what dev are? This is a pirating site, the site as a whole does not care for permission from devs to upload their games.
If you are referring to something else, you will have to be more specific.
Well I meant their patreons sharing their games to others.
 

mrdonkyman

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Well I meant their patreons sharing their games to others.
well then I already more or less answered, but no they don't allow or like it most likely. It's behind their paywall after all and we get it for free here. But you can almost always default to "no" on that question about them liking their games ending up here. Very few devs post here, and even less devs that post here like the site, they mostly use it just because they know it's a good site to advertise themself.
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Arikania

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I still have the isue that I would gladly - and preferably, actually, play the game legit, but since I was kicked from their Patreon, I'm unable to pay for the game.

Hopefully, some dev will contact me here and we can resolve the Patreon issue.
 
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mrdonkyman

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I still have the isue that I would gladly - and preferably, actually, play the game legit, but since I was kicked from their Patreon, I'm unable to pay for the game.

Hopefully, some dev will contact me here and we can resolve the Patreon issue.
make a new account? or is it ip/card tied?
 

Arikania

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make a new account? or is it ip/card tied?
The point is that I need to pay for the game using PayPal. That's how they knew that it was me. I was banned from their League of Maidens communications on Steam before because I was - and still am - critical about using Denuvo in LoM.

Which is a pity, since I am a big fan of LoM actually.
 

Arikania

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Okay with what? That their game being pirated? No, what dev are? This is a pirating site, the site as a whole does not care for permission from devs to upload their games.
If you are referring to something else, you will have to be more specific.
On the other hand, there's several games that I learned about on this site, and then purchased them on Steam. So, although this is technically a pirate site indeed, it does help devs to some promotion as well. Posting demo versions or previous versions over here could consititute a viable part of their sale strategy.

That being said, I do believe that most people use this site to come by games for free, especially since they are so expensive nowadays with the inflation and stuff.
 
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mrdonkyman

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On the other hand, there's several games that I learned about on this site, and then purchased them on Steam. So, although this is technically a pirate site indeed, it does help devs to some promotion as well. Posting demo versions or previous versions over here could consititute a viable part of their sale strategy.

That being said, I do believe that most people use this site to come by games for free, especially since they are so expensive nowadays with the inflation and stuff.
Yes, some use it like that, but that is a small minority of the Western game devs. More or less all of the Asian ones probably don't even know of this site at all. And since most are EA, and not full releases or demos. People here do not feel like paying for something they don't even know will be A: good, B: finished at all, or C: fairly priced. I can however see some of the user base supporting the few that make really good EA games or if they are finished. But most things here are going to be pirated and never bought at all, so in most cases, especially if you don't see the dev in the comments here, they do not like this site.
 

Arikania

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... especially if you don't see the dev in the comments here, they do not like this site.
They don't like it, or don't even know about it. In Japan, however, this site appears to be well known indeed, considering how many of those Japanese production line RPGM's are spammed here. It makes it actually even hard to find decent "western" games that are not censored, and that are not stuffed with a range of sexual abuses.

Sometimes I think to myself that those Japanese devs should have their own site somewhere, so that we, the downloaders, are in a better position to omit them. Quite often, they conveniently forget to add the "censored" tag to their games.
 
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