that's cool. glad you're an agree to disagree kinda guy and not a rabid hater. I too am waiting to see how he fixes the contract system. I don't know what you mean by immersion breaking though
I really dunno if Vren's communication has worsened. I've had a pretty good relationship with them for a while now, and I was a $1 supporter forever. I only a few months ago upgraded to $5 so I could play a more active part in testing new versions now that they're actually changing things I'm interested in. I see them engage with the beta version comments quite frequently, and they've taken input and criticism pretty well when it was offered in a constructive way from what I've seen. maybe more of that does happen in the beta threads than the public releases. I wouldn't blame Vren if they didn't engage with the public version comments, especially with how angry entitled I've seen them get
It is never a good thing to get to agitatet about something that comes down to preferences.
Everyone and everything has his place in this world, it is big enough for that.
Immersion is for me when something happens and text matches it. As an example if your xxx fucks you for a small amount of money and one day after says that shoulnd look at her naked. (don't nail me on this this is an example). This breaks immersion for me and at this moment there are serveral points where what you read is not in sync with what happened.
If he responds to the beta threads than the beta tester may have some very other opinions than me. And i think in the normal threads are also much thoughts that could be considered, they are not all hate. But it is futil for us to discuss this.
I was quite down when he said he would do something charakterrelatet and than we got instapic an co instead of continuing one of the storylines. Than the taboo system wich in my opnion makes some things and texts really weird. Than a hardcore business system that wasn't and is still not working as intended.
This was why i said i appreciate that he said that he will smooth it over holidays.
But i fear that he has a total different understandig to mine what it would take to smooth things. I could bet he will only touch some bugs and change some mechanics and ignore weird things in the context of the story or some text.
At this state i have played (without cheating) it ingame for 6 weeks and for me the experience was the worst of all versions that i can remember. I will not touch it again until the next release. If the next release will show me that i have not several bugs in first two weeks and several moments where i ask me myself what the hell was the dev thinking to not change this text this must come up every time someone play this, than my opinion might change.