- Sep 5, 2021
- 2,784
- 6,400
I really miss the two week release schedule... this thread keeps dying in the second half of the month...
- Jan 1, 2024
- 109
- 250
So far from what I've seen this is just a cycle
Pre-update hype > Update > Theories and reviews of the update > Previews and other things > End of previews > Death > Repeat
- Dec 18, 2020
- 216
- 507
So basically we're all just Mayas.
- Sep 27, 2020
- 99
- 290
I don't know what the relevant literary analysis terms to describe it would be. But he does seem to have us trapped in a cycle that has some parallels to the games narrative. Trapped us in some kind of messed up ARG. Also I finally caught back up on the game/thread so I can re-join the cycle once more.
- Mar 15, 2023
- 730
- 1,314
Current release schedule is the 1st of each month, except June and December
- Nov 23, 2023
- 619
- 1,020
1st of next month, 8 to 9 days until it arrives
Every time I restart the game, I get an error, which causes me to have to reextract the game folder from the update to fix it - Doing so also deletes my save games.
Is this a bug, or is this the copy protection selebus put in because Im pirating the bonus content? I thought I fixed that, according to the OPs instructions.
Specifically, closing the game causes the script.rpy to be over-written with some byte code
File "game/script.rpy", line 1: expected statement.
79 6F 75 20 77 6F 75 6C 64 6E 27 74 20 64 6F 77 6E 6C 6F 61 64 20 61 20 63 61 72 2E 2E 2E
E: Which, I'm now realising, translates to "y o u w o u l d n ' t d o w n l o a d a c a r . . .".
Also, post #33000 get
Is this a bug, or is this the copy protection selebus put in because Im pirating the bonus content? I thought I fixed that, according to the OPs instructions.
Specifically, closing the game causes the script.rpy to be over-written with some byte code
File "game/script.rpy", line 1: expected statement.
79 6F 75 20 77 6F 75 6C 64 6E 27 74 20 64 6F 77 6E 6C 6F 61 64 20 61 20 63 61 72 2E 2E 2E
E: Which, I'm now realising, translates to "y o u w o u l d n ' t d o w n l o a d a c a r . . .".
Also, post #33000 get
Last edited:
- Jun 20, 2018
- 630
- 1,078
If you installed the care packages you have to substitute the sanitized gui.rpy file after every update.
Confirmed fix - replacing the mangled script.rpy with the one from the update, and replacing the gui.rpy from the OP has indeed solved this. Remember to backup your saves before an update
- Jun 20, 2018
- 630
- 1,078
Saw this trending on x, almost had hope.
- Sep 5, 2021
- 2,784
- 6,400
- Mar 15, 2023
- 730
- 1,314
Maybe I am in the minority here but I feel that if the dev is already giving us a version for free the least we can do is respect his wishes and not pirate the stuff he uses as incentive for people to give him the money he needs to continue this project. At least not until it's actually done. If not for honor among thieves than at least out of simple self interest. After all, we want him to actually get this done.
- Sep 9, 2023
- 23
- 50
Piracy is the great equalizer, not a punishment nor an incentive. It doesn't discriminate, have interests or motivations, or judge content by any flawed standard, as a person or business would. It simply exists. In all respects, it serves as a baseline where all artists exist, and thus, all art is equal.
No honor, no self-or-monetary-interests, just free access to information. It's a reminder that everything is created equal, and that qualitative differences are made after the fact. Lessons in Love, like any other work of art, is not immune.
On the one hand you are correct. On the other there is the human nature element of giving a big FU when told they can't/shouldn't do something. Ultimately people are more likely to respect someones wishes if they are polite about it. Unfortunately due to actions and words it can quickly become very antagonistic and a race for each side to constantly one up the other.
Piracy of some sort or other is likely always going to be a problem with any creative endeavour. The effect of it will depend on the engagement with the community. For example, with videogames the introduction of DRM systems encourage a mindset amongst some people of there being a challenge in breaking the DRM which can actually encourage piracy, whereas sometimes the lack of a DRM system can encourage people to actually buy the product if it is worthwhile. I mean there must be a reason why GOG.COM is able to keep running as a business.
- Jan 24, 2023
- 109
- 388
I legit had my subscription cancelled and got banned from discord, because I posted a preview pic on here. I get not wanting to get your subs-only content pirated, but come on.
Also - after I subbed I downloaded all carepackages and a fresh game from game's website and lost all my saves
Personally I think it's outrageous that the dev expects people to wait 2 weeks (or however long it is) to play his free game.
- Jan 24, 2023
- 109
- 388
It's... logical? Release dates are not 1st of every month, it's 15th of every month. Just those who pay can play it earlier. Not everone else can play it later. That's how supporting the creator works? You send them money for their art and get some shit in return? For example - an early access to the content.
Don't get me wrong. Like, I've been pirating games since back when that meant taking polaroids of the paper manual to get the secret answers to the in game DRM question. So I've no problem with piracy in general and no love for DRM.
I just think that overall it's a reasonable thing to not undercut the guys primary means of profit at least until he has finished the product. If nothing else, the guy has to have some incentive to make people actually give him money instead of just playing for free. If he does not than he might just not get enough money for this whole thing to be worth his while and decide that he can spend his skills on making something else that does. And than we're out of a fun product. Of course, once the game is done all bets are off. But that goes without saying. And he'll have made enough money by than that it's fair.
Plus frankly the dev here isn't some faceless corporation like EA that can use some putting down. And as a community we can and should give support to developers by, at the very least, not completely screwing them over before they've had a chance to at least see a reasonable amount of profit or else they'll just dry up and leave us without games to steal.
I think overall the best analogy here is that we should be like parasites and not viruses. We should leach off the host for nutrients but not outright kill it. Because if the host dies we go unfed. And that's just not fun.
I just think that overall it's a reasonable thing to not undercut the guys primary means of profit at least until he has finished the product. If nothing else, the guy has to have some incentive to make people actually give him money instead of just playing for free. If he does not than he might just not get enough money for this whole thing to be worth his while and decide that he can spend his skills on making something else that does. And than we're out of a fun product. Of course, once the game is done all bets are off. But that goes without saying. And he'll have made enough money by than that it's fair.
Plus frankly the dev here isn't some faceless corporation like EA that can use some putting down. And as a community we can and should give support to developers by, at the very least, not completely screwing them over before they've had a chance to at least see a reasonable amount of profit or else they'll just dry up and leave us without games to steal.
I think overall the best analogy here is that we should be like parasites and not viruses. We should leach off the host for nutrients but not outright kill it. Because if the host dies we go unfed. And that's just not fun.
Last edited: