Lol, the day Selly is satisfied with the amount of supporters he has is the day pigs fly. Also, i laid out how new pirates will have next to no trouble in the vast majority of cases but you just side stepped that as though it wasn't 95% of my point about how it's no tangible victory. As i said before, the group most affected by this pyrrhic 'victory' contains most if not all potential new supporters so it's also a hilarious example of an own goal. The pirates will do just fine.
Dude, i've been here for a very long time now, i know why they exist, my point was they're annoying because they're not
worth it, if they were then i wouldn't find it annoying to have randoms regularly rockin up asking how to subvert the DRM.
It's good to see you again Alex, watching you do mental gymnastics has always been entertaining and i'm looking forward to the ones you'll do in response to this post too.
I never said he would be satisfied, what I said was new blood is unnecessary and even detrimental to his ability to work on subscriber benefits and the game due to the time required to do the work for the former increasing with each individual who subscribes from this point forward. When it comes to piracy, a thing that it is impossible to eliminate entirely, any amount is a tangible victory for the ones fighting it. Where it would not be tangible is if there was a way to stop it, then tangible victory could only be obtained by doing exactly that, ending the piracy entirely. In terms of LiL, a tangible victory in a situation where piracy could actually be stopped entirely would be for every player to either be paying or waiting two weeks for free.
Been here basically since day one of this thread, was even a pirate of the game myself up to 0.8.0, when I stopped pirating it. Yes, they aren't worth it because they are a minor form of compensation to try and bring back some benefit to subscribing that does not compare to the original benefits lost to the leaks. As much as he has attempted to bring back enough benefit to compensate for what was lost, that simply isn't possible as the benefit of early access is inherently more valuable. If he made the packages to a standard that was worth the same value as the lost early access, he wouldn't have time left in some other aspect, sacrifices would need to be made either in the requests, in the game's development, or in his own personal time. The DRM would subsequently also not be a problem if the packages had never been necessary to attempt to compensate for the leaks and had themselves not been.
You can probably see the cycle already, at least I hope so. Sel puts LiL out, LiL gets leaked at decreasing intervals that fail to reach the free two week wait period he has graciously allowed since day one, subscribers lose their early access. Sel tries to make extra content free of extra charge to compensate for the subscribers not getting their early access, the extra content gets leaked, the subscribers lose their exclusive free access to the extra content. Sel gets understandably upset and, seeing a third attempt at giving subscribers back their benefits would now be textbook insanity (attempting the same thing repeatedly with the hope of different results, adding more benefits is the same thing he has already tried), implements drastic measures that do things that should not be done.
I think one of the big reasons why there are not more subscribers, is because this game is completely unplayable without progression mod, which updates with public release.
Wow - I guess I just imagined playing it without the mod.
As did I, apparently I am seeing things when I find myself with a complete save of my own making. A mod is unnecessary, only paying close attention is needed and, at worst, taking notes. Every word, every little detail, is important in some way. If a mod was necessary, nobody would have gotten anywhere even in the early days with the part where you are alone and going around points in town. I got through that just fine and have never used a mod or walkthrough for this game nor did I have the extensive notes I do now.
There have been multiple times I have had to restart according to my own play rules (anything red is game over), all of them were my own doing trying to answer how I would instead of answering how Sensei would, particularly that one question asked by Karin stands out.
