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I believe sel himself said that the "wizards" will be getting content as they are. I'm not 100% on it though so don't quote me on it.
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They literally attempted to get the entire thread removed, so that would definitely silence us here if it succeeded.
These leakers absolutely do care about the discord, they seem to get a rise out of trying to annoy Sel, it's quite interesting to observe.
Well I have tried looking for your post, but it seems all traces of your existence in that server have been wiped, oh well, if that's what you're saying then we can go with that.Go and read it for yourself. I never deleted anything of mine, here or there. What were my exact words, "I hope it's not a tumor"? Wow, what a controversial comment. Obviously not just a dumb movie reference at an inappropriate time that's been maliciously blown out of proportion or anything
The only person currently leaking stuff in this thread only got banned there after he started leaking stuff. Ask him - or failing that, look for the messages in the Discord that supposedly got him in trouble yourself, his username is the same there - DarkDaemonX
People only get in trouble in the Discord for defying the cult of personality Selly is trying to cultivate, as you have so clearly been sucked into. So even if what you said were true, that would be a pretty compelling reason for someone to lash out by leaking shit they paid an asshole for, no?
I'll call it for you right now - people are going to continue to leak his content until he either stops making the game or he stops being such an outright asshole. Even if he were to take enough shrooms to experience ego death sufficient to gain the self-awareness necessary to recognize and change his behavior and become a cool dev again today, people would continue to leak his shit just because of inertia for a little while, but it might calm down eventually, and that's his only hope to get what he wants.
Also I haven't been as sucked into Sel's "cult" as you want me to believe, because if I was I'd probably have joined in on there raid here the other day and maybe gone a step further, but I have no interest in such things anyway since as you have said the leaks will continue but these will continue regardless of who Sel is as a person, the leaks were happening even when Sel wasn't considered an asshole and I suppose you could argue that the leak situation has affected Sel's attitude a bit but overall I think Sel has remained the same, he's considered an "asshole" because of his reaction to the leaks and because of wanting to cut his ties to this place, I'd say his reaction to the contiuous leaks is warranted and as for the rest, that's Sel's choice.
What is your idea of a cool dev? Would you like Sel to bend over backwards and just accept all the leaks? Would you like him to stop giving his patreons exclusive content? Because I don't think anyone in this current situation are going to get what they want.
The leakers will continue leaking to spite Sel no matter what and Sel at this point won't ever look upon this place kindly again, I'd say it would be best for both sides at this point to accept the situation for what it is, otherwise a few weeks or months down the line we'll have another spat and the same arguments will be repeated again and that's assuming these threads stay alive by then since right now it seems this drama is the only thing keeping it going.
Sel's words were essentialy that all characters, both main and side would have sexual content and unless a massive timeskip happens then the "wizards" are getting that content with their current ages.
For what's it worth, I think a year ago or so when the leaks were happening I think Sel had accepted those, but the situation obviously changed when updates were leaked within minutes of going live like you said and I think what made this situation worse was the care packages leaking, since those were created in the first place as a compromise to give his patreons something that wouldn't be leaked but we all saw how that turned out.
In fairness, in the unknown span of time Maya has never seen a few things happen that are happening now, especially the time jump mid-sentence. So for all we know there could be an incident that results in some/all characters skipping forwards or backwards into different aged versions of themselves. I doubt it but it wouldn't surprise me.
Lies, if it had gone through the planet we'd have found out what is buried beneath our feet.
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prolly penemue, i dunno why.. i feel like penemue will be hotter compared to plant #4
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Selebus own message is the perfect answer for that, it's more a matter of when rather than a if
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I don't know, man. All I know is that there are much more popular games on this site that have much cooler devs whose games still get leaked, simply because a lot of people on this site want it and there's someone who can afford it and wants to oblige them. That's it. What are the staff here supposed to do, deny it and make their own site worse, just so some already well-supported guy who's not very nice to them can make slightly more money?
In every SINGLE case I've found where a game isn't normally leaked, the devs are always cool as hell and don't talk about this shit - much LESS put it in their game - devs like Zanith of A House in the Rift, that hasn't leaked in like a year and a half despite having way more patrons.
Every single other creator here does. To every single other creator who has a game on here, leaks are just a part of doing business. To Selly in particular, it's "bending over backwards." Is every single other creator here just a pussy who doesn't stand up for themselves?
No, they're fucking professionals who understand that being personally likable is an important part of being crowdfunded. Obviously not as important as creating quality content, but something in the range of 20-30% as important. A pretty big chunk. If piracy stopped, Selly would likely see increases in the 5% range - maybe 10% if we're generous. Do you see what I mean?
So when you put lines in your game that literally say, "pirating anything should be punishable by death [...] Especially when it's something you can get for the price of a coffee"? Congrats, you just got 20 people to line up to pirate you just to troll. When you organize a hate raid on the biggest pirate forum and bully their staff? You just got 50-100 people to line up to pirate you because they like this site more than they like you. Congrats!
What are the solutions to the circumstances you created? You can either shut up about it and maybe even apologize and deal with continuing to get leaked for a few months out of spite, or you can double down, plan on adding even more off-topic toxicity to your game, and pay $25,000 per month for Denuvo DRM which could then be cracked by EMPRESS for $500.
So much of the cat is out of the bag at this point re: his feelings towards pirates themselves (vs. only hating the act of piracy) that I don't know if the leaks will ever end, but I think we have to believe there's a chance if he could just be normal for once on this one specific topic.
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Exactly, everyone should know what we signed up for when we started a game where we have "relations" with girls that are in the age range of 14 to 16.... supposedly.
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Luckily fully half of the main girls lie within the Makoto to Tsuneyo part of the loli spectrum. We take those wins.
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The dev you're supporting, and one I support as well, is a prime example of your comment. Caribdis is legendary; I'm sure they loathe the fact their game gets leaked almost immediately but they still put out tons of quality content and I've not heard a single complaint from them.
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Totally. I brought them up earlier in the thread - crazy how someone can achieve 4x+ the patrons Selly has when every single $50/month update to your game leaks within minutes. I wonder why?
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Ah. Classic alex2011. The balance is restoring in this thread. I really missed this.
Caribdis is great, and is one of the few devs I actively support, but lets not pretend genre and general style of writing/art doesn't contribute a huge amount to the patron gap. Eternum is just a way more appealing concept than lil for a huge amount of people, despite both being well written engaging games (imo).Totally. I brought them up earlier in the thread - crazy how someone can achieve 4x+ the patrons Selly has when every single $50/month update to your game leaks within minutes. I wonder why?
Sel could be the nicest most accommodating dev in the world and this would still be true. Lots of talented people out there making really good stuff that are just not ever going to get that more mainstream appeal.
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This is exactly what I'm saying!
This game is for degenerate degenerates, not just because of the thematic subject matter but also because playing it is self-flagellistic. The hunting for events gameplay is abysmal, the puzzles are stupidly obtuse to anyone well-adjusted, it's as long-winded and full of filler as critics of One Piece say One Piece is, and it's as self-indulgent as North Korean propaganda. You have to hate yourself and have zero respect for your own time to play this game, willing to dig more for the moments of goodness than the players of any other game.
And yet it's doing great! It's the greatest success story in the history of this site, IMO. The unlikeliest of heros, just like Yumi. And it will never be enough, because the dev wants to make as much as Summertime Saga, a game 6x as popular by views of its thread here making 6x as much money.
Ah, I misinterpreted you then, I agree it's doing super well for what is a pretty niche product. I don't necessarily share your opinions in the top paragraph though (outside event hunting, wiki info should really just be in game). In particular I think that "filler" is kind of just how any game with this many characters will feel sometimes depending on who you like. Because you mentioned it earlier, some people feel a house in the rift has a heap of filler too, though I disagree for the same reasons.
Devs wanting more money is whatever, the avn market is crazy fickle so I get wanting to have enough to support yourself in the future. Sel is pretty ridiculous about it a lot of the time, but it's a job with no real job security at the end of the day.
Holding off on having a proper opinion on Yumi until we get the sfw moderate affection event sometime in 2026.
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Progress Mod. Such a godsend.
Yeah, it doesn't matter if there are 35 characters or 6, not everyone's going to like all of them. This one just has so many and it's really hard not to think that some are objectively better written than others...
The real title of the Yumi Ska song is Unlikely Hero, so I couldn't resist.
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Yeah, his stance prior to the Patreon rugpull was more or less "it's gonna happen, but if I get a day or two before it happens I won't grouse about it," but we were already seeing this thread devolve into moral debates over piracy about once a month even back then.
It definitely escalated about a month after the rework came out when the instant leaks started to happen.