Reiyayru
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I've actually seen another Dev with a similar story, the creator of Twisted World, a Trap, Futa, male/female role reverse game that was surprisingly really good and had really good models was up to update 0.73, game was going good, the story was entertaining and the MC was fun to play and read. Dev was getting pretty good money (No where near Sel but for where he lived he had said he was making more then his local doctors) his update were large and pretty consistent, longer updates taking a bit longer but well worth the wait. Admittedly though his last two updates were huge and had good scenes, the story had started to feel like it was losing quality and one big thing of the game was that every female was very top heavy, talking anime style bigger then heads and for the most problematic character bigger then her torso so he started having to deal with clipping issues (usually I would be turned off by comedic sized boobs but I enjoyed the game enough to look past it). At the time he was also very vocal about updates and issues which was good.Speaking of other threads, I noticed one thing that I found quite funny and interesting.
You guys know that we dunk on Selebus all the time, complaining that he is an arrogant dickhead and that he used to be a good boy who'd post in this thread before he became a pissy boy.
Looking at the Being a DIK thread, I found it very interesting, if not even surprising, that the general consensus was that Dr. Pink Cake (the dev of BaDIK) is a greedy asshole who used to be wholesome but turned on his F95 community and is now swinging the banhammer at people daring to say anything negative
Here is a quote from the user Better Cock Spock as an example (I really hope he does not mind me quoting him):
(There is a whole discussion about it going on in that thread if you want to check it out)
It's funny to me to see the parallels. We shit on Sel all the time, but I guess it might just be, to some extent, in the human nature to become an egocentric ass once the money starts flowing in big time. Sure, DPC is presumably making a lot more cash than Sel, but the change in demeanor still seems very synchronic.
It makes me almost forgive Sel a little bit, or at least understand him better, seeing that he is not an outlier apparently.
And you still gotta give him credit for being very reliable and punctual with his updates, he rarely misses content wise as well. Whereas someone like DPC is getting criticized for the longer and longer delays in updates (now over 12 months for the upcoming one, likely to go to about 14 or 15 months) and relatively subpar content as of late.
I'm curious to see what you guys think of this.
After 0.7 came out he had started to express being unsatisfied by how the game was going and I think by this time he had started to beef with the F95 thread for his game as after the whole Patreon purge started to be a thing he moved to Subscribstar and while usually people were good about it, the game had gotten leaked before it's public release (He would release it for higher tier subs first). At this point he announced that he would take a break and remake the game, take a year to do all the hard stuff (Make assets, the map, programing etc) so that when he's ready all he has to do is put it together and release the new stuff, meaning faster updates. At the time he was pretty trustworthy and usually kept to his word (Though I think the first sign of issues was he had a tier on his pateron/subscribstar for $100 which had it's own issues) which most of us were cool with, and on his discord he was pretty good at keeping people informed about what was going on.
I think this is when the problems really started to happen, he had taken that year but never paused or stopped the money coming in (Or got his supporters to just go for lower tiers as he worked on the new stuff) and since he was still getting paid while just working on stuff in the background I think that changed his mind set, he started being less informative about updates, said he had finished the hard stuff midway through the year and was working on tweaking and coding (Which he is terrible at and refuses to hire someone to help cause he claims he had a "bad experiece" with a coder before so only wants to do it himself) come Nov of 2023 where he had claimed he had most of the assets and "hard stuff" done in June/July he finally annouced the first update to the remake, to be released around Christmas time as a present for all, but the date came closer and no info, the date was a week away and he said he had to dely due to family coming over and so had to push the release in Januray, Understandable but then Jan came, no information, Feb came and he said he was having issues but would release the update soon, I think by the end or Feb or around March he finally released the first update, which only had half of what he said he would release and from the guy who usually puts out around 1-2 hours of content at his smallest updates, this one was 15-20 minutes if you read everything and did everything. He then promised to get the second half of the update as soon as he can, at this point he also started to send his loyal modders of his discord to attack people here who were saying negative stuff and banning anyone on said discord that said anything bad, even in a joking manner. He has finally released the second half of the update but its missing scenes and looking like he's now expanding it with "new" ideas.
He went from 2-6 months per update (6 months being hours of content and lots of proper animations) to now it being almost two years since the first game's last update, one year from the first promised remake update and he's only released I think 2/3 of it. Everyone is upset, bashing him too the stars calling him a milker and acting terribly, he attacks F95, the place that got his game on the map and has bragged (In now deleted posts) he's making tons of money, more then doctors in his country. He also spends a lot of time making Koikatsu cards for extra money (During the year he showed off over 100 characters he made that he said will be showing up in the game) But yeah, reading about Sel reminded me of him. Funnily enough he also uses a S name, Snatz.
