I always thought this site only hold games that are officially presented with the developer's consent, now I realized just how darker this community actually is. I usually find games that are put up here by the devs themselves, but I think I've seen a couple of games literally got stolen then slapped onto this site.
One thing stills bugs me is that, was this site originally truly meant for pirated games ? And then more and more game developers decided to use and turn the site into a legitimate source for uploading ?
A good chunk of the games on here are Japanese in origin, those developers typically don't use western sites so you won't find their consent. The only ones that gave their consent are the few who actually come to the site, usually small team or one man developers like Selebus, and participate in the thread for their game. Even then, they don't necessarily consent, they may have just decided to pick a different battle so to speak. The ones that actively share public builds here or that are developing with F95 specifically being used as a forum for bug reporting and suggestions have consented to some degree.
Yes, the site was originally and still is intended for piracy, they just also allow developers to use this as a discussion forum for their game without the piracy aspect as well. The piracy aspect only goes as far as lack of consent from the developer, once the developer starts actively putting it up here or permitting it to be put here, it is no longer piracy, though only the allowed version counts in this regard. Example, if Selebus actively puts up the public version and the patron version gets leaked, the public version is not pirated, but the patron version is.
Oh no, not the clocks, anything but the clocks. *proceeds to have Vietnam style flashbacks of the first 'happy' scene*
Has Anyone compressed this for Android yet? Cause goodness gracious 3+ Gigs That's a lil much dontcha think?
The game is on the verge of not being Android compatible, so I wouldn't get your hopes up. Android can only handle games under a certain size without issue and then it starts throwing errors on installation and potentially during play. Compression beyond what is already native to the released version of the game compounds this by throwing even more potential for errors.
If she wasn't also crying, it might not, but yeah. I'm getting "Delirium" vibes from that smile and those vibes ARE NOT pleasant to have.
This is not true. I own this thread but have absolutely no control over what links and updates are posted here. The mods are in control of that.
As the developer, I'm sure they will honor a request for removal of links or even the thread itself if you chose to request it, but I would at least recommend not requesting thread removal, not that I think you would go there, just saying. We'd miss all the fun that goes on here if you did.
After catching up with the updates i have to say again this VN is awesome.
I just completed chapter 1. The Yumi scene at the hotel was really cute. I did not expect that.
I don't even care for the porn anymore lol
The story wont let me go
Keep up the good work Selebus!
Though I think the Rin kiss scene after she got "dumped" felt a bit rushed? Idk
I'm not so sure. Teen girls are a maelstrom of emotions and they can make extremely rash decisions at a moments notice without thinking of the potential consequences. They are almost purely emotion driven and emotion typically leaves little to no room for logical thought. Logical thinking would have had her holding off on the
kiss, but emotion would have her do it without hesitation. She is desperate for someone to love her the way she
loved Chika and that desperation can be a very powerful driving force indeed.
Now i wonder what might be in there (am at .14's end).
For what i know till now and what i think her agenda is you could see her as the antagonist. But that depends on the definition or an point of view.
I personally don't see her that way. I see her as doing what she thinks is right and actually trying to help player Sensei, not trying to oppose him in any way, but trying to save him from himself.
Oh, definitely. There's just not really anything I can do about it, unfortunately.
I didn't think it would affect me so much prior to releasing anything worth being pirated since I used to pirate everything back in the day. Hell, I've been literally arrested for stealing before. But it's hard not being bothered by people begging for someone else to fork over $5 and leak a game for them because they don't want to wait two weeks. Those people bother me more than the ones actually downloading them.
I have a responsibility as a creator to defend my consumers and my product. And while I know there are plenty of people who would continue to donate to me even if there was no difference between a Patreon and public release, it doesn't change the principle of people simply taking things that other people are using their hard earned money to buy- especially after I've demonstrated the exact weight of that impact on several occasions.
Piracy is inevitable in today's day and age and is the key reason that so many professionally-made visual novels release at a loss. I'm fortunate enough to have made something that so many people love, but I'd still be completely irresponsible for not informing and educating everyone about the damages piracy can cause.
I work extremely hard on this game. In just the last year, I've put out 700k words and 30+ hours of content without help from anyone. There is no exclusive gameplay that only subscribers have access to. There are no additional transactions or bonuses I make people pay for to get a full experience. All I do is ask for $5 in exchange for early access to something that everyone else is going to get in two weeks anyway. And even that much is enough to make some people rage or complain, apparently. I'd be a liar if I said that didn't bother me.
Indeed, I may be a pirate and a hypocritical one at that when it comes to games I find worth not pirating, I will freely admit to that, but I can't help but feel regret that the games I do pirate had some factor that ultimately put them outside the range of affordability either monetarily, through lack of availability in my country, or in principle because the developer does things I cannot bring myself to support and yet cannot simply drop the game.
Your game does none of the above, so it remains within the range of affordability and I am grateful it is in that range with how great it is. I would truly find it regrettable if it ever came down to reverting back to piracy on this thread. So far, the only thing that could threaten to do that is my own financial situation, which I can say is stable enough not to be a concern for the foreseeable future, another thing to be grateful for.
I don't know what this means either.
Anyway here's the changelog for the latest release that I'm not sure is public but very well should be. There is some heat here that anyone curious about Maya is really missing, especially coming right after the Noriko update.
0.15.0 Part 1 will launch on 4/16 at 12:00 AM CST for all $5 patrons
- 45k Words
- 400+ Images
- 16 New Events
- 4 Maya Events
- 4 Yumi Events
- 4 Chika Events
- 2 Yuki Events
- 2 Sara Events
- 3 New Animations (Maki/Kirin/Ami)
- 2 New Picture Messages
- 2 New Characters (Tsubasa & Tsukasa)
- New Music
- New Generic Events
- Fixes/Changes for Older Content
You would be correct, that version is still patron only, but I can say it is incredible yet again and well worth the money by itself, not even counting the rest of the game. Selebus has been on a major roll with having back to back updates that alone would be worth the money he asks of his patrons.
For anyone else who played 15.1 do you think
I can say without a doubt that is NOT a Robin, we have Robins here and they are dark colored with a rusty red front. We get them every morning in our back yard. The image in the game is a Finch and it specifically looks very similar to a female House Finch. I can say for certain that the search engines apparently do not know what a Robin looks like, I just can't be too sure of the exact species that it actually is.
Just to give some perspective-- the actual harm being done consists of the intersection of people who are 100% willing to pay for the early release but don't because piracy is an option. I suspect that this is a handful of people at most. The law is on his side of course-- it's his IP-- but if (somehow, magically) the user data could be analyzed and it would probably out that all the people who can-and-would-but-don't-have-to-so-don't can be counted on very few fingers. Someone who does not want to support the game won't, and those who wish to, do. If F95 was advertised on your Patreon page (or in-game like Light of My Life) that might be another matter.
Selebus is smart enough to give the game away after a short pause; it's very high quality, so casual fans probably turn into supporters at a pretty good clip. (The developers who really benefit from piracy are the idiots who release a crippled [or extremely old] version of their game that nobody in their right mind would pay for, but get fans anyway because it is trivial to find a copy that actually represents the game you'd be supporting.)
TL,DR: The tiered reward system + staggered releases is great for influencing the Patreon person clicking "Support" and trying to decide on a tier, but I don't think those people are negatively swayed by the existence of pirate sites. I certainly never have. I take it for granted that *any* game is easily obtained illegally.
Developers who release a crippled version are automatically on my shit list and fall into a category that means I pirate the game at the nearest source that has the completely non-crippled version instead of buying it from the developer. There is no reason to cripple the game, especially a tiered crippling where different pay tiers get more stuff, when they could just as easily release the game in this staggered release format. Day one access to the latest content requires payment while said content is still given to every player eventually, but the usual cases for crippled games have it in a way where the player base as a whole will never see the full game, only the highest tier paying players will in that case. I absolutely hate when they do that, it pisses me off to no end.
Interesting. I assumed that since the first post is in your name you could edit it, and thus slow-walk updates to a certain extent (although obviously if you actually obstructed things you'd simply no longer be the thread owner.)
Obviously I know nothing of the mechanics of this place.......
Still, damned cool of you to hang out with us. Seeing a dev engage on F95 is one of the factors that many of us might consider when deciding where to toss their shekels.
Indeed, Selebus being generous enough to interact with people who, for the most part, are blatantly stealing his game is a bonus factor that did in fact play a part in my decision to subscribe to him. It was a difficult decision even then because of how little room I have to rearrange funding without getting rid of any of the others I support. It wasn't the factor that made the decision, that was actual in game events, but it was part of what I considered when deciding.
