People do that all the time with subscription services lol
Honestly that's one thing I really hate about the Patreon/Subscribestar model used for Western titles, it incentivizes devs to drag out development and be as lazy as possible, while people forget how much money they've actually paid for these sparse updates ($10 a month slips by unnoticed, but adds up quickly).
High hopes? How much slower would things go if Inno ended up needing to get another source of income if her sub nosedived?Hm. Well, if i was in her shoes i'd want for this job to last forever too.
But more importantly, if all those people continue to pay her then that means they must see something in her work?
They must think that it is worth the money?
Otherwise, why would they pay?
Yeah, imagine Gabe and his gang actually moving their lard for a change for anything that doesn't easily land billions in their lap.
While I would agree with this in the case of a dev who was working on a game with a projected "final" version (ie. once it's done, the money stops), that's not the stated development model of this game. The idea with this game is allegedly to get to v 1.0 (where the main quest is completed) and then to add side content indefinitely. Hard Times in Hornstown (despite being a very different game in many respects) is a good example of this model: there's a core story to play through, but heaps of optional side content with more being added regularly.
Heh. For the sake of your sanity, never ever check out Fek's Patreon (the dev of Rack 2).
Fantastic idea.
I wouldn't be for this idea. That thread would devolve into a ********* hateboner circlejerk in record time, however deserved any shunned names on the list, and more than likely end up poisoning the whole forum in the process.
To be honest, without knowing the story (and wo has the patience to read through 500 pages... but the release date might be a big hint) i would rate it "5/5 keep up the good work" myself.
This right here is why she disabled, and keeps disabled, the comments on the blog.
Point. There's also a number of other alternatives, just having a Wiki detailing history of projects would help, and not just for minimizing shitting on devs but also for Devs and projects that go above and beyond. Karryn's Prison, Roundscape Adorevia, Caliross to name a few.
Take care. 'This looks like a good idea' can go so very badly; it happens way too often. I'd recommend not handwaving the difficulties and pitfalls, but actively seeking them out to try to mitigate the damage if you proceed with this.
I think recognizing projects that go above and beyond is a better approach in general. Shitting on bad projects can be fun (and let's be real: I'm guilty as charged, your honor!), but I've found that negativity often begets negativity (often from unexpected sources), and sometimes garbage is best cast aside and ignored while the diamonds should be allowed to shine. Look at how many times we had a new person come into this very thread and start throwing flames because their first introduction to this slice of the F95 community was seeing people slagging off the developer of their new favorite game. Now imagine that on a broader scale.
We already have that on a broader scale though. At a certain point you can't poison the well because all there is is poison. Barely any discussion actually happens in most threads, half a dozen "why does this thing marked with the thing I don't like have the thing I don't like", "savez ploz", circle jerks in both directions about Machine translation, same cycle of the same conversation as helpfully evidenced by this thread, so on and so forth.
I..never specified quality based on update speed and amounts of updates? Roundscape has long gaps and then pretty sizeable content drops, Karryn's prison has major content drops every few months with small bugfixes here and there in the interim, Caliross has been in development for several years but it has been steadily worked on and updated and so on.
Hah! Yeah, fair point.
It kind of seems like the smaller and/or more niche the game, the higher the quality of the thread (though that's largely true of the Internet as a whole).
Oh no, I didn't mean to imply that you did. I just meant to say that documenting a game's history would likely either be a collection of neutral facts of dubious usefulness or biased to the point of essentially being a review. Pretty much just me being cynical, lol
I do think that having some sort of developer/project spotlight (unless there already is one? I don't venture out of individual game threads at all) is a fantastic idea.
It's like you're looking right at the problem, but you can't tie the the last part of the equation together due to whatever personal bias you have.
I think the explanation that it's a simple scamtreon or Scamstarter is unlickely, else it would have to be the most luckiest and most incompetently managed scam ever. For three simple reasons:
Hell, just look at the official Lilith's Throne wiki. That thing hasn't been updated in years. The only way a 'point tracker' type of system for monitoring the shady practices of certain devs could exist is if someone is devoted enough to comb through their history and find them. Do we really want to trust the word of someone that uses Twitter tactics to get what they wanted?
