You are right P and P (LotV) should be making much more that $1200 and they were at the beginning, 3 years ago (making more than $3000 in 2017).I can't believe he's only making $1200.00, given his well done render quality and animations.
Can someone help me speculate as to why he's not making more $$$?
My only guess is because he's using RPGmaker, and perhaps the gameplay is too tedious for the masses? I play the Ren'py version of this game.
My simple explanation of why and what happend:
1) They initially did frequent quality updates but then it slowed (about 3 years ago). Why? they are only two active developers and they simply could not sustain the pace (got day jobs), so they slowed the pace...
2) Communication and marketing was never their strong side (non native English speakers) - they focus on development not on communication. This have led to that some Patrons feel that P and P is less engaging. Its kind of like this: they are doing quality work but they don't communicated what they are doing very frequently so they lose patrons that want that daily/weekly interaction etc. They also did not communicate the slow down very well and some patrons got pissed, but that was 2017 a very long time ago so that is ancient history BS... so that does not matter today.
Things moved on they delivered a new release every 3 to 5 months since 2018 (even though latest release was 6 month in between), always 100% quality top notch stuff!
As a patron, If you were willing to live with the drawbacks from above, you stay a patron if not you moved on. P and P has been stable around $1200 - $1500 (with some peaks on release dates) after the dip in 2017.
I'm one of the Patrons who stayed because I see the quality and the work they put in, and I don't mind waiting a few months in between - There are so many other games to play in between so does not bother me. I want to see LotV through!
To me, P and P's LotV is still the gold standard!
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