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Hi! Echoes of Lust S2E4.5 is now live for all 10$ and above Patrons!
In this half episode we are adding Amy's story and a hot hidden crossover event.
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I was actually going to subscribe to Inceton because I do enjoy Summer with Mia game and only found out about the Act 2 of the game now, and was thinking that since I am on a donating binge, might as well donate $5-10/mth to them too because their games are really enjoyable for me.
Of course my $5-10/mth is probably nothing to a developer like Inceton that has over 2200 patrons, its the principle. But then I read this thread and saw the "discussion" and its unfortunately off putting. I also don't mind giving like $50-120/year to a developer because I was thinking of creating a game on renpy the other day and saw how hard it is to just make images and render using daz3d and realized thats not for me..I rather just spend my money on supporting people who want to really develop games or at least try to.
Anyway, sorry for my rant, but even if Inceton believes that most of their patrons are not from f95, I'm in the minority then, because of f95, I only found out what patreon or subscribestar is and only by downloading these games through mega links and seeing if I like them, am I able to be a patron whether long term or short term.
I also gripe once in a while if a developer never finishes a game or if they do start milking their patrons and give out 1 update a year. At least with Steam, they will refund you on any game you buy if you dont like it within a certain time frame. So yea, maybe when Inceton has Summer of Mia 2 and Echoes of Lust on Steam, maybe I'll just go that route. One time fee is still cheaper than a monthly subscription. So for now, I'll hold off. Then again since I did download Summer of Mia for free, I'll buy it on Steam to offset any of your "development cost".
Not everyone on f95 is a freeloading person. If anything, I find f95 a very friendly site where you can learn how to develop games if you wanted, or learn to render..learn to code..get ideas on games or visual novels. If anything, f95 wouldn't even let me donate last year to their site because they said I was "too new" and just created my account like a month ago..was it last year? maybe the year before..covid..i can't even remember what a year ago felt like..anyway another rant to my last rant. I just wasted at least 10 minutes of your time reading this..Sorry again..bad habit.
You are right in everything you say. I also bought summer of mia on steam , even though i played it originally here via mega, to reward the dev the work.
The thing with f95 is this : there are hundreds of games,devs,patreos. Our poket is limiter per 1-2 patreon funds.So thats why some of us prefer to fund 1 game over the other etc , and the ideea of this forums is to
1.post games , make them popular and get patreons (even though the game itself gets pirated).
2.share the content between us ( for exemple a 25$ dolar patreon of inceton post the newest update here , why another patreon of another dev posts another new update here) so each of us can get to play more games with less money (i know it sounds greedy but than again our poket is as big as it can get)
This forum sheds light on some games , make them popular , thats a fact no matter what the devs themselves say . I was part of the forums since Big Brother was still alive and trust me i got to see how the game progressed and the popularity it got from f95 forums.
My honest opinion? i would give patreon money to one dev with that best game in my opinion and leave the other people to give the other devs. Sure they launch game on steam (and here i mean only on steam not other shady platforms like nuntaku ichi.io or whatever , nothing guarantees the download link or site will exist in 2 years , when we know steam will be a loooong time) and we can back their work up like a normal game and this way help.
Oh yea, I totally agree with you. I actually will raise my patron tier level to $10 or even $25/mth after I get a note back from the developer saying how much they appreciate my donation or how they act on this forum. A nicer dev will definitely get more money from me than not so nice dev. But that's just me. Of course other factors are involved like if the game changes directions that I don't really like or if I get bored of the game, then I will unsubscribe, but many times as soon as I check their game thread on here and I see that the dev is just as nice as the first time I subscribed, I will end up resubscribing. It's just always nice to support nice people or at least professional customer oriented people.i don't really know about that, but it doesn't makes sense to me. if we are such a minority, why he cares that much about sharing content here? ok, there are also other pirate sites, which taking the updates from here.
imo if it's true, then i wouldn't care. for me it's much more important, how the dev is to the ppl and
almost every time i came here to read about an update, he was salty.
he should more care about his attitude, than how to block ppl from playing shared content.
i'm sure, he would have much more patrons, if he acts nicer.
Oh, I totally misunderstood your original message. Sorry. I'm one of those silent patrons. I just subscribe, maybe say 1 or 2 nice comments and then thats it. I don't even check the patreon updates unless I can't see any updates here.
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