Nemo56

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Sadly splitting these games into seasons has become quite common these days, but I think Lust Theory was actually one of the first games doing that.
The gain for the dev is that they can put part of the game on commercial platforms before the game is finished, thereby not only relying on patreons / supporters. Especially Steam is a good source of income, but other platforms (gog, itch.io) also sell the seasons.
And people are more ready to spend 10$ now, 15$ for each season 2 and 3 in the two years after that than 40$ at once for a adult visual novel.
 

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Sadly splitting these games into seasons has become quite common these days, but I think Lust Theory was actually one of the first games doing that.
The gain for the dev is that they can put part of the game on commercial platforms before the game is finished, thereby not only relying on patreons / supporters. Especially Steam is a good source of income, but other platforms (gog, itch.io) also sell the seasons.
And people are more ready to spend 10$ now, 15$ for each season 2 and 3 in the two years after that than 40$ at once for a adult visual novel.
I suppose the money aspect of it does make sense
 

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The split also makes it easier for both hosting/downloading and mobile ports of games. Also gives players and devs a sense of accomplishment from finishing each complete milestone of a game versus an eternal slog of updates to finish or wait on for both parties.
 

Talmadge

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Think this is the first time I've found a game with "seasons" and "episodes" that you have to download seperately. Feel like usually it would just be one big file
I could give you two games you have to DL each episode to play. One of which, you have to go on the Dev's webpage to play the final episode. This one is like many others I play that have seasons. Some don't call them seasons, though. Some call them chapters. Or some call them parts. I'm guessing you haven't looked on here for many games before. Which is fine. But, as I say, there are many of them.
 

Emogir

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I could give you two games you have to DL each episode to play. One of which, you have to go on the Dev's webpage to play the final episode. This one is like many others I play that have seasons. Some don't call them seasons, though. Some call them chapters. Or some call them parts. I'm guessing you haven't looked on here for many games before. Which is fine. But, as I say, there are many of them.
Oh no I've played plenty of games with episodes/chapters/seasons/acts/whatever, I'm saying this is the first time I've had to essentially download 3 games that are connected like this, as far as I can remember. I've seen sequels where you had to do a "what you chose previously" thing before, but when it's the same connected storyline? That's a new one for me. Usually they would all be the same game/file/folder, and then there are just title cards inside the story that indicate when you go to a new "segment". At least in my experience.

But as I said earlier, I understand the splitting when you put it into a financial perspective, if patrons aren't enough throughout development
 
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I bought the STEAM version
Can no longer open the game after the last update
Already tried STEAM's built-in verification integrity
Also reinstalled
Still invalid !:eek:

```
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/0x52/0x52_main.rpy", line 9, in <module>
File "game/0x52/framework/01loader.rpy", line 26, in load_file
AttributeError: 'RWopsIO' object has no attribute 'name'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "0x52/0x52_main.rpyc", line 8, in script
File "X:\program files\steamapps\common\Lust Theory Season 2\renpy\ast.py", line 823, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "X:\program files\steamapps\common\Lust Theory Season 2\renpy\python.py", line 1178, in py_exec_bytecode
exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
File "game/0x52/0x52_main.rpy", line 9, in <module>
File "game/0x52/framework/01loader.rpy", line 26, in load_file
AttributeError: 'RWopsIO' object has no attribute 'name'

Windows-10-10.0.19041 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.2.0.24012702
LustTheory2
Fri Mar 29 15:18:58 2024
```
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theMickey_

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Can no longer open the game after the last update
Uninstall the mod, then try again.
The game works perfectly fine with the URM mod, no issues on my end. But if there are any issues, first play the game as it is supposed to be played (without any mods) to see if it's an issue with the game itself, and if it works, you can add mods to see if/when it'll break.

Then again: URM (in its latest version) does work perfectly fine with all three Seasons of this game.
 

Nemo56

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All pics are also in the game directory. Luckily they didn't pack them into encrypted resource files.
 

gostek

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Hi everyone. I noticed that Old Season 1 without Narrator have sleep sex with Elizabeth without pretending sleep bullshit. Is anyone able to create a restore patch to the current version?
 

devonY7

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Hi everyone. I noticed that Old Season 1 without Narrator have sleep sex with Elizabeth without pretending sleep bullshit. Is anyone able to create a restore patch to the current version?
i might consider making it . i tried editing some text in the old version today and it worked so hopefully the latest version should work as well .the only issue that the new version could have is that the new VA which matches the patreon friendly dialogue which may be a problem .
 

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I bought the STEAM version
Can no longer open the game after the last update
Already tried STEAM's built-in verification integrity
Also reinstalled
Still invalid !:eek:

```
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/0x52/0x52_main.rpy", line 9, in <module>
File "game/0x52/framework/01loader.rpy", line 26, in load_file
AttributeError: 'RWopsIO' object has no attribute 'name'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "0x52/0x52_main.rpyc", line 8, in script
File "X:\program files\steamapps\common\Lust Theory Season 2\renpy\ast.py", line 823, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "X:\program files\steamapps\common\Lust Theory Season 2\renpy\python.py", line 1178, in py_exec_bytecode
exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
File "game/0x52/0x52_main.rpy", line 9, in <module>
File "game/0x52/framework/01loader.rpy", line 26, in load_file
AttributeError: 'RWopsIO' object has no attribute 'name'

Windows-10-10.0.19041 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.2.0.24012702
LustTheory2
Fri Mar 29 15:18:58 2024
```
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You have an old version of the cheatmod installed, grab the latest version and you should be fine. (Your issue was fixed on March 4th)
 
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Nemo56

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Hi everyone. I noticed that Old Season 1 without Narrator have sleep sex with Elizabeth without pretending sleep bullshit. Is anyone able to create a restore patch to the current version?
This has been patched out a long time ago (before the game even made it to commercial platforms, so at least one and a half years ago), since it would be rape and they don't want that in that game.
But I remember the "I'll never forgive you" line from a early shot. If someone makes a patch ... why not.
 

Emogir

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This has been patched out a long time ago (before the game even made it to commercial platforms, so at least one and a half years ago), since it would be rape and they don't want that in that game.
But I remember the "I'll never forgive you" line from a early shot. If someone makes a patch ... why not.
Feels like a bit of a weak reason when you also have a scene where you (can) put your dick in the teacher while she's unconscious because Jess knocked her out
 
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devonY7

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This has been patched out a long time ago (before the game even made it to commercial platforms, so at least one and a half years ago), since it would be rape and they don't want that in that game.
But I remember the "I'll never forgive you" line from a early shot. If someone makes a patch ... why not.
it got changed when the game was renamed to lust theory .
 
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