VN Ren'Py Abandoned Lustful Voyage [Christmas Special] [Scallywag Games]

[ilkit1234]

At this point bad news would be better than no news. I don't want to see teaser, I want Devs to give us insight into how well or how badly this is going.

Bingo. And let's not all pretend like Scallywag Games isn't aware of this after ghosting subs. The lack of communication and lack of any actual development news is intentional. The last "real" dev update on progress was in February.

It's why I agree that the game should be marked as abandoned until a new chapter is released.

 

[fidgetspinner]

It's why I agree that the game should be marked as abandoned until a new chapter is released.

Doesn't work like that. Dev has not officially abandonned, Has been active on Patreon mid-june and has released the last update in december (less than 18 months).

1. Abandoned: used in the following cases:
   • The developer states that the development has been permanently suspended.
   • After 3 months of inactivity from the developer's public creator/crowdfunding accounts (Patreon, SS, etc), we will resolve special circumstances or scenarios on a case-by-case basis (no creator accounts, creators developing for free, Patreon accounts under review/ban).
   • No game update has been released for an abnormally long period of time (>18 months).
   • Game threads that are marked On-hold for over 6 months with no game update.
   • Note: this prefix is only removed upon the release of a new update for purchase/download.

https://f95zone.to/threads/game-uploading-rules-2024-02-29.524/

 

[DressedToThrill]

Doesn't work like that. Dev has not officially abandonned, Has been active on Patreon mid-june and has released the last update in december (less than 18 months).

It's abandoned in our broken hearts.
Only a new update can mend them!

 

[RX-9/C]

Bingo. And let's not all pretend like Scallywag Games isn't aware of this after ghosting subs. The lack of communication and lack of any actual development news is intentional. The last "real" dev update on progress was in February.

It's why I agree that the game should be marked as abandoned until a new chapter is released.

Lol if slow updates with teasing photos are to be marked as abandoned then 80% of this whole forum should all be labeled as that status.

 

[ilkit1234]

Lol if slow updates with teasing photos are to be marked as abandoned then 80% of this whole forum should all be labeled as that status.

And if that happened, updates would magically start coming out faster and more frequently

 

[HZ10_18]

You told people the update would likely be out in April

I said this because in this post, paragraph 9 on the first sentence it talks about scallywag working hard through March and possibly April but hasn't thought of a release date.

 

[Dmob_6438]

Man enough teasers, just tell us when will you release the update please, I hate that the Dev doesn’t give us update in where the game is at now

 

[WeAreChecking]

Man enough teasers, just tell us when will you release the update please, I hate that the Dev doesn’t give us update in where the game is at now

Like come on man, I'm tired of seeing teasers, how many more teasers? We've already seen the whole update in teasers, either tell us a release date or just stop with the god damn teasers.

 

[ilkit1234]

Like come on man, I'm tired of seeing teasers, how many more teasers? We've already seen the whole update in teasers, either tell us a release date or just stop with the god damn teasers.

Because he's scamming people. Back in April he implied there would be an imminent release.

Here we are with no projection of an update, no communication, and no status on development. And then people here get offended that he gets called out?

Every dev that scams uses the "family emergency" excuse. When you take people's hard earned money and mislead them, that isn't a legitimate excuse if it's even true. If I rob a bank and then say it's because my mom was in a car accident, that doesn't give me the moral high ground to steal.

 

[Silwith]

I mean, everyone who get's scammed is at fault themselves... just cancel the sub :3 I am hoping for a update soon, don't have any money in it per month now, so... the only news I can get is good news xD

 

[ilkit1234]

Right on cue and predictable. It's always the same "update soon" yet they've been saying it for months

Zero awareness to understand if you blame the subs rather than the dev, it just enables the dev to continue dragging out the scam.

Or maybe...just maybe...if you put pressure on the dev...they'll finally release what you've been hoping for...

 

[HZ10_18]

Right on cue and predictable. It's always the same "update soon" yet they've been saying it for months

Zero awareness to understand if you blame the subs rather than the dev, it just enables the dev to continue dragging out the scam.

Or maybe...just maybe...if you put pressure on the dev...they'll finally release what you've been hoping for...

I wouldn't say to put pressure on the devs because then you will get a rushed out game that has bugs or the dev will burn out a lot more which would further make their passion to update the game less and less to the point of it being abandoned.
I would rather wait and get a game with no bugs and glitches then have a game with them.

Now I am not defending scallywag here but what they have said in the past about this update being the biggest they have ever made (which is seen by the teasers) and that one of his parents fell ill and had to take time off, I personally think that around 5 months is normal for the scale that they are saying to us especially for all of the coding, animations, modelling and story writing they have to do as a (believed to be) solo developer.

 

[ilkit1234]

I wouldn't say to put pressure on the devs because then you will get a rushed out game that has bugs or the dev will burn out a lot more which would further make their passion to update the game less and less to the point of it being abandoned.
I would rather wait and get a game with no bugs and glitches then have a game with them.

Now I am not defending scallywag here but what they have said in the past about this update being the biggest they have ever made (which is seen by the teasers) and that one of his parents fell ill and had to take time off, I personally think that around 5 months is normal for the scale that they are saying to us especially for all of the coding, animations, modelling and story writing they have to do as a (believed to be) solo developer.

Like you literally told people previously that the game would be out in April...

Rushed out game? We are going on 9 months...with zero update on the status of development. He had 900+ renders finished back in February. I find it hilarious that pointing at a few teaser images is supposed to indicate a massive Chapter and that's the reasoning for him completely ghosting everyone.

So, yes, there should be pressure put on him. He can't even stop by his own discord FFS. It isn't hard to spend 30 seconds to say "Hi, game is in development, X renders done, X to go. Don't want to give estimate" etc.

 

[fidgetspinner]

I wouldn't say to put pressure on the devs because then you will get a rushed out game that has bugs or the dev will burn out a lot more which would further make their passion to update the game less and less to the point of it being abandoned.
I would rather wait and get a game with no bugs and glitches then have a game with them.

Now I am not defending scallywag here but what they have said in the past about this update being the biggest they have ever made (which is seen by the teasers) and that one of his parents fell ill and had to take time off, I personally think that around 5 months is normal for the scale that they are saying to us especially for all of the coding, animations, modelling and story writing they have to do as a (believed to be) solo developer.

It's pointless to press a dev by crying here or on discord. The only thing that matters is this. Drop it people, stop supporting.

 

[ilkit1234]

It's pointless to press a dev by crying here or on discord. The only thing that matters is this. Drop it people, stop supporting.

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It's pointless to cry and tell people who are paying to stop subbing on a pirating forum. You have to demonstrate that the dev is MIA, not expect them to do something just because you told them. A lot of them are hold outs because of the optimists that told them the update would be out months ago.

 

[Silwith]

Zero awareness to understand if you blame the subs rather than the dev, it just enables the dev to continue dragging out the scam.

I blame the subs because they are to blame... you dont wanna get scammed? Stop being a fkn idiot then... xD Though, I doubt you support anyone, it's always the 100% pirates that cry about it anyway xD

If I liked popcorn I would get some, but whatever either we get to see an update sometime or we don't, if not I haven't lost anything, if yes it will be a nice surprise *shrug*

 

[HZ10_18]

Like you literally told people previously that the game would be out in April...

Rushed out game? We are going on 9 months...with zero update on the status of development. He had 900+ renders finished back in February. I find it hilarious that pointing at a few teaser images is supposed to indicate a massive Chapter and that's the reasoning for him completely ghosting everyone.

So, yes, there should be pressure put on him. He can't even stop by his own discord FFS. It isn't hard to spend 30 seconds to say "Hi, game is in development, X renders done, X to go. Don't want to give estimate" etc.

I had literally told people why I thought that the update would come out in April in the reply of your comment. There is no reason to bring up the point again.

Secondly, you claim there have been "zero update on the status on development" but in the next sentence you are saying he has done 900+ renders and he has done 4 progress reports and 6 NTR sneak peeks for V0.5.

Thirdly, you said "It isn't hard to spend 30 seconds to say "Hi, game is in development, X renders done, X to go." but you can clearly see that the game is still in development by all of the progress and sneak peeks.

Finally, If you are paying for his patreon/ other platforms and are complaining that he is scamming his fans then you should cancel the subscriptions but if you are complaining and you are not paying and getting games for free on here then you shouldn't complain for free stuff.

 

[Ankit dubey]

I wanna see kayla please update this game.

 

[WeAreChecking]

I wanna see kayla please update this game.

Don't we all, sad that dev is milking.

 

[Nikko_]

Doesn't work like that. Dev has not officially abandonned, Has been active on Patreon mid-june and has released the last update in december (less than 18 months).

I sort of get your comment, but 18 months? From what I have read a few times, in different forums, 1 YEAR (12 months) is what everybody understood as a good deadline to label a VN as abandoned. Just because you keep repeating 18 months, it won't make it the new accepted deadline. "Lustful Voyage" of course hasn't crossed the 1 year mark, with the Christmas update qualifying as the last update IMO.
P.S: VNs like BADIK carry so much that I believe they the word game fits them more than VN. A case can be made for those to in-no-way be considered abandoned. But you can probably count those with one hand.