VN Ren'Py Abandoned Midlife Crisis [v0.34 - v0.1 Dark] [Nefastus Games]

[The Wicked One]

That actually just validates what I said. He disappears and then comes back with an update. Sounds like a possible anti-social person to me. I'm not saying that this is for sure the case... maybe he is a milker or he abandoned the game, who knows. But the possibility of just being anti-social can easily be a possibility too.

It doesn't validate anything. He is super-active on Discord, and interacts with us often... until he says he is going to deliver an update and he ghosts. Honestly, it could be he had to go back to work and lacks time, it could be he just doesn't give a shit anymore. It could be anything.

 

[marocto]

every update the same thing. no news, is it abandonded? is he dead? did aliens abduct him? then he releases the update and 4-5 months later again the same

 

[JokerOfTorment]

Let's hope Nef gets wind of the dreaded orange abandoned being added to the thread and lures them back out and someone cracks the whip so they can

 

[Deleted member 2372719]

never thought this one would go abando

 

[Lightaces]

never thought this one would go abando

It's the second time.

 

[Deleted member 313508]

never thought this one would go abando

Oh no... the random pirate site applied a random tag that means nothing...

For all we know the game is abandoned, but F95 applying their tag is nothing but them making a random guess.

 

[preglovr12]

Oh no... the random pirate site applied a random tag that means nothing...

For all we know the game is abandoned, but F95 applying their tag is nothing but them making a random guess.

Except there's nothing random about it?

 

[Deleted member 313508]

Except there's nothing random about it?

All abandoned tags on this site mean nothing and this game is proof. It's been on this game before and then removed when the game was updated. It happens on a lot of games. It's a guess that doesn't mean anything.

I get that it's a tool to warn people that a game hasn't been updated in a while and the dev has been silent, but everyone treats the tag as gospel when it's anything but.

 

[Zimowit]

game hasn't been updated in a while and the dev has been silen

So that the game is... abandoned? ;P

 

[Yngling]

Family Matters
Corrupted Love
Family Man
C-Plan
Buried Desires
My Sweet Neighbors
Lewd Story
My Lovely Sara
Love and Submission
Duality
The Roots of Lust
Wings of Silicon
Divergence BtS
Family Again
False Hero
Bad Teacher
My Model Daughter
Oopsy Daisy
Bad Days
Bloody Passion
A.O.A. Academy
Redwood
Stay True Stay You
New Life with My Daughter
Angel of Innocence

That's just a short list of the games I was actually following, playing and getting into. I just can't let myself get invested in these games anymore. They finish, or they don't.

Lots of good games on that list and it's sad to see it.

I think the subscriber business model is fundamental to this.

It has good a bad sides.

On the good side:
- a dev can get a bit of motivation money, this may make him stick around longer than if it were just a hobby
- us players can watch a story being built up and can interact with the dev and other players about that

On the bad side:
- At some point a dev may still lose interest, leading to abandonment of a game where people feel invested in, either as actual "investors" or just as players.

Overall I don't know. But I do know that at this moment, we have way more, and better, adult games than back in the days when only a handful of Japanese studio's were making them. I guess we actually (and reluctantly) have to thank Patreon for that...

 

[jasad]

ah..

 

[gregonzole]

If you're a dev it's not that hard to avoid an abandoned tag, you literally just have to post somewhere (other than discord iirc), saying "yo, I'm alive there's difficulties, games not abandoned" and boom the tag is avoided.

3 months of silence is more than enough time for the abandoned tag, I don't think this is abandoned yet but, it won't be the first case of a dev biting off more than he can chew story wise gets frustrated and throwing the baby out with the bath water, nor will it be the last.

And then you have some devs like timepants with Exiles who used to post here and on patreon up until a year ago saying the game's not abandoned. He's still posting on discord but the game will be 3 years without an update in May.

 

[Limited_Evolution]

And this is why i stopped supporting devs until the *COMPLETE* tag is up, or they can be trusted to follow though to the end.

RIP, my first and fav game from this site.

 

[Pedrocas77]

And this is why i stopped supporting devs until the *COMPLETE* tag is up, or they can be trusted to follow though to the end.

RIP, my first and fav game from this site.

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Ive learned that lesson well, the 4 games ive supported as high tier only 1 was completed. Never again, thats why i lmao when a white knight comes and says REEEEEEEEEE you cant complain because you're getting it for free ...

 

[mafarus]

I, of course, am also upset that the game was labeled “abandoned,” however, there have already been examples of the game being revived, so it may be too early to put an end to this game. Well, I hope so, because the product, although without animations, is not bad at all.

 

[ghostrider4570]

Just my 5 cents here. It seems we're seeing more and more of these games being abandoned. Quite a few that I've been following have met that fate as of late. Common thread with all of them is that as good as they start out pretty soon there are too many choices, too many path options, this is avoidable and that is avoidable. As great as all of that might seem at some point it has to become a developmental nightmare that leads to frustration and burn out and the dev walks away. For most of the creators here it's a side gig not a full time job so I get why updates sometimes take months to come about and lets not forget, sometimes life just happens.

 

[Porthas]

 

[HornyyPussy]

Just my 5 cents here. It seems we're seeing more and more of these games being abandoned. Quite a few that I've been following have met that fate as of late. Common thread with all of them is that as good as they start out pretty soon there are too many choices, too many path options, this is avoidable and that is avoidable. As great as all of that might seem at some point it has to become a developmental nightmare that leads to frustration and burn out and the dev walks away. For most of the creators here it's a side gig not a full time job so I get why updates sometimes take months to come about and lets not forget, sometimes life just happens.

It's only abandoned according F95's rules. Nef have done this before (albeit last time he was in the hospital). It's way to early to write this of as abandoned.

 

[AlterdStates7]

It's only abandoned according F95's rules. Nef have done this before (albeit last time he was in the hospital). It's way to early to write this of as abandoned.

I agree it's too early to really consider it abandoned. That said IIRC Nef had personal issues>writer's block>non-canon episode>radio silence leading to abandoned tag. Which to me is a pattern that flashes the warning lights. (that we might not see Jennifer and Amanda applying cocoa butter to each other's preggo bellies)

 

[Deyn21]

Adandoned? I hoped to play a full version in 2030.