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In the next couple weeks.Estimated date for the next update?
Looks like I have to repeat my earlier post as some people still don't get it.Sigh, if only Disney & Pixar had such considerate attitudes towards their artists on the clock. Or modern movies where the hundreds of VFX artists are contracted to work in a schedule. Try this rant with your employer and see if "The Boss" is spares your butt from being canned.
ICSTOR isn't a struggling grad student whose side project made it this big. May be he was struggling when he began, definitely not in 2018! So when a person makes decent money off his artwork, even if it is for a porn game, there's some amount of professionalism expected, at least by the ones who are his sincere patrons. As someone stated above, $40k is twice the normal income someone normally earns in Europe and I can vouch for that as well.
As I pointed repeatedly, there are many devs/artists teams that have much fewer patrons. Case in point -- NLT has close to 2600 patrons compared to ICSTOR's 6873, yet NLT delivers consistently in a 3 week cycle, for over 2 years with all updates having 40 - 50 mins of gameplay including true,non-repeating animations.
So calm your tits and instead of defending what's wrong, be bold to call out on the mess that it is.
P.S -- And just like A-holes that everyone has, this is my opinion. Instead of picking up on me, better focus on the argument.
Here's the thing: you're arguing that none of us "know what kind of hardships artists have to go through." Perhaps we don't. But I'd argue that most of us ARE familiar with working for a living. Now you want to say "This man is producing art. Art should be free of normal, mundane constraints." As if art is something "special." And it is, in a way.The problem with patreon is that it makes assholes like this guy see themselves as The Boss of the artists. And, like all capitalist bosses, they see their employees not as people, but as inanimate objects they can squeeze content out of, and they can always get just a little bit more by squeezing even harder. To a Boss, you'll always be a lazy slacker who should be doing more for them. No amount of performance will ever be satisfactory.
If ICSTOR came back and immediately dropped an update, they'd be bitching that he took a break in the first place. If he dropped another update with 1000 renders the very next week, they'd be bitching "Well why can't you do that every day?" If he somehow started dropping an update like that every day, they'd bitch "Well if you weren't so LAZY you could do it twice a day!"
95%-2019.08.29Estimated date for the next update?
Did ICSTOR say that on patreon or are we just throwing random dates now?95%-2019.08.29
testing-2019.09.06
release-2019.09.14
Its random date guessingDid ICSTOR say that on patreon or are we just throwing random dates now?
I'm sorry, I don't speak internet weirdo.gone noew
stay strong pepe
You misunderstand: Art is not special, and he doesn't deserve extra slack because he's making a living off of his income. My position is that no one should have to work. In any reasonably-ordered society, the idea that we would let someone starve to death or die of preventable illness because they aren't "productive" enough would be an unthinkable impossibility. In light of this, criticizing someone because they're not producing fast enough is absurd.Here's the thing: you're arguing that none of us "know what kind of hardships artists have to go through." Perhaps we don't. But I'd argue that most of us ARE familiar with working for a living. Now you want to say "This man is producing art. Art should be free of normal, mundane constraints." As if art is something "special." And it is, in a way.
But then you go on to say that since he's making a living off the income he gets from this, that we should cut him some slack.
I didn't forget anything you've mentioned, actually. It's just that none of it is either (1) Relevant or (2) Accurate, by all objective accounts.your also forgetting that the last update was in Nov of 2018, its now coming to Sept 2019 which is 10 months for an update, this dev does not release hugh updates maybe 15 to 30 min gameplay if you use your save, he came back after his and announced adding more to the update that no one ever asked for setting the 0.06 update further away from release,i could see less people complaining about the update if he finished something before he went on break but didn't. Instead he left came back adding to the update new content and delaying it, yet his patreon was still being charged with no new content and no reason to why he added new content,just being delayed over and over again. And keep white knighting him there should be no reason for a dev that makes that much a month not to release content ever 2-3 months not ever 10 months.
if you work for a company and are getting paid to do a job and if your not meeting deadlines or when your boss wants it done then you don't get paid or better yet you get fired. So we are his boss because we are paying him to make the game not sit on his ass for 10 months, as for keeping us up to date about the update he never did from Jan to March when he went on his so called health break ya hes an artist but guess what its still a paying job no matter how you look at it. Now we can keep doing this back and for Bs, but this is my opinion that only reason he took his so called health break was to keep us out of the loop about him not wanting to finish the game.I didn't forget anything you've mentioned, actually. It's just that none of it is either (1) Relevant or (2) Accurate, by all objective accounts.
Or, you can tell me where I'm wrong in this high-level recap:
https://f95zone.to/threads/milfy-city-v0-5c-icstor.8012/post-2322165
I'm just an objective observer ... it's posts like yours - complaining about asumptions of the Dev's private actions and inner motivations with the gall to make what he wants - that I find silly and the worst kind of armchair quarterbacking. Not sure what you're really striving for, honestly. Is there a purpose to the accusatory attitude?
Then, we have other posts full of whataboutism (i.e., other Devs have X styles, etc.), which I also addressed earlier, but haters gonna hate. Some folks could stand to learn a new tune or two in life, I suspect.
Meanwhile, the game is at 90% and the zaniness on this pirate forum soundchamber is only noise.
Just because you (I assume) and I are Patrons, doesn't mean we're his "Boss". We don't have any right or position to tell ICSTOR what or how to do things. All we can do is withdraw our support for any reason we want. If you or anyone else here is unhappy about Milfy City then you should just cancel your monthly subscription.if you work for a company and are getting paid to do a job and if your not meeting deadlines or when your boss wants it done then you don't get paid or better yet you get fired. So we are his boss because we are paying him to make the game not sit on his ass for 10 months, as for keeping us up to date about the update he never did from Jan to March when he went on his so called health break ya hes an artist but guess what its still a paying job no matter how you look at it. Now we can keep doing this back and for Bs, but this is my opinion that only reason he took his so called health break was to keep us out of the loop about him not wanting to finish the game.