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To me time management is no longer the issue. It is dishonesty.
Can anyone after all the delays say to themselves they believe Icstor truly intended to release the update in August like he said on August 8th? But then things happend and now he can't give a concrete release date but somehow what was supposed to be done in 3 weeks now turned into 9?
Hes not even slightly off his August 8th estimate. The guy is 2 months late
 
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That's one way I looked at the comment. Plus, they may literally have missed some pieces - I would tend to doubt whole scenes (but who knows?) and are finding out only while piecing it all together and testing.

Either way, seems it's going to be awhile.

Then you'll get the pirates claiming this is clearly milking, etc. It seems unlikely that ICSTOR - given his history and desire to keep cash flowing - is doing that vs he simply got over his head on this release (and hit his typical project management skill limits) ... which he's done before.

Occam's Razor and all: ICSTOR has never been good at project management and this is turning into his shining example of that weakness. He really needs to put out only smaller releases, at the very least.
I like the Lust Epidemic model. A release every two weeks on the exact same date. Two animated scenes and some extra content. Like clockwork.
 
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boxedjack

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The thing is it's not a 8 months update, the devs worked on this update a few months ago after his burnout
That is in addition to the work done from mid January to March (got 60% done in that time according to himself). And then starting again around the 20th of May.

So if it is truly released in early/mid October it will be more than 7 months that went into this update.
 
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blahmeister

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Actually it is funny. You assume anyone who criticizes the whiners MUST be a defender or fanboy of Icstor, when all I'm doing is pointing out how absurd you sound complaining about a free game that you somehow think your life has to revolve around. You come across like a porn addict.
That's pretty much my opinion, too. I mean, has it been as long as the last update since you guys have rubbed one out? Go release some of that pent up tension and frustration and relax a bit, yeesh.
 

megaplayboy10k

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That's pretty much my opinion, too. I mean, has it been as long as the last update since you guys have rubbed one out? Go release some of that pent up tension and frustration and relax a bit, yeesh.
In a way it's a compliment to the game/dev, that people enjoy it and want more. And, the one area where they kinda have a point, it's been almost a year at this point since the last update/release. Even allowing the guy to take a break, it's past time to release something when there are a bunch of people giving him lots of money every month.
 
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I'm still not entirely convinced that it's real, AFAIK (admittedly I've skipped a lot of the pages in this thread as it's 99% whining) it's only been posted by a single source and everyone is just copy-pasting them.
 

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In a way it's a compliment to the game/dev, that people enjoy it and want more. And, the one area where they kinda have a point, it's been almost a year at this point since the last update/release. Even allowing the guy to take a break, it's past time to release something when there are a bunch of people giving him lots of money every month.
I understand being upset that the dev has failed on some promises, but being upset about it here isn't going to accomplish anything. If people truly want to show the dev that there's a problem, they need to cancel their Patreon subs. As long as people continue supporting bad practices, bad practices will continue to happen.

It's too bad there isn't a way to see who's *actually* supporting him on Patreon, and who's just here to shitpost.

I'm still not entirely convinced that it's real, AFAIK (admittedly I've skipped a lot of the pages in this thread as it's 99% whining) it's only been posted by a single source and everyone is just copy-pasting them.
I haven't seen anyone claiming to be a Patreon sub that's confirmed or denied this.
 

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Actually it is funny. You assume anyone who criticizes the whiners MUST be a defender or fanboy of Icstor, when all I'm doing is pointing out how absurd you sound complaining about a free game that you somehow think your life has to revolve around. You come across like a porn addict.
You are so fucking lost there isnt even a reason to bother with you tbh.
 

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You started off on the wrong foot then
Pinkcake, Philly are nice devs. Icstor pretty much never was.
Icstor basically never communicates but before this he followed through and had a pretty rough deadline schedule which he followed. I don't need much more then that I'd rather have that then the walls of text and constant communications from Gumdrop that went nowhere.

The issue is Icstor has turned completely scammy. Instead of doing the right thing and pausing pledging when he needs extra time and breaks promises he is basically saying you are free to opt out and you will still receive the update. Knowing full well most won't and he'll get paid 30K per month for missing deadlines.

He honestly doesn't deserve anyones support for how he has acted the past year regardless of whether he releases the update. With sites like these it allows patrons to be choosy to who they donate unfortunately patrons don't really hold these guys accountable.
 

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At this point, he should just hire girls and shoot photos, you can make 1000+ photos a day like that. Is it a good idea by the way? I mean, instead of rendering, just hire actresses to build the story?
 
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I've lurked here since the spring and this is my first post for this game. While i pledge to a few smaller games, personally i would not pledge to Icstor. I've read a lot of posts here (good and bad regardless if true or not) and mostly if not all of Icstor's developer notes and I can't help but feel a little off about this 0.6 update and the way its playing out.

I am not a game developer but I do sell my own graphic designs to customers and one thing I would not do is delay something with the intent of adding additional content on the basis of goodwill (ie adding neighbors to compensate for being inactive). Doing that does 2 things from a creator's standpoint, 1) Grants you additional time to finish up content not related to the new content because you know you're behind schedule, and 2) Further delays the end product because you promised new content that you haven't even started on. If it were me, basing this on how I determine timelines on my own work, I would have released the promised content and pushed the neighbors content to a future update (not even necessarily the following update).

I'm not saying Icstor hasn't started on the neighbors content when he announced the additional content, I'm just pointing out that based on the screenshot in discord today, he isn't putting a lot of attention on it given the time constraints he gave himself as that content is so minimal. I can't help but feel he is being a tiny bit dishonest because given the amount of work he set himself up for, it feels like he only just started on the neighbor content in the last month. However, he say the reason for the delay saying his rendering tool is malfunctioning. Whether its true or not, I can't help but notice he has 7k patreons and months upon months including the delays in development. That's not much of an excuse. He has more than enough in donations to acquire more than amicable tools to complete renders in a timely manner. I personally have professional grade tools to do my work (ie High-end PC, programs, art tablets, 3d and poster printers) and I make only a fraction of what Icstor makes via patreon. Granted, I do my work as a hobby and not my primary source of income.

While I'm sure Icstor is working to complete the update, I'm inclined to believe he isn't going has hard on it as he says he is. But thats just my 2 cents, what do I know? lol
 
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