He can't because they don't exist yet. Adding the "animations" to the game takes 1 line of code and 1 minute of your time.
Would like to clarify that I didn't mean he'll lose patrons, what I was predicting is that the rate of growth will decline compared to the past months
DC's model is quite different though. His game is basically free from the day of release and thus he earns way less per patreon than those who "sell" their game to high tier patreons first.
You're right, I'd imagine money wise DarkCookies and Icstor earn about the same, despite the vast difference in patrons.
Thanks for the graph, it's actually pretty interesting to see which devs are top of the patreon ladder.
That may indeed be true. Yet, I'd say DC's approach is quite a bit more sustainable. I mean, there's a huge difference wether an update takes 4 months and you spend 4$ on it (which is all you technically have to spend to always get SummertimeSaga right away from DC's own server and to always be a patreon) or wether it takes 4 months and you spend 40 to 100$.
And now imagine what other dev's could do if they'd make this amount of money.
Have a stark drop in quality in their games, increase the "production" time even though, theoretically, they should be able to afford more members on the team and drop the project dead, milking it more than Call of Duty while rolling back to images without animations?And now imagine what other dev's could do if they'd make this amount of money.
To be fair, growing small projects seems to be a huge problem in general. It's usually fine as long as there's a signle person or a really small team doing their stuff but as soon as one is talking about basically "starting a small company" while greatly increasing the amount of content output, I'm not aware that there's anybody who has really done it. So just because a dev is doing a great job at 10 to 15k$ doesn't mean that he'd be twice that good/effective at 40k.And now imagine what other dev's could do if they'd make this amount of money.
we shall see what happens by the weekend then can we expect a release or another long line of excuses, still, this beta update is off-putting with no animations.
Full of bugs and no animation, I wouldn't call it a beta release more like an early pre-alpha release. Then there is going to be a "10 day" wait (which in icstor language probably means 1.5 months) before a proper release.So not the 10th but this weekend
Who believes this is money coming from real person patrons?! This account is in my opinion only used for money laundering ...
Something else he can't get right
early Pre-alpha makes that more sense considering the situation with the animations.
Thats an option too, yes.
I'm not talking about dev's that are already making a good amount of money, 10-15k$ is a very good amount of money. I'm talking about the dev's that have to work their day jobs and then develop their games. If these dev's would earn more they could upgrade their equipment and maybe even quit their dayjobs and start developing fulltime. It might be that not every dev would increase in quality but there are several that would increase in quality and update more frequently.
Thanks for your patience with this update. It's a massive one.
