Kaiadas

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The indie game dev company I currently work at doesn't even make that much from Patreon donations and we have been active for more than two years now constantly engaging with our community and posting progress on our game (Although to be fair, we don't have a public demo yet but we are currently working on that right now). We have dedicated 3D modelers, sound/music composers, 3D animators, writers, producer, etc... We struggle with a small budget since we don't have a publisher (yet) and we don't have a public demo yet and the nature of our game (Single player horror game inspired by Dead Space) cannot allow for an EA title.

It just infuriates me to see such a lazy, irresponsible and unprofessional game dev being enabled to continue doing nothing by receiving a huge monthly check. I'm not one to have jealousy often, but damn.

EDIT: I also want to add: This guy has everything any game dev can hope for. He has verifiable work antecedents, a popular game with an active community, a game recipe that mostly works, and a big ol' fat check to sustain himself and a full team of freelancers to help him around.

He just throws it all away for BS reasons.
The answer is simpler than u'd think.. "stockholm syndrome"
patreons have invested so much time and money into scam projects that they refuse to face reality (being held hostage by false promises) and embrace their captivity in a cult like mentality.
They even promote and defend it against people trying to shake them out of it.
 

PaxHadrian17

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Who's Judy???
I mean - it's been so long between updates, I'm going to need a character and story walkthrough to listen to just to remind me about what was actually happening BC (Before COVID). We are now DC (During COVID). Will the first update come AC (After COVID) - whenever that is?
 

Swordsman83

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Who's Judy???
I mean - it's been so long between updates, I'm going to need a character and story walkthrough to listen to just to remind me about what was actually happening BC (Before COVID). We are now DC (During COVID). Will the first update come AC (After COVID) - whenever that is?
i think is the elder sister. actually im not sure. lol.
 

Valirr

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Later, after the MILF Kingdom Realese and running interesting, it will definitely end like this too
 
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It's time that F95ZONE mods did something about this. Not sure how to do it. Maybe something like a Green, Orange and Red light poll for the devs. The community will decide the light that the game and the dev deserves and then the mods will approve and the light will be shown beside every game of that certain dev. Green will be for active devs who don't miss deadlines and all...Orange for the decent devs and red for someone like Icstor. We badly need a dev review system. Must make sure that people support the devs that actually deserve the support.
 

Winterfire

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Green will be for active devs who don't miss deadlines and all...Orange for the decent devs and red for someone like Icstor. We badly need a dev review system. Must make sure that people support the devs that actually deserve the support.
You forgot Blue, for the trash developers like me who do not deserve being on the internet, let alone making a "game".
Control option in Mass Effect 3 sucks.

Red for the win.

Also, leaving that choice to the community sounds like a great idea, surely nothing would go wrong with that :devilish:
 
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You forgot Blue, for the trash developers like me who do not deserve being on the internet, let alone making a "game".
Control option in Mass Effect 3 sucks.

Red for the win.

Also, leaving that choice to the community sounds like a great idea, surely nothing would go wrong with that :devilish:
Sometimes it's better if we don't use our megamind. I said review for the Dev and his communication and time management skill, not the game related technical qualities. There's already a review option for us in each game to write about the game. Moreover who said leaving the choice completely to the community? Final decision will obviously be taken by the mods just the way they do it for reports and all. And anyway, this was just a random rough idea. Just wanted something official to also rate the management and communication aspects of the devs. Don't like it? Cool.. let's move on :)
 
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Evangelion-01

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Nah, again, short. Less than ours. Guys need to learn more about our Galaxy. Woefully unprepared for the Space Wars.
I am rather preparing for the Zombie apocalypse... it's more likely to hit us than us going to space with hyperdrive space ships.
Sadest part is that both scenarios are more likely than ICStor bringing this game to a wholy end
 

BorsDeGanis

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I mean I can understand devs missing deadlines for certain titles but for VN's most the work is literally just CG work. He's just being lazy and has been for an entire year. If he has mental health issues he should hire people to run the show for him so he can just do nothing in peace.

lots of people like getting blueballed huh?
Linda, my muse... :oops:
 

otkmage

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It's time that F95ZONE mods did something about this. Not sure how to do it. Maybe something like a Green, Orange and Red light poll for the devs. The community will decide the light that the game and the dev deserves and then the mods will approve and the light will be shown beside every game of that certain dev. Green will be for active devs who don't miss deadlines and all...Orange for the decent devs and red for someone like Icstor. We badly need a dev review system. Must make sure that people support the devs that actually deserve the support.
It's also a patreon thing, they should do something about their users pretty much scamming people, but they don't care since they're taking a cut also
 
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