Ren'Py Completed Milfy City [v1.0e] [ICSTOR]

[InCompleteController]

What I don't get is, how is it that things that are incredible get abandoned while trash keeps on going and growing.

Momentum. Being early means entering a market with low competition. This means that you become the default for any new players, whom are willing to make more risky investments due to not knowing better.
New competitors are thus at a disadvantage because they have to create a game that generates the same amount of momentum, but with less players willing to invest.

There's also some changes in the market you have to consider. Previously it was possible to advertise, with a big bright neon sign, that you were creating an incest game, but now that's a big no no for payment processing sites. The result is that a lot of games that are clearly incest focused have to pretend they are not, which means they are less visible to those that want that sort of stuff.

Like seriously I know people who are getting destroyed and have all sorts of problems because of work yet still manage to get up in the morning and work 12 hours a day.

That's because they want to survive. Icstor is at no risk of being starving or being sent to the streets. He earns a comfortable living by doing nothing and isn't greed driven enough to want to put effort into earning a little more.

 

[Caeir]

What's with the 3 months cycle, btw? Does it have something to do with Patreon rules?

The 3 month cycle isn't so much for Patreon or his Patrons, but more to address various sites like F95 that have rules about game status and development. F95 has rules that require developer communications to ensure a game isn't abandoned. The communication timeframe for F95 is 3 months (90 days). As stated by a few of the moderators, if there is no game development within 2 years of a previous release, the game will be marked Abandoned. ICSTOR seems to have a marketing machine in place. He's hired a Community spokesperson/PR person to interact with Patrons and publish updates. On another site, someone publishes the comics he created from the artwork of his games every 6 months. This has been going on for the last 18 months. It's like clockwork. The last such release was during February/March of this year, so I expect another release around August. If he updates his Patreon page this month, he won't have to touch it again until September to meet the F95 timeframes. When you know the rules, you can learn how to "game the system". By the rules laid down by the various sites, he's done nothing wrong. Common sense, common curtesy, fair play, whatever... don't come in to play. Until he breaks some site's rule, or rules, he can continue on his merry way.

 

[keketiger]

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Wtf?? It was 7k+ all the time, as far as I remember, what happened?

beginning of a new month.

 

[RimYourPooHole]

He's hired a Community spokesperson/PR person to interact with Patrons and publish updates.

This is actually the funniest thing in this whole situation. The guy "hires" a community manager to work for him for free, who desperately tries to keep his Discord server and game alive by telling everyone there how he is communicating to Icstor all the time and reaching out for his comments so they can post some info to Patreon. With this, ICSTOR is simply a genius. The dude doesn't even have to open up his Patreon page anymore by himself, when he has his own butler to do the dirty work for him, he can just cash out the monthly paycheck. He just makes couple fast renders every three months that he can throw to the butler alongside some made up excuses as a "proof" of his work and then the butler makes the post, clears up all the shitposts from his "My Community" page and again waits another three months to repeat this. I'm more than sure day by day, that he will keep this thing going until he gets booted out from here in December with Abandoned-tag, then makes that 10min rushed ending just to get it changed as completed, and starts the whole thing again with his new parody of a game.

 

[zitadoxoto]

Tag this game as abandoned.
Stop supporting ICSTOR financially.

It's as simple as that.

 

[fiamin]

Eating popcorn while reading ICSTOR saga part 75831031292

 

[gaewgaw]

he will keep this thing going until he gets booted out from here in December with Abandoned-tag, then makes that 10min rushed ending just to get it changed as completed, and starts the whole thing again with his new parody of a game.

Isn't this an unrelated place to the devs that offers the games for free?

What am I missing?

 

[gaewgaw]

Investigated for what, losing patrons? He lost about 1500 of them yesterday so obviously the goal went down

Ahh.

About this, is it just an automatic counter for the $ he gets from his Patrons divided by whatever goal he set?

 

[MonoliteralSex]

Ahh.

About this, is it just an automatic counter for the $ he gets from his Patrons divided by whatever goal he set?

Yes

 

[RimYourPooHole]

Isn't this an unrelated place to the devs that offers the games for free?

What am I missing?

This is one of the biggest free marketing areas on the internet for the porn game devs. So many people download it from here, and then jump the gun with becoming the patrons. Why do you think so many devs download the first versions of their games here in the beginning? They get eyes to the product, some people might get interested and start supporting them. ICSTOR did the same, since the person who made the original post for this thread was one of the ICSTOR's admins at that time. He knew very well this place would get him popular, and it certainly did, and it still does. Top-1 thread on this forum, the first thing that pops up in Google when you google "milfy city icstor".

 

[secretlarrs]

Ahh.

About this, is it just an automatic counter for the $ he gets from his Patrons divided by whatever goal he set?

Yes.

 

[PePeTheCoCk]

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[gaewgaw]

Go to

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do the following: (keep in mind you need a patreon profile for that)
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Lol.

That doesn't seem to actually do anything tho?

 

[RimYourPooHole]

Go to

You must be registered to see the links

do the following: (keep in mind you need a profile on patreon for that)
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You do realize you did absolutely nothing, except wasted ours and your own time for a minute? It literally says, "contact directly the creator to fix this issue, if it doesn't help then change or cancel your pledge and move on". Patreon won't do shit to him. There is a profile in Patreon that is selling other developers games as their own, so basically stealing and earning money with it, and Patreon hasn't stopped even that. So why would they care to stop ICSTOR?

 

[Dolce & Gabbana]

I dont wanna let gooooo Game from I C S T O R

 

[Deleted member 775662]

disappointed but not surprised

 

[gzrtjhgtyhjljk]

This is one of the biggest free marketing areas on the internet for the porn game devs. So many people download it from here, and then jump the gun with becoming the patrons. Why do you think so many devs download the first versions of their games here in the beginning? They get eyes to the product, some people might get interested and start supporting them. ICSTOR did the same, since the person who made the original post for this thread was one of the ICSTOR's admins at that time. He knew very well this place would get him popular, and it certainly did, and it still does. Top-1 thread on this forum, the first thing that pops up in Google when you google "milfy city icstor".

Thanks for the laugh.

 

[Hacktor]

Damn, I wanted more of Caroline. so many good games are getting abandoned tags, looks like this is next

 

[ghksdldi]

hello guys
this game stop development?
Im waiting for a very long time

 

[Deleted member 3313072]

hello guys
this game stop development?
Im waiting for a very long time

Yeah we've all aged a couple of years waiting for this to be completed. Prepare to wait more.