Icstor has made an estimated $9,000 to $40,000 per month for the past several months, according to Graphtreon. Pretty sure he's not scrounging the couch for quarters to buy ramen noodles. I'm not saying they shouldn't be paid enough - I'm saying they need to remain hungry. Hungry for what is up to them - I don't care what it is: hungry for food, hungry to prove themselves, hungry for fame or fortune. Once they lose whatever is driving them to produce, they seem to no longer produce.
Even the best of the best run out of steam.Just see what happen with Martin Fourcade at the biathlon this year.He obliterate the competition previous 7 years,but season 2018/2019 he was unrecognisable.Same goes with football,basketball,F1 etc.
I would suggest for you to search a few other VN's here and seeing if that changes your chain of thought.
Another post based on unsubstantiated claims. Passion died down? Based on what? @Walg points out ICSTOR has been consistent, I would go as far as better than consistent. The amount of quality content ICSTOR has been putting out over "x" months per update over the course of Milfy City's development actually has been more than what he has done in past projects over the same amount of time.
Because making porn games is not a get rich quick scheme.
it hasnt bit the dust, its on hold
i know but if you look how many projects got set on hold and then abdoned to start something new or rushed to an end with one more updated you see what "bites the dust means" and the sign are there for this one too.
This post is sort of all over the place and seems to offer contradictory messages at times, but on your clear assertion that the graphical aspect of game development is straightforward compared to the code development . . . it sounds as if you might not have very much experience with scene composition, modelling, animation, lighting, texturing/shaders, compositing, asset management, etc. - to say nothing of the story work and editing, plot development and possible storyboarding.First of all what is the developer of the game actually developing in the game?
Is he the one who make the renders? Or he is the one who is doing the codding? Or may be he is the one who is doing both! In that case I believe that what is he saying, because codding + rendering is something that requires a lot time. But otherwise if he is doing half of the job I don't believe in a single word of that what he said. I know what is to do renders of animations and pictures and once you got the right settings you are going to set the scenes pretty fast and the PC will do the rest, so I don't see how he can suffer from that. Else if He is doing the codding, that might be actually true, codding is thinking, codding is testing, codding is very difficult, but for a game where your choices are not effecting the story of the game or the end of the game I don't see it so painful. Most likely the problem is way more deeper and He just cant share it with us. Even if He quit the game, which is very unlikely to happen, don't blame him. That's his project, no company owns him. As the Joker said: " if you are good in something... don't do it for free" so yes he is going to work for money.
This here is why nobody has a right to complain in my opinion. How many times have we seen a Patreon account continue to operate while the dev has all but disappeared from the face of the Earth without so much as a hat tip?
Just expect the release to drop ~June then if it drops earlier it will be a pleasant surprise for you.
