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

[yaboipapi]

I think you are wrong, plopular devs, just get's more popular (On Patreon) regardless of their release schedule and content.
There seems to be kind of a tipping point at around $5000 where people just through money at you, regardless of the outcome.

We have a famous case here on this site where the dev's last release was more then 18 months ago and the dev is still pulling $8000 per month. A guy like cookie can if he wants to, can release once a year or less and still rake in the money.

Yeah well maybe I am, was just observing the incredible hype around Caroline and maybe wrongly attributing his growth to that

 

[Alfius]

Yeah well maybe I am, was just observing the incredible hype around Caroline and maybe wrongly attributing his growth to that

Well I think you are right about that part, making popular parts of the game will give you more Patrons.

I disagreed with the part where you think his base will shrink again. I'm not sure why it happens, but you seriously have to fuck up Dark Silver style to start loose Patrons. The resilience of the Top dev's Patreon numbers are unbelievable.

 

[fffffffffffk]

This dude literally gains patreons after announcing yet another delay followed by saying the update won't even have the most important thing in it?? WHAT?? Now I know how those 'healing priests' con so many people. Single digit IQ followed by delusion. Not just basic delusion but the level of delusion that ends up sending someone to the looney bin.

He sent that message directly to the high tier supporters. Most of the patrons don't even know about it because they pay for things and don't visit pirate forums. It's also pretty stupid to cancel your support in the middle of the month when you already paid for that month.

 

[Hones]

*gasp*
DarkCookies numbers compared to everyone else...
ICSTORS doing well 3rd highest there but DarkCookie... wow

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[fffffffffffk]

bruh cant icstor also include the animations in a folder with the game? i mean the animations wont play in the game but at least we can look at them outside the game rather than waiting...

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.

 

[yaboipapi]

Well I think you are right about that part, making popular parts of the game will give you more Patrons.

I disagreed with the part where you think his base will shrink again. I'm not sure why it happens, but you seriously have to fuck up Dark Silver style to start loose Patrons. The resilience of the Top dev's Patreon numbers are unbelievable.

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

 

[bobbo69]

Usually, I see threads talking about the actual game itself, but, on this thread, all I see is trolling, I check this thread everyday, and all the additional pages the I see, is trolling. You guys really make me laugh

 

[j4yj4m]

*gasp*
DarkCookies numbers compared to everyone else...
ICSTORS doing well 3rd highest there but DarkCookie... wow

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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.

 

[rustbell]

Ok. Today?)

 

[arms99]

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.

 

[arms99]

*gasp*
DarkCookies numbers compared to everyone else...
ICSTORS doing well 3rd highest there but DarkCookie... wow

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Thanks for the graph, it's actually pretty interesting to see which devs are top of the patreon ladder.

 

[j4yj4m]

You're right, I'd imagine money wise DarkCookies and Icstor earn about the same, despite the vast difference in patrons.

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$.

 

[badass]

 

[Carpe Stultus]

You're right, I'd imagine money wise DarkCookies and Icstor earn about the same, despite the vast difference in patrons.

And now imagine what other dev's could do if they'd make this amount of money.

 

[FunnyBeerGod]

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?

 

[j4yj4m]

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.

 

[Mormont]

So not the 10th but this weekend 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.

 

[anduje]

The fact that you post on the day the game should come out, that there will be at least a 10 day delay shows poor judgment... I think Icstor shouldn’t post game release dates at all... That way the hype won’t come back to bite him. Although his other patrons might disagree

 

[arms99]

So not the 10th but this weekend 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.

 

[Creeping Death]

*gasp*
DarkCookies numbers compared to everyone else...
ICSTORS doing well 3rd highest there but DarkCookie... wow

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Who believes this is money coming from real person patrons?! This account is in my opinion only used for money laundering ...