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

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BoomDaBoom

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PePeTheCoCk said:
Awesome comment.
Icstor is a wasted potential.
His laziness & his greed are out of this world.
(Of course, the most important thing is reliability which unfortunately most Patreon devs are still missing.)
But now only to go into the point of quality many people here say this game have the best quality overall that why they are scared that we will not see something at this level for a long period of time anymore, there is no need for such thoughts.
Im sure as hardware will proceeds it will get cheaper which will lead to the revolution in h games this means games like Milfy City, City of Broken Dreamers, Being A Dik and even The Awakening will be the standart.
With exponential progress you can clearly see what huge steps a dev can make.
A good example for this is psychodelusionals first game (Dark Neighborhood) vs his newest game (Apocalust)
its a difference like day & night.


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Unfortunately, he is not known for being reliable either, but at least he has promised to improve and least communicates often with his supporters and im sure NLT will be at such a level within the next years & how fast he is we all know.
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The small tragedy with Icstor is that despite all the hate he gets now this community does owe quite a bit to him. Western erotic games have been gaining a bit of traction in the last 2 years or so thanks in part to things like overall improvement in quality and platforms like Steam now fully allowing them to be hosted. There's a lot of newer members on this site and others who see Milfy City and kind of just assume it's part of the same crop as BaDIK, COBD, or ToN which I think is a testament to Icstor's level at the time because all his work predates those titles.

For a good while, Icstor was the cream of the crop in terms of visuals and scope. He still had a lot of the faults he gets criticized for now (aimless plots, overcrowding of characters, story losing traction due to rushed endings, etc.), but his ambition and attention to quality still set him up as the gold standard for a lot of devs and fans at the time. There were obviously others like Palmer, Akabur, Tora Productions, and Lesson of Passion who were starting to get more ambitious with their games, but I really think Icstor's work was what inspired a lot of people to try and make erotic games that weren't just clicker games for Flash.

From about 2015-2019, his work would only improve and eventually go on to influence creators in a number of ways. You can still see his influences of his early stuff (IS1 & Milf's Control) in a lot of the current RPGM games that are still around now like Peasant's Quest, Farmer's Dream, Lust Epidemic, and Anna Exciting Adventure. His Renpy games (IS2, Milf's Villa, & Milfy City) are still having some impact on games coming out now that choose to focus on large scopes with heightened visuals Apocalust for example looks like it's taking a few cues from his work.

What ended up leading to his now mixed-low reputation was a combination of two things in my opinion. The first and obvious was his work ethic suddenly taking a major dip. I don't think it was necessarily the delays that started the hate, if you go back in this thread you can see that he had gained himself enough good faith from the community that most were understanding at first. I'd argue it was the lack of communication that really drove people mad and after that came all of the wired decisions and missed promises he started making. The second was completely out of his control, and that was that a lot of newer devs started appearing that were matching and/or upping his standards. Whether it was the at the time up-and-coming devs like Philly Games, NLT, and DPC whose first games were maybe not as polished as Icstor's but they showed major promise, or some older devs who now had the resources to up their quality for their new games. Either way, what ended up happening was that around early 2019, right when Icstor started to become very shotty, the overall quality of the community started rising while he stayed in the same place.

Icstor sadly has been very absent from this sort of boom in Western Erotic Games, despite being one of the main people to get the ball rolling. He's still one of the better-known developers, but definitely not the most influential creator in the sub-genre anymore. This is now arguably the house Pinkcake built with many veteran and new devs looking to his work as the basis of inspiration. Even if his quality had stayed the same, Icstor could probably have been one of the creators leading this new wave but instead, he's been dealing with controversy after controversy over his current professionalism. Like many, I'm pretty cynical about what expect from him. But still, I hope he can get back to some sort of consistent level because I do think he can make good quality work and I appreciate the foundation he's laid out for this community.
 
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Darkdevil66 said:
- Failed to provide reliable deadlines.

- Continuously and repeatedly made promises that keep getting broken.

- Failed to care for his community by communicating and being transparent.

- Failed to deliver tangible content for years now.

- Failed to pause pledges due to lack of content.

- Made excuses, dodge around and avoid facing the issues around the game.

- Failed to provide content for his Patreons.

- Failed to seek for project successor or to put project either on hold or abandoned.
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Pretty much sums up everything
 
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hey everyone here,
I really liked this game back then in 2019, but I waited long for the next update and till thought of the end, how will this end, etc. But sadly this got no update.
But I found a creative game - IT Has Amazing Renders and is in its initial stages If you want to see the end of it and really want to Relive My Sweet Neighbours try "WINGS OF SILICON" BY SinAppeal
Here's the link - https://f95zone.to/threads/wings-of-silicon-ch-2-v0-2-sinappeal.79364/
Please Support him with this!!!
 
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Last post from march 19, we should expect in next two weeks "new explantion post" why release of update is delay to third or fourth quarter of the year.
 
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I salute you loyal denizens of ICSTOR Milking Empire..

I am just a weary traveler that lost his way and found myself here, I am very tired..

Would any of you loyal and wise souls extend your kindness and borrow me your brain just for 24 hrs so
I can rest myself from too much thinking.

Oh and while you are at it please be so kind to settle my INN bill too.

I lost my coin pouch in the troll cave..
 
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Inb4 OP says "oh shit sorry guys forgot about this, the update came out like 15 months ago my bad fam lol" and updates the upload to be like milfy city patch. 1.3 complete game
 
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I also drop in every now and then just to see if there's any news about a update. I have to wonder at this point, if everyone just stopped posting and let this thread linger dead if that wouldn't be the same as getting the "abandoned" tag?
 
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Marphey said:
It sounds like you are kink shaming here. INCSTOR is scamming asshole but not because there is incest in the game jeeze.
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I'm not kink shaming anyone. I explained why people who have fringe kinks may think Icstor's games are the best. I don't know how you worked his delaying BS into that given I never addressed it in the first place, but my reply purely focused on explaining the reason some people like his game more than most others.
 
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Guys i get that ICSTOR is milking lier
but
this is milfy-city thread not pls support other game thread nor look at screens from other game thread etc.
 
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lolivirgin said:
I'm not kink shaming anyone. I explained why people who have fringe kinks may think Icstor's games are the best. I don't know how you worked his delaying BS into that given I never addressed it in the first place, but my reply purely focused on explaining the reason some people like his game more than most others.
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I happen to have these kinks and say that there are way more better games for that then Milfcity. The fact that they are finished makes them already better then this.
 
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Marphey said:
I happen to have these kinks and say that there are way more better games for that then Milfcity. The fact that they are finished makes them already better then this.
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A finished game isn't a sign of a good game, could mean anything from years of dedicated development to bad graphics to burnt out developer to rushed ending, but anyway what other games do you think feature the same fetishes as Icstor's core audience, and are an improvement in areas like dialogue and render quality? I'd like to give them a shot
 
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