Unreal Engine Monolith Bay [v1.0 Beta] [Team Monolith]

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lnomsim

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Digteren said:
This has been discussed many times. The core of this issue seems to be steam not enforcing its own rules uniformly. If a game has any adult content they're very fast to strike down on anything with a high school. College stuff is often much easier to get through, but if the dev is unlucky and gets the wrong reviewer there's always a risk.
Most egregious example I can think of doesn't have anything to do with any kind of school, but My Dystopian Robot Girlfriend got taken off steam and banned from reapplying because the robot has big eyes, so some reviewer thought she looked like a loli. Meanwhile several East Asian games have small tiddy shortstacks in herntai games, so it seems to depend on the steam reviewer you get that day.
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Yeah, I can understand that.

BUT it doesn't change that they didn't add any new content and only applied a few fixes.

The game hasn't received any big update for almost one year now, I think (correct me if I'm wrong, I might be).

It's highly convenient that over a year their sudden decision to try once again to go to steam is blocking the college. Did they even work on it during that year? I highly doubt, I even doubt they touched the game at all, and they just decided "let's put some fixes and be done with it".

The college isn't the only thing missing in that game, a lot of events and relationship progression is missing for most of the characters, and I didn't see anything related to this content in the changelog.

Personally, when I played the game, the beach house ownership event never triggered.

It fells more like an excuse to justify getting rid of the biggest piece of work than a real explanation.

But don't mind me, I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, I'm just ranting and am well aware it won't change anything. It's just disappointing, and I unfortunately expected it.
 
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Holy hucow! the android version is real! Well the translation was bad, but once swapped back to english ,
The virtual pad icons are quite big tho, I wonder if there is an option to change them or if a pad would work out of the box.
 
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lnomsim said:
Yeah, I can understand that.

BUT it doesn't change that they didn't add any new content and only applied a few fixes.

The game hasn't received any big update for almost one year now, I think (correct me if I'm wrong, I might be).

It's highly convenient that over a year their sudden decision to try once again to go to steam is blocking the college. Did they even work on it during that year? I highly doubt, I even doubt they touched the game at all, and they just decided "let's put some fixes and be done with it".

The college isn't the only thing missing in that game, a lot of events and relationship progression is missing for most of the characters, and I didn't see anything related to this content in the changelog.

Personally, when I played the game, the beach house ownership event never triggered.

It fells more like an excuse to justify getting rid of the biggest piece of work than a real explanation.

But don't mind me, I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, I'm just ranting and am well aware it won't change anything. It's just disappointing, and I unfortunately expected it.
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to play devils advocate removing an area from the game can be an absolute nightmare scenario depending on how many things reference it in story and in programming
 
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Cheetachaser said:
No new content, removed content and bugfixes.
Chances are Dev gave up.
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Surprisingly, they didn't give up. If folks here were more active on their Discord, you would know as they post more there than here (but still infrequently).
  • They were dealt a shitty reviewer at Steam *twice* who denied their game -- until a portion of it was removed (for no legit reason).
  • Itch screwed them over on their payouts.
  • Yes the have been active on their "Home Together" game, while they made tons refinements & fixes to M.Bay regarding the toons, bug fixes, game play, etc.
  • And now they have an Android build out which has additional work to be done. Remember the 80/20 rule: 80% requires 20% effort and the last 20% requires 80% effort.
I'm currently playing the 1.0 Beta from a new save (as a paying customer) and been playing M.Bay for about two years. I can see the details that have improved. I can see where they are having to make the best of bad situation. I don't know if I'll have the time to check out the Android build -- it depends if I can use my custom Character cards on the phone.

Also, if you do play the game, there's hours of game play. It takes around 50+ in-game-days to complete depending on how you play it. (trying to play the story OR have a preggo harem in Hill House.)

They aren't doing a money grab either as others alluded to above.
  • They really are trying to deliver given all the shit they've been through.
  • It doesn't help there's likely a substantial amount of folks via f95 who haven't supported them via Patreon ("codes please").
  • For those previous posters talking about a "money grab", what would you do to get your 3 year endeavor of an indie NSFW game on Steam so it can recoup some cost, blood, sweat, and stress? (update:
    You must be registered to see the links
    . Being on Steam isn't enough. Promotion is work too.)
I can understand why some folks are upset as their expectations aren't met. Maybe those expectations were too high. Those who paid are the ones with the right to complain, not the freeloaders. Look at the game credits - it's just a couple of people grinding away. They could likely, easily make more money elsewhere (like flooding steam with cheap NSWF assest flip casual games.)

In the end, everyone is "sleeping in the bed of their own making" - the risks the Devs took (IRL expenses, the trolls, & the crap they put up with), the thankless f95 players who don't pay for a game only to whine about their expectations, and those of us who paided for the game (to support the devs knowing the risks).

Me, I'm not sorry. I know what I bought into. I also didn't expect Steam and Itch both to fuck them over. Oh well. People haven't been giving them credit for what they've done right. They've learned their lessons from M.Bay, and applying them to Home Together. I wish them luck with that game. It looks good. I've seen their Changelog & screenshot improvements. Myself, I'm holding out on "Home Together" until it has more of a story/game play considering Monolith Bay has one. Hopefully Steam and Itch won't fuck'm twice.
 
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lnomsim

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circuit said:
to play devils advocate removing an area from the game can be an absolute nightmare scenario depending on how many things reference it in story and in programming
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Well, good thing there were none then. Hence my point.
 
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ninjabanana

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went on a date. got to chose music. and the music wont stop playing. tried to mute everyting in settings but the music is still loud. had to mute the game in windows to get it to shut up
 
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And this is college themed games i found only by searching my library briefly. There is a ton college themed games on steam and yet they ban this game. Maybe censors estimating shit variate from the country to the country.
 
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Really difficult to get any sort of a grasp on this game when the reviews seem to complain about bugs, and the comments to the recent update complains about it being an update to fix bugs :HideThePain: Guess I'll just have to see.
 
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i tried this game some time ago, i remembered a part in the school but i tried the game this morning and the school part doesnt exist anymore? or have i a bug?
 
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