VN Ren'Py My New Girlfriend [Ch.5 v3] [CircleGames]

[Yougiblack]

He went on a trip with friends for atleast a week. Devblog can be found if you go back like 2 pages. Not sure why you're so surprised by the DLC's as it was literally announced in the game at the end of Chapter 05 and mentioned like 100 times in this thread.

The first DLC took too long, can't argue here. 100 images in like 2 months was pretty slow, yes. 2nd DLC taking just over a month including vacation is totally fine unless it's 20 images - which by the way you should be looking at the amount of images not just "How long did Chapter X take compared to this". More images, more work. DLC or not.

2025 has not been the best yet, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. But maybe wait for Chapter 06 and see how things go after the DLC's before going up the walls. And keep in mind CG never made any promises or set up Patreon goals like a bunch of other devs who could actually be called out for "milking". CG is just doing his thing - no strings attached. You're not being promised the holy land after supporting him financially, not lured in to pay for monthly updates or anything. Totally up to you if you wanna support him or not.

Maybe, but I dont like the trend that when each game gains momentum and popularity, suddenly progression slows down instead of speeds up, I cant be talking shit since I dont support him but what I see is aggravating to some extent, the development time for chap6 will be the deciding factor for sure, and I hope I am wrong but I dont have good feelings about it, we'll see for sure.

 

[nickrotund]

Did you hear, guys? Artist271 is sure it'll be worth the wait.

that is all i needed to hear.. gladly paypaled dev extra $500 now that i know next version will be worth wait.. artist271 ty my prophet

 

[Tecton]

Question: why are so many haters in the thread for a game they don't like, made by a dev they accuse of milking people?

It's almost like you're all being disingenuous and just want attention.

 

[dnylive]

Question: why are so many haters in the thread for a game they don't like, made by a dev they accuse of milking people?

It's almost like you're all being disingenuous and just want attention.

You have those in almost every game thread, constantly shitting on the game and/or the dev instead of just moving on.

 

[palmtrees89]

Maybe, but I dont like the trend that when each game gains momentum and popularity, suddenly progression slows down instead of speeds up, I cant be talking shit since I dont support him but what I see is aggravating to some extent, the development time for chap6 will be the deciding factor for sure, and I hope I am wrong but I dont have good feelings about it, we'll see for sure.

Fair statement. I've been here long enough to know that this happens alot unfortunately, but I personally like to differentiate depending on statements, promises, Patreon goals and more. I've been calling devs out for milking their audience on other games, terrorizing threads analyzing statements that turned out to be lies, unkept promises, never fulfilled Patreon goals and so on (which has gotten me in a whole lot of trouble over the years with forum Police ) . I'm just not seeing any of that here, so I'm staying positive. From everything I've seen here aswell as on Discord and other user experiences, CG seems to be a nice dude without any bad intentions. Dude even refunds supporters if they're not happy.

There's so much negativity in every game thread these days, the moment people don't get their updates in a- for them- timely manner, everyone starts jumping the hate train. All it takes is 1 delayed update, 1 slow devcycle, anything really that people can jump on. And INB4 someone goes: "but it's only gotten slower since Ch02" - Yes, but the amount of images per Chapter also skyrocketed, new features have been added, more and better writing, more complicated and time consuming workflows with AI (something people without a clue just don't see by the way) plus post-work. With all that in mind, I think the development time is fine. But don't get it mistaken; Doesn't mean I'll not call it out if an update with 100 images takes 5 months either.

Anyway.. Fingers crossed!