This is why I prefer one time fee to purchase games. Sure supporting a developer with a monthly subscription is great. Until it's not.
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- Mar 18, 2020
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Yea, what happens now is people give money because the dev worked on a game, not because the dev is working on the game.
- Dec 22, 2018
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That is the thing... Most projects start out great yet 90%* lose motivation and updates start to take 10 times longer compared to when the project started... Do i have to pay 10 times less to support at this point? Not an option on Patreon and most devs. won't pause said project.
I heavily prefer (and already do when the option is available) to buy a game with a one time fee and also only when there is already some decent amount of content to see if the dev. is legit and sticks to his word/planning.
It sucks for the ramaining 10%* of legit dev. doing a decent job maintaining updates... but that is always the thing with minorities.
*Don't take me on these pertcentages... just based on my feeling while typing this.
Has there been any actual info on the update since then? Coming up on 2 months with no news and while I want to give dude benefit of the doubt posting about how he’s spearfishing on vacation with money he got from games he hasn’t updated in half a year or more gives me little faith in getting updates anytime soon
He posted this but dont know what it is
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so if his post back in APRIL said it would take "another month" to do the usual BS excuse devs do when they don't hit a release date on time ("polish, improvements, bit more content"), then "another month" would've put the release end of MAY or early JUNE. well, here we are on JUNE NINTH, n yet still nothing...i had your back once upon a time Alorth, but seriously??!! this is now at the point of being ridiculous; n working on 4 games at once makes zero sense...all you're doing is pissing off fans of all of them by taking so long not releasing content on ANY of them.
as the saying goes, PICK A LANE...stick to the 1 or 2 games that are the most popular, n are the furthest along, work on those, n put the smaller, newer projects on hold. you're obviously losing supporters, which equals $$$, along w/the trust of the fan base overall, thereby undermining the potential for new supporters...or are u content to ride out mooching off the suckers who pay for 6 months of nothing while you're spearfishing, sitting on a beach drinking mai tai's? 1-2 updates/year is NOT acceptable
- Dec 25, 2019
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Those 4 games he is working on are commisions. That is his job. Neko Paradise is his personal project. In other words CHILL. It'll get done when it gets done.
- Dec 22, 2018
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*click to pause project*My God did you just say this? People are literally paying to see this finished even if it is a personal project, at least pause the monthly funding instead of going off with 6 months worth of ppl's money to sit on a beach.
- Dec 25, 2019
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Is he just not allowed a holiday? And as for people paying for it , it says at the top of his patreon that he works on this in his FREE TIME. Expecting the game to be done on your timescale is unreasonable at best.
250 subs "If I reach this goal, I can turn game development into my full-time job." he have more than double that.
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I think people was expecting it to be done on Alorth's "timescale" and, since they are paying and getting nothing while his "timescale" keeps changing, it's fair for them to be pissed. There are plenty of honest people out there that pause patreon when they can't deliver and resume it once they do.
A paywalled patreon post will not help most unless your a patron.
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I've been back from my vacations since last weekend and I've been catching up on stuff that was left to do. The plan was to do work during....
Sounds like they probably didn't get much done with this one and I also know that Perverteer was waiting for them to come back from vacation so that they could send them a bunch of animations to do so I won't be surprised if it was pushed back again.
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I've been back from my vacations since last weekend and I've been catching up on stuff that was left to do. The plan was to do work during....
Sounds like they probably didn't get much done with this one and I also know that Perverteer was waiting for them to come back from vacation so that they could send them a bunch of animations to do so I won't be surprised if it was pushed back again.
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Just Cancel your Patreon Subs.... (Some people might get triggered Here LUL)
Maybe than he will move his A$$ to get back more Support
Don't get me Wrong i love to Support Dev's if they Work Hard on the Project.
Maybe than he will move his A$$ to get back more Support
Don't get me Wrong i love to Support Dev's if they Work Hard on the Project.
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The updates for this game were pretty regular, now when Alorth posted that this game will be updated at the same time as Radiant it was reason to worry... Radiant is awful with updates
thats what i did already, i'm only subscribed to dev that somewhat keep a steady schedule or that at least pause the pledge if they dont upload anything for months at time
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Well he said in April that things weren't going good for the game and he had to push it back another month, than another update is he is on vacation spearfishing, there is a video of it. But the update would be out in a month. The update should have been out in May. But we are approaching July and still no update.
I supported him for a few months. I don't support him to take my money and use it for his spearfishing trips. He is like a lot of patreons who provide wild excuses why an update is delayed etc. He just is making bank across 3 games he is working on.
I supported him for a few months. I don't support him to take my money and use it for his spearfishing trips. He is like a lot of patreons who provide wild excuses why an update is delayed etc. He just is making bank across 3 games he is working on.
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