- Nov 28, 2017
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Cyberpunk was so bad for me because it didn't have the kind of non-linearity they were implying coming up to release, choosing your background had pretty minimal impact and choices don't matter as heavily as I'd hoped, plus the performance was horrid.Yeah, the project management was a catastrophe. Basically, that Kuma guy simply destroyed his own studio. He had such amazing people working for him - the incredible artist (one of the best in the industry), the exceptional guy who created music for him, all those charming voice actresses... Only the script writer was quite bad.
His Patreon account made about 3800 dollars a month before he decided to abandon Milky Touch, and it was growing. Most developers cannot even dream about such a level of support.
Then suddenly he plays Cyberpunk 2077, enjoys it so much that he decides it would be nice to make his own game in a similar universe with blackjack and hookers. He abandons Milky Touch (yes, he abandoned it, it is the only way to call it). He abruptly finishes the game with 2 updates, the game that was very popular, had a lot of fans and wasn't even in the middle of the planned plot. He was told repeatedly that it was a huge mistake (including by me), but he didn't listen.
Then he started to make that stupid comic book out of his another game about Rome, that was in hiatus. No one wanted that comic. People wanted the game to be continued sooner or later. But still he paid a fortune to the artist to draw those 40 pages of pictures, more than enough to make quite a few updates.
And guess what? He wasted a year and a half to prepare for the release of Neon Touch. During that time people still paid him 1500-2000 dollars a month waiting for something great to happen. They paid him about 30 000 dollars. And what the guy does? He quickly abandons it after just two freaking updates that took him 3 months to release, because "it didn't satisfy his expectations with regard to the amount of support".
But if this chronological is true then it truly is a great wasted opportunity. I've seen Ren'Py games on Steam (not adult games) that becomes semi-successful with worse art but just by having RPG elements like choices and stuff like Heads Will Roll, a lot more adult RenPy games are starting to get on Steam's front page Upcoming Release tab as well and MT would have definitely been one of them with its art, voice, and multi-path elements.
Such a shame. It was 'finished' and I discovered it while I was in university, even so I'd have most likely supported it monetarily at least once every few months if I had knew about it then during the development process... which basically means if he hadn't abandoned it, it'd have still be in progress when I found it and I'd have supported his patreon. His patreon was still up when I found it but he was working on Neon Touch and already finished with MT so I didn't.
A true shame indeed.