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You don't need to know the specifics of that post, the title says it all - after years of releasing no content at all and milking his patrons he's finally abandoning the game.
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look, im just need to change the ".txt" to ".yml" in the name of my original archive to tranform it? cuz i dida that and say that the and test it in the the game and it says that its a "YML parsing error"
Forget it, i fix it, my bad
Forget it, i fix it, my bad
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how lazy do you have to be to fail to deliver content for a fricking text-based game
I remember, years ago, the creator said that they would release the source code for this game at some point. Am I remembering wrong, or did they go back and decide not to do that?
I don't think he has, and people who've looked at the files we get say that it's a mess of spaghetti code and poor programming practices / decisions. (Though I personally also have used really bad coding practices myself, but I also have never sold anything I've coded.)
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Can't even commit 20 lines of code a month at this point.
- Nov 21, 2016
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hey cut the guy some slack ok? he's been hard at work since 2014 let him take some well-deserved rest
- May 27, 2017
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I seriously hope you are being sarcastic. Guy is getting paid to deliver frequent updates to a text based game. And yet almost all content added recently was prepared by the community. It seems that he is on holiday at least 3 weeks a month for the last two years.
- Sep 12, 2018
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I think SO has made a serious mistake by fixing the typos and bugs so efficiently, now he's really struggling to get enough content for a monthly release. Poor guy 
- Oct 29, 2017
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Aka typical armchair developer comment. Guess you would also have been the world best soccer player - if you started to learn to play soccer just a little bit earlier in life...
From the looks of it then he got Patreon supporters that believe in him and as long he can keep them satisfied then I guess he will continue to do whatever he does. At his own time and speed. I wonder why anyone would actually spend time developing anything if this is what they can look forward to.
- Jan 27, 2018
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You're right about everything but one issue. This whole rant would sound way better had it started with "Hey, guys, I spent the last couple months learning how to code and came up with a game much like this one, here's a link, hope u like it and feel free to give me any feedback"
You say you'd do it better? Do it, then.
The download includes a file that just requires java, which works for mac.
So, I'm not going to claim that I could code any kind of game, but I did support SO a long while back, and can compare the recent progress to early progress.
Early on there was something like a 2 month update cycle, with bug fixes shortly after release. There was normally one month with a large update, like the entirety of the standing sex scene or the dance class and dancing scene. The next moth would be a minor event like the find a phone scene, minor clothing changes and other tweaks.
Recently every month, if there was an update, has basically been 1-2 scenes written by fans and MAYBE a new thing SO did other than bug fixes, most often along the lines of the small updates from early in the development. Big updates have had massive bugs and / or been spread over multiple months (the cooking class scene in particular). Bug fixes are often left for the next month, rather than a within the week bug fix.
If the development by the same guy has massively changed / slowed from their early work, then anyone has the right to call them on it. Now, the current patreons can continue to support him for however long they think it's worth it (or until they remember they're still patreons if they forgot).
And honestly, there's a lot of issues with life sim porn games and in terms of the relative annoyances / needless complexities Newlife is one of the best that I know of in terms of being a game but one of the worst I've seen in terms of the paid developer's progress (again, comparing against himself).
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Why would he spend money on that? He's in it to MAKE money.
A lot of people stopped donating because of SO's bullshit "content" updates and I don't really see too many of them coming back, even if he did somehow decide to stop advertising fixed typos as major changes ... and the current donators are apparently people with less than 0 expectations, so he doesn't even have to do anything to keep the money flowing. Why would he cut into his own profits then? The idea is to keep the milking going for as long as possible, not to deliver the product.
A lot of people stopped donating because of SO's bullshit "content" updates and I don't really see too many of them coming back, even if he did somehow decide to stop advertising fixed typos as major changes ... and the current donators are apparently people with less than 0 expectations, so he doesn't even have to do anything to keep the money flowing. Why would he cut into his own profits then? The idea is to keep the milking going for as long as possible, not to deliver the product.
He has 870 followers at this time of writing, even if all 870 only pledge $5 it still adds up to $4,350 which isn't accounting for how many pledge more. With many more worthy projects around I was always intrigued.
He released his game in 2014 and claimed that it would be a 3 to 5 year long project, so this is the last year/6 months until it should be (((near))) finished.
There was a list of content that was posted onto his blog that patrons could vote for:
It can still be used as a list of content that never happened and that was 2016. So much of the game even seems to remain unfinished.
He released his game in 2014 and claimed that it would be a 3 to 5 year long project, so this is the last year/6 months until it should be (((near))) finished.
There was a list of content that was posted onto his blog that patrons could vote for:
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It can still be used as a list of content that never happened and that was 2016. So much of the game even seems to remain unfinished.