It's not, I was being an asshole. I just checked and it is closer to 20%. I'm doing better than the average!Off topic, but 50% is still pretty bad.
If you are playing Western VNs only. In your total watchlist, the abandoned % should about 35%
Just confirmed your suspicion.JakReaver said:
Sad to see another one go, but this is what happens when you get burn out because you milked subscribers for years instead of finishing your project. No More Money? Soon no more patreons, I guess. Nobody likes being lied to.
I will offer some advice. Have a clear vision and a plan. That's the most important thing from the beginning. Just chasing trends without the passion ends up in an abandoned project. If you're gonna make an incest story and want to explore the taboo, don't make silly patches that only change names because you want to ride the patreon money. Make it the default, use substar or other platforms, interested people will flock in anyway. If you have burn out, pause for a while. Communicate early to your subs and tell the truth. Don't milk. You don't need 5 years to make a slow burn story if you focus on what's important and have a plan. Also please, fiction is not reality. You can be a perfectly functioning adult, but a depraved incest loving pervert in your room. It's all in your head, don't let that consume you.
I would've totally believed that if he didn't say he will make other Adult Visual Novels without Incst. I doubt his wife would be okay with AVN even without Incst. If that was the case he would have to just stop Developing AVN all together.
That's not how it works though. He is not fixing so his game can fit to some regulations. In his mind, Triss will always be the sister and Charlotte will always be the mother, it won't matter if you name them shapeshifting alien.
For those of us who've been playing for years it's worse. I imagine for patrons it's infuriating.
Yeah, I can imagine. There are one or two games I try to follow and I can feel abandonment is coming soon for them and it's kinda infuriating scenario.
I didn't mean Patreons rules or any other type of rules, I meant how the dev implied that he didn't want to continue to work on the game because it has and in his words promotes "incest" especially now that he has a family of his own.
I know, that's what I was pointing out. Changing MC to stepson, tenant or any other shenanigans would not work in Dev's situation. He does know they are related, he created them as such so whatever you do he will feel like he is creating an incest story. Now he is uncomfortable with that, he has to stop. There is no way around. Maybe except killing the current MC and introducing a new MC, which will be a different game. Or dropping Charlotte and Triss, maybe Denise too, as LIs, which will cause an uproar bigger than abandonment. So in anyway, if the devs explanation legit, there is nothing he could do but quit the production.
If the dev's explanation is legit he's being a kink-shaming hypocrite. Nothing about that is forcing him to dump the project, he's either leaving some details out or that's just the case.
I also think he is leaving some details but you are being unfair there. He is not kink-shaming anybody. People can lose a fetish or interest, just like they can develop one. If he is uncomfortable now which he was not before, that means he changed. That's not kink-shaming at all. You are asking him to create something that does not interest him, maybe even appall him. He simply can't. This could be a total retirement, or retirement from certain genres and non of it would make him kink-shaming hypocrite. Though I think he has to answer to his patrons (patreon, steam, itch etc.) because they gave their money with an expectation, which he is not delivering. He may need to settle that. Btw, I don't buy it, you support the dev not the game thing. If someone is getting a support that because of their game and nobody supports a game to abandonment.
Not to be a bore...
It is much lower than I expected. It seems in the last two years a lot of good games got abandoned.
Then someone comes along and makes an incest mod kkk, what would be the point of all this effort?
Novice developers want to make a quick buck and think that adding generic incest is a sure profit kkk, I really enjoyed your analysis.
