- Aug 12, 2018
- 142
- 378
The game basically suffered an usual case of "Patreon-itis".
They had a really good idea, their Patreon started to get really successful and profitable, they treat their patrons and friends with adding their OCs ingame and once they have a loyal base of supporters they start getting lazy, adding less and less each update since less work means still getting the same money.
A bit of generalization, but it's what usually what happens with this kind of projects sadly. Devs either become lazy and barely work or they live in their exclusive Patreon discord with all their patrons and friends. Or in the worst case scenario, both, living in a toxic bubble of praise and support where nothing you do or you don't do is wrong or bad.
I fear the success of their Patreon lead to them getting comfy. Way too comfy. Before an update could take some time, but you had decent content, like a new area with new enemies. Now we get the dojo in bits that take years apart and let's not talk about Bates. Telltale Games delivered faster chapters than we get Bates updates.
They had a really good idea, their Patreon started to get really successful and profitable, they treat their patrons and friends with adding their OCs ingame and once they have a loyal base of supporters they start getting lazy, adding less and less each update since less work means still getting the same money.
A bit of generalization, but it's what usually what happens with this kind of projects sadly. Devs either become lazy and barely work or they live in their exclusive Patreon discord with all their patrons and friends. Or in the worst case scenario, both, living in a toxic bubble of praise and support where nothing you do or you don't do is wrong or bad.
I fear the success of their Patreon lead to them getting comfy. Way too comfy. Before an update could take some time, but you had decent content, like a new area with new enemies. Now we get the dojo in bits that take years apart and let's not talk about Bates. Telltale Games delivered faster chapters than we get Bates updates.