Natasha makes the most sense IMO, she's the least influenced by the choices the player makes in GGGB. With Eva and Iris EvaKiss would give a "canon" version of the character if they appeared. Yes, she did that with Jessica, but she also made the meta joke about it when Ian is tripping on mushrooms (very good scene, by the way). Nat would also bring the experience of a healthy open relationship into ORS, which could give the MC's some ideas...
Chapter 9 remastered came out in april this year.
It's a year between ch. 9 and 10, but she didn't spend all this time on ch. 10. After ch. 9 she took a break and then made a remaster of the first 9 chapters. Only after that she srtated ch. 10 work
So that makes it 6 months for an update (so far)? 7 if we assume a release in November? I guess I'll go in a hybernation for another month like I usually do XD
Ch 5 which was used to describe Ian side of the story, in early July, had 12 250 (I will round the number up a bit)
If you expect "3 updates worth of content", you will be disappointed. It's quite clear from all the updates, that the chapter won't be any different in size, compared with the last 3 updates.
playthrough in this update.We will see. I want to find out what this really means: "every single scene is layered and plays out in a variety of ways" and "the hardest one to write thus far, for several reasons, one of them being it's mechanical complexity". After the alpha is out, I will draw my own conclusions about the complexity of chapter 10 (compared with the others). Until then, I will expect an update that is slightly bigger than the average, that will be released around Christmas. Maybe end of November, if the writing is finished in the next 3 weeks.
Fuck no! I have no expectations whatsoever on EK anymore. I said if it hasn't it would be a blatant failure, which I assume is what will happen. Hopefully I'm wrong though
Here are all release dates put together by member bauman, if you want to "analyze":
Serious proposal: let's write conspiracy theories only after we see what chapter 10 it's like. It's easy to hate the dev now, when we don't know the extent of her work. I think it's better if we don't write stuff that we might regret later, if chapter 10 proves to be the best chapter to date and totality worth the wait.
I for one think if she's already going to start making more connections between GGGB and ORS then she shouldn't be worrying too much on the fetishes and sex scenes being too similar to GGGB
If you (and other users here) don't like the remastered version or think it was unnecessary that's fine. Hell, I'm the last person to judge it since the current version is the first and only one I have played. But ignoring EK worked on that until april and expecting one year's worth of content from chapter 10 is ridiculous.
I'm 'kiddo' only in your wildest fantasies, daddy. How did your appeal for a circle jerk big round of applause go; was it everything you expected it would be?
Ian can cheat; Axel can be a reprehensible antagonist; Mike can cheat.
I think you have accidentally watched far too much cuckhold porn. I don't think of Jeremy as a 'stereotypical black guy player'. I think Jeremy is well-written because as a confident person (bartender interacting with people all night long), physically fit and therefore attractive (gym, MMA), easy-going friend (interactions we have seen) he gets opportunities because of these attractive traits.
Seems reasonable. Has absolutely nothing to do with Jeremy being black. Which is my point.
I think we all can agree that 2022 was a bad year for ORS, but let's relax for a second. This developer has produced more content than most others in this particular genre of games, and for a handful of well known creators this would even apply to their combined content released within the past ~5 years. This is Eva's second project, and she's always been very productive. Add to that the fact that Eva's renders are custom made and hand drawn, while the majority of developers out there use premade and already existing assets from DAZ Studio etc. Not only that, but her writing and storytelling are also on a whole 'nother level if compared to most creators.
I don't think that the failure of other developers excuses the failures of Eva. "Whataboutism" is not the answer.
This here is key. By no means would I say this year has been "bad" or Eva is "milking" (new flash, she ain't.) The issue stems from the who pointless rework that again no one asked for it. Now she's trying to get back on track with the story and at the same time there are things going on in her life (writers block, personal stuff, taking much need vacations-which I don't have issue with we all deserve a break to clear our heads-same with devs). Yeah it sucks that we are almost to November and all we got this year was the pointless Rework. I think that once Chapter 10 drops we will get back into the regular build cycle of 3-4 months for updates, although I do hope Eva does consider extending her build to 5 months. That way it would give her some leway and not force her to push out updates and maybe it will help her write better and branch things more throughly.
Well, you are right when you say that "Whataboutism" isn't the answer, but that wasn't really my intention. I'm just saying if someone's accusing EK of "milking", this someone should take a look at certain other developers and then come back here. That'll likely make them realize that what's going on can hardly be called milking, especially not seeing that EK is already working on her 2nd game, continuously pumping out top-notch content. She's even stopped charging her Patrons at one point for taking a break. Something barely any developer would do. (I guess that still kind of is "whataboutism", lol. I don't know how else to put it)
It looks like Eva is trying to work with the game like DrPinkCake, make a game with multiple possible paths and high replay value. Although it is very difficult for her, it is clear that the project has become very hard for her. That's why she hired help.
