Every patreon could vote, 1001 did, that is about half of them. 81% voted to not release Ian seperately.
That is quite good on numbers, but still just 50% at best. But the main point I made was not especially about that. One member above told me that Eva did not want to update the Ian part alone, which is seemingly wrong according you. Then my point about a conscience band aid stands! Eva is the developer and she decides what and when to release. Letting others overturn your decision on these basics is either overindulgence of the patrons at best and a serious cave-in at worst.
I guess it's like every other job which is related to sex. Most of the time (99%) not.
I'd say the ones that didn't vote would be happy either way, so their opinion barely matters anyway. Whenever there's a Patreon post, you get notified via an email even if you live under a rock. So it's not like the vote was a secret and went by the majority of the fanbase unnoticed... Those who wanted to vote, did.
Can't speak for Eva, but as for myself, once you start treating the game as "work", it doesn't feel the same... When your main focus is on consistency of the writing, gameplay, lack of bugs, etc. But I admit, when I imagine possible ways the story might go, then yeah, imagination makes it hot... But it usually happens when I just daydream, and not staring at the screen writing the guide or hunting the bugs.
Here's her original post and this is the announcement of the poll, so you can follow her reasoning. She basically has 2 conflicting needs. Having both sides out at once and regularely releasing content.
As someone who writes stuff, I can assure you a level of arousal is necessary when doing so but you just have to push through it if you want to have any work done XD
That is easy to answer. Eva had more or less decided to post the Ian update alone, then some hardcore fanbois began their yapping, which infected others. Then Eva made the mistake to cave in for these fulltime whistle buoys.One final thought, if EvaKiss is supposed to be the only one to decide why all the complaining about her decision?
Agreed, especially because it was unavoidable, no matter how you treat the nurse she becomes your stalker and gets someone you care for killed. But fortunately BaDIK is much more fun to play (and much bigger) with some great characters you really care for.
DrPinkCake never bows to
There's plenty of complaints re the long development times of BaDIK, too, but generally I think people are willing to give DrPinkCake more flexibility, particularly since he seems totally uninterested in bowing to any patron pressures. He's going to make the game he wants the way wants to, full stop. If anyone doesn't like it they don't have to play the game. That seems to be his attitude, anyway.
Not a big fan of Patrons having much input, I follow a developer for their story and the content they produce not to influence them.
The balance is always hard to find. Some people can say the developers aren't listening to the feedback from his/her patrons if they only focus on the things they want to do.
If only BaDIK's dialogues aren't as stiff as the Great Wall of China, I might be able to enjoy the game. The fact that many of the LIs are already in a relationship doesn't help either.
But Eva only decided to release half the update because she was worried about what the fans were thinking. She was pretty clear about that in the original announcement (though she was much more circumspect in her phrasing). Her original vision was a unified Ian/Lena release and she second-guessed herself out of that. If anything the fans were encouraging her to stay the course with her original vision.
Not to sound like a broken record, but I think the difference with DPC is that he has a clear idea where his game is going whereas Eva does not. DPC is trying to cram too much content into the update. Even if that extra content winds up gilding a lily, he's very enthusiastic about the game's development. That makes it easier for the fans to give him greater latitude during the long delay (well, assuming they liked the last update).
I dont understand why he is always brought up I mean this are completly different games in his game you dont really have real decissions very linear(only which girl to bang), the dik and chick scala change nothing only which girls to bang you cant influence MC personalitie you are always big dik mullen if you like it or not and the game is very unrealistic in presentation of young male adult or how the hots act with other guys than mcs,couples,big partys and so on very unrealistic and the writting is very teen andrew tate fantasy (like how a 15 year old sees women)
our red string really has decissions its not as linear as the other game so you can play this game 3 times and get other outcomes if you roleplay different (make diff decissions ofc)young adult actually act horny and go for women partys are not only for ian other males exist too its waymore realistic more rivalary way better writting more adult writting and way more erotic.Believe me, that is not farcical, but I think your position is explainable since it more or less the all in approach. I repeat myself here, it is the degree that makes or breaks this. It is one thing to include a scene. character, whatever the fans and you yourself find good and another if you let fans decide on "meta"-stuff, like release dates, general story structure, etc.
It is farcical, you're arguing from a point of view that comes from a wrong read of the whole thing.
It is neither farcical nor do I have a wrong read, I am writing myself and have seen what a span of behaviour the fans and critics have.(And how onesided some fans unfortunately think, there is a reason I mentioned a TTRPG here)
