Even that's kinda dumb, he said that he will START working on 2k. So basically he's getting free money until the 2k an no work at all. He didn't even say he'll will work Full-time when 2k hits. It would be acceptable if very slow progress until the 2k and more frequent updates when 2k hits, so yes it's greedy.so let me get this straight. you want him to do this full time before knowing it can support him? are you really this dumb? if you want to see what greed is, take a look at dual family. that's greed.
It's fine if he recieve it.. Let's say for the 300 that he has, Work on the game maybe 24 hours a month? Seems reasonable to me. and it'll help grow the supporters with each update. which will help him slowly get to the 2kHe’s actually paused billing his patrons.
True. If he wants the 2k he needs to grow the playerbase of the game, and a trickle of updates will very much help that. I have supported a game from a patreon that at first was at around 100 a month, now he's getting 1.6k. I want this game, but that "On Hold" is, at least for me a deterrent to people who want to try a new game. I usually skip games with On Hold or Abandoned tags. On some games it already takes months to update and an On Hold tag is pretty much abandoned for most games. I really hope this game comes back. Time will tell I guess.It’s ultimately up to the Dev what he wants to do. Of course I think it’s be smarter in the long term if he continued to work on the project, even at a reduced capacity, perhaps with more of a concerted effort to promote it and work on some of the flaws in the game’s narrative. But that’s the thing, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
Personally, I’m holding out for the possibility that he eventually deals with whatever is going on with him and comes back to this project in his own time.
He Just don't get enough support , that all . He did great with the game actually it has 3 month game update ( if im not mistake ) the last one was push back because that reason ... even he pause the bill before last releaseThe dev is mad or what?
I can understand if he is in loss or not able to pay bills for this game making. But, that doesn't mean he should give a unrealistic target for patreon supporters. It's far more from even approachable. He should instead abandoned it like many of devs did after their game becomes a failure cause.He Just don't get enough support , that all . He did great with the game actually it has 3 month game update ( if im not mistake ) the last one was push back because that reason ... even he pause the bill before last release
( Scamdrop )2 .5 year and ( Icstor) 10 month with no update has thousand dollar and patron ..
This Dev just get income few hundred dollar ( just to pay electricity )
Now you're just making assumptions, that makes you dumb, not me. I never said he had to do this fulltime before knowing it can support him. Going from 300 a month to suddenly demanding 2k before doing any work is fucking greedy, whichever way you spin it.so let me get this straight. you want him to do this full time before knowing it can support him? are you really this dumb? if you want to see what greed is, take a look at dual family. that's greed.
It's not greedy cuz of the paused $300. It's greedy cuz he wants 4x the amount that he's already have to even start working on it. I think he should work on the game proportionate of the support he's getting. He should unpause the patreon and for that almost 400. work on the game 30-40 hours a month. Cuz the 2k that he wants is impossible with the size of the playerbase of the game.He has paused billing, he's not getting that $300 per month. It's sad that he stopped working on it, but I don't think it's greedy. I do think he went into making the game for the wrong reasons, though. In my opinion, you shouldn't expect to make a living from it, and just do it for fun.
I'm pretty sure it's just his way of saying he quit (and perhaps throw some shade at the community). Any other explanation is too illogical.I understand that he wants to get more money, I'll even say that with the quality of renders, the different paths and the story (though it has weaknesses), he SHOULD earn more than 300 bucks, but the problem is that:
1) Most people aren't rich enough to support all the projects that are worth their money.
There are so many good games out now, even if you have a bit of money to spend on a rather obscure hobby like western porn VNs, you can't give to all. So of course, though it's sad, not all games will get the support they deserve, will some relatively horrible games and even worse devs earn way too much.
2) The idea that he can go and release no update and just wait for his patreon to reach 2k a months is ridiculous, whether he charges the current patrons or not. I even doubt the game will attract a significant number of new patrons at all, after maybe an initial raise from people who like the game enough they would pay a few bucks to see it continue.
Not with so many games coming each month, not with so many games currently in production.
I'm not saying he doesn't deserve more money, but he won't get it that way, by what many will think is holding his own game hostage. Honestly it's a really, really stupid idea, I don't get how anyone could think this would work out.
So, he's made the terms even more onerous. 2500/month or the development won't restart AND now also if the game slips beneath 2500 at any point in the future development will cease again. Yeah, well that seemed pretty obvious already. But, the fact that he felt the need to say so explicitly means he's learned exactly nothing. He's so wrong headed in his approach it's laughable. Literally no one does this. Exposure is everything. With every passing day the game slips more and more into obscurity. Buried by the sheer number of new games and updates appearing.He’s since added this little tidbit to his patreon goal:
“The goal will be re-evaluated each month depending on how much interest there is for the project to continue.”