You generally don't find many games that can produce renders and animations of this high a quality and updates that last as long as this that are done in 2 months or less. For the best games out there, 3-4+ months is the norm, so whilst i can understand wanting updates to be produced quickly, unless someone is working with a team of people, it's just not feasible to expect all devs to be producing updates that quickly if you want games to be this high quality.
To be clear, what I was saying with regards to how it "could" be 3-4 months was more an expression of my own personal hope and optimism that this will be the case, not that this is how it will be. I would like it to be this way, but am prepared for it to be longer, although it shouldn't (hopefully) be as long as this one.
As for hiring someone else, right now they earn around $6k between them with around $5k coming from this game and the rest being made up from their own games. When split, that's around $3k each, especially when you factor in that Patreon takes a 30% cut from content creators, giving them a yearly salary of around $34-35k which is about the median income level and just barely liveable with, particularly in the US where I believe they both are. So they really can't afford someone else and would probably need to increase the funding overall to at least $9k to be able to afford another person.
As for the cop, yes, he was introduced in a poor way and his actions certainly seem outlandish, but we have to keep in mind 2 things:
- This is a porn game and as such they tend to work on different logic from what we do in the real world, and there are games out there that take it to the extreme edges of believability, yet are immensely popular despite that. This cop aspect stretches believability a bit, but it's not as bad as many other games.
- We are still very early on in this game and there is plenty of time to right the ship and for things that are as jarring and seemingly out of place as this to improve and be resolved in a satisfactory way, so all we can really do is give it time and hope for the best.
There are plenty of good games that update in 2-3 months that include really good renders, animations, a nice story, etc. In fact there are games that update every 2 months tops, and have more renders per update, more time while playing than this one, so the high quality of renders isn't really an excuse, in fact the delays in this one come from SirD and the problems both devs had.
The initial update time was on July-beginning of August, that's roughtly 3 months, but they had "problems" so they had no time to update until now. The update time said by them was always 3 months to do a good update, they got the support to do this full time and now they are saying that if they don't get more money they won't be able to update in 3 months and that's BS when your work is to do games, in SirD case only 2 games and Polarity uses HS assets so, not a lot of work. Alorth has a staff to help him, said by himself, and should have more than 1 pc to render, so they don't really need more money to update in 3 months, they won't update in that time because they don't want to and if they can earn more money better for them.
I didn't know how much patreon take from devs, but I'm pretty sure that there are people living with less than 3k per month and still can save money so, not really an excuse.
As for the cop:
1 and 2. The this is a porn game doesn't work, because even in porn games they use the realism approach in every things that isn't relationships with the girls. There is no way that anyone will even pay attention to a guy saying he is a "cop" and asking for our id, in civilian clothes, with his civilian car, showing no badge, being in my property and doing illegal things. If some cop did this I will go call the real cops and denunce him, nt saying yes to everything he say, it's dumb and kills the inmersion. If a "cop" do this in real life, you will say no to him and if he insist call the police, because you are doing nothing wrong.
So it's not a "he is kind of a bad guy I don't want to deal with", but a case of "There is no way this is even real, this guy is dumb as fuck and the MC agreeing to all he says is even dumber", I could literally feel how I got dumber reading that retard scene, because there's no way that will work in even a shitty movie or a bad fanfic, people can be reaterded but the MC, a succesfull guy, have the most retarded guy trophy, after the "cop" that's it. If the cop was on duty and in the middle of a road or if the MC did anything illegal I could understand him asking for the id and the MC agreeing, otherwise it's called bad writing. And no the it's only the beggining let's see how this develop doesn't work, because it is already a bad point with an unbelievable start that kills inmersion and now we will be forced to deal with this dumb plot because reasons, instead of the MC saying No to him in that scene and calling the real cops to deal with that lunatic guy who is harrasing you and demanding things while off duty and in my property, seems legit.
So yeah the cop thing, doesn't stretch believability a bit, it just simply broke the believability by the absurd of the situation, and the worst thing is that the devs doesn't even want to listen to the complaint about a bad introduced plot, that breaks the inmersion and the believability of it, that is already stretched by the others thing in the game. And you defense keeps being, "just wait to see where this bad and dumb plot goes before complainint, it's only v 0.2". If you got a fire you put it out, you don't stand there saying "well let's see where this goes", even the people in their discord and patreons complained about it and in that place there are many people that only say yes to everything that devs do and that defend everything even if they are wrong, like you do, so if even them complained about the bad character, why they keep him in? the only answer would be that he is an important piece to the game, but you have also said that he isn't so, why is a bad plot and poorly writen character there?
