I agreed with the sentiments here right up until the end. I DID support this game, for several months after the initial drop. When I saw, after V.0.02 that the output of content didn't, in my personal opinion, match the support I'd put in, much less what I'd have to continue putting in, I quietly stopped supporting and just as quietly left the Discord. Since then I've stopped by occasionally to check on the game's status and so far I've just received the consistent reminder that, again, just in my personal opinion, I made the right choice in moving on. I have not left a single bad word about the game or the devs in this thread, nor on Patreon or the Discord, or anywhere. Because being angry isn't fun to me, and sharing that anger with other people leaves me feeling rotten.
But that doesn't mean I don't have a right to speak my mind, or more importantly that I "can't really be mad". I agree that the voices of displeasure from people getting something for free about how long that free thing takes for them to to get should be, for the most part, ignored, especially when paired with the kind of vitriol F95 sometimes allows to foment. On the alternate side of things, you don't create new patrons or subscribers by irritating or disappointing potential customers; you only wind up bleeding the base you've already got. F95 is not solely comprised of angry, entitled jerkoffs who just want everything handed to them. Many of us use this site to find games and developers we'd like to support.
The only people who merit your sympathy are those who have 'put in 100s', which is apparently the threshold at which you've decided one is allowed to get upset with the lack of content they're paying for. Except not really, because you immediately rescind that statement. So even people who have paid at the highest tier for God knows how long, with only five hours worth of content and a handful of admittedly beautifully rendered CGs, shouldn't be using this forum to say anything negative. Hell, you don't even believe they have the right to be upset.
I disagree.
I've been supporting another incest-centric dramedy for several years now. The most recent update took a year, one entire year, to come out. I never questioned it, nor begrudged the wait (well, those last few months were rough, if I'm being completely honest). Why? Because the dev has proven that when each update drops, it offers an enormous amount of content that is polished and well-rendered. 'Well-rendered', not 'stunningly rendered'. If the renders take so ridiculously long to create that you can only offer an hour and a half's worth of content each update, and each update comes out so infrequently that you are consistently losing large portions of your paid audience, maybe, just maybe, the focus shouldn't be on making it look so goddamned good.
It is a dev's right to make the game they want to make, no matter what. If they want to paint the Sistine Chapel of pornographic visual novels, then God bless and godspeed to them. But anyone that supports them, regardless of whether they put in thousands or dozens of dollars during the course of production, has every right to grumble at some point about how fucking long its taking to paint the goddamned ceiling.
