Solaris33

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The key word is "artificial". In 2017, most games updated monthly. Things were in sync : one update in return for one monthly subscription fee. This time-frame is also the most common IRL for most larger money exchanges for the average Joe/Jane.
The other most common big-organization IRL wealth-exchange is quarterly, or every 3 months. Next would be yearly.
Without a hard-and-fast timeframe for VN production, the average interval between updates has probably drifted to at least 6-7 months (more if games like Polarity are counted). But payments have remained on a monthly basis.
The payment system, pioneered by Patreon, is broken badly for paying supporters. But for Devs, especially, the present situation is great. Less work for more money.
Not one of the several shill-posters that post in this thread will admit that supporters generally get a raw deal. In their view there is no problem to fix. Dev paradise.
Meanwhile, what is almost certainly the main cause of Dev burnout, blow and hookers or somesuch similar, is NEVER mentioned.
Losing the discipline of regular work by stalling/milking, and somehow still getting paid, is not viable for most people even if they laughably call themselves "Creators".

Well said. The only part I don't fully agree with is expecting every dev of every game to be able to put out updates every three months. I mean, sure, it's possible, but I'd rather have an update stop at a logical place in the story rather than in the middle of a scene.

I think there are more reasons for updates taking longer on average to release than just lazy devs too. The average game looks way better now than they did even a few years ago. That raises the amount of work devs need to put into their game if they want to have any chance of gaining attention, much less money, from people.

Games like Radiant probably ruin things for everybody though. When the entire business model is reliant on people trusting you to actually work on your game and it becomes obvious that you aren't (as is the case with Radiant), people are less likely to want to donate their money to any AVN devs. The big names that reliably put out big updates for their games will be fine, but I imagine it's difficult for new devs to break into the AVN market when a bunch of games feel like scams.
 
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Badjourasmix

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Games like Radiant probably ruin things for everybody though. When the entire business model is reliant on people trusting you to actually work on your game and it becomes obvious that you aren't (as is the case with Radiant), people are less likely to want to donate their money to any AVN devs. The big names that reliably put out big updates for their games will be fine, but I imagine it's difficult for new devs to break into the AVN market when a bunch of games feel like scams.
Yeah this is my main issue with the situation. Because of games like this and milfy city, people become so distrustful of devs that every time a dev has to delay a release for legitimate reasons, people swarm to these threads accusing them of "milking".
 

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Well said. The only part I don't fully agree with is expecting every dev of every game to be able to put out updates every three months. I mean, sure, it's possible, but I'd rather have an update stop at a logical place in the story rather than in the middle of a scene.

I think there are more reasons for updates taking longer on average to release than just lazy devs too. The average game looks way better now than they did even a few years ago. That raises the amount of work devs need to put into their game if they want to have any chance of gaining attention, much less money, from people.

Games like Radiant probably ruin things for everybody though. When the entire business model is reliant on people trusting you to actually work on your game and it becomes obvious that you aren't (as is the case with Radiant), people are less likely to want to donate their money to any AVN devs. The big names that reliably put out big updates for their games will be fine, but I imagine it's difficult for new devs to break into the AVN market when a bunch of games feel like scams.
Most VNs, most definitely Radiant, resemble comedy movies : a bunch of disjointed events/episodes with a wafer-thin plot. When in doubt, switch on the kinkiness. Good writing this ain't. Can still be fun though like a good joke.
Obv, to put out full updates every 3 months would require an expansion of Dev-team members. OR, just put out non-full updates similar to what the OnlyFans babes do on a monthly basis. This would have the salutary effect of getting Devs to put in STEADY work on a game. This would indirectly decrease the Dev "burnout" rate.
 

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Welp, numbers are falling. 942 Patrons, 114 Subscribers and who knows how many coffees are being bought.

This could have been a fun romp through drama land with some really touching moments but it fell into the trap of so many other VNs: More Girls == Better Game.
 

Badjourasmix

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Welp, numbers are falling. 942 Patrons, 114 Subscribers and who knows how many coffees are being bought.

This could have been a fun romp through drama land with some really touching moments but it fell into the trap of so many other VNs: More Girls == Better Game.
I didn't play the last update so I don't know if they added more girls. But judging by the number of girls in the prior update, it doesn't seem that bad. The problem is that you only get 1 update per year so the progress feels really slow. If this had updates every 3 or 4 months like some games on this forum have, the current number of girls wouldn't really be a problem.
 
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Welp, numbers are falling. 942 Patrons, 114 Subscribers and who knows how many coffees are being bought.

This could have been a fun romp through drama land with some really touching moments but it fell into the trap of so many other VNs: More Girls == Better Game.
Only 6 side girls thats nothin ( compared to games like wvm at least)
 

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Zero-

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Only 6 side girls thats nothin ( compared to games like wvm at least)
6?There are 11 girls in total and it seems that they will include another:rolleyes:

Edit: oops,12...forgot the mother of the triplets
 
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Zero-

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Many unnecessary characters in this game:

Good characters:
Triplet 1 ✔
Triplet 2. ✔
Triplet 3. ✔
Brooke. ✔
Neighbor. ✔
Jade. ✔
Office partner. ✔

Unnecessary Characters: Mother triplets. ❌
Wing. ❌
Waitress. ❌
Friend of the mc. ❌
Mother of the boy. ❌
New character. ❌

6 removable characters that would lighten the plot and obviously improve the game, currently it doesn't even seem playable to me. And if we add milking, it is totally unfeasible.
 

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Many unnecessary characters in this game:

Good characters:
Triplet 1 ✔
Triplet 2. ✔
Triplet 3. ✔
Brooke. ✔
Neighbor. ✔
Jade. ✔
Office partner. ✔

Unnecessary Characters: Mother triplets. ❌
Wing. ❌
Waitress. ❌
Friend of the mc. ❌
Mother of the boy. ❌
New character. ❌

6 removable characters that would lighten the plot and obviously improve the game, currently it doesn't even seem playable to me. And if we add milking, it is totally unfeasible.
* unnecessary characters in this game *

developer's fish
developer's dog
developer's lies / promises
developer's ironic bad jokes
developer's adding a legion of side no sense chars

dev.'s bullets factory
dev.'s trash talking on twitter
dev.'s playing dead on discord
dev.'s thinking he is a smart ass ignoring his supporters / fans 3 years
dev.'s traveling abroad again

THIS PIECE OF XXX DEVELOPER is even worse, i was wrong sorry no update on September, maybe oct or next year ♪

poor he , is so hard to made some 2 bit renders , when you have already all the rig / software settled and working.

THIS is no milking , because the apes like to be milked , and set a bad example to other devs
AND HOPE IT GET DOWN to 500 or less. Fathers need to check what your children buy with your credit cars guys

ONE thing is no to have supporters or have 100 to 400 bucks on they , and sleep or be lassy on the game
as some dev. s do

OTHER STUF IS to get more than 5 k or + bucks at month and sleep for a year on and on and on
like this monkey does.

Worse stuff is he believe himself to be so a prude and good one / 50% of the reason being his monkeys on discord.

BEING realistic he is working 2 months a year on the game Doing the renders and then sleeping around.

ANYTHING else is sweet words
 
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virtuvoid

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Many unnecessary characters in this game:

Good characters:
Triplet 1 ✔
Triplet 2. ✔
Triplet 3. ✔
Brooke. ✔
Neighbor. ✔
Jade. ✔
Office partner. ✔

Unnecessary Characters: Mother triplets. ❌
Wing. ❌
Waitress. ❌
Friend of the mc. ❌
Mother of the boy. ❌
New character. ❌

6 removable characters that would lighten the plot and obviously improve the game, currently it doesn't even seem playable to me. And if we add milking, it is totally unfeasible.
There is absolutely no way that I would remove Gracie. No Gracie, no plot.
Besides, the single most popular scene in Radiant is easily the one where the MC reads Gracie's letter. With that scene, the instant (and very profitable for the Devs) popularity of Radiant was achieved. That was the spark that lit the fire.
I'd cut out Maddie way before I'd cut out Gracie. Ain't cutting out Alita, either. Vanessa and Natalie, OK cut them out.
 
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Uthuriel

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Many unnecessary characters in this game:

Good characters:
Triplet 1 ✔
Triplet 2. ✔
Triplet 3. ✔
Brooke. ✔
Neighbor. ✔
Jade. ✔
Office partner. ✔

Unnecessary Characters: Mother triplets. ❌
Wing. ❌
Waitress. ❌
Friend of the mc. ❌
Mother of the boy. ❌
New character. ❌

6 removable characters that would lighten the plot and obviously improve the game, currently it doesn't even seem playable to me. And if we add milking, it is totally unfeasible.
I agree but not with Gracie...
 

Badjourasmix

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I honestly wouldn't remove any of the girls, the issue with some of them is that they were introduced way to early. Also like I said in other posts, the fact that we only get one full update per year doesn't really help because it ends up feeling like none of the characters are getting enough progress.
 
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I honestly wouldn't remove any of the girls, the issue with some of them is that they were introduced way to early. Also like I said in other posts, the fact that we only get one full update per year doesn't really help because it ends up feeling like none of the characters are getting enough progress.
yeah that's true if only the developer work on the game 3 hours for day, 3 / 4 days by week. the side chars should no be so bad.
 
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Zero-

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I honestly wouldn't remove any of the girls
Jouras, if you don't get rid of these irrelevant characters, this game will never advance.

Plus most of them are irrelevant characters, if you're not willing to remove these irrelevant characters from the plot then you can keep complaining and being disappointed in these devs for another 20 years, you choose.
 

Badjourasmix

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Jouras, if you don't get rid of these irrelevant characters, this game will never advance.

Plus most of them are irrelevant characters, if you're not willing to remove these irrelevant characters from the plot then you can keep complaining and being disappointed in these devs for another 20 years, you choose.
The issue with this game is not the characters, it's the devs. Even if they removed them the game would still feel painfully slow because they only release 1 full update per year. There are games with a lot more girls than this one and things in those games are always progressing.
 

Zero-

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The issue with this game is not the characters, it's the devs. Even if they removed them the game would still feel painfully slow because they only release 1 full update per year.
Ah, yeah... and what do you propose? change the developers?:KEK::FacePalm:
 

Badjourasmix

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Ah, yeah... and what do you propose? change the developers?:KEK::FacePalm:
There is nothing we can do. The devs don't even come here anymore so we are basically just screaming into the void. Unless a shitton of people stop supporting them they will just keep doing what they are doing. And I don't really see that happening any time soon.
 

Zero-

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That's what the discord is for, someone send this to the dev:
Many unnecessary characters in this game:

Good characters:
Triplet 1 ✔
Triplet 2. ✔
Triplet 3. ✔
Brooke. ✔
Neighbor. ✔
Jade. ✔
Office partner. ✔

Unnecessary Characters: Mother triplets. ❌
Wing. ❌
Waitress. ❌
Friend of the mc. ❌
Mother of the boy. ❌
New character. ❌

6 removable characters that would lighten the plot and obviously improve the game, currently it doesn't even seem playable to me. And if we add milking, it is totally unfeasible.
Let's see if he sees it and we can get him to turn on his lamp,If his care about his game.

If not, here's the solution:
Here's a pro tip for you -- you might thank me later!

Step 1)

Step 2)

Step 3)

...and now move on and enjoy life (and all the other great games).
i do it too, it works very good.
 
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