Raziel_8

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No fucking shot :KEK:. Dude needs to fucking delete his twitter.
Dude, he can't live without that, he would have immediately a burnout and fall into depression :ROFLMAO:
Thought, i do find it funny that he uses his nick and a avatar of his adult game, which features incest and totally 18y old daughters, for his other social media accounts.
 
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Badjourasmix

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Dude, he can't live without that, he would have immediately a burnout and fall into depression :ROFLMAO:
Thought, i do find it funny that he uses his nick and a avatar of his adult game, which features incest and totally 18y old daughters, for his other social media accounts.
Yea... Probably not the smartest idea. But at this point nothing really surprises me anymore. It's just sad that he spends more time on twitter, than actually working on the game.
 

mahena

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To be fair he lost almost a quarter of his subs in the last year. He had a good increase of new subs in march but after that he just kept losing subs.
But isn't that to be expected? The most recent update came out on March 31st 2024. That might even explain the increase in March if one assumes that the number of paying members follows the update cycle with a little time shift. Since then the game has not made any obvious progress and the paying members are losing their patience, i.e. they stop being paying members.

Sure it is always a chicken-egg problem: One needs money to make a living and have the time to produce content, and one has to produce content to earn money from it. However, in most areas of any kind of industry, the producers/suppliers/manufacturer/whoever have to create their goods in advance and are paid later. So this situation is nothing out of the ordinary, let alone wrong.

Moreover, $4,600 is still a decent income in most parts of the world even after paying taxes and other dues.
 

Badjourasmix

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Yea it's to be expected, the fact that they still have so many subs after all the delays excuses, that is the surprising part.
If you go to site you can see that they got a lot of subs really fast when they first released the game. From march 30th 2020 to May 20th of the same year they gained over 800 subs. That is pretty fucking rare most games take a while to reach those numbers. The first year of development they reached 1.5k subs. The support for the game was there from the very start, something that most devs don't have. But for some weird reason SirD seems to be determined to kill his own game. Dude spends his entire day on twitter while people are still waiting for the update.
 

mahena

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And that's what make me sad, maybe a little angry, too, but mostly sad. For approximately the same amount of money per month (4.6k$), I have to work really hard, most of the time around 10hrs a day without any access to Internet, Social Media or whatsoever. And I have to pay taxes and dues as well. Unfortunately, I lack any talent to come up with a good story myself and I am a complete dilettante when it comes to graphic or photo editing. I am not complaining, because that is how life looks for most people. My income is above average in my area, it is sufficient for my purposes and I am mostly satisfied with my life.

But it makes me sad to see someone with an obvious talent which people are willing to pay for and that someone seems to waste that opportunity. SirD already earns the same amount of money as I do for doing what exactly? If he (or she?) pulled himself together and published an update bi-annually, he could probably make a fortune. The game is really good and unique.
 

Badjourasmix

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I mean honestly most of the talent comes from the people in Alorth's studio doing the art. I love this game, but it's not like this has a super deep and complex story and you can easily find someone to code a renpy game. This is not one of those VNs that have mini games and stuff like that.
 

dolfe67

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And that's what make me sad, maybe a little angry, too, but mostly sad. For approximately the same amount of money per month (4.6k$), I have to work really hard, most of the time around 10hrs a day without any access to Internet, Social Media or whatsoever. And I have to pay taxes and dues as well. Unfortunately, I lack any talent to come up with a good story myself and I am a complete dilettante when it comes to graphic or photo editing. I am not complaining, because that is how life looks for most people. My income is above average in my area, it is sufficient for my purposes and I am mostly satisfied with my life.

But it makes me sad to see someone with an obvious talent which people are willing to pay for and that someone seems to waste that opportunity. SirD already earns the same amount of money as I do for doing what exactly? If he (or she?) pulled himself together and published an update bi-annually, he could probably make a fortune. The game is really good and unique.
Yeah life is unfair, some people work 10h a day for minimum wage while some assholes don't even work but are rich

I mean honestly most of the talent comes from the people in Alorth's studio doing the art. I love this game, but it's not like this has a super deep and complex story and you can easily find someone to code a renpy game. This is not one of those VNs that have mini games and stuff like that.
Story is pretty basic, chapter 1 made a lasting effect but after that it's not very good but good enough for the renders to carry it. The same story in honey select for instance wouldn't have had as much success imo
 

Badjourasmix

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Story is pretty basic, chapter 1 made a lasting effect but after that it's not very good but good enough for the renders to carry it. The same story in honey select for instance wouldn't have had as much success imo
Yeah after chapter 1 the main complaint about the game has been the writing. There were pages and pages of people talking about the cop stuff. No one liked it. That is why I think Alorth could very easily just find someone else to do the code and the writing. At this point I wouldn't even mind if Alorth did a complete reboot if it meant SirD wasn't involved anymore.
 

Raziel_8

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Yeah after chapter 1 the main complaint about the game has been the writing. There were pages and pages of people talking about the cop stuff. No one liked it. That is why I think Alorth could very easily just find someone else to do the code and the writing. At this point I wouldn't even mind if Alorth did a complete reboot if it meant SirD wasn't involved anymore.
Yeah, after the strong first release the writing quality was going down.
The cop stuff was just unnecessary and bad all arround. Too many side girls imo.
But the weakest part, for me, is how the mother of the dead boy was handled...like she waited nearly 2 decades, just shows up the same day as the girls, comes to kill the mc, runs away, then the park talk which ended being slapped and an invite to a coffee, followed by a naked massage...all in a couple of days, no real build up or relationship development, no dealing with the past.

Yeah, Alorths nice visuals with a good (and dependable) writer would be really nice.
 

dluser

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dont forget, they are on - ( 280 subscribers ) - & who knows how many other platforms, they got & a planned "23 chapters"
 
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