Nah I call out poor dev behavior when I see it. I don't think he deserves the money. I used to be a sub too when I believed in the project. It's obvious the dev is just milking people for cash at this point. I frankly don't expect the game to ever complete. People's lives will change over 2 decades. Who waits on an AVN for that long?
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Maybe i'll be seen as too soft, but:
Has anyone told D that burnout is OK, and that he just needs to stop thinking about all the stuff and just do it? I feel like he's just a dreamer who burns out easy, then falls into escapism forever until he's kicked again.
The approach I see a lot of people wanting to take here is, "he's basically a lolcow. Stop feeding him so much or he won't produce. Starve him so he works," (which i see the point of,) and even more people just angry and calling him a scammer.
Idk the guy. Can't say he's not. But, what I do see is a person who doesn't stick to his plans, fails to meet deadlines after promises, and distracts himself with bs instead of fulfilling obligations.
That all reads as what some would say is manchild, or someone with no work ethic. But it looks a lot like severe ADHD and a penchant to burning out and giving up slowly all while denying its happening.
Has anyone told D that burnout is OK, and that he just needs to stop thinking about all the stuff and just do it? I feel like he's just a dreamer who burns out easy, then falls into escapism forever until he's kicked again.
The approach I see a lot of people wanting to take here is, "he's basically a lolcow. Stop feeding him so much or he won't produce. Starve him so he works," (which i see the point of,) and even more people just angry and calling him a scammer.
Idk the guy. Can't say he's not. But, what I do see is a person who doesn't stick to his plans, fails to meet deadlines after promises, and distracts himself with bs instead of fulfilling obligations.
That all reads as what some would say is manchild, or someone with no work ethic. But it looks a lot like severe ADHD and a penchant to burning out and giving up slowly all while denying its happening.
ya if you ever see any injustice never point it out...let everyone get scammed...make sure all bad people and criminals never have opposition
i wanna see this but with LoML...it started in 2019 and has 7 updates
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Injustice... scammed... My my, some real crusaders on here. I see a Dev who is still working on this game, albeit at a snail's pace. Not a scam, just poor performance.
I believe everyone can judge for themselves whether or not a Dev is cheating or scamming or whatever. No need for the Avengers to come in and tell everyone off for still supporting this game...
7 large updates, though, and dev is open and honest with communication about how long it takes and what you're getting. So, may take a year between each update, but it doesn't deviate from that schedule, and everyone knows what to expect. This game seems to make many, many promises that it can never keep. Which is fine for people that can put up with it and still enjoy the content I guess, I'm not here to judge. But it's a different situation than LoML or other games with long ass wait periods.
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I really doubt it has anything to do with burnout.
The guy is very active and communicative on social media forums, be it about FF or politics ...he's just not really interested in working on his own game, or games, if i had to guess.
As shown with the last update he can work, when Alorth gave him the boot up his ass with an ultimatum.
Not all people are suited for self-employment, it requires good self-management, discipline and idealy a daily routine to get your work done, even when you don't feel like working and rather play FF.
Or as you said, he needs someone which checks on his work regularly and give him a kick in his ass.
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Even if he had a valid "medical" excuse, it's no reason to gaslight people (if it's not scam) about your work
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Yeah I've thought before that he may have ADHD, I have it myself and it's difficult to stay focused and motivated on just one thing. But in any case he should be more transparent with the development and at least pause payments when he is not working on the game, but as far as I know this game is the only income that Sird receives.
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Instead of delaying updates indefinitely, he should just release what he has after 6 months.
If he wraps up his work after 5 months, he has 1 month to prepare the update.
The updates would be smaller but at least frequently. And maybe after each update a two week vacation to reload the batteries.
This way there is no need to finish X renders/scenes before an update can be released. Sometimes it's more sometimes less, but probably easier for him to handle. And definitely better for his supporters and us.
And with more frequent and regular updates, the number of supporters would probably grow, too.
All that assuming he not only want's to milk his supporters.
If he wraps up his work after 5 months, he has 1 month to prepare the update.
The updates would be smaller but at least frequently. And maybe after each update a two week vacation to reload the batteries.
This way there is no need to finish X renders/scenes before an update can be released. Sometimes it's more sometimes less, but probably easier for him to handle. And definitely better for his supporters and us.
And with more frequent and regular updates, the number of supporters would probably grow, too.
All that assuming he not only want's to milk his supporters.
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When it comes to ADHD, staying focused and motivated on just one thing, is not really the issue.
The issue is that whatever you're focusing on, is not really something that you're interested in, so motivation is not there.
In most cases nowadays especially, ADHD gets used as an excuse to be lazy, which gets people a twisted understanding
of what it actually is.
So if a person with ADHD have lost interest in something, but continues to do it out of some other neccesity,
then it becomes a problem, and productivity goes way down.
So he might have ADHD, but uses his focus on fighting people on X, instead of actually giving us an update.
Also devs that doesn't stay connected with the community is a serious problem recently, and he is one of the worst ones.
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Has this game been officially abandoned or not? It hasn't received a major update in almost a year.
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Young padawans do not know the way of the force wookie, Sometimes we have to PLANT IT IN THEIR FACE.
Eh, he'll probably release something either soon or once it gets the "abandoned" tag again. I wonder what his partner has to say about this. I seem to remember something like "he would hold SirD accountable", and so far I haven't really seen anything. Looks like they went with the "silence is golden" approach on Discord as well.
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Alorth is making the renders and animations, Dammed is doing the writing (not sure which of them does the coding)...so you would likely have nothing really playable in your scenario.
They already tried the split update thing, first part was i think after 4 month or so, the problem was the remaining 30% did again take forever, with Dammed's usual nonsense and later a lack of communication.
Better solution would be, Alorth making pressure on Dammed, or he gets himself a new writer...
Avarage update takes between 7-15 months for this game...iirc we are only short of 9 months in.
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Meh, believe me, like most things, it's a matter of money. If you have good hardware, you'll get good results yourself eventually. I managed to make some good renders myself, after reading a bit about lighting, but the fact that my GPU only has 4 GB of RAM means I can't render anything anymore, save maybe 1 human figure floating in the void, because adding a room or any environment would eat up all the video RAM.
The only way this would work is if he would be developping scene by scene. It is rarely the case tbh. If you know the same place will be used multiple time through a chapter, you would usualy render all the scenes using this environment at the same time, so it would not necessarily be playable after X month.
What you describe can only work for devs that develop scene by scene and release what they have on a predefined schedule (for example Faerin releases the last Friday of each month the scenes he has completed during the month)
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