skölbrot

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Don't get me wrong there is a lot of content in this update and its great stuff, but I gotta admit spending months in anticipation for the chance to finally govern the realm only for it to all just apruptly end at the first court event, not gonna lie I am left feeling a bit empty.
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404NoNamegr

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Would love to support the game but the possibility of my private bank selling info and getting me cancelled irl is not worth it (has happened to many people in my country). If steam/subscribe star start accepting crypto (monero) then definitely yes then.
 

MrMapPainter

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I gotta admit spending months in anticipation for the chance to finally govern the realm only for it to all just apruptly end at the first court event, not gonna lie I am left feeling a bit empty.
Yeah I guess that's what happens when the hype/anticipation is too much but now they'll be dedicating a lot more towards Act V rather than on the side so to speak. I really enjoyed the initial scene with Malice and the planned petitioning system but wished we saw the entire chapter rather than just a part of it.
 
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EvangelineRaleigh

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Yeah I guess that's what happens when the hype/anticipation is too much but now they'll be dedicating a lot more towards Act V rather than on the side so to speak. I really enjoyed the initial scene with Malice and the planned petitioning system but wished we saw the entire chapter rather than just a part of it.
Yeah that's what I'm a bit confused about. I could have sworn that they were going to post essentially the entire Act V that might have minor tweaks or extra scenes added later. I thought that's why it was taking an entire year? A little disappointed that it's just a little bit of Act V.
 

SerHawkes

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Yeah I guess that's what happens when the hype/anticipation is too much but now they'll be dedicating a lot more towards Act V rather than on the side so to speak. I really enjoyed the initial scene with Malice and the planned petitioning system but wished we saw the entire chapter rather than just a part of it.
I can get that sense of disappointment. Lot of talk and hype for it only to get so little. But, think of it this way, atleast we will be getting a progression of the story and see how things shape up fully over the course forseeable future. Personally I think the real reason we are getting such a small start is because there might be things already planned for but may need fine tuning or art that is yet to be done.
 
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Tosk

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I can get that sense of disappointment. Lot of talk and hype for it only to get so little. But, think of it this way, atleast we will be getting a progression of the story and see how things shape up fully over the course forseeable future. Personally I think the real reason we are getting such a small start is because there might be things already planned for but may need fine tuning or art that is yet to be done.
It feels weird to hear it called a small update. There might not feel like a lot, but during this update the game when from 716,505 words to 901,191 words.

An update of almost over 180K
 

SerHawkes

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It feels weird to hear it called a small update. There might not feel like a lot, but during this update the game when from 716,505 words to 901,191 words.

An update of almost over 180K
I think the issue is that we are expecting more in terms of probable content and interactions, I think thats the thing. Like having everyone fleshed out and scenes and such. I think that was the take away with all the hype with Act 5. Instead, it's not the case. Not that it's bad per se, but for some it might seem disappointing.
 
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wanderingFragment

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It feels weird to hear it called a small update. There might not feel like a lot, but during this update the game when from 716,505 words to 901,191 words.

An update of almost over 180K
To some extent, I feel it's due to just how branching the game is by Act V.

Sure, 180K is a lot, but given the fact it's spread over so many different narrative branches and conditionals, the 'viewable' amount of content is far smaller... assuming you only do the one playthrough, which given the relatively little time that has passed since 5.0.0 dropped (little less than 24 hours as of this posting) is probably what most people have done... if you don't just speed run stuff, but at that point you have yourself to blame for lack of content.

I will admit I'm kind of disappointed with the remove of the Naho content from the update, though I understand why they did it. Looking forward to it's implementation.
 

claus001

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Don't get me wrong there is a lot of content in this update and its great stuff, but I gotta admit spending months in anticipation for the chance to finally govern the realm only for it to all just apruptly end at the first court event, not gonna lie I am left feeling a bit empty.
It feels weird to hear it called a small update. There might not feel like a lot, but during this update the game when from 716,505 words to 901,191 words.

An update of almost over 180K
What you are describing is the feature creep: a design choice of including multiple of features (character paths in this case) that ultimately water down the whole game. It seems that devs decided to develop all character paths simultaneously, which lead to present situation that the main plot is neglected. Instead of deciding "let us leave Chanwe out until the main plot is done", all her variants will be included: her normal version, her corrupted version, and her Chutlu-version. Then there are all multi-character plotlines which further complicate the development, and naturally the numerous interaction bugs when all paths are developed at the same time.

For this reason despite more than a year of development, V5 had less than two hours playing material even with 200k new words. The real amount of new content is likely between 6-12 hours, but you won't notice it if you won't explore all paths. In this case the correct design choice would be finishing the main plot with one or two selected characters, and built the rest of the game around them, instead of all paths are built simultaneously, which is the most ineffective way of developing anything.

The successful steam-launch, a sudden injection of cash, and following expansion, may sound like a blessing but they have their own problems: when organization suddenly grows it also becomes harder to manage and easily spirals out of control. Now, don't get me wrong, I like this game but I won't see this game going anywhere in a long time. Not all projects are successful.

Let us hope I am wrong :poop: Happy new year!
 

jsmitth529

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You also have to realize that this is a porn game, story or not. The better choice to keep the most people interested in the game's content is to flesh it out with an even spread of these scenes to hit as many interests as possible. I would not call Ravager a game with porn, it is most definitely a porn game, however good its story ends up being. As such, it makes sense for them to have the priorities they're currently displaying, making sure every possible character has content instead of just running with one or two 'main' characters and then adding more in later. This isn't some mainstream indie game they're trying to pack up and ship in a timely manner, and we shouldn't expect it to operate on the same timeline or priorities.

There's also another problem with developing as you've stated, and it's how Ravager's staff crew is set up. Each character has their own writer, and rushing the game forward while only working on a few characters doesn't make those characters go any faster, it just means all the other writers get to sit and twiddle their thumbs. Ravager is more styled as a large collaborative project than other games like it usually are, so there'd be no real point to making half the staff do nothing.
 
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