Lol, it is like you put your anger and frustration, blame on those who share their personnal opinions to feel better about it,instead of putting the blame on who take the final decisions of what to do in their game. I wouldn't understand why a fucking long post to a nobody who randomly put his own opinion, if that's not true.
Don't care if you dont like my personal opinion, I dont care about your personal opinion either. But I dont like your try to put the blame on me, among many others.
I played the game, didnt like the difference between the artstyle on sex scenes, told to the creator, and above all other bugs that make the game annoying for me. He cares for my opinion? I am cool with it. He doesnt care? I am cool with it too, I will still sleep.
I liked the history of the game and new approachs on mechanics though.
But if I dont like this new "revamp" I will not play it either, like I tried the new arenus and didn't like those bugs that made the game annying for me.
The team of roundscape adorevia will still get the cash and roll with it, we like it or not.
Don't like, dont play, there are many other games and developers out there. I will support those I think it is worth and stop to those who are not worthy anymore.
Time put everyone in their place, so if they still get cash, it means that they are doing a pretty good job so far on the eyes of who support them.
Chill and have a nice day.
Its just your turn to face my verbo-rancid word-squirt, baby. As for the devs - I have already said everything I want to say about them. Spoiler: I think they are greedy lazy asshats who couldn't care enough about doing the job they were paid to do via many donations. I just don't want to rant about them any longer since I've already took a dump on them in few dozen other messages in this here thread. I don't like to repeat myself.
Buuuuuuut, I also see where your opinion about unifrom artstyle comes in - because it is a shared opinion that many people expressed. And I don't think there is a chance devs weren't aware that many people who played their game wanted artistic uniformity. I think a good proof of that is the fact that latter pre-Gold Edition updates featured the same artist for most, if not all scenes added then - heck, all new (not replaced) scenes in this update (spare for 1, maybe?) were done by that person too. So, the push for unifrom art was real - and I am certain it came from players, not devs.
The logical solution to make this push real, given the era, was to use AI. Roundscape have hundreds of images. Re-doing them via an artist would cost a lot, obviously. AI-generation presents money-free solution that would get the same result, albeit with shittier quality.
I know it may be a stretch, but for me it is quite clear that push for uniformity affected devs' decision making, that, given their laziness, culminated in cheapskating through the means of AI-generation.
So, yes, I am kinda seething at you (and coping, yes, probably, maybe). But there is a seed of rationality and reasoning behind my seething. Which, I think, makes it a passable opinion to share. I mean - as long as anyone can put reasoning behind words, that is opinion worthy of attention. In my book at least. And yes - I am a very pretentious and verbose asshole, as you can see.
As for "why the longpost?"... Well, how to put it?
Gentlemen, I LOVE LONGPOSTS. I love sheets of text. I love overly verbose messages. I love violet prose. I love those pretentious young authors who try to pump words at the rate of machinegun. I love see rows of letters floating on top of each other from daybreak to dawn. I love add empty bullshit into my master's degree work just because I can pretend I am smarter than I am. I love to dust people's eyes and ears with glitter of complex wording that I may not even know the definition of!
Gentlemen, I
cannot control my textual urges call 911 help heeeelp! MEEEEEEEDIIIIIC!!! fucking love longposting.
I am not arguing with you, to be honest. Kinda appreciate chill "time will tell", "don't like - calmly walk away" approach - a good one to have, actually.
But I just don't like this point of view that diverse imagery is somehow bad. I mean - yes, to someone, its a matter of taste. Its just - and I have said it here many times even before this whole Gold Ed debacle extravaganzo - that push for one style to rule them all is a dice roll. You may have good result, bad result, okay result, mediocre result, but you are stuck with it. And I think there are higher chances - especially with devs like these - that the result won't be that good, that devs will just roll with cheaper options for obvious reasons. Having tons of style to me isn't just a matter of preference, but is sort of a life-jacket - with variety I can be sure I will find something to my licking, anything. With single style its either hit or a miss.
And what we can learn from this game, with one style it could also be AI-generation: soulless, expressionless, bland, boring, cookie-cutter crap, riddled with tons of issues that even a novice artist usually hammers out of their works. To put it bluntly, with AI the push for uniformity risks a drop in quality, should the devs take AI option and run with it. After all, its cheap and lazy option, so why would anyone expect high quality from devs who chose it, right?
P.S. To put into perspective how lazy we are talking about here - some of original image sets had close-ups that were used as prelude for main action or interlude between its stages or variants. Obviously, those close-ups were just cropped from bigger pictures - I mean, it would take only seconds in any image-making program, right?
What devs did, however, still baffles me no matter how many times I encounter it. In way too many cases they didn't use 30 seconds in MS Paint to make a close-up. They have generated it separately. Which often, oh so very often led to broken continuity of a scene, so much so that expression, direction of gaze and even things like skincolor of character and whether or not she has cum on her face, changed mid-scene.
Imagine being that lazy. They've just made an input, waited for result, named the images and dropped them into folder. Not even checking what was generated. To tell you the truth - one of Ruksana scenes has her changing color from teal to green. That was laughably absurd.