Well, there is no honour amongst thieves so it was expected and whatever others might think or say the majority are pretty pleased it’s here finally.
When a dev team chooses to interact/use a pirate forum to promote their work there is a high risk that it will not turn out the way they’d prefer it to be. Some, to avoid the ‘betrayal’ choose not to appear on the forum at all. Many devs get burnt interacting with us pirates and become silent over time.
At the end of the day the devs ‘choose’ to be here because the exposure of being on f95zone for a porn game is second to none, and us pirates ‘choose’ to leak the game because we love to fap and play dirty games. I say it’s a win-win.
While I was very candid about the purpose for me choosing to post here, meaning the exposure, it is absolutely wrong to think it's always a win-win situation.
On the contrary - sometimes, like in this case, it's a lose-lose one.
My loss:
Because of not waiting the couple of weeks I intended, and giving the links to my paying customers first, I lost money - since many, who would rather pay the 3$ or 5$ than wait, have no incentive to pay, other than to show their support and get some bonus material.
There are, of course, people who support Saving Paula, some of them even up to 24$ and 48$, regardless of delivery time, and they're the ones who keep this project alive for everyone else.
They're the
true heroes.
But they are
very few.
So I am always counting on the upload "ceremony" here, in which I provide some extra material, edit the OP page and so on, to reach more people here, on F95, and on other platforms. Other platforms, by the way, who simply copy my game from here, so now it's "burnt" on multiple sites.
So my loss is quite obvious, and quite substantial.
Your loss:
Well, first of all, my trust and my willingness to give a fuck about any suggestion here and taking into account the poll results on this site. Or putting any polls here at all.
So all those "Oh, no NTR!" and "Oh, NTR please!" and
any other fetish requests from this community - and there
is a community here - will be completely ignored by me.
There are a few people who support me on Patreon and SubscribeStar, and
they will be
the only ones I listen to from now on.
But that's not really much of a loss for most here, is it?
Well, here's something more: since the "hero" here clearly became a 5$ patron just to download the new version and beat the Dev to the punch, there will be longer -
much longer - waiting periods between the higher tiers and the lower ones when I publish the next update.
And the next update is just a month or two away - for the
higher tiers.
If the said hero - or any other honorless "hero," for that matter - wants to pay me 48$, 24$ or such, just to give it to people who will get it anyway
the moment he puts it here - well then, all the power to him!
And I thank him for his support!
And if this continues in the next update or two, the community will get more and more sanctions by me - and you have no idea how much I can give to paying members and not others just for spite.
Seriously - you don't want to anger the timid, and you don't want to turn your friends into your enemies. Because we're the worst kind.
I apologies for all the good people here, who did nothing wrong but to share in a conversation and voice their opinions about "Saving Paula" - good
and bad -
but I really have no choice.
If I do not act this way, I will have to seriously reconsider my "I will never abandon my game" policy.
And that is the last thing I want to do, because I
like Saving Paula.
