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The problem has always been the devs had too much scope for this fucking porn game.ok so yall complain about barely any content but then complain about too much and then don't even wanna see if there is any new shit yet expect the creator to make more content that is boring as hell seeing as how rowan already achieved his goal.
Re: gob content. I noticed another player had the same view as you that the gob content is taking up all the developer's efforts. I wish it was true - but it simply isn't.The problem has always been the devs had too much scope for this fucking porn game.
Do they want it to be a porn game? Do they want it to be compelling? No one knows what they want to do. They keep adding random bullshit that no one wants or random shit their writers thought of. There is like WAY more fucking goblin shit than anything else in this game and I never see more than like 2 people excited for it.
That and there's the game itself. Like the actual game, the thing between all the porn scenes? It fucking sucks. Like it's legitimately terrible. The hexploration is bad, it's all numbers go up bullshit. the only true fail states are results of not paying attention. The hex map is too large and filled with fucking nothing. The RPG rolls and numbers are meaningless, the research and buildings that don't lead to new porn scenes is wothless. I remember them saying they wanted to release an SFW version of this game once upon a time and I guarantee it would have flopped massively. The porn carries it.
The devs need to either decide to make a glorified VN (which would be infinitely better) or actually put thought into the game itself, which they have not.
The team working on the game's writing also seems to be pretty decently sized, which is crazy how they only get updates once every TWO months or so and the updates have barely anything new to show for it.
The game has been in development hell for so many years now. I can believe poor management and scope, I can believe the devs probably wanted to shove more and more into the game as they get new ideas, but you need to limit yourself. Unfortunately, their patreon just enables them to do this. If they ever ended up releasing the game, the patreon money would stop coming.
That is, if they didn't realize they could release the game and start working on a new game or something. All those extra ideas could be going into different games instead of shoving them all into one game.
The devs also said they want to finish Act 1 by the end of this year. LMAO I will believe it when I fucking see it bro.
I said the buildings that DON'T provide sex scenes do nothingone of the things you got wrong is the building providing no new sex scenes especially the brothel the forge and breeding pits all of those provide new sex scenes depending on their level and even some other sex scenes if you assign your wife to certain ones. and for the goblin shit crying. its not forced at all and you never even need to do it heck you could go the entire story without doing it. and the stat fails can lead to scenes and the stat winning can lead to new scenes depending on if you just barely pass it or pass it with no trouble. heck there's a scene where you get throat fucked by a drider if you barely pass a stat check which you need 6 or 7 i forgot exactly how much on one of the stats to get the scene.
I mean solo devs who make nothing deliver insane amounts of content while also working. I am sure it is much better for straight content but I can tell you I follow multiple gay projects with far better output. Most NSFW games seem to be passion projects. They ver much depend on writers' free time and free time can radically change with the most basic and common changes in your life. So a writer might be able to deliver 2-3 scenes every two months for multiple updates and then goes radio silent cause they are in a new relationship, they get a new job, they have a kid, they have a sick parent and those 40-50 hours they had available across two months suddenly become 5.The game writ large seems to be having consistency problems with writers in general- which I would posit has to do with how its finances are, much like Rowan in act 1, just treading water- while the cost of everything in the world goes up, up, up. I wouldn't be surprised if Arioch (lead dev) has to do more writing than he historically has needed to upkeep a decent progression unless either A) the game hits a big windfall somehow (unlikely) or the writers quit waffling (also unlikely).
And? why are we talking about total scenes? Why not about scenes released in the past X updates instead?
You're correct for the current team. The Andras x Alexia content up until the moment he gives her the bikini outfit is pretty fantastic. In fact, most of the writing was fantastic for a while. This is indicative of there being a clear goal and the team being passionate.The issue here isn't scope. You can have all the scope you want, Sierra be my witness. The real issue either a lack of will to actually live up to that scope and stop the steady Patreon cash cow income, or incompetence on a level matched only by the most mismanaged Hoi4 mods (which for those unaware is saying a lot). If it's the former, the scope is actually just a nonexistent smokescreen to squeeze money out of fans and meaningless as a concept to be discussed. If it's the latter, then no amount of scope reduction would help without essentially killing the concept. I don't know which idea is sadder given that I've seen much, much smaller teams get infinitely more done in far less time for far less money than this. It's barely changed in the 5 years since I last tried it.
I adore the concept. I've wanted this to succeed for the longest time. I made this account to keep a better eye on this. But the team, to quote a friend of mine, "lacks the stuff" to actually carry it to its conclusion.
I don't see this as milking. They supposedly are going to have 3 acts and are in act 1. They could move at a decent pace and still keep Patreon up for a decade.The issue here isn't scope. You can have all the scope you want, Sierra be my witness. The real issue either a lack of will to actually live up to that scope and stop the steady Patreon cash cow income, or incompetence on a level matched only by the most mismanaged Hoi4 mods (which for those unaware is saying a lot). If it's the former, the scope is actually just a nonexistent smokescreen to squeeze money out of fans and meaningless as a concept to be discussed. If it's the latter, then no amount of scope reduction would help without essentially killing the concept. I don't know which idea is sadder given that I've seen much, much smaller teams get infinitely more done in far less time for far less money than this. It's barely changed in the 5 years since I last tried it.
I adore the concept. I've wanted this to succeed for the longest time. I made this account to keep a better eye on this. But the team, to quote a friend of mine, "lacks the stuff" to actually carry it to its conclusion.
Jezeera absolutely begs to be bred.wondering what 2 scenes are called in the unren menu.
first the new xratal scene
second whatever scene has this art View attachment 3938293
Game first released 8 years ago and still on act 1. Regardless of if the intention is milking or not I don't think they will ever even see act 2 if they don't figure things out.I don't see this as milking. They supposedly are going to have 3 acts and are in act 1. They could move at a decent pace and still keep Patreon up for a decade.
Personally I think it is burn out and mismanagement.
Sure. But that is a failed project. I objected to "milking" as a term because it implies that the dev is exploiting the patreons. As a term it has a clear (negative) moral value.Game first released 8 years ago and still on act 1. Regardless of if the intention is milking or not I don't think they will ever even see act 2 if they don't figure things out.
"Scope isn't the problem!" *immediately proceeds to explain why scope is actually the problem*The issue here isn't scope. You can have all the scope you want, Sierra be my witness. The real issue either a lack of will to actually live up to that scope and stop the steady Patreon cash cow income, or incompetence on a level matched only by the most mismanaged Hoi4 mods (which for those unaware is saying a lot). If it's the former, the scope is actually just a nonexistent smokescreen to squeeze money out of fans and meaningless as a concept to be discussed. If it's the latter, then no amount of scope reduction would help without essentially killing the concept. I don't know which idea is sadder given that I've seen much, much smaller teams get infinitely more done in far less time for far less money than this. It's barely changed in the 5 years since I last tried it.
I adore the concept. I've wanted this to succeed for the longest time. I made this account to keep a better eye on this. But the team, to quote a friend of mine, "lacks the stuff" to actually carry it to its conclusion.
Actually it's me explaining that regardless of scope the project would still be fucked be it because of malice or incompetence but whatever gets you going."Scope isn't the problem!" *immediately proceeds to explain why scope is actually the problem*