Ren'Py Seeds of Chaos [v0.4.08] [Vénus Noire]
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The plan is to finish it before the end of 2025 now, and by "it" I mean Act 1, they already moved part of their team to work in part 2, they plan to do significative changes to make the development process faster by removing problematic mechanics and features that required a lot of extra time to deal with, there's not much left to do with Arc 1, its only a matter of finishing the remaining quest lines and polish the game for a "Final" release.
It's being milked indefinitely for $$$ with unfulfilled promises and a snail's pace, unfocused development. You can either cope or accept it.
*insert Revengeance/Maxxor clip here*
Lots of people like to complain about games and saying they're abandoned even as we get new content more often than a lot of other popular games I could mention. No idea why this one is getting this treatment though.
Hold your tongue... fingers... whatever. Any time used for more short stacks with big tits is not time wasted. The problem with Seeds of Chaos is, and will likely always be, unprofessional developers. I don't mean that as an insult, what I mean is that with a professional project you have deadlines, you have a development pipeline that dictates work flow, and you have people in charge ensuring that specific goal posts are met in a specific order. Unfortunately crowd funding allows anyone with an idea and zero experience to make their dream project and people with passion for a project are rarely able to keep control on scope and fewer still understand how to develop a video game properly and within a specific time frame. I don't fault Lord Arioch for not being a professional development team, it's simply why they're not finishing things quickly.
because they got many ways of earning $ on this which was going to be done in 2022 then decided to expand from I guess getting a lot of $ to be completed in 2024 and yet still being reduced and unfinished in 2025.
See here is my disagreement.
First off, they still produce content. Definitely not enough content for the size of the team and the fact that updates are only every other month, but still make multiple events per update. Second, they have so much more content to cover. They could be stretching it out forever and still keeping it moving since they are still in Act I of 3.
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Two months after the last one, in the last weekend of that specific month is the usual iirc.
In defense of their content output... how many members of the team are there? Depending on what SoC pulls in across its crowd funding it might not be pulling in enough to pay a livable wage thus forcing the members of the team to keep their day jobs.
I don't want to make assumptions but probably most of them have a full time job outside of this.
Most likely. I can see Patreon and similar income options working for someone that lives somewhere with a fairly low cost of living but not for everyone. Chance that you can make a living if you live somewhere expensive in US or Northern Europe is slim, you'd need to be making crazy cash.
They have a weird situation were more than half the team seems to not be contributing at the moment for personal reasons?
I think that only applies to the gobbo plotline. Everyone who starts writing for that arc, stops working on it after a scene or two. It must be cursed or something.
From what Rein said about it last time this came up, it seems the issue is more that the goblin arc is the lowest priority for them. It was supposed to be for the new writers to cut their teeth on, but the writers ended up doing a scene or two and got reassigned to more popular arcs like Andras or Helayna so the team can finish out the crowd favorites faster. So the goblin arcs progressed at a snails pace for basically all of 2024 and what's looking to be a good chunk of 2025 as well.