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COMMONFACTORY
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COMMONFACTORY
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I cannot talk for the dev, but I can show you what we see, and that can explain a few things.
I managed to get the statistics on homework v3. That includes F95, where SMA is now underpromoted. So it is a base minimum, but I think it is realy representative. SMA have a 93% piracy rate on a steady average of 2200 users for the game. During glory times, it was closer to 10,000. With East and West banking systems at war, half of the world cannot support any projects, even if they wanted to. And with Dev's lack of communication, it is somehow still doing an ok score. Homework does 10 times less than that.
The Russians represent 34% of players. On Discord, I talked to a few, and they explained that Patreon or PayPal are out of their reach. They can only buy Steam games from Kazakhstan, as they have services for that. Note that porn is prohibited in this country.
Because porn is forbided in a lot of countries. There is a Muslim layer and Main China that is distributed everywhere with vpn. Most do not have much money. And if they have, they cannot use it to support if it is not crypto.
So the only thing that works fine is piracy. And this deeply affects any indie development project that relies solely on the goodwill of some users. By the way, I thank the people who have shared this information with me, as I was not aware of this until recently.
On the T's Discord channel, the people who support in one way or another are "colored". The ones that do not are "white", and a minority of this population is voiced. Guess who transformed the General multiple times in a total Pogrum after T gave its last information update?
I'm still glad that he is still working on it.
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lnomsim
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