I would agree with you that programming updates are important, if they hadn't spent most of the last six months without a worthwhile update, and I would agree with you that animation caused glitches as an excuse if they weren't pulling in something like $15,000 a month for the project. They can afford to devote some time to getting them working. Plenty of patreon games making less money a month pull it off without it being a problem. Something Unlimited, on the other hand, is a week's worth of work stretched across a nine week period. It's a handful of still images, a poorly written script that no one proofreads, and the exact same progression of content for every character. Nothing about Something Unlimited screams "We need to fix what's under the hood so this update is going to be a little slight on content." It's more of a "We got nothin', so here's our excuse." situation. Most updates are literally five minutes of content, so why would technical issues ever be a valid defense? There are literally no reasons to defend how little content there is in each release, so why would technical issues be a defense for even less content than usual?
Also, me not paying for the game doesn't mean that I'm not entitled to an opinion. That is not, has never, and will never be a valid defense of a project. That kind of defense is for the weak and ineffectual.
'Six months without a worthy update'
This is the start if May. We have had four months this year so far. The last update was March. They take January off. And if I remember properly, they do that with December as well. So in the last six months we have two updates, two of those months they had off
Last update (2.2.6) we had:
15 errors fixed
16 new backgrounds
An anal scene for Shiva
A new costume for Maxima and 8 new sex scenes involving her and her servants
A leash scene
10 new costumes for a bunch of other characters
8 new sex scenes from old and fan favorite characters
7 different dance scenes
So a total of 17 different sex scenes, a leash scene, 8 different dance scenes, variants on like four different options and more. All of which had unique art, dialogue and coded in. As a writer I can say, it takes a while to write. And watching any of Gunsmoke's streams, just ONE of those pictures takes HOURS to draw. And I have no idea how long it takes to code and bug check. Plus there where bugs that they fixed, which took more time
Also if you are not spamming the skip button, and you read what is going on (at least the first time) one sex scene would take about a minute to get through, probably more (using Purity Sin's playthrough of the game as a small reference there)
Now let's go back to the other update we had (2.2.5/2.2.555):
14 new backgrounds
An entire new character who you where able to sex
17 new costumes
14 new sex scenes
An entire new event which would require a lot more coding than normal
Saying you did not like these updates is fine. But saying these updates where not "worthwhile" and take "five minutes", implying that these updates where tiny and easy and barley had any content, is factually wrong when.... just look at all that!
And you do actually call it little content when we have gotten a LOT, and these updates did not take five minutes. It would take about an hour, which is a lot longer than a lot of other games on this site when they get uploaded, unless you spam the skip button
Heck comparing to what we had the same time last year, it is basically exactly the same. The only difference is that instead of doing a lot of two characters, they did a little for a lot of characters. That may have made it FEEL shorter because you didn't have to grind through blowjob scenes to get to the sex but it is the equivalent amount of work
And the animation is a problem. Because it took up a LOT of time, especially with how high quality the art is for this game, and it caused problems with the code which is why they stopped doing it. They made that clear WHEN they stopped doing animation. And while yes they do make a lot of money for this game, they are still human and have limits to get out quality updates. Heck I remember this time last year when people where complaining about how they have to wait two months for updates with characters they don't care about.
These guys have admitted about not being the best with the scripts and the old software was part of the problem, as they also admitted in the past. So this update here, focusing on making the game work better, is to reduce that problem
"Plenty of patreon games making less money a month pull it off without it being a problem. "
Yes and those games are mostly Ren'ply games with pictures of 3D models or if they are using original art, and no offense to these games, of a lower quality to the ones in Something Unlimited.
Again, look at one of the streams and you see how long it takes to draw ONE POSE for a girl in this game. And you can not deny the art in this game is amazing. Meanwhile art of other games on this site are clearly a lot lower quality with a lot simpler graphics, mechanics and a lot few options
This game has a lot of quality behind it, even if there are flaws
And I never said you where not entitled to an opinion. I said tone it down.
Again, you are getting it for free. You are not supporting the creator. This does not mean you are not allowed an opinion, I am saying you could be a
little less negative
"So basically what you're saying is it's going to take them t least half a year to make any content even remotely worthwhile? I want Louis content more than most, but it's not even going to be as good as the content already existing for Louis since it won't have animations."
I've already mentioned the half a year thing, but you are basically saying the update will suck since it won't be animated even though you really want a Lois update. Especially since, again, there is a reason they stopped doing animations in this game a LONG time ago
