Calling the developer lazy, a clown and accusing them of AI usage, not putting in any effort and knowingly milking funds from supporters aren't "mild criticism", they're personal attacks. Whether any or all of the above are justified is a very different matter, but your attempt at a censorship deflection despite not having been personally accused of doing so speaks to a persecution complex or perhaps a sense of guilt for wrongdoing. Either way, people are still going to be in here asking when the next update is coming or complaining about the game or the developer because they've got nothing better to do or nowhere else to go, despite Mishanya1004's claim that people have reverse-engineered the game and made a better product. If that were true, people would be playing that instead of bitching in here.
My claim can be true
and people can still be stuck in this thread - mostly because the guy who was making the ren'py mod quit before he got to the events.
These two are not mutually exclusive.
As for the personal attacks, idk how long you have been playing this fucking game but like I said, I have been following SR7 and his "creation" since before Covid. In that time I've managed to switch universities, lose two jobs, start a new study, and change computers like 3 or 4 times.
Meanwhile SU is still the same game as it was back when I first downloaded it, as far as the material that 90 percent of the user base will touch is concerned.
Sure, he has made "events" but the problems/requests people had for ages such as lessening the grind, expanding upon the bare-bones dialogue, adding more options with already existing heroines or hell, even returning the deleted "threat level" mechanic from earlier versions (something that people have been asking for in his Discord for ages) have still not been addressed in any capacity.
Do I agree with you about the fact that SR7 is a better creative director/artist than programmer? Yeah, of course. There is nothing to talk about there.
But two things are also a fact outside of that:
- Multiple people
are working on SU (we know for a fact it isn't a solo venture from SR7)
- His art has significantly declined from the Bruce Timm/JLU-inspired artwork from the past to a much more generic hentai style.
Which is and still remains my main point.
You cannot have a whole team working for you, earn a large amount of money, not even bother to insert features people have been asking about for nearly 7 years
and use the same excuses about "difficulty" and "communication issues" you had been spouting on fucking Reddit a decade ago (which SR7 did, and you can check for yourself if you want to).
On top of that, I DO think it is a bit weird that despite a team of at least two (if not more) people working on SU (and its art, since the person behind the sadly abandoned Project Winter Heroines did go on record saying they are doing artwork for SU) the end product is less in quality than the solo ventures of Doomination (which has reached the same level of content and development in 3 years) or Behind the Doom (much less content but better and more realistic artwork than either of the former with a truly engaging gameplay loop).
And I'm not even talking about games released in the same timeperiod as SU, like Rogue-like Evolution, which is just miles ahead on every conceivable level.
To address some of your other points:
Beyond that, I'm sharing insight. This belief that genai is as simple as "just slap a couple words in a generator" is outright false, for example. Yes, you can get a serviceable image by doing that, barely, but if you need even 2 images to work cohesively for a scene, you'd be at it for hours for a single image, generating or editing over and over again.
I know that. I literally said that I use GenAI for text writing (since fanfics do not always cater to my particular fetishes lmao, and GenAI often fills that niche quite nicely). I understand that it isn't
just slapping a couple of words in a generator and calling it a day. However, at the same time, this very site ALSO has a thread featuring dozens of pages of (among others) AI-generated fan-art based on the game, done by people who do NOT earn money via Patreon. And their AI-generated imagery is actually BETTER than the (supposedly) human art produced by SR7 at this point. If that's the case, and he's too lazy to actually create good art then why not, really? God knows people would probably like it more. On top of that, I expanded my point in another comment where I admitted that yes, art
may not be as easy as people think it is but streamlining dialogue and writing can absolutely be done through GenAI. Take it from someone who cranks out thrice as much text as he would writing himself by using Google AI studios. Hell, I'm even willing to share the exact specific instructions I use for it.
And no, calling someone a clown isn't particularly offensive, but that's not the point. It's still an insult and to hide behind this excuse of "voicing critique" is disingenuous. Hell, if you want to call someone a lying cunt go for it, you're perfectly entitled to insult someone even if it is tiring to be reading constantly, just don't act the coward and say it's just critique when it's not.
IDK what that guy was about honestly. I was not voicing fair critique, I was absolutely just calling him a lying fucking wormy cunt bastard lmao, cause yeah, I'm this bitter at that point.
And this thread has long veered from "fair and reasonable critique" methinks.
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