Your feelings were communicated by many, and that is why events in Ren'py will be just for web and Android moving forward. We're going to release the full game in Ren'py and be depreciating the Unity versions as early as later this year. We made this announcement a month ago. But the only thing that will be a slight issue is that some assets in the new Ren'py version of SU will be of a slightly lower quality, as we will be converting the images to higher qualities as we go along.
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In my opinion your post history shows a clear anger and frustration. Also I will again state that if you as saying something is bullshit, chances are you don't understand that thing. I have given you factual points and you will still call them bullshit.
Thank you Raystale for taking the time to write this up. I will do my best to answer any criticisms or add to the narrative here.
I just want to add that you want to know information that wasn't available to anyone, even SR7. We couldn't tell you what was planned as there were no hard plans. in the two month window SR7 started to create and implement, if he ran into design issues, he moved on. It wasn't good. We had no estimates other than when the build was due.
As for the checkpoint system, it's designed to get better knowledge out to you. But it's about opening dialogue on the team as well. It's been a marked improvement.
Thank you, and cleaning up the narrative here, and bring it inline to a more friendly atmosphere is what we want. We have more planning going on. However we haven't discussed a releasing an actual number for planned assets. In my opinion that would give the trolls more ammo. I can already see the "they said there would be 36 scenes and there is only 35!",when in fact there is like 40+. But there will be more progress updates, and free ones as well.
I agree, and this is a symptom of the two month cycle in my opinion. With a lack of planning, you can see additions of things that have never been filled out. Character slots, device levels, threat system. Themyscira map is a big one! SR7 designs the map first then fills it in, that is how Themyscira is done.
I want to address some stuff here for you raystale, as there might be some context you aren't aware of, due to us being 10 years old now. Teasers is something our Patrons do not want period, a huge thing they like is the curiosity of looking for the new content and discovering it first. In fact when we released changelogs we had an outpouring of complaints over it having spoilers. This also builds on your picarto streams comment, as we need to find content people don't want spoiled. Bordello content is what fit the bill here.
As for you viewing the need for us to continue to up the value as our support rises. This would be impossible to manage month to month. If you have a wildly successful quarter and grow 10-25% are we to then grow our output that much? Then what happens when you have months were you lose 10%? Would people be ok with us doing less? A better system is to just keep doing what you're, and if you get more people to subscribe then that is what happpens. We already have added people to the team, and have spent money for years on projects like SU Android, where people were unaware of the investment.
As for your scene count, it's off by a factor of over 2. We track this closely internally, and have been for well over 6+ years now. This is just for releases. We also build up content as the year progresses, for large updates. However we will be eliminating those, and making the cycles longer in those periods to keep the content level what should be expected.
I'm sorry, but this isn't clear. Are you saying that the cycle to releases has been getting longer and longer? We had 8 releases of content last year on every platform (PC, Android, Mac, Web). Yes Halloween was a fucking bust, but we still ported it to Android and that took 3 months of work.
The last few updates have been lackluster in the corruption dept, and we agree with you on the cell content style of writing. It's something we have brought up recently with the team.
Take care.
