Nerro

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Do...you think they've been hanging onto that money for 3 years now? Cuz I would think it goes into...paying their dev team. Which unless you're assuming minimum (which good game devs wouldn't work for), that 2 mil is looooong spent by now.
Are you serious? How many people do you honestly think works there?
2 million dollars is a huge amount of money for an indie game like this and you’re not even taking into account how the studio was pretty well off and did high quality animation even before the crowdfunding.
 

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Are you serious? How many people do you honestly think works there?
2 million dollars is a huge amount of money for an indie game like this and you’re not even taking into account how the studio was pretty well off and did high quality animation even before the crowdfunding.
Yes, and many of those people aren’t with them anymore. Just read any of the dev blogs and you’ll see a bunch of names talking about what they’re all doing. This isn’t just two dudes in a basement doing Lara in Trouble again.

Also just animating and game development are two different things, that’s why they hired people that’ve actually made games before. That ain’t cheap either.
 
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I want to know if there is a mod to unlock everything or be able to skip the space combat.
I don't think there's a mod to skip space combat. Even if you want to skip it, VValen already said that you need to fail three times to skip the whole damn thing at the cost of getting the lowest possible rating if you're okay with that.

Also, if you want to unlock everything just use any of the saves people share.

I hope these are the answers you're looking for.
 

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Anyone know when squid loli is coming? I know the next one is the dwarf
We dunno for sure, Sova is next in line, so it leaves Fortune, Huntress, Blythe, and Fowchan (likely last as she's described as an endgame recruit).

I think its likely gonna be in that order. Also pretty sure she ain't a loli, just flat chested compared to the other gals.
 
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Since when is 2 mil a lot of money? That's like 10 developers and other business costs for 1 year.
Since the western porn game market for both 2D and 3D games have made games of this quality for less. You're still not counting the money they paid from EA sales on release. You forgot to take into account how much money StudioFow had been making before starting this game. Their original Patreon was making them 5 digits a month.

Money doesn't automatically mean they can accomplish everything they wanted, but please stop pretending they didn't have quadruple what other devs in this scene have gotten to make their games. Their Kickstarter and EA sales got them equal to Mighty No. 9's crowd funding numbers, which was considered a very good amount to make a game with. Subverse is not an AAA game and shouldn't require the AAA costs for development, so let's stop pretending they do. The only reason why 4 mil wouldn't be enough is if their dev team had inflated paychecks.
 

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...Subverse is not an AAA game and shouldn't require the AAA costs for development, so let's stop pretending they do. The only reason why 4 mil wouldn't be enough is if their dev team had inflated paychecks.
Excellent post. I'd also like to know where Studio FoW's members are from. Many content creators making adult video games are from Russia and/or the Ukraine. If Fow uses any coders or animators from that part of the world then it makes development even cheaper.

- Right now $1 USD is worth 80.29 Russian rubles or 29.43 Ukrainian hryvnia.
- $17,000 USD = 1,364,953.80 Russian rubles or 500,303.20 Ukrainian hryvnia.
- As of 2020, the average household income in the United States was $64,530 USD or $5,378 per month. Meanwhile the average household income in Russia was $10,690 USD or $891 per month. The average household income in Ukraine was $3,570 USD or $298 per month.
 

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Since the western porn game market for both 2D and 3D games have made games of this quality for less. You're still not counting the money they paid from EA sales on release. You forgot to take into account how much money StudioFow had been making before starting this game. Their original Patreon was making them 5 digits a month.

Money doesn't automatically mean they can accomplish everything they wanted, but please stop pretending they didn't have quadruple what other devs in this scene have gotten to make their games. Their Kickstarter and EA sales got them equal to Mighty No. 9's crowd funding numbers, which was considered a very good amount to make a game with. Subverse is not an AAA game and shouldn't require the AAA costs for development, so let's stop pretending they do. The only reason why 4 mil wouldn't be enough is if their dev team had inflated paychecks.
Triple A budgets are waaay more than 2M. And wasn't their patreon gone long before they announced this game? I'm not saying they don't deserve the blame as they clearly mismanged this. I'm just saying you guys don't have a full view on the costs of running a business.

Can you share some examples of better quality, or larger scope for less costs? I'm curious to know.
 
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