I wouldn't call establishing your own IP and training your animators in the engine all future films will be in, thus skipping the skill difference between their first SFM film and their last, a waste of time.
They kind of did, though. Nobody expected them to be professional game designers when they started, learning was always part of the process. Their supporters wanted to see an adult game from the Studio FOW movie makers and they are getting it. If the result is worth the support is a question everybody has to answer for themselves.
I really hope it wasn't those trained animators who recently fled SFOW. AFAIK, we have not many details on that whole situation, right?
No they supported a project. And part of that project is learning a new engine. But that support, as its always been, is optional. Whether or not you did it through Patreon or Kickstarter, they were gonna do what they're gonna do regardless. Them getting kicked off of Patreon was a factor, but this would've been happening no matter what anyway.
I doubt they'll say whom or why they left, but the names in the latest dev blog are pretty much the same, so I have my doubts it was animators. Could be some of the game-side of things, which could've been for various reasons. Maybe a 'AAA' company came a-calling and they couldn't refuse a bigger paycheck.
No, most people bought that crap on steam. And on steam its sold as a game, not sponsorship for a dev team.
Well now that you're actively admitting you clearly don't like it...why ya still here? and aye it is sold a game. In development. And its not like their whole team is new to it, remember they hired professionals with launched game experience to aid in the matter.
The elephant in the room is that FOW lost the only thing that made them notable. Three years later and the only thing we have to distinguish them from any other generic vanilla porn studio is the memories of what we lost.
Could you name some of them? Because I can only think of those run by 1 or 2 people.
There isn't any estimate on that. My best guess, based on how production's going is 2024. Don't take that as fact.
