Don't worry you didn't miss anything. Tbh, with the shit that's going down, you should've just forgotten about it and continued on with life. xD
Meh. It's whatever. I just wanted to share the realization I had that I haven't played Summer's Gone in a damn long time lol. Don't even really have as much free time or the will to play these as I once used to. I just like dicking around on the threads.
I don't really know what's going on but from my perspective, most of the popular VNs all kinda jumped the shark when they started taking a year or longer to update. I just don't feel as invested in them as I used to. With all of these VNs that have been in development for years now, it just feels like "same shit, different pot". Writing keeps getting shittier, the censor/ban hammer is coming down, devs take so long I just end up forgetting or not caring because I'm not about to wait a year just to be either bored or disappointed with the story to then wait another year for the next part.
Again, I don't know what's going on but my guess is that the dev will be fine and no one will be better or worse off. If I'm wrong and whatever is happening really does make it all crash and burn then whatever, I guess. Either way, I still have a few favorites and maybe even still donate sometimes if I trust the dev. For the rest, I'll just play whatever's updated if I get around to them. But at the rate my backlog of updated VNs keeps growing, chances are some of these will be "Completed" by the time I make it through the whole thing.
My overall supposition is that we're in this weird transition period where the internet is becoming dull (again) and meanwhile AVN devs are trying to ... well I don't know what the fuck they're doing exactly but I hate it. All of it. Some players will move on and new ones will replace them and this medium of entertainment will forever feel different to the first groups of people who played them but it's not like the devs will care and it's not like new people will care either. Which I understand, if I were a dev I'd rather cater to the ones actually paying me and the platform I use to sell my product. For the new people, it's not like they'll know how it used to be.
Only question now is, what's next? AI Porn here we come! We all just make our own VNs!
