yossa999

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Ocean mentioned in Wiab's dev log last week. So he's being cautious.

Here are two steam analytics pages:





Keep in mind these figures are approximate based on average price (not accounting for steam's cut, exchange rates etc) and are based on the game, not any DLC's that have been bought as well.

Perhaps the biggest takeaway is that after the initial buzz of release which was fan driven, it's maintained a pretty steady rate of sale according to the graph. But I don't know how factual it is. BUt I'd guess Ocean will be able to buy the work station.
I'm not sure if this is true, but I've heard several times from different people that a dev's net income is usually a little bit above than 30% of these estimated numbers.
 
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BobTheDuck

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I'm not sure if this is true, but I've heard several times from different people that a dev's net income is usually a little bit above than 30% of these estimated numbers.
Like I say, pinch of salt to pass around the internet campfire :coffee::whistle:

I can't see the scar on her cheek, quickly, do an AI render! (Jokes aside, this is probably quite literally true if you want Sasha's path)
 

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I'm not sure if this is true, but I've heard several times from different people that a dev's net income is usually a little bit above than 30% of these estimated numbers.
Not true atleast, on steam devs or game owners get 70% of the revenue. For every dollar the devs make 30 cents go to steam.
 

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Your reference is 18+, we have no such thing when it comes to age restriction, except that at 17 you're not allowed to vote, buy alcohol or drive a car.
I just presented what's relevant to me, where I live and pay my taxes.

Things may be different in your part of the globe but they may not apply to all of us.
I don't understand what you are talking about. How are the censorship filtering systems such as PG, ST, SUT, etc. and the ban on driving, alcohol or voting related to each other?

If you're interested, there are 3 erotica/porn filters in the world.
1. 10+....13+ depending on the country (complete ban)
2.16+....17+ (erotica allowed, porn still prohibited)
3.18+......21+ (erotica allowed and porn partially allowed)
 

Ali ibn Hassan

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I don't understand what you are talking about. How are the censorship filtering systems such as PG, ST, SUT, etc. and the ban on driving, alcohol or voting related to each other?

If you're interested, there are 3 erotica/porn filters in the world.
1. 10+....13+ depending on the country (complete ban)
2.16+....17+ (erotica allowed, porn still prohibited)
3.18+......21+ (erotica allowed and porn partially allowed)
You mean to say that these are applicable anywhere in the world?
For sure?
You're not just making a sweeping statement?

You are, as usual, making sweeping generalizations!

A swedish 15 year old is allowed to watch whatever in, for example, a cinema. Violence or explicit pornographic extravaganza!
An 11 year old is allowed the same if accompanied by someone 18 or older.

Providing a link if in doubt but the translation is for you to conquer:
 
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John Ness

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I don't agree with the attacks on Robin. She was friendly with the main character in the gym. She covered the main character who entered the women's restroom, thereby putting herself at risk. Yes, she lures the MC to Zara and Nadya with lies, but they don't pose as much of a threat as Ayuya and her karate friends. The MC could simply ignore them and go back to his business, but no.

Not the smartest plot twist, but whatever. Despite the masochistic tendencies of the MC, Robin comes to the rescue again, calling Bella or Marla to free the MC. After this, at the first opportunity in the book club, Robin tries to patch things up with the MC, she is a nice girl and it seems that without a good relationship with Robin, the main character will not have a good relationship with Sasha!
 
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As I'm revisiting the game assets across multiple versions for my mod, it's amazing to realize how much Ocean has not only reworked, as we know, but often doctored and, dare I say, butchered, some of his renders for the Season 1 release, by applying some blur effect on Photoshop to hide background elements he wouldn't want to show anymore, for whatever reason, instead of re-rendering the shots. It had happened on a limited number (maybe a dozen) of shots between Chap 4.5 and Chap 5 Beta releases, but the amount has increased dramatically between the latter and the official Season 1.

They may not appear to the untrained eye but side-by-side comparison is cruel. It is also creating many continuity errors as this "doctoring" would not be consistant and some shots would be altered while the next ones would not. Even worse, there's been a couple of re-rendering dones until Ocean realized he had enough of it, and decided to blur subsequent shots instead to accelerate release time...

It happens particularly in ZPR college and the coffee shop, among many random places...
Let me give you a few examples.

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Here you might think "ok he erased the intertwined snake and leaf emblem but you wouldn't know, no artifact to be seen". Correct. How about this then ?

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Notice the leaf artefact near Nami's hair, or near her left arm?
And this is not, by far, the worst example. All images showing the snake/leaf emblem or the leaf on its own have been altered in a similar way to blur them out...

Talking about continuity errors, how's this? He removed the leaf emblem from the podium in the auditorium, as evidenced here :

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But other shots featuring the same podium have been left unaltered !

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Here's an example of "let's re-render these shots...oh wait no, takes too much time, let's blur the others"...
Focus on the lettering of the Coffee-shop name...

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There's even an example of a blurred shot (see below) where MC is even referencing what's written on the banner, while we as a player can't even read it anymore !!

scene c139 with dissolve
d "(ZRP... I wonder what that stands for.)"
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All of this "badly-doctored" artwork is evidence of a final release that was getting on his nerves, he clearly didn't want to spend additional time to get it out there. But as much as I love the game myself, and bought it on Steam on day 1, I feel this is truly a disgrace to what his game stands for in terms of render quality. I'm not questioning how valid these changes may or may not be, it's his game and he must have his reasons, but how poorly it was executed. It's even worse than that: have a look at the lake scene of topless Nami, and focus on the beer cans shots (I won't post these renders, too many already). See how some of those are re-renders where the snake logo has been replaced with the leaf (why?), but in other shots, the snake is still visible but blurred out?

All of these undoctored shots will be restored in the upcoming newer version of my mod, for those who care about such things.
 
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