He is reworking BOTH his ongoing games and both got a single update this year and the plot hasn't moved at all. Any sensible person would realize that its time to compromise and restructure the script/scope to more manageable sizes and not plan to over extend even more.
Right you are. He's reworking both games and providing players with far better experiences while at it. Created them when he was new to AVNs and painfully inexperienced, got experience, acquired skills, and used said skills to improve his product and everyone loves his product because of it. The plot's moved forward every single update, so in regards to that, either you weren't paying attention or you did not care much for the story to begin with. Not because the plot isn't being addressed in big bold letters does it mean that it isn't being expanded on. Ocean's using a very common writing technique when formulating a story with many interconnecting subplots. The plot has progressed at a fine rate given the projected length of this project. A little observation would go a long way for other players with this problem.
Hell, common sense would say put a game on hold until you can finish one, but he is stuck between a rock and a hard place, because of the backlash/lost patreons if he would do that. Don't even give me the bs with 'its because it helps with burnout'. What are you 10yo?! You know what would help with burnout? Taking the day off, instead of working on the 2nd game, but those are the sweet little lies he has to tell to appease the fetish babies.
I'm actually in favor of putting one game on hold. Summer's Gone would be released every 2-3 months(estimating) and the story would be much further along(to the joy of its fans). However, do not try to frame Oceans negatively with this viewpoint. I'm in favor of putting WIAB on hold to focus on SG, but what can any of us do about it aside from A) Leaving the community in order to find something worthy of our attention or B) Joining the community and supporting the game in a way that's comfortable for us in order to achieve a favorable outcome? You're saying
nothing that hasn't already been said here a million times before. I get where you're coming from, but framing Oceanlabs in such a negative light
will not do anything. Do you think Oceans or his supporters(the SG community in this case) will be more willing to listen to you if you do?
Research a bit and tell me what you see all the big players in the genre have in common? Spoiler: its a finish product before moving to the next game, proving that they are professional and reliable. But as long as people run around whiteknighting for even the most idiotic ideas, by all means, Ocean should carry on cashing in, I am sure his universe will be finished in my grandchildren's lifespan.
We all get that. Nothing that hasn't already been brought up before. From a business standpoint, it's the most sensible route to take. Oceanlabs, however, is more focused on the artistic aspect of these novels(in regards to creating and publishing their stories). As a writer myself, I empathize with him. Putting WIAB on hold can cause all sorts of problems creatively, but sacrifices must be made to achieve success(personally, I'd suggest writing down all relevant ideas, dialogue, etc. but I know next to nothing about developing an AVN so I cannot really give any creative advice there). It's all up to him at the end of the day. Nothing any of us can do aside from either leaving in frustration or staying in support. Staying and spreading negativity is
not the way to go, and this is for everyone that holds such thoughts.
I bet you people think that all big creators just lucked into their success and the fact that they delivered mostly on schedule, regular updates is just a big coincidence and working on 20 games at the same time and 'dreaming big' is the future of the business
Nope. Creatively, Ocean's only competition are BaD, COBD, and ORS. Eternum, Artemis and KG if we're including every AVN on F95. Business-wise(everything having to do with the support of the overall product)? Most of these devs blow him out of the water in that aspect. However, he's working on it. He's improving. He sees and acknowledges the flaws in this setup and is working hard to find ways to make up for them. It's not like he's sitting on his butt and soaking up the little funds he's receiving from patreon just because. But the way your post is set up, you'd think that's exactly what he was doing. Anyway, you have three options now that you have all this information. You can:
- Leave the SG forum to find something worth your time and attention
- Join the SG community and support Oceans... at least somewhat respectfully
- Stay and aggressively criticize the development process and the developer's thought process
Personally, I'd have chosen the first option if I'd felt the way you did about SG
