i vowed a long time ago to never comment or visit this page ever again after i saw the writings on the wall and the state of this thread and how it's mostly was filled ( i don't know if it's still is) with yes men that make any constructive criticism talk futile,
but after just finding out about what happened to his patreon page since i stopped following his projects a long time ago (since before the release of WIAB chapter 3 from the long wait) and the straw that broke the camel back of me getting on steam "You have been permanently banned from the Summer's Gone - Season 1 Hub, You were banned by a Summer's Gone - Season 1 developer"
because of my negative review on summer's gone and one innocent sarcastic comment about the long development process
so i didn't came here today to rub any salt on any wounds, or to gloat but to offer words from the heart:
it's criminal what this dev has done to himself in my opinion, he took what he had for granted, but now that reality hit and talk of himself losing 70% of his revenue why not stop wallowing in self pity and put your head down and get back to work like he never did before when he had it all
i mean he semi killed his projects on steam from the lack of communications and a clear road-map, fuck patreon and fuck subscribstar, i'm sure it's nice for devs to have that security blanket but what's done is done
he has access to the largest and best gaming platform on the planet, why not take advantage and build from there, Oppaiman made triple A studio type of money with the release of part two of his project, and for the longest time DIK is one of the most if not the most successful adult novel on the platform and it's money well that never goes dry
from viewing only the first two remake chapters from WIAB this guy's work was better than both in terms of renders quality (i'm not talking about anything else) if he had the same work ethics as these two even though before oppaiman put his head down instead of trying to shove his "store" down our throats on steam and left steam communication to a more hands on lead dev on FW for a time i considered him a milker like this one, but last year he learned his lesson from the backlash he was getting on steam from me and others and deservedly though but after working on that aspect throughout last year on steam look at the heights he reached!
why does this dev don't do the same is baffling to me!!!!!!!
i hope he finally see his shortcomings and put his head down and focus on the work grind and on steam and releasing something, anything and everything else will follow, his subscribstar page will see a decent bump from building a stronger relationship with his customers on steam and will later reap the benefits
until he does that i don't think his fortune will change, look at the best example from this whole damn industry Moonbox
with a run of the mill nothing special harem game, just because of his work ethics and the fastest in the history at releasing updates albeit not like the mentioned above and their qualities/sound, but you get the gist
that's it for me, back to a life away from this dev and anything related to him.
best regards.