Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.5258] [Kompas Productions]

[vks017]

Some of you are emotionally invested in this disappointment it seems.

Me I am expecting the partial tech releases, no more no less. If eventually we get more it will be a nice bonus. The odds of us getting more have just gone up just because the dev is now doing something other than wallpapers, limited time streams with no end in site. At the end of the day there are now better 2D games on the market.

I just would like some closure for the main characters at least, if that finally happens one day it will be good. If it does not I will not loose any sleep over it.

 

[zoku]

Yes but do people know that this tech update has stayed in 80% for a year now

Tech is nearly two years now, the game was dead when he knew that people are waiting for Debbie and he started fucking trump in his updates and milking people.

 

[Count Morado]

Let's say the tech update comes out and it has new material too. Which he has stated there will not be new material. What are you going to do if he goes another 18 months?

This thread the past few days:


DC will always do what he do, how he wants, when he wants. And he's successful at what he do.

Should he actually release something within the month, he can most likely expect to see his Patreon numbers bump up even more than what he has regained over the past year. The release will only be "the main 'home' stories (Jenny and Debbie), 1st day at school and minor locations." The abandoned flag will most likely be cleared.

All that even as we can expect a bunch of people here in this thread bitching that there's no new content, and it's not even the entire game - in fact, a small portion of what they can already play in the current version. We'll have a new round of calls for the abandoned flag because they will see what he does release as a fail and doesn't deserve the flag removed. And the cycle starts all over again.

 

[Zazz]

This thread the past few days:
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DC will always do what he do, how he wants, when he wants. And he's successful at what he do.

Should he actually release something within the month, he can most likely expect to see his Patreon numbers bump up even more than what he has regained over the past year. The release will only be "the main 'home' stories (Jenny and Debbie), 1st day at school and minor locations." The abandoned flag will most likely be cleared.

All that even as we can expect a bunch of people here in this thread bitching that there's no new content, and it's not even the entire game - in fact, a small portion of what they can already play in the current version. We'll have a new round of calls for the abandoned flag because they will see what he does release as a fail and doesn't deserve the flag removed. And the cycle starts all over again.

Sperg

 

[thanosdestroysall]

Finally, yes, if he was actually concerned, he would have taken a few hours out of the past 18 months and created another pretech update

Appreciate the more succinct response. Makes reading your posts less cumbersome.

There are many possible reasons no update was released before the tag was applied. You are making an error. Your conclusion is that he does not care about the tag because no update has been released before the tag was applied is weak and fails to consider other antecedents. I am not making the claim he cares about it. I am rejecting your claim that he does not. Your premises are weak, and your claim remains unconvincing. As this is fuzzy rather than Boolean logic, he may feel both caring and uncaring towards the tag.

Regardless, speculations about his feelings about the abandoned tag, whatever they may be, are nugatory. It does not change anything.

 

[Count Morado]

Appreciate the more succinct response. Makes reading your posts less cumbersome.

There are many possible reasons no update was released before the tag was applied. You are making an error. Your conclusion is that he does not care about the tag because no update has been released before the tag was applied is weak and fails to consider other antecedents. I am not making the claim he cares about it. I am rejecting your claim that he does not. Your premises are weak, and your claim remains unconvincing. As this is fuzzy rather than Boolean logic, he may feel both caring and uncaring towards the tag.

Regardless, speculations about his feelings about the abandoned tag, whatever they may be, are nugatory. It does not change anything.

I understand your point.

You seem to miss the point.

I am not the one making the original argument.

The original argument is "If DC doesn't care about F95, why did he make a post on the same day that the game would be flagged as abandoned to say they were going to release it in chunks."

That is the argument that was being made. My counter to their argument was the reverse because since they are the one making the claim - it is up to them to supply the proof. Also, I showed that some of their claims were also false/incorrect in their understanding about DC's attendance on F95. Etc and so forth. Hence my response as such. They have not shown any proof to the matter. Since my claim is the reverse, or the negative - it is not able to be proven (or very very difficult to prove). But that is not the point. The point of the matter is that they are making the claim using the exact affirming the consequent that you are attempting to label me with as an ad hominem. If you feel you need to apply debate standards to this thread - at least be objective and consider the complete argument within context, rather than throwing your high school forensic team knowledge around to attempt to show superiority.

Being sesquipedalian does not make you correct, nor brilliant, but obtuse and obnoxious.

If you would like to further this conversation, please feel free to DM me or use an off-topic. I too can quote rules and regulations and standards of rhetoric. One is that game threads are to be about discussing the game, however you seem to want to discuss how I argue rather than the argument context itself. That would be off-topic for this thread.

Thanks.

Sperg

While I do not have Asperger's Syndrome, you should be ashamed for using someone's mental diagnosis as a pejorative to describe someone else. Use better words and be direct - also in a DM or off-topic thread.

 

[jefi2000]

Dude, thanks for attempting to simplify my response to others' arguments... however you are doing so incorrectly.

The ones who are making the argument that simply because DC put out a statement at the end of the month (which he has been making reports at the end of the month for the past year) that they will eventually release a partial tech update in one month - in DC's words "hopefully" and then further chunks about every month after - proves he is concerned about this thread and the abandoned flag. And that his account logged in earlier in the day of the flag proves it in their mind.

My response to their argument is that: his account logs in regularly, therefore his logging in proves nothing. His announcing something in his regular monthly report to saying that something should be coming in the next month and bi-monthly thereafter isn't proof either. It doesn't change that the flag is applied, therefore does not prove he is concerned. Coincidence is also not causation. Finally, yes, if he was actually concerned, he would have taken a few hours out of the past 18 months and created another pretech update, even if it was nothing more than a few dozen lines of code and 2 animations from dildorog (as he has already done in the past pretechs). Making an announcement with no update changes nothing about the flag.

If you have problems with my responses - make sure to frame them properly and include the fact they are in direct response to the argument being presented. Otherwise, you are making fallacious statements, yourself, simply in an attempt to look superior and above the fray, and failing at both. I am not making a converse error.

Don't you think if there was suddenly, after almost 18 months, hell even after 12 months, he dropped another pre-tech update that more people would start to call bullshit on this?

Face it, Abandoned tag got applied, usual end of month update happened and for the first time in a year and a half it contains info regarding starting QA testing and outlining a path to release which is coincidentally totally vague with the planned time frame but suddenly out of the blue mentions segmenting out the update (in order to keep stringing people along indefinitely).

If DC isn't paying you to keep this up he certainly should be.

 

[Count Morado]

Don't you think if there was suddenly, after almost 18 months, hell even after 12 months, he dropped another pre-tech update that more people would start to call bullshit on this?

Face it, Abandoned tag got applied, usual end of month update happened and for the first time in a year and a half it contains info regarding starting QA testing and outlining a path to release which is coincidentally totally vague with the planned time frame but suddenly out of the blue mentions segmenting out the update (in order to keep stringing people along indefinitely).

If DC isn't paying you to keep this up he certainly should be.

The sun does not rise because the cock demands it to rise, no matter what the cock thinks.

If he had dropped an updated on 30 April 2024, I would have great doubts about my statement that DC doesn't care about this thread. He did not drop an update. After 1 year of monthly reports (a nice, round and interestingly finite number) DC announced they would release what they have already completed - but had not shared with anyone - in small chunks, starting (DC states he hopes) before the end of the month of May. It did not alter the flag being applied. The flag which fucking doesn't matter except for on this site. But, like the sun rising each day and the cock crowing - one thinks it has influence on the other, when it has nothing to do except for alignment of each's own cycles.

EDIT: Also, if you think DC was paying me - wouldn't it be better for him to tell you that you all matter to him... not that you all don't amount to a hill of beans in his world? That logic always made no sense to me - the idea that I'm on DC's payroll (you're not the first to accuse or imply) while I say shit about DC's project management style and more and then tell everyone here he doesn't give a shit about F95's thread. That makes no sense and is illogical.

 

[j4yj4m]

Don't you think if there was suddenly, after almost 18 months, hell even after 12 months, he dropped another pre-tech update that more people would start to call bullshit on this?

If I had been DC and if I had cared about the tag, I'd have released a small easter/holiday update which would also officially have included the Android 14 support. An urgent technical reason + some new content and few would have said anything. Marketing something like this, so that many people will agree it's something positive, really isn't hard.

It's actually bad in general, that he stopped doing these halloween, christmas, etc. updates, as they were quite popular, as far as I see it.

 

[nocexd321]

I learned of the entire forum on /aco/ when the place was actually tolerable

Funnily enough /aco/ is the only board I'd consider on an upward trajectory right now, some autismo there took it upon himself to claim back a bunch of generals and recurrent threads from the futaspam. Meanwhile /h/ users forgot that /d/ is a thing and /gif/ OPs actively try to avoid filters just to be assholes. Remember SPNATI? Accel drawing World Cup girls?

 

[Count Morado]

I'd have released a small easter/holiday update which would also officially have included the Android 14 support, which they added quietly without it being an official update.

Right? It would have been so simple. They released an APK update about a month ago for Android 14. Just add in 2 dildorog animations and a couple of option buttons on two already made option screens that had sex scenes in them (now with 2 new alternative positions!). Recompile Win/Mac/Linux to join the new APK. Boom, the 18 month clock would have started all over again with almost no work involved for the main dev team.

They could have easily marketed it as "because we're doing this APK update, we thought we'd give everyone some added sex scenes." People would have bitched about only a couple of new scenes, but again, the updated APK would have been the reason, not the scenes. As it is -- all people got was the updated APK and no added scenes.

 

[thanosdestroysall]

The original argument is "If DC doesn't care about F95, why did he make a post on the same day that the game would be flagged as abandoned to say they were going to release it in chunks."

rather than throwing your high school forensic team knowledge around to attempt to show superiority.

Being sesquipedalian does not make you correct, nor brilliant, but obtuse and obnoxious.

I don’t agree with their argument or its reasoning either. I don’t believe any position can be adopted as he hasn’t intimated his thoughts on it.

Admittedly I am being pedantic, but I wasn’t intending to be condescending. I apologize for that. And I won’t address your denigrations. They were unnecessary; despite your contempt for me.

My main point is all this speculation about DC’s feelings is dull and ultimately meaningless. We should be talking about the game’s development, not the feelings of its creator. Again I apologize for my pretension. Cheers.

 

[Count Morado]

We should be talking about the game’s development, not the feelings of its creator. Again I apologize for my pretension. Cheers.

We should be talking about the game, I agree. Thank you. I also apologize. Take care.

 

[dova2385]

I know it's bad, but... I'm really hoping someone testing the game leaks it here

 

[Count Morado]

I know it's bad, but... I'm really hoping someone testing the game leaks it here

Why? What are you expecting?

 

[Dr. Coom]

I know this post is going to get deleted, but I think it's one of those times to bring up an alternate tag. Especially for those who don't necessarily want to see this game as strictly Abandoned. The tag will disappear soon enough, of course, but this was a big part of our shadow lives for a while.

https://f95zone.to/threads/drip-feed-tag.192934/

Anyway, Debbie's jubbly tits. I say that to remain on-topic. On Rogue-Like: Evolution, we say Rogue's ass instead.

 

[Count Morado]

Might as well as post the 100th version of my FAQ now that the thread has the flag.

Spoiler: The Count's FAQ for Summertime Saga (100)

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[Deep-Six]

I know this post is going to get deleted, but I think it's one of those times to bring up an alternate tag. Especially for those who don't necessarily want to see this game as strictly Abandoned. The tag will disappear soon enough, of course, but this was a big part of our shadow lives for a while.

https://f95zone.to/threads/drip-feed-tag.192934/

Anyway, Debbie's jubbly tits. I say that to remain on-topic. On Rogue-Like: Evolution, we say Rogue's ass instead.

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I see what you're getting at but I think that the alternate tag you are proposing is bound to cause more controversies and problems than any positives that could come out of it.

The On-Hold and the Abandoned Tags do their job pretty well usually. While this game is still getting worked on (even if it is at a snails pace), the game is tagged as abandoned by the forum's standards.

 

[Dr. Coom]

Yeah, I guess so. But this game doesn't really qualify as either. I'm as glad as anyone else that it's gotten the Abandoned tag, but it doesn't mean anything in this case if the developer comes back with fans waiting to give him a mountain of money. It's just going to get abandoned after its triumphant return anyway. More and more games are following suit. They either wait until right before it's declared abandoned, or return after being abandoned. They're not even worried about making quality content anymore once it hits that level.

 

[MisterMeh]

Yeah, I guess so. But this game doesn't really qualify as either. I'm as glad as anyone else that it's gotten the Abandoned tag, but it doesn't mean anything in this case if the developer comes back with fans waiting to give him a mountain of money. It's just going to get abandoned after its triumphant return anyway. More and more games are following suit. They either wait until right before it's declared abandoned, or return after being abandoned. They're not even worried about making quality content anymore once it hits that level.

Would you say that SS doesn't fit the standard for quality content?

As I see it, DC has taken the time to rework, expand and redraw almost everything, with some characters redone multiple times to improve the over all look and feel of the game.

As for the abandoned tag? You're right, it'll be removed in a short while, because he's continually working on the game, but I genuinely think it should remain on the thread until he releases his update. Those are the rules of this forum, and best to stick with them.

In the case of the monthly support he's getting? That's none of my business. I just know that I'm not paying anything.