Hykarius

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Of course I expected a lot of middle fingers abou the progress bar here. It is much closer to reality now and where we stand. The bar actually moved in two past days. Yes, it will not be ready probably this year, but they already work on future updates too. I think the next year will bring updates in very fast pace.
 

Senigata

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i wonder if his patreons will accept another drop in the tracker to let's say 50%. think about it that probably means the tech update will take another 2 years to finish and i'm not sure 20 more wallpapers are going to cut it
And what are you going to do if his patreon numbers stay roughly the same?
 
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Of course I expected a lot of middle fingers abou the progress bar here. It is much closer to reality now and where we stand. The bar actually moved in two past days. Yes, it will not be ready probably this year, but they already work on future updates too. I think the next year will bring updates in very fast pace.
DC over here posting on his alt account...

Updates will move a lot faster. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 

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Just quickly back to say: Even tho your comment was ironie, it aged like milk seeing the regress in the progress bar now:KEK:
Actually the Progress bar progressed from 82% to 84% within the last 2-3 months. We are almost there Will tell us what the fuck going on how come its now 75%
tell us please talk about MILKING
 
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Count Morado

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Actually the Progress bar progressed from 82% to 84% within the last 2-3 months. We are almost there Will tell us what the fuck going on how come its now 75%
tell us please talk about MILKING
The October status report says "what the fuck going on" and why the numbers are changing: #73,394

It's basically what's been said in this thread over the past 2 years: they did most of the quick and easy tasks in the early part of the tech update development, leaving the more difficult, work heavy tasks for later.

Problem is that they made each easy task equal to each difficult task when determining percentage complete. So a task that took 1 hour to complete equaled a task that took 100 hours in terms of "percent complete."

What they are attempting right now is revaluing tasks based upon their workload/difficulty to give a clearer picture to what the status of the progress is.

Just wait until the Bugs/Issues bar starts to crank up the number of tasks if they get to the point of playtesting the tech update.

Again, you can't milk that which you give to everyone for free. While people have many reasons for subscribing to DC, access to play the game isn't one.
 

Tanliarian

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The October status report says "what the fuck going on" and why the numbers are changing: #73,394

It's basically what's been said in this thread over the past 2 years: they did most of the quick and easy tasks in the early part of the tech update development, leaving the more difficult, work heavy tasks for later.

Problem is that they made each easy task equal to each difficult task when determining percentage complete. So a task that took 1 hour to complete equaled a task that took 100 hours in terms of "percent complete."

What they are attempting right now is revaluing tasks based upon their workload/difficulty to give a clearer picture to what the status of the progress is.

Just wait until the Bugs/Issues bar starts to crank up the number of tasks if they get to the point of playtesting the tech update.

Again, you can't milk that which you give to everyone for free. While people have many reasons for subscribing to DC, access to play the game isn't one.
The real issue spawning this is a perception over cost. Dark cookie has 65k patrons, each giving $1+ monthly; this gives an annual studio budget of something like 450k after taxes; this is the budget of an established game studio making Japanese porn games (studios with a budget to make their own engine and employ voice actors) This creates a definite expectation that basically no other independent studio (at least the ones you see here) operates under. Simultaneously, those Japanese game companies have to move their product quickly, because there are no major pre-sales, driving development tables and forcing work to be finished and polished.

This pressure doesn't exist for DC with the Patreon system paying out monthly. The joke is on him, though. He turned his passion into an endless slog, and the bad will he generates will make a follow-up almost impossible.
 
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