Trapezio

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Doesn't that smell a bit fishy?
Not in the least.

They suspended him on friday, and Patreon office guys don't work on saturdays and on sundays (most Western people don't work on saturdays and on sundays, you know). DC lives in an Eastern Time Zone place, but Patreon is a Californian based company (Pacific Time Zone). So, when he did say that, it was late afternoon for him, but monday morning for Patreon.

Am I the only one here interested in tattoo girl and smoking hot sister Eve?
Yes.
 

halfdeadgod

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Jan 7, 2018
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Could he not just use Patreon for general status updates on the game, do the more specific stuff on his website and then give out a key for a protected mega folder (or something similar) on patreon if/when he releases an update. (he could also just mail the key to the ppl who pledged, as some other creators do) Or would that be against patreons TOS aswell?

This might have been answered already, if so.... sorry.
 

Senigata

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Am I the only one here interested in tattoo girl and smoking hot sister Eve? Roxy is a slut and I don't like her. As I said before DC should transform the role of the main guy into a transfer student living under the roof of his temporal family and everything should be OK!
I think Roxy's plot is about her making her fall in love for real for the first time, so basically a purifying thing.

Not in the least.

They suspended him on friday, and Patreon office guys don't work on saturdays and on sundays (most Western people don't work on saturdays and on sundays, you know). DC lives in an Eastern Time Zone place, but Patreon is a Californian based company (Pacific Time Zone). So, when he did say that, it was late afternoon for him, but monday morning for Patreon.
Yeah I realized that too after I posted it. Guess we'll see what they say this week.
 

Les_Riggs

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Could he not just use Patreon for general status updates on the game, do the more specific stuff on his website and then give out a key for a protected mega folder (or something similar) on patreon if/when he releases an update. (he could also just mail the key to the ppl who pledged, as some other creators do) Or would that be against patreons TOS aswell?

This might have been answered already, if so.... sorry.
Any direct links for his Patreons, sending them to an alternate site, would be breaching the TOS'.
No doubt they have spies within his pledges, to monitor whether or not he is not breaking the rules.
They will look for any reason, no matter how minor, to completely ban him from Patreon.

Which is most likely the reason why devs like MrDots and DarkSilver started new games, as they couldn't afford to run a similar idea to the one you suggested, as it would've been far too risky and would have resulted in a complete ban
once they got caught out.

Edit: Devs can send Patreon fans to their official site, as long as it's not for the purpose for allowing them to apply incest related content to a game that is being hosted on their Patreon page.

So if he decides to do that, then my understanding is that fans would have to find that patch themselves, through threads such as this one, or word of mouth.
 

halfdeadgod

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Any direct links for his Patreons, sending them to an alternate site, would be breaching the TOS'.
No doubt they have spies within his pledges, to monitor whether or not he is not breaking the rules.
They will look for any reason, no matter how minor, to completely ban him from Patreon.

Which is most likely the reason why devs like MrDots and DarkSilver started new games, as they couldn't afford to run a similar idea to the one you suggested, as it would've been far too risky and would have resulted in a complete ban
once they got caught out.

A creator isnt allowed to link to their social media ?

If he provides a decryption key for a mega folder and just says something like " game update xyz, ,you'll find it where it always is" this shouldnt be a problem.

ppl who pledge will probably know his website, no links on patreon required

edit: after reading the community guidelines and the terms of use i havent found anything prohibiting creators from linking stuff on their page except "malware or phishing content" and pornographic and violent content, so linking his twitter or a specific tweet that explains the situation, should be fine
i might be blind though
 

DawnCry

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A creator isnt allowed to link to their social media ?

If he provides a decryption key for a mega folder and just says something like " game update xyz, ,you'll find it where it always is" this shouldnt be a problem.

ppl who pledge will probably know his website, no links on patreon required

edit: after reading the community guidelines and the terms of use i havent found anything prohibiting creators from linking stuff on their page except "malware or phishing content" and pornographic and violent content, so linking his twitter or a specific tweet that explains the situation, should be fine
i might be blind though
Yeah but the creator can't use patreon money to finance an incest project, theorically you can link to your page, twitter... however the incest, rape... content if it's linked with you then you will get banned.

Another thing is that the "complete version" appears on the internet with rape, incest... however the creator isn't linked directly, like posting on a forum under another name and never admitting that it's his work.
 

rpgcerbere

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Apr 28, 2017
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I don't know anything about programming or legal issues, but couldn't he do a "vanilla version" with his patreon account and release a free patch on websites and forums ?
 

MalcolmSex

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Nov 26, 2017
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Am I the only one here interested in tattoo girl and smoking hot sister Eve? Roxy is a slut and I don't like her. As I said before DC should transform the role of the main guy into a transfer student living under the roof of his temporal family and everything should be OK!
eve is my favourite character in SS with mia and jenny and now that the home stories will be delayed we might get more of her sooner?! i hope everyone will vote for her next time dc puts up a poll

also like ronda, judith and maria
 

halfdeadgod

Newbie
Jan 7, 2018
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Yeah but the creator can't use patreon money to finance an incest project, theorically you can link to your page, twitter... however the incest, rape... content if it's linked with you then you will get banned.

Another thing is that the "complete version" appears on the internet with rape, incest... however the creator isn't linked directly, like posting on a forum under another name and never admitting that it's his work.

i dont think they can ban you for doing porn or incestgames or whatever if your patreon is for something else

People Who Can't Use Patreon: After creating a Patreon page, any creator caught in the act or convicted of making credible violent threats, committing violent crimes, child abuse, malicious doxing, coordinating nonviolent harm (such as fraud, money laundering and gambling), or encouraging others to do any of these activities, may be banned from using Patreon.

this is the only section in the community guidelines i found that references offsite stuff that isnt terrorism or hategroups and it doesnt prohibit porn production and whatnot. everything in the terms of use seems to be about the law aswell, also stuff like blocking usernames and data mining but not really relevant here


So he could make his patreon for producing adult artwork of his OCs and just do summertimesaga as a "side project" (keys for the filehost go to ppl who pledge for art via mail, he post like one pice of art a month on patreon, rest goes thru his site )

and/or he could maybe just put a disclaimer up ( that none of his caracters are bloodrelated and eric and the main character are adopted) and rewrite the beginning. the maincharacter calling other caracters "aunt" "sister" "dad" or whatever shouldn't be a problem then, they are to be seen as actors and in context.
this seems to have worked for atleast one other creators who had to remove beastiality from their game because patreon afaik (atleast it works atm who knows whats coming)

Edit: added some clarifications
 

PatreonTed

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Jun 3, 2017
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Possible alternative to patreon, and since the game is extremely popular I'm sure supporters will follow


This might save the game and it's content and if enough people jump ship and it starts to affect patreon income they may stop their bullshit.
One of the devs already said it's not currently an option:
 

T-dog

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Dec 22, 2017
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One of the devs already said it's not currently an option:
Hmm they say it's untested so it's not yet trusted. I could be wrong about thus but I think DMD is using it now on their home page theres a way to "Buy them a cup of coffee" which adult pledge uses to donate. So if they are doing well with DMD maybe others will start trusting them
 

j4yj4m

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Jun 19, 2017
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Hmm they say it's untested so it's not yet trusted. I could be wrong about thus but I think DMD is using it now on their home page theres a way to "Buy them a cup of coffee" which adult pledge uses to donate. So if they are doing well with DMD maybe others will start trusting them
Well, that's a slightly different case though since MrDots is focussing on his new game now as main source of income which is still on patreon and nobody really knows what's going to happen to DmD. So yes, you may be able to pay for a coffee/DMD on adultpledge but it's no way of actually funding it right now.

The analogy would be for DC to basically stop developing Summertimesaga and start a new game on patreon and then putting SS on adultpledge to see what happens. But I think we can agree that's not what most of us want.
 
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Ok, seriously everyone needs to just stop with this end of days nonsense. If you're on his Discord he said that the Patreon page should be back up by the end of the week. So just calm down everything is going to work itself out.
 

Hercule_Poirot

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I think Roxy's plot is about her making her fall in love for real for the first time, so basically a purifying thing.



Yeah I realized that too after I posted it. Guess we'll see what they say this week.
Probably with some sort of Biff scene where the MC gets to kick Dexter's ass and save Roxy xD.
 

rucky

Newbie
Apr 4, 2017
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He should just start his own website tbh. 100% of the money will go to him. no more patreon's cut. btw with all these patreon & incest talk,did anyone even asked when will we get the teachers update?
 

Sam

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Back online:

Patreon guidelines and status update!

I'm sure you've all noticed our account has been temporarily suspended since last week due to some Patreon guidelines being reviewed and I would like to thank all of those who've sent us messages of support.
Patreon contacted us asking for some changes to our ingame content to better suit their new guidelines (which have to be made for our next release). It's something we have no control over, and are sorry we had to change some of our creative vision. We will not be hosting any downloads of our game until this patch is implemented.

We were aware that our project could be hit by those guidelines so we were always prepared to make those changes but it did come at a bad time while trying to finish the next update (0.15). We've already begun work on the Patreon patch that will come out with 0.15 in the near future.

As for the actual changes we have to make to our game, they are mostly dialogue and context based. The overall content and CG/art will not be affected.

Despite all of this, SS will not be cancelled and will remain on the Patreon platform for the time being, under the new guidelines. We will continue to create new content for SS, improve the game and work towards finishing this project.

Thanks again for all your support and let's get back on track with our new content!

-DC
 
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