I see the thread is still on fire. Luckily I'm not into goths/emos, but I love pizza MILFs, so I'll see you all when 0.20 is on the way!
Remember boyos: whatever you think of the project's trajectory, it's been on this path for a long time now -- anyone who is a patron today is already okay with the current release schedule, and accepts it as a fact of life. Their minds won't change because of forum fury or because of the same trend (of release gaps increasing) continuing. Nobody will change anyone's mind here or on Patreon because humans are stubborn by nature; don't get too frustrated if the debate here seems to last forever!
Not necessarily true, actually.
I've been a patron for a considerably long time. Before he even had 1k in patronage. Became a mod of his stream when there were 20 peeps max there, usually.
All this time, I always had my patronage on the upper levels (10-20 US$). And now it's the first time ever I'm downgrading that to US$5, and seriously considering going to US$ 1.
I love his work, love his streams, and really think he's a pretty cool guy, but I personally cannot agree with how his project is going nowadays. 0.18 was the last drop for me.
Mind you: It wasn't like that in the beginning. DC would output quite a bit of content constantly.
Ironically, that's when he used to work alone, basically (he did add a coder pretty earlier, but that was it for a long time).
But 0.18? Almost half a year for that amount of content? With all that crew of animators, coders, writers, posers, etc? It feels like the more people he adds to the project, the slower it gets.
You know, I thought something was off when the first Patreon lockup hit him, a few months ago, concerning incest content.
For those that don't remember, incest was among the biggest thing in his project. Whenever he did a poll, anything incest related came first. Always. And he just utterly removed all of it after that episode. There were several other ways of doing it, as several other developers did/do (allow the player to set the relation, make a decent "unofficial" patch... heck even just not objectively saying the relation, but keeping the story so our brains connects the dots would do), but he chose to just completely remove it, and be done with it. "It will all be added back once the game is ready", he said.
Look, I get it. He has a family to take care of, and need the dough. And is just playing as safe as possible when it comes to that. I can understand his point of view. But I don't agree with it. 0.18 really pushed all the wrong buttons for me.
Thankfully, there are a plethora of wonderful new content creators nowadays where that extra US$ 10-15 would make a world of difference. So, although it does somewhat pains me a bit, that money will go their way for the time being.
I just can't justify to myself anymore that this project is going as I wish it were, nor as it used to be in the past.
But, who knows? Maybe 0.19 is the turning point? Sure wish so... Oh well...