j4yj4m

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I don't really see that anybody is defending the result of the update to be honest.

I'm slightly cross about the fact, that that this topic went from being 95% useless to being 100% uesless. I couldn't find a single post which talks about the update. What are the changes beyond the first day in Jenny's story? Have there been any major bugs or does it really run as well, as it seems at first glance?

I'm actually starting to think that hardly anybody who is writing here has played the update in the first place...
 

AstroMJ6969

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We played the update and it sucked imagine the people who deleted everything to get only two stories imagine seeing the game's space thinking that the game has atleast cached up to the previous updates just to see that it's just a hollow game that takes up a huge amount of space what are we supposed to do when it takes up another chunk of space with just only two stories again finished imagine the game now takes up to 4gb to download but there are only 4 stories to play what is the point in that
 
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styggtuff12

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so after like 3 years the new update finally dropped or partially dropped? they still haven't finished the update after all this time?

Unlocked content:
1st school day
Debbie story
Jenny story


so does this mean there's only those parts available in the new "update"?
 
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j4yj4m

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We played the update and it sucked imagine the people who deleted everything to get only two stories imagine seeing the game's space thinking that the game has atleast cached up to the previous updates just to see that it's just a hollow game that takes up a huge amount of space what are we supposed to do when it takes up another chunk of space with just only two stories again finished imagine the game now takes up to 4gb to download but there are only 4 stories to play what is the point in that
Yeah, that's fine, I get your point here.

That aside, if you've played it, did it run well and did Jenny's story actually improve? As far as I recall they wanted to add a few changes to the dominant/submissive parts. Did that already happen or not?

Edit: I'm not sure where you got a 4GB version? The official download is 1,1x GB?
 
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AstroMJ6969

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Yeah, that's fine, I get your point here.

That aside, if you've played it, did it run well and did Jenny's story actually improve? As far as I recall they wanted to add a few changes to the dominant/submissive parts. Did that already happen or not?
The Jenny part there are a few changes including art and shit but the Debbie part they used the old art mostly they only changed a few scenes but overall the game is great but I would have liked it more if they added atleast half of the stories to the game
 

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I don't really see that anybody is defending the result of the update to be honest.

I'm slightly cross about the fact, that that this topic went from being 95% useless to being 100% uesless. I couldn't find a single post which talks about the update. What are the changes beyond the first day in Jenny's story? Have there been any major bugs or does it really run as well, as it seems at first glance?

I'm actually starting to think that hardly anybody who is writing here has played the update in the first place...
As someone who's been following this game since before the pandemic, v21.0.0 is a colossal disappointment and feels super rushed. The vast majority of the previous scenes and plot lines are no longer accessible despite the assets being present in the game's files.

The wider screen and higher resolution are nice, but I had no problem with how the game looked before the changes. The new locations look great, but there's nothing to do with them in the game's current build, so including them serves no purpose gameplay-wise. The addition of that little room in the MC's house doesn't improve anything either, it just makes navigating through a location with a lot of stuff to click through already even more tedious. Jenny's new art in the intro is just... bad. The proportions are off, the pose is awkward, and it looks like DC copy-pasted her arms in the pose where she's yawning. I don't know why her artwork looks so bad there because she looks fine everywhere else. Also, if this update was meant to focus on the household and the first day of college, why does Debbie's route still use her old art assets? I look through DC's stream here and there, and I've seen him draw new Debbie art, so it doesn't make sense for her route to not be at the same level as Jenny's.

On the technical side, the game runs about as well as any Renpy game should run. I think people are overstating how much of an improvement that part of the update is. Maybe people just got used to how poorly the game ran beforehand, so "average" gets confused with "good".

All in all, this was bad. To me, the worst part is that there's plenty of stuff to like about Summertime Saga, but all the positives are dragged down by poor management and a lack of a clear end goal. I don't see a future where this game ever gets finished because it's doubtful that DC even wants this game to be finished due to how lucrative it is as a crowd-funded WIP. I'm following this game now more out of morbid curiosity than anything else. That said, there are tons of other good games on this site if you're willing to look, so I'm not stressing out about this. It just sucks seeing something that I liked before turning out like this.
 

AstroMJ6969

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Yeah, that's fine, I get your point here.

That aside, if you've played it, did it run well and did Jenny's story actually improve? As far as I recall they wanted to add a few changes to the dominant/submissive parts. Did that already happen or not?

Edit: I'm not sure where you got a 4GB version? The official download is 1,1x GB?
I ment it as an example
 

Vernon Chadwick

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Is this dude dc serious? he is getting 50k a month in Patreon subs and rereleases the same story in a bigger aspect ratio?? Bro this can't be real life am I in a coma rn.
 
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I'm voting for a TECH UPDATE 2.0 next to bring the 4K resolution to us... and another 21:9 aspect ratio change so I can use it on my ultra wide-angle ! fark content and character development !
 
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Was there a monthly post from DC for end of June / beginning of July? I've tried to look back in the thread for it but I'm not sure if I'm missing it among the other posts or if it's just not there to find.
 

harem.king

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According to his website, there are currently ove 29k people paying him every month. smallest amount is 1$ so AT LEAST he gets 348k per year. And if only 10k of his subs spend more than 5$ or ten he could end up with well over a Million Dollar every fucking year.
he used to make well over a million a year. his subs have been steadily dropping over the years of milking
 

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On the technical side, the game runs about as well as any Renpy game should run. I think people are overstating how much of an improvement that part of the update is. Maybe people just got used to how poorly the game ran beforehand, so "average" gets confused with "good".
the improvement is just so massive that people are grateful to have anything.
it is still slower than the average renpy game.
but that "slower than average renpy game" figure is well over 10x faster than summertime saga was before the tech update.
 
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he used to make well over a million a year. his subs have been steadily dropping over the years of milking
Its stuff like this that makes it look I am defending DC. But it's simply showing the inaccuracies of a person's statement. People should use the actual numbers instead of making shit up.

DC never made well over a million a year. His single best month was barely over $80k. And the number of subs did dip from late 2022 to May 2023 (9 months or so, not years>, when it began to increase again, now to a record number of paid subscribers at the end of June, as noted by j4yj4m. The information is readily available to look at and has been posted in this thread multiple times.

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Is what the dev team receives each month a helluva lot of money? Yes. One does not need to use hyperbole or made up information to make that point. Simply use what is easily and readily available.
 

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Its stuff like this that makes it look I am defending DC. But it's simply showing the inaccuracies of a person's statement. People should use the actual numbers instead of making shit up.

DC never made well over a million a year. His single best month was barely over $80k. And the number of subs did dip from late 2022 to May 2023 (9 months or so, not years>, when it began to increase again, now to a record number of paid subscribers at the end of June, as noted by j4yj4m. The information is readily available to look at and has been posted in this thread multiple times.

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Is what the dev team receives each month a helluva lot of money? Yes. One does not need to use hyperbole or made up information to make that point. Simply use what is easily and readily available.
I was not using hyperbole. but I could have misremembered.
80k/month = 960k/year.
I might have confused "almost a million" into "well over a million" in the years since I last checked his income.

unless... did he ever have any site other than patreon collecting money for this game? or was it just patreon?
 

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I was not using hyperbole. but I could have misremembered.
80k/month = 960k/year.
I might have confused "almost a million" into "well over a million" in the years since I last checked his income.

unless... did he ever have any site other than patreon collecting money for this game? or was it just patreon?
how is people NOT defending DC? the guy made a million+ over coomers fapping to cartoons and he didnt even made anything for 2 years+?
dudes a beast
 
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