Tell me how stating facts and being honest with a situation is white knighting and defending? Just because I don't agree with you? I just keep it realistic and honest. I don't know what happened to education in parts of the world where people can't discern being honest and straightforward from defensiveness. Where allowing the same trolling to occur nearly every day is okay, but pushing back against that trolling is wrong.
I come here NOT to spend a penny and I have never spent a penny on any title ever listed on this site. I don't have a patreon account or a subscribestar account. I have never gotten a NSFW title from itch.io. I have said it once, I'll say it again, I am not paid by DC nor connected to the development team in any way, shape, or form. I don't go to DC's discord and I only go to the picarto if someone mentions something interesting in this thread and then I go and check out a VOD for a couple of minutes.
You all think you are so important to DC's success and that posting insults about him there and insulting others who are just trying to keep the thread a bit civil does anything. It doesn't. The only thing it does is make it difficult for people looking for actual information and game support and instead they have to wade through the muck and mire of the same repetitive bullshit that is tossed around here that is off-topic, not game related, and not relevant to F95 at all.
You are not that important for either DC to come in here or for him to even spend one single dollar to have someone defend him, let alone simply tell people the honest truth that they can't seem to figure out on their own.
We are nothing to most of the developers of titles on this site. We don't matter at all for any developer who has a bit of success on Patreon or subscribestar. What is said in this thread does not affect their bottom line in any significant way. The low subscriber count developers who are also active in threads here? Sure. What is said here matters to them, personally. But developer who never communicates here? They don't give a shit what you think of them. Even several developers who do communicate in threads here who are tired of the same repetitive whinging and wailing have told those who do it in threads here that they don't care what those whinger say - their game/VN isn't for them and that they should move on if they don't like it.
We're here to take things from developers without either paying for it or subscribe to their services. We're here to take without any form of compensation in return. That's why we're here. On top of that, we can help each other if there are troubleshooting issues that arise. We can talk about which characters we like or storylines we don't or vice versa. But --- honestly, people who come on this site to take things for free who then think they have some kind of right to complain about the speed of development or complain what the developer is making is a level of entitlement that is fucking ridiculous.
The developers owe us exactly what we have paid them --- absolutely nothing. The constant, repetitive complaining from either the actual howlers - or the trolls who are just attempting to attention whore - is worse than the toddler you hear screaming in the mall because their parent won't give them a sucker.
You say "scummy ways." That's fine - then STOP COMING HERE. But you can't. Can you? Because you want new content to choke the bishop to. But DC's not going to change in order to make you happy. The people who subscribe to his patreon are fully fucking aware --- especially after 30 months of the tech update --- of what they are getting into and have gotten into. They aren't subscribing for the game/VN - because it's free to everyone directly from the developer's website. Every-fucking-one. They are subscribing because they either like what DC's already done, what he's doing, or what his plans are for the title. No one is forcing them to keep their subscription active. No one is keeping them from cancelling. No one is stopping them from reporting DC to Patreon if they think he's not delivering.
What is your motivation for repeating the same complaints?
