Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.5258] [Kompas Productions]

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otranu

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j4yj4m said:
Since years some people have the weird assumption, that the next update will be so bad that patreons will leave in droves. Thus, they think, devs try to get addtional money by getting them to stay those few days longer to renew their patreon membership one more month. In reality the opposite seems true though. Given that devs like DC gain quite a few additional patreons every major update, it would be way better for them to release the update at the end of the months. Like that people become patreons and pay the full amount for the current month, just to be charged again at the 1st of the next month.

In end neither will matter for DC, though, and it's just a stupid thing people talk about. After all, the game is free and you can play it anyway, no matter whether u are a patreon or not.
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I dont think darkCookie is milking us for money. I think he is a excellent game developer and artist.

Having said that, although it is true that Dc gain additional patreons every update, there´s a big drop of patreons after the update too, as you can see in the image.
Right now he is gaining a lot of patreons , and many of them will mantain their patreon membership after 0.20, but, he will lost a some of them too.
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Anyway , i dont think he is delaying the update on porpouse or something like that , but he will get more money if he releases in may.
 
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otranu said:
Having said that, although it is true that Dc gain additional patreons every update, there´s a big drop of patreons after the update too, as you can see in the image.
Right now he is gaining a lot of patreons , and many of them will mantain their patreon membership after 0.20, but, he will lost a some of them too.
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The drops in Patrons happen mostly at the first of the month because of denied payments or other problems with payment providers. If you check the daily number of Patrons you can see that it is always exactly the first day of the month that's the lowest. But he also almost always gains them back until the end of the month.
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Granted, some can of course be Patrons that cancelled because they were charged and thus reminded that they still actively supported DarkCookie. But even if they leave and don't come back, he seems to gain almost as many new supporters.
 
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Where does that picture come from? The tracker on their patreon page says 99% complete as well, but 130/169 bugs fixed.
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I use mozilla and they have a progress tracker for mozilla
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I used to use chrome and they also have tracker for chrome.
 
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Hero1 said:
The drops in Patrons happen mostly at the first of the month because of denied payments or other problems with payment providers. If you check the daily number of Patrons you can see that it is always exactly the first day of the month that's the lowest. But he also almost always gains them back until the end of the month.
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Granted, some can of course be Patrons that cancelled because they were charged and thus reminded that they still actively supported DarkCookie. But even if they leave and don't come back, he seems to gain almost as many new supporters.
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Yeah, he is 100% milking his audience. That doesn't mean he's better than the majority of devs here, or that when he does update once or twice a year, that he doesn't do a good job. But he milks and delays just because he wants to keep the gravy train going, and he's afriad once he finishes the game people who will stop donating to him (they wouldn't, this has been proven but whatever).

This is still a good game in the making, but come on.
 
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@otranu: Well, as said, in that case he'd gain more patreons this month and more of them would stay next month, so the monthly drop would happen at a higher level. People who want to stop their pledge can stop it anyway. Unlike most other games SS is free, and you don't really gain any significant advantage while pledging. Those who don't give him him a cent will get it almost as quickly as those who pay the maximum amount.

KillerKlown said:
But he milks and delays just because he wants to keep the gravy train going, and he's afriad once he finishes the game people who will stop donating to him (they wouldn't, this has been proven but whatever).

This is still a good game in the making, but come on.
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Any evidence for that?
 
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