- Feb 22, 2018
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It'd make more sense if you knew how the game is made and how the polls workIt's not about being a fan of the character, it's logical progression, Judith is like a low level npc that you face while you are building your stats to deal with the level boss, delaying such an easy target till after the hard targets is just stupid.
....."yeah so I totally banged the head cheerleader, the hot french teacher and the school nurse!"
....." Coool Bro... whos next on the bang train!!"
....."Well next I'm gonna bang that plain chick who can't even get a pity lay"
....."Duuuude...... "
DC only listens to Patrons when he polls them for the order of the updates, everything else is dev-based. Saying "X thing should be in-game since 2017" does nothing. He set a path how to dev his game and he follows it, whatever every1 else cries about. You still get updates every ~4 months even if the content is meh and it's not the girl nobody cares about enough to vote for but sure as hell comes around to moan she never gets anythingI mean, listening to Patreon subscribers is partially to blame for the delay in the tech update. Summertime Saga isn't really a game so much as it is a dozen visual novels of varying quality that the player is free to bounce between as they please, all crudely stapled together into a single buggy package. Letting the patrons guide development has built up technical debt, and that focus on stories rather than gameplay systems is why the whole thing now needs to be re-coded from scratch.
The dating system should have been implemented much earlier, which would have allowed character updates to flow through it and could have let us get small scenes for the less-popular girls alongside the big updates for the poll-winners. Judith could be the "easy lay" who only needs a few scenes to get to the good stuff while more complex characters like Roxxy or Eve would take longer. I like Judith and I think the little we've got with her so far is pretty hot, but I'm not sure I want to spend an entire update with her and her various family members.