Typical consumer mentality, really. Want it done yesterday rather than tomorrow, lest something could upset them. As we can repeatedly see in these threads. Nothing screams this
the whole tech update rework was a mistake in the first place. what DC should have done is finish the remaining girl routes the same way he did before, rework mia and erik. maybe do one last harem update where you can fuck some of the girls in the beach house, then work on the ending where asking one of the girls should be a simple question you can ask them to go to the ball with you at the end of each route and then call it done and start working on a new game or summertime saga 2 where he can reuse lots of background pics and convert them to 16:9 without having to do that for every single background that exists. not every side character nobody cares about is going to get content, not every girl gets a pregnancy feature, who cares.
I do agree that doing the tech update 6 years into development was not the wisest idea, but it mighrt have gotten to a point that it was needed to continue working the way he wanted.
How is the joke on him? The man is making stacks of cash, to the point that he won't need to make a followup of anything. He can transition to works somewhere else, invest a bunch, and go enjoy life with all that cheddar. I think he's good.
Well you being here every hour and every day,sure means you're the butthurt one.
the first little screen appears for like a second and then it goes away with also the icon in the lower bar
I believe is a loop... A lot of people stops paying the patreon but at the same time a lot of new players discovers the game and see that you can "support" with only one buck without knowing the actual status of the development, they pay and then they see the reality and there is no other remedy that to wait to your pay month to finish....
6 years later but still gonna answer.
I think another major factor that often gets overlooked is simply the timing of when SS was released. It was one of the earlier Ren'py games out there and had the benefit of having not as many options.
Id bet a good amount of his supporters are people who forgot about it. Ive seen much smaller devs who have basically been completely silent for years still making hundreds of dollars a month from people who just forget about it. If patreon made patrons confirm their subscription every couple of months these scamming devs would actually have incentive to update their games. But I doubt that will ever happen. The whole business model of patreon is pretty anti consumer to begin with.
Considering Patreon gets x% off every $, it's in their financial interest to let zombie subs continue indefinitely.
