I'm sure Paradise lust will be doing somewhat well on Steam and Itch. DC has never monetized any other platform but Patreon and as such his earnings will certainly be higher over there, while some other games to spread them across 3 or 4 platforms.
It's funny how revealing these type of lists are.
Paradise Lust is pretty average. The art doesn't really stand out and the plot is pretty basic. Mind you, average =/= bad. A perfectly average porn game does exactly what it needs to do, provide people with stuff to fap to.
do you live under a rock?Man, I wanna see someone say that about the church
We are many years till AI relegates manual art to a vintage allure. The current tech has been overhyped, its good at certain things but has glaring weakness compare to even mediocre artists. I agree it will be an addiction soon though.
the problem isn't hardware, it is software.
To solve the problem I am talking about, getting results comparable to good artists we do need that hardware leap. The current approach can only go so far with software improvements.
The human approach to creating art is to have a sapient person actually understand what it is that they are trying to draw.
it's been 2 years since the last update, ergo abandoned tag
Well if he wants to make it more difficult on himself...It's the "successfully" part that is odd at this point. And it is the business of those who are paying him, especially any "whales" which I'm assuming he has. If I were one of them we would have had some frank communication by now. The ones he has must be extremely understanding.
Until it gets neutered and you can't make anything 'offensive' with it. Like porn.
I'm not exactly sure of the timeframe but I think it's 18+ months of no physical updates is considered abandoned. Awesome that they are doing QA testing but that was only announced within a few days after receiving the abandoned tag here and on a few other sites. Correct me if I am wrong.
We're waiting for this 'small partial tech update' for more than two years now, forget it, I don't know why or how they still got supporters when they've abandoned (or at least it feels like it) the single game they've been working on ¬_¬
Abby is the incredibly forgettable fitness chick, and Jane is the librarian.
I think there's multiple reasons. But mainly that DC's mentality has always been that he wants to work on the game full time but not increase the scope of operation just because people throw copious amounts of money at him.
I agree, the "main" characters are a lot more interesting to me than the side characters, and I'd love for the quests to be more interconnected (and have generally more content but that's another discussion). But they've never promised or aimed for interconnected design, I'm not keeping them on the hook for a design choice that's been that way from the start. I'd rather have it differently but they go with isolated quests, which is fine.
