That's not what, I thought, iderama was saying. He wasn't saying DC shouldn't be earning this much money, he was saying "he shouldn't be earning this much money for lying". He actually provided evidence that DC is milking. We should have had 0.20 at least a month ago (according to DC's own timeline) and should be waiting for 0.25. Instead we are waiting for 0.20 and 0.25 might be postponed for a "shorter" update or Rhonda's update. That's not what he promised 6 months ago.
As to all this time for "new and improved parts of the game". Yeah, that's milking it. What the fuck is his coding team doing while he's drawing all this art?
This is why he needs a project manager. Of course, he doesn't want one, his team will work more efficiently and that means less money. Wake up. He's milking it. And don't expect patrons to realise this. ICSTOR's patronage went up after he admitted he was quitting his latest game. Gumdrop Games still has nearly 800 patrons and his earnings are approximately $2k-5k per month and he's the biggest scam artist out there. Patrons are stupid.
When I look at the work of japanese team in term of "level of quality", "fantasm concept" and "speed process", Summertime saga were obviously far overestimated since the early beginning :
- any actual pro drawer can make all actual game's art in less than a few week.
- even if you're coding your own VN engine with no initial knowledge in C++ (low programmation level), once you've made your engine, coding isn't that complex, especially for a VN and a point&click (i can tell since i am on this path).
- the base game story and concept can be found in japanese hentai since hentai is born in japan.
- updates barely add any content and tend to go in all direction (aunt, then blond girl, then sister, then blue hair, ...), nothing is finished in any ways.
- and since all optionnal story (blue hair girl, blond school girl, neiborough, ...) are all made on the same structure and seems to be rushed in a few scene from "early relationship" to "full sex intercourse" (like the 4 teachers), the game lose it's atmosphere at each restart because of the lack of progression and accomplishment feeling.
- the worst for me may be the lack of details care (as in japanese dev's optics). As exemple, the telescope stayed bugued from the beginning to now : when the father of the neighbourg girlfriend religious is supposed to have disappeared, he is still in bed at night.
But well, they were precursor to publish it in this format and while people continus to support them, what can you say : it's up to them to think if the frequence and the quality of update is satisfaying and worse the 2-10$/month or not.
