Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.5605] [Kompas Productions]

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Underrail a incredible RPG ( that require a lot more work and skill than this game here ) was made by just one person in six years. And thats just one example. Clearly games can be finished and developed in a orderly and timely manner. DC is eather lazy , a scamer or a piss poor game developer ( in that case he shoud stick to drawing , not that he's that incredible of an artist) .
 
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PietruccioTheHilander said:
I assume that he will use all the available minutes
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Edit: January's was released about 10:30PM EST
November's was released about 7:30PM EST
September's was released about 5:00PM EDT
July's was released sometime in the afternoon EDT
May's was released around 5:00PM EDT
(Yeah, I just looked it up. Thanks for piquing my curiosity.)

So maybe he will, maybe he won't. I dunno.

I do know that it says 1738343470221.png and ETA means Estimated Time of Arrival.

And that they have said "roughly" every two months ever since they announced this new update schedule (see #83,320).
I also didn't see anyone say jack when he released September's update "early" on the 27th, when the others had been on the last day of the month.

So maybe it comes today. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe on February 2nd... but only if the groundhog doesn't see its shadow.
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Ataman87 said:
Underrail a incredible RPG ( that require a lot more work and skill than this game here ) was made by just one person in six years. And thats just one example. Clearly games can be finished and developed in a orderly and timely manner. DC is eather lazy , a scamer or a piss poor game developer ( in that case he shoud stick to drawing , not that he's that incredible of an artist) .
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Ataman87 said:
Underrail a incredible RPG ( that require a lot more work and skill than this game here ) was made by just one person in six years. And thats just one example. Clearly games can be finished and developed in a orderly and timely manner. DC is eather lazy , a scamer or a piss poor game developer ( in that case he shoud stick to drawing , not that he's that incredible of an artist) .
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You're comparing actual games to a pron game :D DC isn't a programmer.. he started making the game to learn some programming. Later on he managed to get some people to do coding for him. Got even a writer. I don't remember why they decided to remake the game(probably it was a spaghetti code after programmers changing). Anywho, the way his business model works is kinda weird. Technically the game is for free. He gets paid via patreon. Meaning it's donations, not kickstarter or whatever subscription. Basically he's getting paid for making the game, not for the game itself. Now think for a moment. Why would you rush to finish the game, if you get more money in the long run to prolong making it? Yeah, people would stop donating if you drag too long, but that clearly didn't happen yet. I guess he found a sweet spot between updates to last as long as possible. You say DC is lazy.. and who isn't? :D Why do you say he's not incredible? If it wasn't, the game wouldn't be as popular.. btw.. just because you see 1 style in the game, doesn't mean he can't draw different styles..
 
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You're comparing actual games to a pron game :D DC isn't a programmer.. he started making the game to learn some programming. Later on he managed to get some people to do coding for him. Got even a writer. I don't remember why they decided to remake the game(probably it was a spaghetti code after programmers changing). Anywho, the way his business model works is kinda weird. Technically the game is for free. He gets paid via patreon. Meaning it's donations, not kickstarter or whatever subscription. Basically he's getting paid for making the game, not for the game itself. Now think for a moment. Why would you rush to finish the game, if you get more money in the long run to prolong making it? Yeah, people would stop donating if you drag too long, but that clearly didn't happen yet. I guess he found a sweet spot between updates to last as long as possible. You say DC is lazy.. and who isn't? :D Why do you say he's not incredible? If it wasn't, the game wouldn't be as popular.. btw.. just because you see 1 style in the game, doesn't mean he can't draw different styles..
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Absolute skill issue.

If DC isn't a programmer, why is he taking in almost a million bucks a year to make a game while not hiring a coder?
The game wouldn't exist without these donations, so they're obviously needed for the game to continue being made - like it's taken him 6 years to make this tech update and he still has about a year and a half left til he's done with these trickle updates every 2 months where he fails to put in them what he says he will, and that's WITH that nearly million dollar a year budget with no full time employees.
 
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Throwawayxyz said:
Absolute skill issue.

If DC isn't a programmer, why is he taking in almost a million bucks a year to make a game while not hiring a coder?
The game wouldn't exist without these donations, so they're obviously needed for the game to continue being made - like it's taken him 6 years to make this tech update and he still has about a year and a half left til he's done with these trickle updates every 2 months where he fails to put in them what he says he will, and that's WITH that nearly million dollar a year budget with no full time employees.
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lol.. did you read at all? He's getting paid for making the game, the process.. not the product.. what's the incentive for him to finish? He's getting paid and he has no stress of timelines.. He would if people unsub, but nobody does. You might say he could put it on steam, he will, but why rush? He's getting paid. And do you really think anyone from STS team care about a forum talking shit about how it's taking forever? :D
 
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Throwawayxyz said:
Absolute skill issue.

If DC isn't a programmer, why is he taking in almost a million bucks a year to make a game while not hiring a coder?
The game wouldn't exist without these donations, so they're obviously needed for the game to continue being made - like it's taken him 6 years to make this tech update and he still has about a year and a half left til he's done with these trickle updates every 2 months where he fails to put in them what he says he will, and that's WITH that nearly million dollar a year budget with no full time employees.
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I mean, why should he? Really? He doesn't really owe his patrons anything. The key lies within the donation part. The donation is a voluntary payment, not a compulsive one. So how much 'rights' do his patreons really have here? Apart from just stopping the donations. Which they don't do. So, your suggestion?

I personally suggest to let them pay, and enjoy the fruits of DCs labour free of charge. If he remakes his game it's no sweat off my back lol. But also don't come here to shit up everything because you got buyer's remorse for something you assumed worked differently.
 
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lol.. did you read at all? He's getting paid for making the game, the process.. not the product.. what's the incentive for him to finish? He's getting paid and he has no stress of timelines.. He would if people unsub, but nobody does. You might say he could put it on steam, he will, but why rush? He's getting paid. And do you really think anyone from STS team care about a forum talking shit about how it's taking forever? :D
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Considering the only reason we started getting the 2 month update increments is cause the game got the abandoned tag on this forum, yes, I do think they care about people talking about their game here. This site is probably 75% if not more of how they get new people interested in their game lol.
 
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You put too much faith in this forum ;) Probably patron numbers started to drop so they had to do something. Yeah, people can find STS via this forum, but you got to remember that most of us don't pay for the games here. If I discovered this game and saw how long it is in development, I'd never donate to his patreon.. no timeline when it's gonna get finished.. plus it's free..
 
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Gok said:
You put too much faith in this forum ;) Probably patron numbers started to drop so they had to do something. Yeah, people can find STS via this forum, but you got to remember that most of us don't pay for the games here. If I discovered this game and saw how long it is in development, I'd never donate to his patreon.. no timeline when it's gonna get finished.. plus it's free..
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Oh and that just so happened to be at the exact same date they got the abandoned tag. Got it. Very big brain stuff here.
 
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