- Feb 4, 2017
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It's probably very very very rare that a dev doesn't eventually fall prey to the almighty dollar one way or another. Sucks, but what can you do?Yeah, somewhere in 2017 or some, they was ideed promising projects, especially SS. Such WAFF atmosphere was quite refreshing. And artsyle is cute. I watched his streams on a regular basis. Until he start telling how he cut his something coz his wife didn't want to use contraceptives. I found this very wierd and stupid - and for some strange coincidence (not very) things got worse from there. He kepp telling about how story is 95% finished and all he need to do - is remaining art and coding. Then suddenly story got darker with mafia and shit, and for me personally it kinda spoiled the overal atmosphere, so I even stopped following the project at all. Imagine my reaction when years later I found outt, thet not only he did not finished a game, but almost no progress was made - only Eve and some minor updates.
And for shitpurple - I found out pretty quickly his shitty nature. One of members mentioned Breeding season, one thing led to another and i found a way to former devs chat and some interesting screens from that time. And boy oh boy what a discussions there was!
And at the same time a saw how shitpurple draws shit during his streams - shit, that not even closely connected to Cloud Meadow, or for whatevs reasons redraws old stuff, that is in game already - while there is only empty updates. Years later I cheked the project status only to find there is 0 progress, version naming changed(second time?),his team changed(again), one of lead animators left(again) and he still redraws stuff(third time? tenth time?) and draws some random shit.
Ultimately, though, DC was smart enough to have a donation pool that's tied to 'doing something' and not specifically 'pay to get game', which is what I've argued in the past. He essentially takes advantage of people being easy to get to donate, and isn't specifically scamming them out of the game itself. Semantics, I suppose, but rules are made out of that. And can't get his ass if he isn't really breaking any rules.
"It's called a hustle." to quote a certain Disney movie.