Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.6440] [Kompas Productions]

[dunrms]

Anyone with any sense knows that with the amount of money this game has earned, updates shouldn't be taking this long to come out. This is a porn game, not a AAA studio game that takes years of development. Its point and click with choices. The game is being used as a means of passive income for the creator and the team, simple as that.

I get that people are free to do with their money what they want, but supporting a creator that clearly doesn't care enough to provide meaningful updates to their game is ridiculous. There's plenty of other games that deserve support, more than this one.

But it is what it is.

 

[Akabakka]

You didn't do anything wrong. You rewarded the foundation and the promise of more, but pulled out when you realized it wasn't going anywhere. You already beat 99% of patreon users.

Our issue isn't with patreon or support devs, it's enabling bad behavior instead of punishing it so people keep doing it. And guess what, it's a huge problem right now. The top 10 ero games on both funding platforms make oodles of money, some of them more than masterpieces like Hollow Knight, and have been in dev for longer to boot, and yet are nowhere near complete.

Many of those--games regularly earning 4k+ USD a month in some instances--haven't even had a content update in years.

True , but i do have issues with the concept as well . But that's mine own gripe , since everyone can decide on their own , how much they wanna pour into a project .
My take is that i absolutely refuse to fund games for years ... or at the very least i refuse to pay more for such games , than i would for a regular retail console game (which already often make it more expensive than steam or many indie releases) . A flat fee rounding up the game to such cost ? Fine ... Months or a year of support leading up to that amount ? Ok why not .

But there is no way , that i'm paying 5-10 dollars a month for multiple years

 

[Papow]

Patreon creates bad habits for developers. They should earn money from sales, not from constant updates and prolonging the development of the game instead of finishing and selling it.

 

[dirkdiggler32]

4-5 years ago we were on the verge of greatness... now it's all ''tech updates''.

 

[PayneToTheMax]

Let me guess. The whole Ms. Dewitt route being incomplete is because the whole Eve part of it needs to be entirely rewritten.

 

[generater]

Call me crazy or whatever but i dont mind waiting and im happy that we will be able to play this game in higher resolutions and some of the characters also got improved designs, theres plenty of AVNs out there for me to play before this catches up to the old content.

You are the reason people keep doing it.

 

[Lust0ne]

Is their way to get the mods of hair or naughty on this update? Anyone have any info on this?

 

[Teal]

I can't seem to hand the dictionary over to Ms Bisette. Seems a little early for gamebreaking bugs!

 

[張先生]

In the new version, how to get money if the pizzeria has not been unlocked yet?

 

[Teal]

The mending the flute quest also appears to be broken. The game just doesn't work at all lol!

 

[Count Morado]

Is their way to get the mods of hair or naughty on this update? Anyone have any info on this?

No on those to those mods. If you go in Naughty mod's thread it says it 3 separate times in big bold bright colored letters so that no one can miss it.

In the new version, how to get money if the pizzeria has not been unlocked yet?

You start with $10k cash and $1,000,000 in bank. You don't need pizza money

 

[Whiterichie93]

Since there is still no Incest Patch, I decided to make one. I'm not this game's dev. I should work on my own game actually, but eh I like Summertime Saga. You can check out my game, it's about Warcraft...
I honestly don't know what I am doing. I just decrypted the files and changed the text directly. Nothing fancy. Well I added one new event with Jenny : The Sister Experience. Even better than the Girlfriend Experience. But it doesn't seem very stable at the moment...
The mod replace any mention of Debbie so she's "Mom", sentences has been reworded accordingly. Jenny refers herself as your sister. It's not just "replace all Debbie by Mom", I tried to put more work than that.
Anyway, I only made this for myself, but I might as well share it, and we'll see how it goes. I hope some people will enjoy this quick mod

To install : Extract it in "game" folder

thank you!

 

[Lerd0]

You start with $10k cash and $1,000,000 in bank. You don't need pizza money

 

[Marphey]

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This is literly me if you replace Judith with Anna.

 

[clitcommander]

 

[Glorious Cat]

• Added a new event for Debbie in the kitchen at the end of her route.

I can't wait for the tech update to finally be over, so I can wait another 2+ years for the art update

 

[otranu]

What have I missed? How many people are talking negatively about the update being on time and including the promised content?

 

[gibbon enjoyer]

I remember when I checked the patreon a year or so ago and it said he was making like +70k a month before he hid his income. It's crazy how much he's milking this game and how people keep enabling.

 

[Davai099]

Let's check that progress meter:

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FWIW, since the progress metric "reset" back in November, it's gone up 10%. At that rate (optimistic, I know), the tech update will be done around a year from now.

Back to square one.

 

[Mark Macabre]

So i'll be real blunt.
The game is good, interesting story not too complicated, yet still entertaining and a bit mysterious.
Easy to navigate and a fair amount of content, with a few frames of animation (Emphasis on few frames, you can fucking count them.) All in all, as a game, it isn't bad. I'd even say it's well made.

BUTT!!! (Hehe...butt...)
Fuck me raw and call me stephanie, this has become a milking farm.
Although the game is decent, it is far from a recommendation, purely because of the dev being a farm boy, milking the sweet, sweet teat of patreon, instead of planning a second venture for the future.
Leading to extreme wait times for any update that isn't on par with ''Widescreen'' BS (We're talking years)
Lack of creative implementations or ideas.
A sour(ing) community.

What'll happen?
Either the game will be finished in 5 years or something, or people will stop supporting the patreon, leading to the game being abandoned. I can not for the life of me see any other way for this game to go.