You've got a long post with a lot of wrong information.
Debbie's update was NEVER part of the tech update. So none of the tasks that are for the tech update have been completed while they have been working on Debbie's update. The tech update has been effectively on hold since late September because of this.
The time and energy for development is being put into Debbie's update.
Debbie and Jenny have the most artwork in the VN. Jenny's update took a massively long time, as well, before the tech update. Writing the new code of Jenny's path (not even an update, for the most part) during the tech update dragged the tech update to a near crawl, as well.
No, it couldn't have all been 1 update. Have you looked at how many scenes are involved with Debbie? How much art needing redone? how much posing of the layers of the art? how much coding that is also involved? etc etc etc
Did Dark Cookie underestimate (yet again) how long he thought it would take? Yup.
Patrons aren't paying for the game. It's a free game. For everyone. No subscription required. Dark Cookie has even told people if they don't like the way he's doing things, they should not subscribe.
I hope that helps.
Ok so I get that now, but my concern remains... what is the point of these updates as far as addressing the update pipeline... because the tech update was suppose to be the "tech update" and what followed is annie, rhonda, etc. No where was there any inclusion of revamping old content albeit porting that content towards the "tech update"
Under that assumption... the backend should've been addressed to be able to run all old content retro actively. because then what has the last 3 years been even about. I was under the assumption that along with the "tech update" they were actively porting old content into their new framework.
If that is NOT the case, as the Debbie upgrades are an example of such work -- they are effectively going to have to redo EVERY piece of content that came before. Roxy, Tony, completion of School Staff, Eric, Mia, Nun, Jenny, Consuela... etc...It has taken about 3 or so updates just to showcase their intention with the Debbie updates... but like wtf? So we're gonna have another 2 years of upgrading the content I've listed before they even get to the "tech update"
Again... what have the last 2-3 years been even about? I thought they were redoing backend and relinking old content to it. Adjusting and updating artwork to fit widescreen ratio. But like that could've/should've been done along side the "tech update"
Again, I want a qualified description of what the fck they were doing for 2-3 years. Because if this new content is outside that original scope... my concern is still valid. We're going to have to upgrade all remaining content before the "tech update" because that has been put on hold?
Like wtf. How long are people going to wait. How long are they going to continue this milking shit... like wtf was going on for 2-3 years. When things are being upgraded in the backend, things should be actively being ported to that new frame -- I would easily defend the time it takes to port things to a new system... but the fact that they were no actively doing that and just NOW showcasing what the new framework CAN do using Debbie is horrific. This is fcking Renpy. Production pipelines for this isn't like Unreal or Unity. They aren't shit if thats the case. If they can't just port over content.
Asset creation is probably the biggest time constraint for game dev. Coding and QA doesn't take as much time as actual asset creation and implementation. So if it took 6 months just to port Debbie content, imagine how long it will take to port all the other characters... like WTF. Again -- why wasn't these ported over along side with engine/framework revisions.
Is Darkcookie that incompentent. Is Darkcookie that fcking greedy. That is absolutely asinine...
