...Why are you here if you're trying to air grievances about the progress of the game? Do you usually hang out in places with content you explicitly don't like?
Oh, the game's awful. I have no idea how a game with mediocre art blew up like this other than owing to community outreach on the part of DC.
But at the same time, for the kind of money he's pulling, for the kind of payroll he could theoretically be responsible for, that money ain't going too far. If you're already assuming that DC is a fraud and his entire team doesn't exist and he's just pocketing all the money... why are you here?
Right. And the people who do pay either care or don't care enough to stop, so he has no reason to do anything different.
And since I'm remembering what I actually wrote, you are more than free to dislike the game. The problem is when you start demanding people agree with you that it's a fraud or a scam. Those are actual offenses. You'll notice I don't respond to the people who are critical of the game and do respond to the people who are freaking out about how other people spend their money and calling it a scam.
I add to that that DC streams his drawing session every 2 or 3 days, sometimes everyday. So I guess some patreons are mostly what "Twitch subscribers" are on Twitch. We should consider him not only as a game designer or a game creator, but also (and mostly now) as a streamer. I guess that's the best compromise for everyone and that could explain why there are few complaints outside F95 and why there still are 30k+ patreons. DC works in interaction with spectators, patreons/fans feel invested in his work. From a neutral perspective, this looks like the "best" solution to keep a small hype around the game for his followers without being exhausted to wait 6 more months for the next
hotfix patch update.
I've checked the recent messages on the Discord. It looks like a 16:9 format, as long as rewritting/reposing code, was already on touch in 2017. But as it would have meant rebuilding the game from scratch, and as restaring a porn game after 1 year is generally the dead of the project, patreons themselves vote to continue on the same bad code and to continue arts on 4:3. After 3 1/2 years of work, it had became unsustainable. And now we have the tech update.
On a side I also find the tech update really slow, despite all the work to do. On the other side, DC works on this game everyday.
The only criticism I could address for DC is the lack of written communication. I mean informal status from time to time explaining in few details what's going on on dev part atm could be good for everyone. But even on Discord you can only have some devoted members estimating the end of the techu update, the most optimistic in a year, the more realistic between 3 and 6 more years, and that's it. Not a single word from DC himself (ngl I've not looked all the convos to certify this quote). Apart for announcing the Picarto livestreams, DC rarely/never post anything. Quite sad.
