Unfortunately, this is not true, because the progress with the new character is largely intertwined with progress with other characters or bullshit mini games that you can't skip altogether. The last addition I remember was Harold's wife (whatever her name was) and the ordeal I had to go through just for two interesting scenes was what made me quit.
unfortunately what you are saying is not true. i recently replayed the roxxy update and i didn't have to do do a single thing with the other characters to get through her story. that's how it is for most characters. i think for the diane route you have to play the debbie route for a couple minutes (!), which you can easily skip if that's too much time for you. also as far as i know you can skip pretty much every mini game when you're in cheat mode.
Sure, it's a great concept, I like the art, the story too, but the basic game design and development is either retarded or specifically designed to milk that sweet Patreon money. If someone is desperate enough to play a minor addition every five months with no end in sight, I can't protect you from yourselves, but what I'm going to do is focus on and support developers who offer considerably higher value with a much lower budget (Lewdlab, Stiglet, CheekyGimp, Jikei, etc.).
i just checked out all the devs you mentioned and i almost spilled some coke on my keyboard because i had to laugh. none of them do hand drawn art, it's all shitty 3DCG style with characters that look like goblins. if that's your thing, that's fine but thinking that shit is of higher value than summertime sagas hand drawn art is just LOL. the worst thing is every character from those 3DCG games look the same. terrible.
Like… do you even realise what an ethical and eager developer would be able to do with $250,000 in five months?! Bloody heck, that's enough for a whole new game that is longer and without bugs! Pillars of Eternity raised around $4 million and took about 2 years to complete, yet here we have a broken porn game in bloody Ren'Py with a budget that already exceeds at least half a million USD and has taken almost 3 years.
see that's the thing with complainers. you are either just trolling or completly uninformed. pillars of eternity didn't just cost 4 million. those kickstarter games from famous developers always have outside investors that throw in millions of dollars. the kickstarter money is often just a small amount of the dev cost to proof to investors that there is interest in the game, nothing more. you are completly delusional if you think pillars did just cost 4 million i'm sorry.
So a mildly critical post after about a year makes me worse than those who support developers who are releasing broken updates despite earning in the excess of $50k per month and produce the same or even less amount of content compared to when they were earning 1% of that, thus encouraging other developers to adopt the same model? Sure, sure…
it was not a mildly critical post it was the same uninformed shitpost that we get over and over and over again. i don't know how often it has to be said but just because you throw money at something doesn't magically make the game develop faster. project don't usually scale up proportionally to their budget. even if DC made a fucking million a month as long as he doesn't find someone who can imitate his art, is willing to work on a porn game and can work on his own the game won't get done faster because the art is the bottleneck. the last patreon goal DC set was at 30k because he said that's all the money he needs right now to pay everyone and make the game according to his vision. it's not his fault that people keep throwing money at him.
Can't you see that as soon as he finishes the game, it will likely be all over? His income will drop considerably because he likely won't be able to generate the same hype for his potential next game, thus he's motivated to keep developing this very game for as long as possible. He's found a gold mine and if he shuts it down and moves to find another one, he risks never finding it.
woah how do you know so much? you already proved that you have no fucking clue how game development works so i'm not sure if i should put trust your amazing predictions.
Good luck!
You might see progress in the main story in about five years and then
maybe it will get an ending in ten years or so.
thanks good luck to you too! have fun with the gobbos see you in 10 years when SS is done
