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

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D-Dragon

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butek said:
Haven't played this game since like 2018, what's going on with it now and what's the tech demo about?
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There isn't much NEW endgame content sense then, but they are reworking a Lot of the scenes and adding some new ones starting from the beginning of the game, and the Tech update is them changing the system they use to make the game. so if you are looking to play the game you remember from 2018 I suggest you download the pre tech update 0.20.16

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AnneFrank

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just drop the game for the next 2-3 Years and we will be up to date with thier pre tech release version. Honestly summertime saga has just become a patreon milking maschine like so many other games. There is actually no real improvement. A couple years back when Patreon still showed how much the developer earn with pledges, this game had a monthly income of arround 21.000$ since then they rolled it out on different sites and the people supporting the game just grew in numbers. So if we extrapolate it, they might earn arround 30-35k each month now for more or less doing nothing, cause this tech demo shit phase is going on for years now.

So there you have it, they dont have any real incentive to actually update the game, they will only push out a minor update whenever the supporter numbers are decreasing. They might even have one or 2 updates already ready and try to increase and stretch the time between updates as far as possible without loosing to many supporter to minimize thier work and maximise profit.Till then and tudeluu
 
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Yeah, this is the thing everyone always forgets about crowdfunding platforms like Patreon and Kickstarter.

You aren't buying a product. Generally speaking, the person you're supporting has no real legal or moral obligation to provide you with anything (unless they explicitly promise specific rewards, which is why most legal action taken against Kickstarter has been over people promising physical rewards and not delivering).

Most crowdfunding services are just angel investing, but with the only payoff being the possibility of a product eventually being released. Services like Patreon are even worse, because they're literally just "I will offer financial support to an artist I enjoy in the hope that it may eventually encourage them to produce more work."

It can definitely be frustrating if you support someone via Patreon and they do absolutely nothing in exchange, but that's pretty much on you, and there really isn't much you can do other than stop supporting that person. But if you're not even supporting them, and are mostly just complaining about other people supporting them, then you really don't have grounds to complain at all. And they certainly don't owe you anything either way.

Yes, it can suck if you see a game you think looks great and the developer just sort of stops updating it, whether because they're abandoning it for whatever reason, or because they've realized they can milk indefinitely and get paid for doing absolutely nothing. But that's always been the danger of early-access indie development (and like it or not, far more games will be started and abandoned than will ever be finished).
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*golf clap*

This something I've been saying here as a mantra for years. You're not funding a game, or even a development pipeline. Patreon is a glorified tip jar. If you look at the perks for DC's highest support tier, it's like early access to new content, your name in the credits, and content voting. There's no commitment to a schedule, either for dev or release. No promises that x number of playable scenes will be produced per year or whatever. Nothing.

Back the creator, not the creation. It's a simple enough concept that a frankly shocking number of contributors ITT don't seem to comprehend. But I said long ago that I'm here for the griping about the game more than actually playing the game at this point. This shit is hilarious.
 
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