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Why don't you think we won't make it to the weekend? He said he is working on Thursday. If he releases at the end of the month that means he has 2.5 weeks to do Friday and Saturday. That seems doable.
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Don't worry so much, there are still about 3 weeks before the update is released, and 2 reports. It is too early to judge what the volume of the update will be. And about the holidays - Fujino is chinese, as far as I understand, they have a New Year in February. For Fujino, December is just the month in which the year ends according to the global calendar.
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Christmas is a huge deal in Japan where he is living now. Depending on what his day job is, he might have be very busy in December. Also last year he released a surprise bonus game on Christmas. So I say December could be a slow month for us.
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In that case, it would be better for Fujino to release a big event for SAO in honor of Christmas, a drunken Kirito is sleeping at the table, well, next to him.... Well, you know. By the way, this could happen in Kirito's apartment, and Suguha would finally get the direct evidence she needed.
I'm just basing this off of the last battle event. Since it had 15 CGs basically dedicated to that one event alone, I don't know if Fujino has enough time to work on a lot of things like that. It also probably gets harder to pull that off too if they put some extra scenes or CGs for Thursday and Friday. And since the first progress report mentions fixing bugs, we can probably make a decent guess/hypothesis on how much work a battle event update takes and how much less content Fujino is able to make when it's spent fixing bugs.
But ultimately this assumes Fujino doesn't just zoom to Saturday and make Thursday and Friday extremely short.
The reason I mentioned holidays is because Fujino released v0.2 on December 24th 2023. The previous update before that was December 6th 2023 and that was v0.15. The december 6th update was basically the November one, but it came out late. Anyways, the point is that Fujino probably is either busy or maybe just choosing to relax going into the New Year, so November and December might be a little weird/wonky.
To be fair, since the assumption that the weekend would probably be part of the ritual event, it's probably battle CGs, so at worse 6 like you said, and then one entire separate event that could have another 5 sets of CGs. Kind of like how the treehouse event was basically everything put into that one update. It had like you said 6 CGs, but then it had the treehouse scenes that Fujino didn't have enough time to put the Asuna pov until like 2 months later (cause they took a break).
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That is what I was saying originally. Saturday should be the ritual day with the battle scenes and a long event, probably an impregnation event. 2.5 weeks to do all that seem reasonable. If you are saying the update won't include the weekend then the update will only have Thursday and Friday which seems WAY too short for an update.
I guess I'm probably expecting it to be more like the treehouse scene now that you bring it up. Like I'm kind of just expecting it to be half finished I guess?
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That would suck. Especially if he goes on another break afterwards.
That's the problem with Patreon founded games: there is no incentive for the creator to finish the game.
They make more money during development than by finishing the game. So they do just enough updates so people still pay them, while delaying the release as much as possible.
They make more money during development than by finishing the game. So they do just enough updates so people still pay them, while delaying the release as much as possible.
You're probably responding to the half-finished part I'm refering to. But you're not really understanding the context in which I'm talking about it in. I just mean half-finished in the "story arc" since the developer will try to do a monthly release/update for the people that are paying. This tends to mean that sometimes they don't finish the arc in the story, or the event they were working on before the month ends. Anyways there's nothing really wrong if they're churning out content for money, versus zero communication and nothing to show for it.
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He could also split the ritual event, like he did in that one update before the kitchen scene. And since Kirito is still restricted to playing one hour a day, the party could just make it through the first trial (with battle scenes) and come back another day to finish the ritual.
I had assumed this would be obvious for everyone, tbh, like, the fact Fujino specifically had the NPCs explain and over-focus on how you can do each part of the ritual separately and can 'pause' after you finish each one felt like he was setting up an in-universe excuse for him to not do the whole ritual in one update XP
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That would be disappointing. Besides having to wait to see the full experience, as others have said there isn't too many chances for updates if Fujino wants to do all the things in the Perks list. Unless he eventually starts doing v0.96, v0.97, etc.
Well, yeah, but that's the sad reality of how things stand, especially since he decided to not do a Part 3 and just keep going over the limits of RPGMaker without knowing exactly how to fix things, I seriously doubt he's gonna do the whole ritual in one go, especially with how basically he spelled out the group would be taking a break after doing one or 2 parts of the ritual so blatantly XP
I think Fujino shouldn't have added the idea of "rape". This in no way corresponded to the meaning of the first part of the game and slowed down the progress of the characters in the second. At the same time, ridiculous moments turned out - I don't want to communicate with him, but I jerking him off, send nude photos, etc. And could have already developed the plot much further