Palantir_T

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Jul 12, 2020
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Hello Admin 7767 :)

I want want to warn you and other peoples about a VIRUS major problem .... My Antivirus detected a TROJAN in "The Company" HTML file... :oops:

I can't play this game anymore.. :(
Can you check all your files before spare on download sites please...

Thanks you very much. (y)

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finalcut315

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May 6, 2018
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kind of a bummer after so long not much has really changed. If I could make a request some more content with men would be cool, especially since you can play as women it would be nice.
 

HaseoOfDeath

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Game Developer
Sep 13, 2017
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The Company news was shared today:




The Company - Backend Roadmap: (June 2025 - December 2025)

  • Reevaluate and rebuild condition checks throughout the game
  • Update code base, improving readability and efficiency and removing (lots) of depreciated functions and passages
  • Update UI elements and identify QOL improvements
  • Expect to re-release The Company January 2026
The Company - Release Roadmap: (January 2026 - December 2026)

  • Start work on implementing Chapter 5
  • Finish adding character content for characters lacking it
  • Wrap up any remaining systems that need it
  • Add endings and epilogues
  • Expect to release The Company in H2 2026

The Company - Working Under the Hood
So for those who have been paying close attention, this won't be super illuminating, but right now the biggest thing holding back expansion and development of The Company is the fact that over the years of learning and stumbling, the game has become a tight, entangled web of mysteries... which sounds cool but super isn't.

To put it more plainly, if I wanted to add new scenes or change how something works, or even address bugs and issues, it means navigating a dark labyrinth of conditions and events that reference events that reference events that use a macro that was made for the one event that has to be referenced by... you get the idea. This specific complexity is further complicated by the game's inherent need to account for all possible MC and NPC states in any given scene, which is of course the game's bread and butter.

The only way to address this is to go in with a sledgehammer and start ripping out legacy, antiquated systems and functions, and rebuild the engine in a way that is presentably familiar (if not identical) but mechanically sustainable... and the only way to do that is too effectively halt development on the game entirely until renovations have completed.

Without the need to release steady updates for the game, this is a task that I'm now actually excited to tackle, time consuming and frustrating as I expect it to be. The end result is going to be a version of The Company that, from a developer point of view, actually MAKES SENSE for once. For the players, this translates into a way to quickly and easily introduce new content into the game, and identify where things are going wrong.

I expect this to be finished by the end of the year at the latest, which means 2026 is going to "start" with The Company going full bore on implementing Chapter 5, wrapping up character arcs, and introducing proper endings and epilogues to the game. You can expect dev blogs to drop from now til then going over progress being made to this end!

This has been a lengthy one, which is actually kind of comforting for those who remember how we operated from the beginning. I can't wait to share more on both games, and until then, thank you all for your continued feedback and support!
 

RickyBobby47

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May 14, 2025
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Should I say expected? When I first saw that the project spent about two years on daily interaction systems outside of the non-plot, and then rolled them back to the point where only some of the UI survived, I already realized that the project's updates were more like being forced onto a chariot and having to continue. I just didn't realize that after returning the focus of the updates to the plot last year, things were still so bad that they couldn't be done.
Visual Novels (2D art & 3D models) are just way more popular now than they were back in the day.

You can have a game with real porn and have to search high and low for fresh new clips across thousands of videos for your game.

Or you can just create 3D renders that are customizable, even if the customization is slight, and build your story lines and narratives around that.

With the click a button you can attract the LGBT (trans enthusiasts & lesbians) crowd as well.
 
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M#Cntz

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I wonder if people are ever going to re-add the romance/corruption and nightly action system from the older versions.
 

UndeadEve

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hey, been a while since i've been here, kept an eye in from time to time but i noticed he started another game, is the company abandoned or is westane gonna come back to it ?
 

Snugglepuff

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Apr 27, 2017
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hey, been a while since i've been here, kept an eye in from time to time but i noticed he started another game, is the company abandoned or is westane gonna come back to it ?
It's on hold for now, there are plans for coming back and finishing it up though. Just look up the page...
 
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M#Cntz

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What "romance/corruption" are you talking about?
There was a romance/corruption system tied to the nightly activities a lot of patches ago.
Back then, both of those stats actually influenced those activities, and if you didn't have enough, they'd get angry/it'd count as non-con.
It counting as non-con is why it got removed.
 

Snugglepuff

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Apr 27, 2017
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There was a romance/corruption system tied to the nightly activities a lot of patches ago.
Back then, both of those stats actually influenced those activities, and if you didn't have enough, they'd get angry/it'd count as non-con.
It counting as non-con is why it got removed.
You're confusing the old love/corruption stats and the penalties for not having used enough serums on them. There was never a non-serum alternative to sexual activity with Ava and Dakota.

No amount of love/corruption would allow for sexual activity without using serums first.
It was either serums, or rape. That's it.
 
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