He also moved into his own home with his fiance and has got an office room dedicated to the development of the game.
Which is a plus, cause previously when he was living with his family he had to alt tab to hide his work from the rest of his family.
His fiance knows pretty much what he does as an AVN dev, hence with them moving to their own home and him having his own space to work on the game, it will only come as a boon when he really kicks into gear the development of season 2 (no disturbances, and no pressure to be conscious of other people like he used to before).
Damn, such disappoint.
I have been a Patreon supporter for years now, why would I care about a Steam release at all? It's more of a slap in the face for supporters I guess.
I want a continuation of the story, which has been at a complete standstill since januari 2023.
Hopefully steam sales will give some kind of impetus to the project.
I mean, a Steam release was bound to be necessary given Hopes was planning to make a living out of this as a full time dev (and nowadays, more and more AVN devs are opting to take their games to Steam).
It's just that the steam release coincided with a lot of IRL stuff that happened with him.
Also, I think I've been saying since late 2023 that Season 1 Soldato Edition on Steam will not be adding new story content, and will just be adding VN mode, Codex, & updated gallery; I knew about it in advance given I playtested the VN mode for Hopes.
Plus, even when the game came out on Steam in February, it was stated by SonsOfLiberty (one of the big compressors on this site) that there is no new main story content in the season 1's request thread.
So it's not like nobody knew about it and this all came out of the blue like a deception.
Basically it's been said for months (even before, leading up to Steam release) that content added to the Season 1 steam would be minimal.
So unless the said person has not been paying any attention at all to the news about this game (then I guess it sucks for that person, but I guess he/she should pay more attention next time to news regarding any game they're interested in? Shrugs), not sure what more can be said lol