Ren'Py Abandoned The DeLuca Family [Season 1] [HopesGaming]

[Krytax123]

Subs have been frozen for over a year, no money made there, unless people are willingly donating single-shot donations. You know that already.

Uhm bro, reading comprehension? It was all about the user claiming Hopes abandoned it because of a lack of support. His patreon being frozen nowaday or not doesnt change anything. I just pulled out the 222 sub number to showcase that he STILL has quite a few willing supporter despite doing nothing for 3 years.

So it stands to assume that he had pretty good support as long as he indeed worked on the avn.

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Thanks for the link, so yeah, while Hopes was still active and developing this avn he had like 600 subs, thats not too bad, even more considering that this avn now was longer "on hold/abandoned" than in development lol. He probably could have easily raised that number with ongoing development.

Not that it really matters why he abandoned the avn and in the end its his choice what to do but to claim its because of a lack of support and using that to justify the devs ghosting is just laughable.

 

[Cabin Fever]

He has 222 subs while doing nothing at all for 2+ years, why do you assume his sub number at this point has any significance? How much subs did he had 3 years ago? Are people supposed to sub to him forever no matter how much hes ghosting his subs and no matter that there are no updates since forever?

Its the other way around, he is still making money despite putting no work in for ages, so the assumption that he could earn good money while putting in the work isnt wrong.

There is no way to look at this in any kind of positive way or excuse his buisness practice for the dev, at least not since he put it on steam and turned it into a buisness. He can of course still stop development for whatever reasons he want but to claim it was because of a lack of support is just ridiculous.

And even than he should have just said that its abandoned/on hold/whatever instead of ghosting his patreons and whatever it is hes doing at the moment (if he does anything) and all off this after a big accouncement how he is going to become a fulltime dev lol

I totally agree that Hopes should be more transparent with what's going on.

All I'm saying is that he was never making "plenty of money" to begin with.

And you are the one hinting at the lack of support being an excuse. I never said that, nor do I believe that's the case.

And maybe I'm mixing up devs, but didn't Hopes suspend the monthly sub fees, meaning, he's not earning anything on that front now?

 

[Krytax123]

I totally agree that Hopes should be more transparent with what's going on.

All I'm saying is that he was never making "plenty of money" to begin with.

And you are the one hinting at the lack of support being an excuse. I never said that, nor do I believe that's the case.

And maybe I'm mixing up devs, but didn't Hopes suspend the monthly sub fees, meaning, he's not earning anything on that front now?

Yeah sure if he deavtives the sub monthly, he isnt earning anything (is he really doing that every month tho?), anyway his patreon could be deleted at this point and it wouldnt change anything about the point. It did earned more money in the past and could have gotten even more with ongoing development.

i mean, why would they care about ppl that dont give them money? pretty sur they stopped because they wasn't making enouth money, no? i get that you are pissed tha the game will never be finished, as i am, but imo, you can't rly blame them if you didn't pay and juste pirated the game...

But form what i understand they went silence for year even for their buyers? well yeah that sucks

This was what got the discussion going, i never said it was your quote. But whatever, its not like any of it matters, hopes can do what he wants, i was just annoyed with putting the blame on the subs (or non-subs), i dont think hopes himself would do that either.

 

[Joshy92]

I think he paused in November but the last update post on Patreon before that was March or May. He might have been working on it in the months in-between who knows.

 

[AVNstory]

I don't think the dev is that busy that he can't just write a single sentence to let people know officially whether the game is abandoned or not. Anywhere whether in his patreon or discord, just to let people know whether it will eventually come or not at all.
It will take about 2-3 minutes I guess.

 

[Avaron1974]

Sadly I put this in the same box as a certain game being where it began and another game with the leaving of Summer.

All 3 are good games but have been in development for so long and made so little progress that the chances of ever seeing them complete are about as high as my chances of getting Eliza Dushku to be my personal pussy taster.

While I don't rate my chances of getting Dushku's head betwixt my thighs I also don't think anyone here really has the patience to wait 14-21 years to see then end of a visual novel.

Put into perspective. I was 19 when this was released into the world. I'm now closing on 30. If timing persists, closing on 40 by the end of season 2, 50 by season 3.....

It's sad, I love this game, i'd love nothing more that to see it completed. However i'm also cursed with common sense. It just doesn't seem likely at all.

I don't want to put a downer in the thread and it's a very rare moment when i'm serious about anything long enough to warrant a rational thought but people here are debating sub numbers and whether the dev is still working or not but ignoring anyting close to logic.

Doesn't matter if he's still working on it or not. The speed in which things happen here only show me it's a matter of time before he would give up.

While I would love nothing more than for Hopes to prove me wrong there is also the very arrogant sounding notion that I very rarely ever am wrong. Even on those very rare occasions I am, i'm also a women and blame other people for it, lolz, fuck you accountability.

 

[Rucandel_]

After Gracie got shot, the DeLuca members were not aware that their enemy also possessed ballistic missiles, which killed all their members including the MC. Yep, that is the ending.

 

[Daastaan007]

It’s really sad to see this game dead.

It was on my top 5 fav game list.
I will keep it's save files in my pc for a long time, let's see if it will back again.

 

[Aiden619]

I was really looking forward to the story progress with Isabella...Especially after the conversation they have about taking the relationship ahead...

 

[09kdate]

why abandoned？it was a shock to me when I heard the news.

 

[Crashbullet]

why abandoned？it was a shock to me when I heard the news.

With the connection, the game has been abandoned for more than a year and a half, and even in the "active" development phase, we received at best one update per year.
It is not clear what they are continuing to discuss here.

 

[dfdfgsa]

We just want to see them again.

 

[Johnny91]

We just want to see them again.

At this rate I no longer think this is going to happen but I might be wrong.
Unless the ones that have contact with Hope can get us any news. But at this moment I think they would also have their doubts.
Any news from Hope or he is silent and do you still have faith in him? this is actually a serious question, I just want to sense the mood

 

[sudisudimagi]

does the gallery cheat work?
its giving error

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/gallery/galleryImages.rpy", line 6, in script
init python:
File "game/gallery/galleryImages.rpy", line 6, in script
init python:
File "game/gallery/galleryImages.rpy", line 22, in <module>
SpecialRenders = ImageDatabase(["one_char", "two_char", "three_char", "several_char"])
File "game/gallery/galleryImages.rpy", line 10, in __init__
super(ImageDatabase, self).__init__(["special_render"], tag_list)
File "game/code/core/dynamic_database.rpy", line 128, in __init__
TypeError: unhashable type: 'RevertableList'

 

[Paradox004]

After Gracie got shot, the DeLuca members were not aware that their enemy also possessed ballistic missiles, which killed all their members including the MC. Yep, that is the ending.

RPGs are probably easier to get, and would do the job just fine...

 

[Ass Fan]

I will miss Luna, a very well-made character, my favorite along with Victoria. ♡

 

[Supreme Breeder]

This game has quite a strong yet dumb fanbase that kept on defending it's devs even after delays and delays over years.Too much trust in a game and dev where he clearly stated years ago that this game was merely a side project.

It was quite evident how things were going to turn out in the end and even if it does drop an update in future it still would end up getting abandoned again.

 

[Neik@]

That was very nice work dude, but how much time should we wait for new season ? Is it like mother and wife ?

 

[mruggeri2]

That was very nice work dude, but how much time should we wait for new season ? Is it like mother and wife ?

Don't get your hopes up, brother. It's been 1.5 years already and the dev went completely dark. Froze subs on patreon, don't answer messages, not a single dev update... This is most likely dead.

 

[Odin Eye Patch]

well crap i was looking to check up on the game coz this was a true gem back when it was still active but to hear that its dead in the water sad to hear