Antwit

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Bad News to all users of Nopy.

I found this:

Nopy started as a side project in June 2017, with the goal of creating a sustainable, ad free, privacy focused, full speed file hosting service. Despite some issues here and there, we're incredibly proud to say that we were successful for these past 4 years. We never imagined this weekend project would grow to serve 10s of millions of files and over 15 petabytes of bandwidth every month. Even more astounding is the level of support nopy received from the userbase, fueling our growth and allowing us to maintain a high level 100% community driven service.

However, unfortunately we are now no longer able to continue operating, due to issues with payment processors. We use Patreon and Buymeacoffee for collecting donations, who in turn use Paypal, Stripe, and Payoneer for payouts. Stripe payouts are only available in a limited number of countries. Our PayPal account was abruptly banned last year with no explanation or option to appeal. Finally, we started having issues with Payoneer 3 months ago, with severe delays in reissuing an expired debit card, and suddenly a couple of weeks ago they completely blocked our account, again with no explanation other than "it's under review", and no further response.

This means, as of now, we have lost all ability to receive payouts from our fundraising platforms, so are unable to continue paying the $6000 server bills. We've looked at other options like other crowdfunding platforms (the majority use Stripe/Paypal/Payoneer), accepting credit card donations directly (ideally need a legal entity in US/EU for VISA/MasterCard), crypto (not widespread enough/sustainable), registering as an LLC in US or EU (having to deal with sales tax/VAT/international tax law/IRS/etc), and ultimately we've come to the conclusion that there is no realistically viable alternative at the moment. Nor do we want to sell or transfer ownership of nopy just to have it plastered in ads, completely undermining the very reason why nopy was created in the first place.

It's impossible for us to put into words how disappointed we are that nopy has come to an end, especially as it is due to third party payment processors, rather than issues with the service itself or a lack of support from our userbase. We will pause the Patreon campaign, and keep the code, database, and files backed up. If we are able to make a come back in the future, then we certainly will. Those with accounts are still able to login and delete files from the backup if you so wish. The code is unlikely to be open sourced, as things would need to be tidied up quite a bit, but we'll see.

We'd like to give a massive thanks to all the fantastic people who supported nopy throughout the years, nopy wouldn't have lasted more than 6 months without your generosity. Additionally, a final thanks to those who offered their help, expertise, advice and support out of the kindness of their hearts (especially PixelRepublic, Ryahn, and jimmy).
 

Antwit

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Did the devs primarily focus on the Halloween update, or is there a big update coming soon?
It comes out when it is ready. (new release)

The Halloween Special was an intermezzo to shorten up time for waiting.

Earlier in this thread you could read there is no promissed day for 12.0beta release but Altos is hoping to do it at a date near years ending 2021 or in January 2022.

We all hoping we´ll all get a fine present from Santa at Christmas. ;)
 

jaytee01

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This is a little troll, who seems to have a history of making similar remarks about... quite a few other games.
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Now, I don’t normally respond to trolls, but for some reason I found this one particularly upsetting. And undeserving. So I think it deserves a firm response.

In the last year, there have been 3 new releases of the main game (0.9, 0.10 and 0.11) and 2 holiday specials – Christmas 2020 and Halloween 2021. In the last year, the following content has been added:

Main Changes, Nov 2020 to Oct 2021
  • New Main Quest: Leave No Girl’s Behind
  • New Student Quests: The Reluctant Rebel, The Accidental Nudist (including sex scene with Sally), and The Hostess with Mostess (including locker room punishment scene, date with Cassandra and Debbie/Cass lesbian scene).
  • Updated Student Quest: The Headmaster’s Pet (including Rachel/Debbie threesome)
  • Staff Quest: Bedroom Scene with Miss Chang
  • New Rules: Topless Punishment, Body Search
  • New locations: swimming pool, canteen
  • Body search scenes for the Twins, Lucy, Liz, Nina (including Nina's Secret Possession event), Emily, Alice and Priti
  • Class and Public punishments for Priti, Faye, Liz and Cassandra
  • Special Scene: outdoor nude punishment for the Twins
  • Class events: Friday Pop Quiz, Sex Ed class, Olivia's first class, Liz flashes her pussy, Liz's distracting thoughts, good girl Priti, bad girl Priti and the Forgetful Faye.
  • Sporting Events: 4 x Match Events: The Third and Forth Matches, Charlotte’s Team Play Bottomless, April’s Team Play Bottomless
  • Sporting Events: 4 x Training Events: Cardio, Cardio, Cardio, Bouncing Girls, Doing the Splits and Work those Glutes
  • Sporting Events: 3 x Swimming Events: The First Swimming Lesson, Swimming Lengths, The Twins Poolside Punishment.
  • Patrol Events: Hot Girls, Ice Lollies, Naked Mole Rat, Windy Way 2, and Group Project 2.
  • School Event: Sex Scene with Amy in the Girls’ Locker Room
  • Weekend Patrol events: Inappropriate Clothing 2, Debbie & Cass Playing Music 2 and The Sprinklers.
  • Spying Events: I am not a Nudist, Emily's Juicy Gossip, Nina’s Secret Crush
  • Paperwork events: Alice Needs Tutoring, Alice Offers a Deal, the Great Underwear Shortage, and Watching Porn
  • Office Events: The Benefits of Nudism, Miss Swallows desperation , Olivia's Arrival, Jasmine’s Arrival, The New Dinner Lady and Samantha’s Reaction.
  • Home Events: 3x Maid events (Lucy Needs a Shower, Lucy’s Extra Services and Lucy Lends a Hand), and the new dominant vs kindness paths.
  • TV Events: 5 x Celebrity Love Archipelago episodes
  • Misc Scenes: Ada's Photos, Miss Changs's Spyware
  • Misc Gameplay/UI: Updated Event Log and new Cheat menu options
  • New Bonus Games: Christmas Eve 2020, Halloween 2021. (And Halloween 2020 and Christmas Eve 2020 added to the main game).

People can make up their own mind, but I certainly wouldn’t call this list a sign of a developer who is slowing down or milking his patreons. So yeah, I'm in firm agreement with ramiurga:


Well said! :love:
One more in the agreed pile.
 
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Cartageno

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Is that Colgate University North Texas???? that would better the S.L.A.G tee shirts..............
Unfortunately it is Colgate University, Hamilton, Madison County, New York.

But it will only be so long until "Cuhmcny" becomes a bad word, and theeeeeeeeeen we got it ;)
 
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Regardie

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There used to be a website for the Central University of New Town. It can only be seen at the wayback machine right now.



On Twitter, Truthgirl thinks they will blame her for the site going down.
 

Pedro69

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Assuming makes an ass off or u and ming? But who the fuck is ming?

You know what assuming does, it makes an ass out of you. But saying that would be "trolling" right?
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drea2

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In that case it seems to me like you don't understand how Patreon works. You are not paying for a product, you are paying to support the creator. If you don't like what is offered in return, that is fine, you show that by not supporting them anymore or lowering your pledge, not by being an ass and assuming that the developer is just milking their patrons.
It's the thory. In practice you pay to have the monthly content hidden behind a paywall.
It would be to support if the work was free from the start, which isn't the case.
 

ramiurga

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My Halloween? I mean, just to have been experienced the scene with Pretty showing her ta..., with PRI..., with Priti shaking her... (hick).. This was the Best Hallowen EVER! :love:
 
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Valamyr

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Trying to download this from any other file site is just... pain.
We'll have to pray that another service steps up. In the meantime, life will be pain.

> JDownloader 2

I just tried this out of curiosity. Without proxies for now, just to see how much faster it would be to download 0.11 from the three sources simultaneously. I must be using it wrong because it was somehow slower than a straight up download from Gofile in Firefox. Basically 300KBs instead of 700KBs. Damn I will miss Nopy.
 
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It's the thory. In practice you pay to have the monthly content hidden behind a paywall.
It would be to support if the work was free from the start, which isn't the case.
That's case by case. It's perfectly possible for a content creator to park everything there without a paywall and just operate the place like a tip jar, and I've seen that done. Traditionally, artists with patrons would offer their biggest benefactors bonuses such as first refusal on purchasing of a new piece which would equate to paywalling store access by today's standards I guess. I've seen some creators do something similar on Patreon actually, by granting access to purchasing limited merch such as artbooks and prints before they go public... if they don't sell out before then.

The sad fact of the matter is that people sub on Patreon with expectations without actually looking into what they're being offered, and then they get upset when the expectations they've made aren't met.
Game development is generally a very slow process, especially when you want a quality product. It's not like a skilled digital artist who can pump out 1 or 2 pieces per week and simultaneously maybe even produce variants of their work or a writer who can just dump their latest fan fiction document into a post every time they finish a chapter, art and writing and coding and UX design and in the case of working with 3D even virtual cinematography skills such as lighting and shot composition etc. all come into play with these kinds of projects. Anyone expecting speedy releases on the regular in exchange for their money probably shouldn't even consider supporting a game project that's a work in progress.
 
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