I asked this developer when they were going to fix the bug in Melissa’s scene in Episode 3, and they told me there was never a bug in the first place—that the problem was on my end. Then they went on to talk about DOM points and even called it a conspiracy theory.
That scene was supposed to be viewable only when the DOM points were 6 or higher, so I made sure to play with DOM points set to 6 or above. Even then, the error still occurred:
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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
File "game/seasonthree.rpy", line 643, in script
scene qr086
File "renpy/common/000window.rpy", line 119, in _window_auto_callback
_window_hide(auto=True)
File "renpy/common/000window.rpy", line 104, in _window_hide
renpy.with_statement(trans)
File "game/achievements .rpy", line 9, in execute
File "game/achievements .rpy", line 9, in execute
File "game/achievements .rpy", line 14, in execute
Exception: DynamicImage '': could not find image. ('domdaddy2')
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That’s what happened.
This developer’s mindset seems a bit off. It’s true that the price of this game is ridiculously high compared to other games of similar content. But he uses the excuse that, as a father of two children, he needs to support his family. Do other developers not have families? Are they not breadwinners? Don’t they have kids? Of course they do. Everyone else is in the same situation.
The excuse this developer gives is like an apple seller saying, “I have two kids to feed, so I’m going to charge $100 per apple.”
Whether he has two kids or three is his personal business, but there is such a thing as a reasonable consumer price. Setting an absurd price based on personal circumstances is wrong—and yet he refuses to accept that.
At the very least, knowing all this, I still bought every single game this developer released on Steam to support him. And yet, his attitude makes me regret buying his games with good intentions.