F'reals, tho... if Bo can ( and we know he can) create an entirely new floor complete with a new girl having a distinct fighting system in a month... and it looks like the floor he's working on is going to grow exponentially, there's 3 options: cut the floor short and use your ideas in the future, take a month off and generate a new floor from your fans' suggestions (which aren't lacking) or say "fuck 'em... I do what I want" and count on your lazy co-dev to produce.
I don't know either of their situations but unless you just plain lose interest and drop out with no notice, you ought to be invested in sharing your work with your audience, especially if you're a fetish producer. It's not like once they're done they'll be able to release the completed product for retail and then sit back and live off of residuals. Anyone who doesn't think it's stupid is going to get what they can while the getting's good. We're hunters.
It's going to be a grind and if the goal is to make a living doing what you love in a niche marketplace. All the income will result from projects in progress. Fetish enthusiasts will work hard to find pirating places like this when their interest is aroused... and with the social isolation involved, there's plenty of people more than willing to share what they've found or paid for just for positive feedback that doesn't make them feel like a secluded pervert.
As a former (and potentially future) fetish content producer, I networked. I gave away free shit, even to "rival" creators. I did it to grow interest, to remain linked into the overarching community and to tease my product. Bo (and Koda, if he's actually into this) are never going to be commercial big-name creators, unless they sell out, like James Cameron (he's one of us, BTW; he loves strong, sexy, powerful female leads but tries to hide it through ideological plot points... you can't fool me, Mr. Avatar director!) Unlike James Cameron, I'd find a mainstream job too boring AF so it was always a side-thing. Between 2004-2009 ( with a lot of amateur networking to start from) I grew my base by 1000% (almost a living wage for what was basically a hobby) (actually, about 2000% considering that my webhosting partner got 50%) and it wasn't slowing when I finally burned myself out I expect it'd take at least as long to re-establish myself. Thankfully, my day-job is still lucrative and fulfilling.
W/E, the point is that in a non-mainstream industry, you're only as relevant as you make yourself. It takes a significant effort to establish yourself amongst a fanbase which could easily consist primarily of people going through an exploratory phase. The clout you lose with inactivity is almost as exponential as the growth you gain with reliable productivity.
To me, Koda seems indefensibly lazy. Bo might want to get a new partner or take shit back into his own hands if he isn't burned out... or just depart from the scene completely if he is. Seems really fucking weird that from the discord leaks, Bo doesn't seem to have direct comms from the guy he relies on to keep the product relevant while he expands his skillset and follows his muse.
TLDR version: My entire life story can be summed up as me being an entitled F95 douchebag.
I don't know either of their situations but unless you just plain lose interest and drop out with no notice, you ought to be invested in sharing your work with your audience, especially if you're a fetish producer. It's not like once they're done they'll be able to release the completed product for retail and then sit back and live off of residuals. Anyone who doesn't think it's stupid is going to get what they can while the getting's good. We're hunters.
It's going to be a grind and if the goal is to make a living doing what you love in a niche marketplace. All the income will result from projects in progress. Fetish enthusiasts will work hard to find pirating places like this when their interest is aroused... and with the social isolation involved, there's plenty of people more than willing to share what they've found or paid for just for positive feedback that doesn't make them feel like a secluded pervert.
As a former (and potentially future) fetish content producer, I networked. I gave away free shit, even to "rival" creators. I did it to grow interest, to remain linked into the overarching community and to tease my product. Bo (and Koda, if he's actually into this) are never going to be commercial big-name creators, unless they sell out, like James Cameron (he's one of us, BTW; he loves strong, sexy, powerful female leads but tries to hide it through ideological plot points... you can't fool me, Mr. Avatar director!) Unlike James Cameron, I'd find a mainstream job too boring AF so it was always a side-thing. Between 2004-2009 ( with a lot of amateur networking to start from) I grew my base by 1000% (almost a living wage for what was basically a hobby) (actually, about 2000% considering that my webhosting partner got 50%) and it wasn't slowing when I finally burned myself out I expect it'd take at least as long to re-establish myself. Thankfully, my day-job is still lucrative and fulfilling.
W/E, the point is that in a non-mainstream industry, you're only as relevant as you make yourself. It takes a significant effort to establish yourself amongst a fanbase which could easily consist primarily of people going through an exploratory phase. The clout you lose with inactivity is almost as exponential as the growth you gain with reliable productivity.
To me, Koda seems indefensibly lazy. Bo might want to get a new partner or take shit back into his own hands if he isn't burned out... or just depart from the scene completely if he is. Seems really fucking weird that from the discord leaks, Bo doesn't seem to have direct comms from the guy he relies on to keep the product relevant while he expands his skillset and follows his muse.
TLDR version: My entire life story can be summed up as me being an entitled F95 douchebag.
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