The extract information machine has anyway a display where it says exactly how much the captive's intelligence/willpower should be before working. Just keep brainwashing until each string on the display becomes green
"Hi! That's one of the reasons why I usually try not to put even approximate dates The plan was to release a preview of the .04 version last month, but alas it has come out only now
So, alpha 04 is basically just a few new (?) sliders for the body mod machine, and an added inconvenience to get said machine/its materials....And it took this long?
Yes, because its a preview so there might be more to it than being show at this time.
Ah, fair. Lets see hwere it goes from here on...In the next month or two? -_-
So is everyone else, dude. What makes this one any diffrent for everyone else that you dont have trust for?
Oh yeah. Wonder why that is...
I'm talking as someone who spent some months supporting this game in the past. This site is filled with abandoned project and many of them had patreon, subscribestar, whatever and the money just ended up wasted on unfinished products. This creates an aura of mistrust, and it's logical that people get impatient easily at this point. Either many of these creators are just scammers, or are being irresponsable and don't know how to handle money and their project. If creators ask for money, they have the responsability of being clear about their situation and the expectations people should have about their project, set a "expect an update around every month/2 moths/half a year" and the like. I can understand a "I had a terrible accident in my life, please don't expect much until next year". But if that happens, get ready to lose subsrcibers in the meantime, and try to get your life back together so that you can actually provide something for the next year. And if someone thinks their personal life doesn't allow them to treat working on a porn game paid by patreon as a work of some sorts, they shouldn't ask for money at all.
There were lots of updates and roadmaps between the last update and this one. Maybe it could be that his is just a preview that will be followed by a massive update. But I'm sure how much that's the case.
I've been following this project since it started and your comment made me consider something I hadn't previously regarding this dev.. Part of the reason I was so eager to support his project was because of the roadmap he had, which sadly hasn't been updated since somewhere between 0.2 and 0.3.
And just like everything else, it too got unnecessarily overcomplicated for its own sake. Promises of ambitions that could even be too much for some of the more competent/organized dev teams to feasibly handle, let alone a single person or a handful of "part-timers" whom; just like everyone else, had other shit to mind about and take care of as well.
Crowdfunding tends to cause overreactions. If hobbyists all did their projects on their own dime and then released them when ready, we wouldn't be seeing such widespread anger and distrust. But everyone knows that most people aren't honest enough to pay for a final product anyway, so here we are.
I'm not convinced this is such a problem as I used to think in the past. Looking around Patreons I've found easily project reaching 500 or 1k per month, and it's not uncommon to get above that. There was this Rack 2 (perhaps the biggest case of abandoned patreon project that caused outrage) that was collecting a whopping 20k for some time. Summertime Saga also reaches that amount, and it's not even a paid game (the only thing is that non-subscribers have to wait 24 hours, it's a moot point). The amount of piracy, while incalculable, I don't think is seriously hurting the business. Not to mention that some pirates are those who if can't pirate something, they give up and don't even buy it.
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