VN Ren'Py Unleashed [v0.6.5b] [CarbonBlue]

[Idontplay]

Anyway is funny to see how many "sane persons" are willing to criticize CarbonBlue, because he is doing exactly what he stated he would have done, misleading us, lie to us and maybe trolling us in this forum is also part of the game; who kows?

 

[Mortarion]

A minority of patrons, yes. The issue is how many of the people become patrons. After several months of development (and timely updates) in the early part of this game, I had mostly F95zone people as patrons. Within a couple days of the game being put up on some website I had never heard of (I didn't post it), my Patreon doubled. Again, that's not to diminish F95; it's just in my experience and through the analytics I have installed on my Patreon, it appears to me that other sites have a bigger impact on actual conversion to paying Patron.

I think you miss a crucial point here. The hard thing is not only get the patreons, the even bigger task is to hold them.
Do you honestly think that with this perfomance as a developer your patreon count starts to rise, or will not nimble away?

There where studys that a company needs one satisfied customer to get two new customers - unfortunately, the reverse conclusion cannot be applied here, but an unsatisfied customer scares off eleven potential customers.
And this was a while back. Taken internet culture into consideration it may be way more now.
If we/you take a little bit effort into backtracking your posts alone here...
... well, you have to work on your social skills.
Pulling of such a behaviour on a behemonth of users like F95 is kinda...
... stupid?

It makes no diffrence on which (in)famous site - the one whose name we/you are not allowed to know/say. Voldmort.com? - you put the game or if you get your income from there. Even the users of this place are not stupid and for sure no fools, who have nothing to give away. Especially when the economy in the world goes down.

You don't have proofen as an reliable dev, thats nothing you can talk away or kid on yourself about it.

All your actions you have pulled off will be a huge burden for you in the future. I will even say that you - as a dev - are done. Even when you release the next updates super reliable on point over the next years - you reputation is gone to hell, even after a little delay the voices will rise again.

Take a look at Oceans games Summer's Gone and Where it all Begun. Yes, there is a rework going on. Yes, there where delays. But! When the updates came out, Ocean has deliverd, hard - really chunky updates with top notch rendes and good writing.

If we take a sneak peak at your game:
The last release from Unleashed lies now over year back in the past, and this update was...
... well, how could I point it out kindly...
... underwhelming?

I'm not even mad about you, why should I? I'm no patreon after all, I'm just disapointed, disapointed about the game and a dev that had great potential and decides to drive all his work with full acceleration in the next dead end against the wall.

 

[CarbonBlue]

lol "You're done!"

Literally net gain of patrons this month.

This is the hobbyist pornographic visual novel business. Decent updates in a decent timeframe and patrons go up. Take too long on the updates and patrons go down. It ain't rocket science. And holy shit some of you guys are way too obsessed with Patreon. And you're making the mistake of believing that F95 is a monolith and everyone thinks the same. The vast number of people want a good VN with hot chicks they can fap to. All this posting on the forum is just bullshit extra that doesn't matter.

 

[Fap2766]

lol "You're done!"

Literally net gain of patrons this month.

The vast number of people want a good VN with hot chicks they can fap to.

True. So, seeing as you aren't actually making a VN, what other ones would you recommend?

On the Patreon numbers, you know we can actually see them, right? Net gain? Yeah, right. Don't you feel even slightly guilty about providing a handful of renders over 12 months in return for over $6000 (but no VN)?

I used to support you but your attitude stinks. What once was a good idea and a well respected VN has dissolved into a joke. You just bare faced lied again and again about progress and don't give a shit.

 

[hydrang3a]

See this is what I'm talking about. Does it not occur at all to you that I didn't make that meme? Because I didn't. I saw it on Reddit and I copied and pasted it in my discord. Because it's funny.

That's fair, I'm not on the discord, and you posting it with no additional comment made it look like you were making fun of yourself. Comment retracted.

As for the "it doesn't hurt me waaa" I only say that because you and a few others seem awfully insistent on bitching over and over...

It's one of my first times commenting not only in F95, but on Unleashed specifically. I've just been lurking and reading the same interactions over and over again. It isn't "bitching", it's asking you to prove that you did as you said. Simple as that.

For all I care, you can take 3 years to develop one frame - only if you say so. The core problem people have is the lying. The empty promises for updates that never come.

The additional insults just make people angrier. You're complaining about people simply calling your bluff.

Repeating yourself, getting all outraged over me sharing memes and making up this story that "holy shit he made a meme!" is kinda psychotic behavior.

I see it 2 ways:
1. Shut the fuck up while I work and do my thing. Doing so won't affect development in the least.
2. Continue to go psycho. Doing so won't affect development in the least.

Your choice.

My man, I'm just here trying to be realistic. I simply tried to summarize what was going on and give you advice on how to get where you want. But like many before me, I was unsuccessful, all I did in your eyes was "bitch".

So good luck, hope you can remove your tin foil hat and see that when everyone else is against you, maybe its a sign to stop and rethink ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[J.R.]

Well, actually not sure what to think about the whole mess here.
But it seems it's better to move on, sad about the game.
Good luck.

 

[CarbonBlue]

On the Patreon numbers, you know we can actually see them, right? Net gain? Yeah, right.

Direct from Patreon itself. It's not much, but yeah, right, it's a net gain, as I said. I'm late with an update; I'm not some evil liar. But people like you get so angry with the former that you develop a hatred that justifies belief in the latter. Maybe chill a little? Or work yourself into a lather believing I kick puppies and lick ice cream in the store and put it back, whatever's fun for you.

 

[Billdemort]

Not quite true. At least for my experience - obviously it got its start on F95 as this is where I got my start figuring out how to make a VN. But it didn't take long for other sources to take over on Patreon. I know other devs have the same experience, where F95 quickly becomes a minority of patrons. That's not to say F95 isn't significant, but that people might be surprised by the significance of other sites and sources.

That said, I plan to get things back on track here - I don't mean with just this update. The honest truth here is this update is going to disappoint anyone here who has been complaining. It'll have taken more than a year to come out and there is not a year's worth of work into it, because I've simply not had the time.

My hope is that people can take a look at the update and simply judge whether their time with it is fun or not. Did it make them laugh. Did it confuse them in an entertaining way. Did it make them really, really want to jump in the girls' pants. If it did that, I'm happy.

Then if I put the next update out in a timely manner and make that update similarly fun, at that point I hope people might consider supporting me again (or anew).

So, until that point, I guess you guys can keep bitching if you want. You should probably know that it won't affect me, but I guess it could be cathartic? I dunno. Honestly I think the level of hatred from some of you is pretty damn funny. But then as you should know, I have a dark sense of humor.

In the latter half of this post you've basically stated exactly what i'm doing haha. I love this game, and its sense of humor, and I really hope it will continue. I know, based on previous patreon updates, that you haven't had much time to work on it, and I'll be up-front and honest: this is exactly why i stopped supporting on patreon. It's not because i'm upset with you or the game, nor am i disappointed in the content we *have* received... I stopped simply because supply is not matching demand. I'm holding no ill will or judgements, simply waiting for the supply to return before i will consider returning the support. I hope all is well with you and your family, and I look forward to the next update.

 

[CarbonBlue]

In the latter half of this post you've basically stated exactly what i'm doing haha. I love this game, and its sense of humor, and I really hope it will continue. I know, based on previous patreon updates, that you haven't had much time to work on it, and I'll be up-front and honest: this is exactly why i stopped supporting on patreon. It's not because i'm upset with you or the game, nor am i disappointed in the content we *have* received... I stopped simply because supply is not matching demand. I'm holding no ill will or judgements, simply waiting for the supply to return before i will consider returning the support. I hope all is well with you and your family, and I look forward to the next update.

You go straight to hell with your reasonableness! There's no room for that around here!

Thank you for this post, btw. It's good to see. Please know that I don't blame anyone for leaving my Patreon. I'm just thankful that I have and have had so many wonderful contributors.

 

[Mortarion]

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Direct from Patreon itself. It's not much, but yeah, right, it's a net gain, as I said. I'm late with an update; I'm not some evil liar. But people like you get so angry with the former that you develop a hatred that justifies belief in the latter. Maybe chill a little? Or work yourself into a lather believing I kick puppies and lick ice cream in the store and put it back, whatever's fun for you.

So much wow.

Same data, fresh from your patreon.



Impressive how much your patreon count is rising.

You got two patreons in the last month, cool job dude, and how much have you lost over the last year?

As I said in my last post, you just try to talk away that you have failed. But hey, I don't have to deal with the failure you have gotten yourself in.

 

[dietmountaindew]

"Oh boy, I can't wait to see what Carbon has been up to this past year"

*checks thread*

Damn. Lmao.

 

[CarbonBlue]

As I said in my last post, you just try to talk away that you have failed. But hey, I don't have to deal with the failure you have gotten yourself in.

Nope. That's not how it works. I am the one who gets to decide if I'm a failure or not. You're just some rando hater screaming into the void because you're so angry that you can't play my game in a timely fashion. Normally I wouldn't respond to such entitled hatred, but I'll be happy to set the record straight on this for anyone who's reading (since I know you're a lost cause).

If I were to abandon Unleashed at this very minute, if I were to die today, if my Patreon were to drop to $0, this has not been a failure.

My VN, even in its early state, has entertained tens of thousands of people. I've made people laugh. I've made them fall in love with a psychotic redhead who wants to cut off their dicks. I've made some of them go through every render to see if there are secrets they've missed (and there are). I've made some of the most real characters with some of the best dialogue that you will find in any Visual Novel. That's not to brag; that's not to say I'm the best or anything - just that I'm happy with things so far. I wish I were producing things faster, but overall I'm a pretty happy go lucky dude and I'm satisfied.

On top of that, here's a direct quote from a developer who answered the question of what game inspired him to become a creator:

there was one game in particular that had a big impact on me: Unleashed from @CarbonBlue , in fact I can tell you exactly in which scene my brain clicked and I said "fuck, I want to do something like this!", it was the night of the storm, with thunder and the room lit up with lightning. That's when I realized that there is room for art in an adult game and the possibilities are endless.

After someone says something like that, do you think I'd ever consider that my VN is a failure? I've literally inspired people to create their own stories. Do you know how awesome that is? Probably not, since you're not a creator.

The only way that Unleashed becomes a failure is if I were to compromise to appease anyone other than myself. I'm thoroughly enjoying making this VN and I'm pretty damn happy with it. I'm sorry if it hurts anyone's feelings, but that's what really matters here.

 

[Fap2766]

The only way that Unleashed becomes a failure is if I were to compromise to appease anyone other than myself. I'm thoroughly enjoying making this VN and I'm pretty damn happy with it. I'm sorry if it hurts anyone's feelings, but that's what really matters here.

You aren't getting this, are you? I don't think anyone has hurt feelings! It's the fact you are a liar and are taking money from people who expect you to live up to your word. If you had said "it will be over a year till the next update" or "I'll update when I feel like it", people can make the choice whether to support you or not.

Saying "the update will be out in a few weeks", knowing that is a complete lie, is despicable. I joined your Patreon based on your (what I know now as) lies.

No doubt you can sleep very soundly at night knowing you are ripping people off but that says more about you than a VN ever will do. There are many genuinely talented devs who post on here that don't feel the need to take money under false pretences on Patreon/Subscribestar etc.

Oh well. Karma will catch up with you eventually.

 

[Deleted member 207916]

The only way that Unleashed becomes a failure is if I were to compromise to appease anyone other than myself. I'm thoroughly enjoying making this VN and I'm pretty damn happy with it. I'm sorry if it hurts anyone's feelings, but that's what really matters here.

I'm sorry but your game is a failour not because you don't want to compromise but because you don't move story forward, updates are to small, oftenly takes around year to develop with zero content. If real life impacted you, unabled you to focus some of your time to your game then why did you collect al the money from patreon? RedDust, developer of Three Rules of Life, paused every month (even till this day) until he delivers next update by his own words. But action speaks louder and many of his patreons confirmed that RD didn't collect. You on the other hand continued to collect for about a year money from your supporters knowing that you won't deliver and under false advertisement. And even when you delievered an update it whas to small like 5 maybe 10 mins. I feel that i should thank you because thanks to your actions this game will die quickly.

 

[CarbonBlue]

If you're gonna call me or my game a failure, please at least learn how to spell failure. But I'm finally putting the haters, the facepalmers, etc on ignore. This is enough of this stupid banter.

If any of you who aren't hateful have something to say I'll be around somewhat to reply if you need one, but probably not much until the update's out. Happy Easter!

 

[alextg1]

If you're gonna call me or my game a failure, please at least learn how to spell failure. But I'm finally putting the haters, the facepalmers, etc on ignore. This is enough of this stupid banter.

If any of you who aren't hateful have something to say I'll be around somewhat to reply if you need one, but probably not much until the update's out. Happy Easter!

Ok dude. What happens, happens. You do you. Good luck!

 

[Joshy92]

Shannon is one of my favourite characters in any visual novel on this site (Probably just behind Maya From being a dik & Emma from Hillside)
the other girls are cool too but compared to Shannon there is no contest lol.

 

[Jacowboy]

Shannon is one of my favourite characters in any visual novel on this site (Probably just behind Maya From being a dik & Emma from Hillside)
the other girls are cool too but compared to Shannon there is no contest lol.

Sooo... Maya and CP bait... wow yeah great taste you got there champ!

After someone says something like that, do you think I'd ever consider that my VN is a failure? I've literally inspired people to create their own stories. Do you know how awesome that is? Probably not, since you're not a creator.

Damn, and humble too...

I've made some of the most real characters with some of the best dialogue that you will find in any Visual Novel.

rofl... yeeeeeeeea sure...

 

[Joshy92]

Sooo... Maya and CP bait... wow yeah great taste you got there champ!



Damn, and humble too...



rofl... yeeeeeeeea sure...

I do have great taste thank you Oh and why bother coming into this thread if all you are going to do is be a fucking arsehole

 

[Jacowboy]

I do have great taste thank you Oh and why bother coming into this thread if all you are going to do is be a fucking arsehole

meh, I was just checking the status so I can update my rating list... imagine my surprise! but you're right, no point wasting my time in low-tier abandonware... I'll see myself out, cheers!