I am being serious, end Goal is full neutral at by end of this year. The other routes are t as hard as others may think because of set ups for those are already in place. At the moment he is writing and doing renders to get the main part of the game complete which is just about done. Once that is done he can add in the filler parts for each route. I am certain he is saving key points that need more or less branching per route so that way it is easier to handle. Also who knows, he might request more help in the future too. Life happens lol.
Either way in my simple opinion, making renders are always easy for any game, writing is the hardest especially when 1) not your native language and 2) you want to make sure it gets the people playing the game for the actual story plot and not just a lewd sex scene fap session involved and excited.
Oh my, shall I remind you then, that the planned release date for the next update was nearly
six months ago, listen, I'm not asking you to drop your hopes, or believe is gonna happen, but from that to say is gonna happen this year, that's a really long stretch.
Here, let me put it in perspective, of the 20+ girls that have been hinted the MC will end up having:
Only 3 are "done", as in a proper active sexual relationship, Asuka, Sheila, and Minami.
Other 4 had had casual encounters with the MC, Catherine, Helen, and Yuna.
6 are currently on the edge (bj's, exposure, but nothing more), Brooke, Elizabeth, Isabela, Maki, Rikuna, Yoko
The remaining ones:
Tomoe you've fucked, but she didn't know it was you.
You "handled" Kaori a pair of times, but she was asleep.
Inori has some romantic interest in you, but there has been nothing on that front.
Jira just "knows" about you.
Haruka hasn't even had a proper introduction beyond the intro sequence and that random bathroom scene with Yoko.
Keiko, you just established some connection with her.
Nanali just had some words of thanks about her brother.
Kayane, Shirohime, Motoko, and Rachel, don't count, since it has been clearly stated these girls are pretty much end game stuff.
I can't talk about Yukiko, because is unclear if she's included because of
reasons, but even without her and the end game gals, the plot still has to even develop on the story and motives for more than half the female cast.
It is unreasonable to believe, with the current peace of things, to expect this game to have it's main route completed withing the next year, let alone a second route as well, even if he were to
really up his game and start releasing monthly, whilst somehow holding the same quality, the best I can see him accomplishing is approaching main route's ending by this year's end.
Again, I'm not saying this is abandoned or the game is bad, I wan't this game, I like the story and characters, almost
nobody complains about that.
I can't remember which of the
two updates of 2019 was, but one of those claimed that the end Goal was to have the main route done by the end of 2019, a year has passed, and the game's not even close to that for what I gatter.
I've got you brother, I'm not good with names and when an update takes that long to be released, I tend to forget (besides obvious ones like my girl Helen)
To think my image is still around XD, I'm tempted to make one explaining the plot and the relationships now.
Valid point on the " Compare this to other solo projects outside the hentai community, where some single devs are programming complete systems with balancing and all in the same time without any patreon. " . The updates being slow might be because he cant finish or continue the story properly as he'd want. Might be in a slump, so without passion, there cant be a game.
"The long surpassed any AAA tier game" argument is not valid imo, since thats what the patreon point is. Its not specifically about the value of something, its about wanting to support a creator. You arent paying for the product, you are paying for the development of the creator.
since irphaeus made a update on 14.02 on his patreon, means that he is getting an update ready soon I'd guess. Cant read the full content since i myself am not a patreon (anymore).
Two things, the reason for people's complaints is not because he's late, but because he keeps on promising on a release date, just to postpone it at the very end, for another month, if you are setting a deadline is because you're fairly certain you will meet that, and dude's been doing this for nearly 8 months now. If he's in a slump or whatever, he should just come clean about it, people can be surprisingly understanding you know?
Secondly, you're halfway right with the idea of Patreon there, yes, you're not paying for a finished product or one at all, you are financing a person so they have enough resources to keep doing what they are doing, in short,
you're making an investment, nobody gives money away just to see it wasted, is reasonable to expect some form of return, in this case, in the form of more stuff made by that person because you like it, the argument that the comment you're responding to is making is that is surprising that so many people still keep their support despite the clear hints at the mismanagement they have given him.
Lastly, dude's been making Patreon updates once a month at least, so him posting something is not guarantee that a game update is upon us, despite how much I want it to be.
