tanstaafl
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I'm going to go with 'artist quit'.
We never left. We evolved.
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suprisedcrankyface
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Geigi
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They do, you just need to censor explicit preview images.
Hey, we'd like to make some clarifications about the current state of the project and address some of the comments that we, honestly, expected to receive.
First, we are not other devs, or stealing it, or some devs that separated or any other variation. We are still the same team that created the first idea for Lost Elite (previously Lust Elite).
That takes us to the second point, the story has not changed in its core. It’s still a FemMC thriller-erotic, with the same lore that we envisioned originally. But there have been rewrites, to integrate both stories and not be as ambitious as we wanted it to be with the original double project. This is due that we severely miscalculated our original budgets/timings, and we had to learn that the hard way.
So talking about budgets, as Count Morado said we tried to make it affordable (specially on Kickstarter), this is/was the first real professional project for most of us and we missed the marks in the budgets and revenue, and that’s why the project has been reworked or paused a couple of times. We have to eat and pay the bills, and we just didn’t want to abandon it completely or see any member of the team gone; but also not be a greedy dev team that has nothing else under their belt to show.
We’d also like to address the team comments. As already mentioned, the original creators are still on the team and directing the project. And no, we haven’t got rid of our artist (actually, we got an extra one), or substituted it for AI. But we’ll be perfectly clear since we don’t want to either lie or make anyone feel scammed. We do use AI enhancements (such as the ones currently present in Photoshop for example) and we have created our OWN Lora with OUR art to try to streamline the production process and have better time/budget management. All our art is worked on, controlled and approved by our artists and there’s 0 content that is purely AI generated. We are not replacing them, we are trying to make it easier with the tools we have currently available.
That said, we understand the view some people have on the current use of AI and we actually agree with some of it, especially regarding regulations of use. So if you don’t want to support us, we understand and we hope that some day we can do something that might better appeal to you. But the original art was completely unsustainable from a budget point of view and honestly, if you haven’t played the Beta you haven´t seen much of the new one. So maybe give us a chance and make up your own mind, if you still don’t like it we’ll take the L and try to do better.
Finally to all this rambling, about the old thread, that’s on me, my bad (the person that runs the account and currently typing way too much) I’m having some trouble getting used to how F95 works and retrieving the old thread properly, so apologies and I’ll try to figure it out.
If you got all the way down here, thank you and hopefully this has shed some light about the possible doubts regarding Lost Elite. We’ll keep the communication up and answer anything else that might come up.
First, we are not other devs, or stealing it, or some devs that separated or any other variation. We are still the same team that created the first idea for Lost Elite (previously Lust Elite).
That takes us to the second point, the story has not changed in its core. It’s still a FemMC thriller-erotic, with the same lore that we envisioned originally. But there have been rewrites, to integrate both stories and not be as ambitious as we wanted it to be with the original double project. This is due that we severely miscalculated our original budgets/timings, and we had to learn that the hard way.
So talking about budgets, as Count Morado said we tried to make it affordable (specially on Kickstarter), this is/was the first real professional project for most of us and we missed the marks in the budgets and revenue, and that’s why the project has been reworked or paused a couple of times. We have to eat and pay the bills, and we just didn’t want to abandon it completely or see any member of the team gone; but also not be a greedy dev team that has nothing else under their belt to show.
We’d also like to address the team comments. As already mentioned, the original creators are still on the team and directing the project. And no, we haven’t got rid of our artist (actually, we got an extra one), or substituted it for AI. But we’ll be perfectly clear since we don’t want to either lie or make anyone feel scammed. We do use AI enhancements (such as the ones currently present in Photoshop for example) and we have created our OWN Lora with OUR art to try to streamline the production process and have better time/budget management. All our art is worked on, controlled and approved by our artists and there’s 0 content that is purely AI generated. We are not replacing them, we are trying to make it easier with the tools we have currently available.
That said, we understand the view some people have on the current use of AI and we actually agree with some of it, especially regarding regulations of use. So if you don’t want to support us, we understand and we hope that some day we can do something that might better appeal to you. But the original art was completely unsustainable from a budget point of view and honestly, if you haven’t played the Beta you haven´t seen much of the new one. So maybe give us a chance and make up your own mind, if you still don’t like it we’ll take the L and try to do better.
Finally to all this rambling, about the old thread, that’s on me, my bad (the person that runs the account and currently typing way too much) I’m having some trouble getting used to how F95 works and retrieving the old thread properly, so apologies and I’ll try to figure it out.
If you got all the way down here, thank you and hopefully this has shed some light about the possible doubts regarding Lost Elite. We’ll keep the communication up and answer anything else that might come up.
suprisedcrankyface
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Its good that you responded but this is an issue - it looks 100% AI generated, not AI assisted.
Just some feedback
Well we really appreaciate the feedback. As said this is a beta build and we'd try to improve as much as possible!