Da Rulz of this site.Why was the game abandoned? I don't understand.
3. Prefixes
- On-hold: used for a developer who temporarily stops working on a game for whatever reason and makes a clear public statement about it, if they do not resume work in 6 months the prefix is changed to Abandoned.
- Abandoned: used in the following cases:
- The developer states that the development has been permanently suspended.
- After 3 months of inactivity from the developer's public creator/crowdfunding accounts (Patreon, SS, etc), we will resolve special circumstances or scenarios on a case-by-case basis (no creator accounts, creators developing for free, Patreon accounts under review/ban).
- No game update has been released for an abnormally long period of time (>18 months).
- Game threads that are marked On-hold for over 6 months with no game update.
- Note: this prefix is only removed upon the release of a new update for purchase/download.
This, all of this. If you can't maintain your original promised pacing, stop taking money from people until you can.As a dev you have a couple of options if something IRL prevents you from doing work on a game that's receiving monthly subscriptions:
However, there is no incentive for these two to change their current workflow since they still make more per month than most people in the US. While I'd love to be proven wrong, I have a strong suspicion that this update will be permanently stuck in the "polish" phase since it's easy to just arbitrarily change the numbers to reflect any amount of progress.
- Pause automatic transactions until you're able to continue working on the game
- Outsource the work to someone else with a revenue split (i.e. 30-70)
- Work through it
What if you inform your supporters you won't be able to keep up that pace, and they still want to support you anyway under the new conditions?This, all of this. If you can't maintain your original promised pacing, stop taking money from people until you can.
It's me, hidayum literally this. Who the fuck loves to fuck green orcs lol
I doubt they explicitly said "this year we won't work because we have a baby. Oh we also plan to make a second one too, do your math"What if you inform your supporters you won't be able to keep up that pace, and they still want to support you anyway under the new conditions?
Well, you are partly right, they didn't say that because they never stopped working except for a few days right after the baby was born. Also, they didn't plan to make another baby, this one they had on October 2022 was their second already (so next time you better check your data).I doubt they explicitly said "this year we won't work because we have a baby. Oh we also plan to make a second one too, do your math"
Ah yes, welfare for porn devs, just what the world needs lmaoWhat if you inform your supporters you won't be able to keep up that pace, and they still want to support you anyway under the new conditions?
it is called - shearing sheepWhat if you inform your supporters you won't be able to keep up that pace, and they still want to support you anyway under the new conditions?
Simple as that.I still stand by my point that they work on some other game besides this, hence they don't care much that some income from it drops...............
.............these parallel projects explain a lot why other devs seem to start to slow down by a lot when the project starts to gain traction, because single project will plateau at some point, which seemed to be around 9k$/mo if I'm not mistaken with WaL, so why keep pushing just one project when you can have 2 or 3 going, because anyone with any sort of coding experience will tell you that "polishing python" for 2 months is slang for something else, not fixing bugs in code
What kind of game are we talking about? It's just that the number of good games can be counted on the fingers of one hand, everything else is crap. WAL is one of the best, it has some value. Therefore, it is strange to compare the development time between them, I'd rather wait and get good content than play some shit on which I feel sorry to spend even a minute of my, to be honest, cheap time.Also, some might remember (a now deleted post), i mentioned 2 month ago that a game just got an update by his passionate single dev which updates his game regularly and has wayyyy sexier scenes then WaL.
I then (half) jokingly said that i bet he´ll deliver his next update from 0% before WaL finishes its 98.8%.....
And well what should i say......his next update came 2 weeks ago! And this guy makes 1300 a months on patreon!
And you know what, i think he´ll deliver even his next update before WaL delivers theirs........
Oh boy.....
Exactly. People often be talking about how some other game does everything better, and then that game turns out to be some nondescript Daz Studio slop.What kind of game are we talking about? It's just that the number of good games can be counted on the fingers of one hand, everything else is crap. WAL is one of the best, it has some value. Therefore, it is strange to compare the development time between them, I'd rather wait and get good content than play some shit on which I feel sorry to spend even a minute of my, to be honest, cheap time.
Bro come on, let's be serious. it's been two years and the update is nowhere near finished. They are redoing drawings and writing. Of course they didn't work for the first six months, if not the whole first year.Well, you are partly right, they didn't say that because they never stopped working except for a few days right after the baby was born.