Burgundy

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Jul 26, 2017
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Played it last year. Really good game, very complete. Search it up to see how far it has gone, and, nothing? what hell happened? I just saw a devlog on the other page so it is not abandoned, has every single adult game dev just decided not to finish their games to keep the patreon thing?
The incentives just aren't there. Despite all the complaining, this community is very happy giving money virtually forever without any real concrete proof of work so why would the devs do things any differently?
 

Buffalo Fred

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Aug 5, 2016
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This game probably had the most potential of any game here for me. But the updates taking so damn long just kills the interest. I don't understand why they can't hire extra help with the patreon money, surely faster development means more paying customers.
 

Kirel

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Mar 18, 2018
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This game probably had the most potential of any game here for me. But the updates taking so damn long just kills the interest. I don't understand why they can't hire extra help with the patreon money, surely faster development means more paying customers.
There is a FAQ item on their Discord about this:


Why don't you add more members to the team?
- The tasks that take the longest are also the stuff we have the most fun doing (art, posing), and prefer to do them mostly ourselves.
- We have already commissioned and continue to commission a talented artist to help us design the backgrounds and the environments.
- We're a married couple, work in the same physical space, work well together, change things all the time, test new ideas, and have an established work routine. I would consider hiring people to work with us in an office or a studio, but given the NSFW nature of the game, that's out of the question, and I prefer not to change my work routine.
- We're happy working on the game full-time, people have been happy so far with the result of our work, and our patrons have expressed they prefer us to keep doing what we're doing. Changing what works seems unnecessary and unhelpful.
- Assuming that we wanted to add new members, it is not easy to find people who can say produce artworks that exactly match the styles of the game, and we do not want there to be two different art styles. What that means is that Chestnut will still have to be doing the finishing works, and extra coordination, that is likely to take her as much time as it does now.
- Some tasks are easier to outsource (e.g., the coding), but those are the easiest and the fastest parts of our job.
 

Clobbertime

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- We're happy working on the game full-time, people have been happy so far with the result of our work, and our patrons have expressed they prefer us to keep doing what we're doing. Changing what works seems unnecessary and unhelpful.
Except that the patrons voting to switch to bigger updates that take more time was them expressing they prefer they don't keep doing what they were doing and switching to the bigger updates that take more time actually was changing what had been working and having people happy with the results.

I can't help but wonder how that patron vote would have turned out if they had any idea of just how much more time it was going to lead to the updates having.
 
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moskyx

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Except that the patrons voting to switch to bigger updates that take more time was them expressing they prefer they don't keep doing what they were doing and switching to the bigger updates that take more time actually was changing what had been working and having people happy with the results.

I can't help but wonder how that patron vote would have turned out if they had any idea of just how much more time it was going to lead to the updates having.
That quote was writen after the switch to larger updates -when some people who were not happy with the increase of waiting times between updates asked why they weren't hiring any help. Anyway, just take a look at from 2021 (when they released the first character focused update) and you might see that this is exactly what their actual supporters want. Even after almost 18 months without a release, their support don't clearly decline.
 
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OtakuGamer11

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Don't think we'll be able to play the update this year imo which is a first. Ngl, I'm so tired of all this waiting...
Hmm, I think this is the first year without a single update. Unless they'll release one for Christmas. Either way, I hope it doesn't end up abandoned, it'd be a shame, it being so close to being finished, but that also gives me hope as I doubt they'd just drop it so close to the finish line. Guess I'll stick along and see if my original faith in them was misplaced or not.
 
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Syrabert

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just curious : what do you mean with "close to be finish" ? do you mean the game or only the update ?
In case of the game: In the faq they wrote about update 0.8 (holly), followed by 0.9 (tba).
lets assume they don't have additional IRL-problems and the next updates after 0.7 will take only a half year each that would mean we are in for an additional year (+) in dev-time.

edit: i just jumped into my dmc-12, took the tardis and got a picture of the WAL-fanbase at the final release of WAL:
licensed-image.jpg :p
 
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Drakenite

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just curious : what do you mean with "close to be finish" ? do you mean the game or only the update ?
In case of the game: In the faq they wrote about update 0.8 (holly), followed by 0.9 (tba).
lets assume they don't have additional IRL-problems and the next updates after 0.7 will take only a half year each that would mean we are in for an additional year (+) in dev-time.

edit: i just jumped into my dmc-12, took the tardis and got a picture of the WAL-fanbase at the final release of WAL:
View attachment 3167340 :p
If I am a new player how much content am I expecting to see currently? Percentage of game completion?
 

Syrabert

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like phineasflynn already mentioned, it depends on your gaming style and how you go through this game. About the percentage of completion well only the devs would know how long they will continue this game. At the moment we are at version 0.6 and wait for the next update. An update is a full story arc for a character, eg. 0.7 is about gomorra, 0.8 would be about holly and so on. AFAIK you don't have any disturbing "not yet implemented", you can complete the arcs without problems. Just give it a try, in the worst case you lose only some time. (lol, if you like the game you spend even more time :) )
 
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angryumexican

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Mar 10, 2020
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Havent looked at this game since 2021, is there any new Gretta content?

I dont care about the lewds I just wanna see more Gretta
 

Knightttt

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I want to download this. MEGA quota exceeded. FilesFM and MixDrop downloading at 300kbps and Anonfiles has ceased to exist. How should I even be downloading this? Someone please upload to GoFile or PixelDrain. Thank you
 
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