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?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?
There is a FAQ item on their Discord about this: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.
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.- 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.
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 atExcept 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.
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.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...
If I am a new player how much content am I expecting to see currently? Percentage of game completion?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:
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If you read every texts and explore whole world than sure few days.If I am a new player how much content am I expecting to see currently? Percentage of game completion?
Hard to say really, looking at the map though I would think less than 50% done for sure.If I am a new player how much content am I expecting to see currently? Percentage of game completion?
I think you are right, there is potential for many many stories, that's also why it sucks to have to wait more than 1 year for an update.Hard to say really, looking at the map though I would think less than 50% done for sure.
You can always use a vpn, or jdownloader or megabasterd to bypass the Mega limits, I personally use the latter and it works perfectly.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