Cat-in-the-Hat
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- Jan 14, 2023
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The game was obviously massively front-loaded; I just doubt it's the same person who did the initial launch and now.real talk my foil hat theory is that BD actually banked up a lot of content in the beginning for wvm which is why his releases were so fuckin rapid. Because it doesn't make sense that with better equipment the updates became more scarce. Now this dude is scrabbling to make content every update which is why the game feels so segmented from update to update coupled with the fact that he's a serial procrastinator leads to this....
Models changing (and becoming, well: "they all have the same smile" = "I'm not a talented user of this 3d program" in a 'this is a job / career, and these are obviously newbie errors' analysis); inability to crunch / put out renders in a timely fashion (??lower tech setup??); total cluelessness about plotting / story (I mean, it wasn't Shakespeare, but there was at least some arcs going on, which now seem to be relegated to "...but wait, here's a new LI and a new plotline and we'll go do something totally irrelevent") and finally, "imaginary employees on Discord who write like I imagine an employee writes (secretly a LI in disguise)" who don't actually do any of the work that a job requires (you know, "PA / Assistant" is kinda a common job, in the real world).
The constant stream of IRL drama / addiction to Discord screams teenager / young adult as well.
Offering 10:1 odds some Saudi Prince bought it as a vanity project... there are few people in the world *this* much of a fucking disaster. Or someone had a huge car crash and lost the cognitive ability to function as a professional, which the entire project screamed of when first launched (slick, marketed well, front-loaded content, huge PR push > massive Patreon, PR splash cards, aesthetics in color design (yellow bold logo) that descended into "going to put some fucking shocking purple clashing furniture in as an update" etc etc). Someone dig up that bit where the Patreon access was handed over to McKenzie - given that has bank details attached (and changing who gets paid isn't trivial, precisely to prevent Fraud), that's a massive guilty tell (as in projection: "hmm, my new PA / LI is going to do precisely the thing I did as part of her narrative" - this is the online version of "dupers' delight", btw ,and so obvious). It's also totally unbelievable: who in reality hands over passwords to their income stream to a random Discord hanger-on? The answer is: no-one (and I mean no-one) who does this for a living; it's basically demanding someone steal / scam you out of your livelyhood.
TL;DR
Current owner is LARPING being a Game Dev, actual Dev / team sold off this project a few years ago.
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