Few porn games give you that feelsgood vibe as well as WVM does.
I never said there weren't any other feelsgood games. Didn't know porn games were like marriage and you can only enjoy one. I enjoy WVM. I enjoy a bunch of games. Playing several means you don't get bored waiting for releases. Some stories are better than others. But story-telling is under the creative control of the creator. I don't mind the current side-track at all. I really like the Hearts Foundation storyline. I'm sure we'll get back to basketball and the house soon enough. And yes, some of the core group girls' progression is slow. But some relationships progress more slowly than others.
There are people complaining at the same time about some LI love story progression being too slow, whilst at the same time complaining about characters throwing themselves at the main character too much. In the end it's a Harem-focussed game, so the main LIs get the most screen time. And I'm sure it sucks when your favourite LI hasn't progressed as far as you'd like, or hasn't gotten a lot of screen time. But I have a broad appreciation both in terms of personality and appearance so I don't have that problem.
And you say there isn't any story, but that's just not true. There are lots of storylines developing in paralel. There's also lots of sex scenes. It's a great game. ^_^
I didn't say that you said there "weren't any other feelsgood games". You said "few". I countered that there were "quite a few". Not sure how that has anything at all with your porn games and marriage soliloquy that followed. Very few people who have been part of this site for any decent length of time play only one or two games. They/we all play multiple games, and we all know that playing multiple games helps occupy your time between releases. This is not new information that you are sharing.
Further, you also seem to be of the opinion that there are people posting on this thread who don't like the game. No. Everyone in this thread likes WVM to some degree. Some like it less now than they did years ago when it was starting out and had promise, but they continue to come here hoping to see improvement. The complaints you see aren't because people don't like the game. It's because they don't like what the dev is doing to the game.
Yes, the creator has creative control, that's kind of an obvious statement, but we'll come back to this in a moment when I address your comments about paralel storylines. I want to touch on the "we'll get back to basketball and the house soon enough" statement first because you mention storylines in multiple places. As for the basketball, how can we get back to something that we have barely even started? If the story so far is any indication, basketball will be a very small part of this basketball story. As for getting back to the house...How long before we move again?
Now, for your final statement... "you say there isn't any story, but that's just not true. There are lots of storylines developing in paralel."
I could say the same thing about an encyclopedia, but it's not something most people want to sit down and read straight through. Braindrop is a game developer with, by your own admission, multiple storylines. Paramount global is a mass media conglomerate that owns multiple TV shows. However, Paramount was wise enough not to turn 7th Heaven, The King of Queens, CSI, 90210, NCIS, Everybody Hates Chris, NUMB3RS, Gossip Girl, Hawaii 5-0, The Vampire Diaries, and Rules of Engagement all into one huge multi-storylined show.
If BD had stuck to one storyline, he could have finished WMV by now and already be on his second game,
Hearts for Hope, or
Crazy Rich Yacht Women. Instead, he includes every random storyline that pops into his head and ends up writing himself into a corner and then skips ahead promising to do a rework later. He did that first with Chapter 1, and he just did it again when he left the latest part unfinished and jumped ahead to 14 because he doesn't know how to finish 13.
We don't complain because we want creative control over the story. We complain because BD lets his creativity push the story out of control to the point that even he doesn't know how to bring it back. In all honesty those who complain the most are some of the ones that care the most. We are the ones that have been playing this the longest and don't want to see him end up burnt out and the game abandoned.
I was with BD at the begining. I was a supporter on Patreon. I got tired of watching him struggle with himself. I stopped supporting him financially(Couldn't afford it, I battled cancer and won), but I still play the game and I want to see him succeed. I'd hate to see WVM abandoned. I began commenting on here. At one point I was told. "If you don't like it make your own game." So, as a graduate of the Art Institute of Dallas and also having a BA in English Lit from UNT, I decided to do just that.
I know how hard it is to be a dev, and I worry that BD is going to burn out if he doesn't change something. Other games have been completed in the time it has taken hin to do 2 incomplete chapters. You can sit on a ray of sunshine and look only on the brightside through your rose collored glasses rimmed with silver linings, but those of us who have been following him for 5 years are worried how long this will survive if something doesn't change.
Dudes/Dudettes, if you want to make a VN game and write a story, go write your own. Don't tell someone else what they should do.
