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If that's true, great. I'm still not optimistic. Even then of course he says two updates in June, but now one "may slip into July".BD
"The room that I said I was changing in the last post was the locker room and there was a saucy scene in there for this update so I had to redo a lot of animation work.
Since I made these animations nearly 10 months ago they weren't as good as later ones so I was pretty happy to redo them.
The second scene in this update had better animations but I decided to go ahead and change some of them up and I added a few smaller things to beef up the scenes a bit.
I'm still feeling good, no mental battles as of late. And I still plan on dropping both within the next 10 days. The second may slip into the first days of July but that's all."
found that in the discord
That hypothetical ending is precisely why I wanted a no-preg routeI'm already fine with the idea this never gets finished as BD can't beat my idea of the best ending anyway. In my end the MC gets an achilles injury or something and is forced to retire from basketball and ends up as an Al Bundy except with 18 kids.
Don't forget about Rachael and Elizabeth.And Keyana.The DITLO harper update was interesting. Jamie's appearance near the end made up for the censored Harper stuff. Now waiting for the main update + rework.
Going to be waiting for a long time then. Look for another excuse to come out in the next few days as to why the release has been pushed back again.The DITLO harper update was interesting. Jamie's appearance near the end made up for the censored Harper stuff. Now waiting for the main update + rework.
Die young being a good developer, or live long enough to become an ICSTORWell the patreons are funding the whole game development from the beginning. He is doing this full time since he's making 100k+/year with 3000+ Patreon/supporters pledging.
After the game is complete, he's free to profit from it while also getting free funds while making it. You supporters will get whatever each tier gets. Virtual stuff.
If devs were getting 1-2 grand a month, it'd not have been such an issue. There's simply no incentive for a dev to work hard on his project where supporters have 0 stake on the project. They can work at their own pace with zero liability. This is a fraudulent model of game development no matter how you look at it. The game developer doesn't take money for renders, they take money for their time which is take them for their word.
So I don't blame the devs for taking time to do their work. Their behavior is enabled by this fraudulent model of supporting where they are able to get a lot of money for their time.
This is something everyone who supports a developer in this community should be more concerned about. This model is not good for supporters, it's extremely skewed in favor of developers.
Well the last time I was able to see the total amount pledge to patreon it was around 60k a month. Unless the total is yearly and not monthly. That being said I can see why people may believe he is milking the money from his supporters. As even if his defenders come to his defense and say he pause the pledges. Yes he does but as I said if the total is figured monthly. It would take one month pledge to make him 60k. That is more than a lot of people make for the whole year. So yeah even if he pause the pledges for 10 month out of the year that is 120k before patreon take their cut and what not. I am not saying BD is milking his supporters and even if he is. That's between him and the supporters. It's their money, if they want to give it away to him with nothing to show for 6, 7, 8 months all the way to years at a time. More power to them. I can't understand it myself because a update that he has say should only has a few days of work to be done. Yet the release keeps getting delayed by months now. I can understand having a tough year but when it becomes one reason after another. It starts to feel like useless excuses.Well the patreons are funding the whole game development from the beginning. He is doing this full time since he's making 100k+/year with 3000+ Patreon/supporters pledging.
After the game is complete, he's free to profit from it while also getting free funds while making it. You supporters will get whatever each tier gets. Virtual stuff.
If devs were getting 1-2 grand a month, it'd not have been such an issue. There's simply no incentive for a dev to work hard on his project where supporters have 0 stake on the project. They can work at their own pace with zero liability. This is a fraudulent model of game development no matter how you look at it. The game developer doesn't take money for renders, they take money for their time which is take them for their word.
So I don't blame the devs for taking time to do their work. Their behavior is enabled by this fraudulent model of supporting where they are able to get a lot of money for their time.
This is something everyone who supports a developer in this community should be more concerned about. This model is not good for supporters, it's extremely skewed in favor of developers.
He never went beyond $23k monthlyWell the last time I was able to see the total amount pledge to patreon it was around 60k a month. Unless the total is yearly and not monthly. That being said I can see why people may believe he is milking the money from his supporters. As even if his defenders come to his defense and say he pause the pledges. Yes he does but as I said if the total is figured monthly. It would take one month pledge to make him 60k. That is more than a lot of people make for the whole year. So yeah even if he pause the pledges for 10 month out of the year that is 120k before patreon take their cut and what not. I am not saying BD is milking his supporters and even if he is. That's between him and the supporters. It's their money, if they want to give it away to him with nothing to show for 6, 7, 8 months all the way to years at a time. More power to them. I can't understand it myself because a update that he has say should only has a few days of work to be done. Yet the release keeps getting delayed by months now. I can understand having a tough year but when it becomes one reason after another. It starts to feel like useless excuses.
That being said is why I think it would be a better policy to just say the update will be out when its done and nothing more. Explain the reasons to your patreon supporter. They are the ones that need to be keep happy, so they keep supporting. Which BD must be doing cause he has 3,500 supporters still. That or they have the money to keep supporting him without worry of seeing results. All the posting about the update is almost finished and will be out the next week or so only to be delayed several times. Does is upsets people and make BD's word worthless in my opinion. It will probably start costing him supporter and stop others from starting a pledge.
Okay might of mix his patreon with another developer but I knew it was still in the double figures a month and 20k ish give or take still quite a bit. So my point still stand that in a couple of months he was making what a lot of people are for a whole year.He never went beyond $23k monthly
Which is $276,000 per year.He never went beyond $23k monthly
Wow, you sir really are good at Maths!Which is $276,000 per year.
That would be true if he was charging his current patreons every month. If that was the case, then he should have had this update out by then. Patreon is a business. WVM is a business. BrainDrop is making a game. People are not paying Braindrop to get married or go on vacation or have mental breakdowns, they are paying or giving him money to make a game. If he didn't care about money like he says, he would not need a patreon account to accept money. But he wants to do this instead of working a job that most people do across the world to support their families.Which is $276,000 per year.