Bad Wolf
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The rise and fall of this man still blows me he was the most consistent dev for 3 years of the games life. Than some how he fell off harder than incestor.
TigerWolfe
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Burnout literally ruins people's abilities to work all the time, brains are fickle bitches.
Not saying that's the case here but I also wouldn't be surprised.
Im leaning towards greed the way the excuses are becoming where they dont make sense it reminds of another dev stencilbits
TigerWolfe
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In my experience greedy people never make excuses for why they're ripping you off.
Not that I feel ripped off, I'll just wait until an update drops and if one never comes oh well plenty of other fish in the sea.
Akabakka
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Uh ? In the world of gaming especially , it's all the greediest publishers and devs do . Among many examples from them and others , did you not see recently Ubisoft going on about their latest game "Skulls and Bones" (which is crap btw) being worth 70 dollars because it's AAAA , a game that can't even provide 1/3 of the experience from its 11 years old predecessor ?
at least ubisoft work in 100 proyects at the same time and finish 99 % of them but this guy here is the "THE UNETHYCAL GOD"
he comes first always he comes on top always he laugh at us always and when someone says some bad word to him pff ungrateful ,childish,and the anti hero of the unethyc work.......other devs who you think are worst they aren't ,they are taking notes about him......if he only didnt say 52 in 52......a shame
he comes first always he comes on top always he laugh at us always and when someone says some bad word to him pff ungrateful ,childish,and the anti hero of the unethyc work.......other devs who you think are worst they aren't ,they are taking notes about him......if he only didnt say 52 in 52......a shame
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Imma be the Devil's advocate here just for a second. If it was just greed, wouldn't it be in his best interest to continue making the game? Constant, quality updates is what got people to the table to begin with. Just "Greed" isn't the answer here, unless he is secretly working on a separate project on a completely separate Patreon, and half-assing two (or more) games at the same time and collecting multiple Patreon paychecks.
Yeah, just greed doesn't sound right. Laziness is more like it. If he expects to get X payout for Y effort, but realized he can still get 25% of X for 1% of Y, then the path of least effort still ends up being lucrative.
I believe he got hit with burnout. He was putting so much content weekly in the beginning that he was probably working like 16 hour days for that much. Either that, or he had a huge backlog before he started posting the game.
But he can't walk away now, because that's his passive income source now (lol)
But he can't walk away now, because that's his passive income source now (lol)
The only thing that makes sense to me is that he said a season 1 rework would be done by early 2023, and a year later it still isn't here. He's been releasing content for season 2 at a steady albeit often delayed pace in the meantime. Perhaps he's simultaneously reworking season 1 while releasing content for season 2, and getting burned out doing it.
I don't really think there's too much of a greed factor in play, since I'd be willing to bet that he's lost a lot of subscribers over the last 1-2 years, and he hasn't changed the way he does anything in order to retain them or win them back, and he keeps pausing the monthly payments when things don't work out.
Maybe I'm being too much of an optimist, I don't know.
I don't really think there's too much of a greed factor in play, since I'd be willing to bet that he's lost a lot of subscribers over the last 1-2 years, and he hasn't changed the way he does anything in order to retain them or win them back, and he keeps pausing the monthly payments when things don't work out.
Maybe I'm being too much of an optimist, I don't know.
Let's not get into his work and whatnot, everyone has their opinion and posts about it, same with the pauses (there was someone mentioned that as he posted an unpause happened and he was charged. Not sure how that works, so I don't wanna go into that).
For the sub count, it actually increased over the last year. Even from last month if you check this graph and what his patreon shows currently:
Must be the favourite game of BME Pain Olympics survivors cause nobody in their right mind who still has their balls attached would pay this clown.
Akabakka
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Yeah i don't really buy that line of argument . I'm quite cynical , so i read it as a ploy usually . That kind of decision buy you more leeway and future goodwill , if you're calculating . Of course people are going to assume that you're legit if you pause "and lose money" . When in reality , you already received a sizeable afflux on money for the work you didn't deliver months ahead of deciding to pause . And then you're convincing others of your good nature , so will receive more subs whenever you remove the pause . Then rinse and repeat
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