You hit the nail on the head; I was attracted to the game by most of those themes but at the same time I was wondering "how in the world is he getting away with all this stuff?... oh wait, he isn't". I doubt he could shift the worst stuff to a patch now and get Patreon or anybody to believe he got rid of it.
Abandon o'clock.Yeah, but what time did he say that???
did he say that he won't continue or is it the excuse runaround ?
I believe the verbiage was something like all of the monetization platforms canceled him, so until he can find one that will approve he won't be continuing. So unless SS decides to approve his account, it's likely donezo. Whether that was the legitimate reason to stop or if it was just an easy-out for lack of motivation, that's a secret for the dev.
Couldn't have said it better. The juice was briefly worth the squeeze and it just got thinner with every new platform that shut me down until they took away the lemon.
The dev made the paradigm shift, not us, though. He can go back to the hobby, if he cared enough about, "the art."
I can't help but disagree. The $ thing was definitely the straw that broke the came's back for lots of devs, but the "hobby" nonsense always irks me.
Or, hear me out, it might just be hobby. Plenty of people create games just for hobby, even if it's AVN. Similarly plenty of people write stories, create music etc... as a hobby, even lewd stuff. Why you might ask, well that's because it's a way for them to express their creative side. Sure, most of them would be extremely pleased if they happened to hit it big and could make living from their hobby, but the reason they started it originally was as a hobby. Very few devs actually make enough to make a living or enough money to just justify their motivation for creating games like these. Biggest reason why they have patreon etc... accounts is to recupe the costs for making that game, since game development, even as a hobby costs money. That's also why so many devs end up abandoning games when there's problems like this dev had with Patreon, since it sucks the joy of making the game having to deal with it. Or abandon their game because constant negative bitching, not constructive criticism, sucks the motivation in working on something time consuming for people to play.
You could be 100% right. and I could be 100% wrong. Each dev/game is different. I once dabbled in trying to make a game many, many years ago, and the reality is that it is super time-consuming, technical, and just plain hard to make something half-way decent. I gave up after the first tech disaster because I couldn't imagine starting over from scratch. So that certainly influences my opinion, but I still think that very few devs get very far with the "hobby" motivation and that this is something that sounds believable and it therefore used as a smokescreen by a lot of devs. 'Writing stories or creating music' (your examples) are "easy" creative outlets because they only require pen+paper or an instrument - they don't require significant hardware + software + time investments just to get started, so I don't think those are reasonable comparisons. Let's just agree to disagree.
Using your hobby to make money is common, if you wanted to grift from the start, there would be infinitely better ways. I just wanna say, Visual novels in general are a niche and there's not a lot of money to be gained especially so if sites like this one exist. Not gonna name the grifter but they made a bit less than 200k a year (before taxes and fees) at their peak and was absolutely trending... only after 8 months of work AT LEAST. Learning to make decent 3d renders and a good story to gain enough followers AND having at least a few hours of content takes months and there's no guarantees of good money. There are almost 20000 games here and you probably played less than 50 and supported less than 10.
Probably not really, the game has to many "red flags" for sites like patreon (rape, bestiality, the incest scenes)
80% of avns has incest.. ironically, it does not have incest (just a bath scene of siblings). Rape ?? c'mon where ?? the Japanese babe.. that could be easily justifiable as tough love.. and dev has yet not started making content on bestiality.. I think with some small rework and a new name, dev can enter subscibestar if not patreon. Also, his new project does not looking good and this one has a fanbase so it would aslo be benifical for Dev to continue in my personal opinion.
