Re: Akabur Games
But it is kind-of ridiculous, isn't it? When Akabur had hardly any income, he produced several games in quick succession. Games that had flaws, but were fun, engaging, and nicely drawn games. Then he got a reasonably good income from Patreon, and he took nine months to produce Witch Trainer, a tedious game with very few drawings. Now he's got a HUGE income, and he is producing nothing but promises. Promises to make an UPDATE to a game that he already finished -- an UPDATE that is costing him a LOT more time than producing any of the WHOLE games that he created before.
So how much time should an UPDATE really cost? Two months? Three? Certainly not more. And definitely not for the RIDICULOUSLY high salary that he is getting.
A responsible artist would have delivered PT:G by March 2015, an few more scenes for Magic Shop by June 2015, and his TMNT game by December 2015. It is not that much work, and Akabur actually already showed us that he can produce good stuff in time periods like that. But he comes up with zilch. And says that producing a CG costs him 5 days, while last year he stated that a CG costs him 2 days. You'd think that practice would make a person faster, but not Akabur.
The weird thing is that if you would ask his horde of fans whether they would still support Akabur even if he wouldn't produce any new games, but his whole output would consist of a doodle now and again, I believe that a good many of them would say "sure, I love Akabur and I will keep supporting him." Because that is how they are behaving now. And Akabur knows that. And it makes him lazy.
I think that any person with an ounce of sense who has followed Akabur a little realizes that the likelihood of him never producing any new game is pretty high. Akabur's stance reminds me a bit of a joke that was told years ago about Bill Gates, that he spent his wedding night sitting on the edge of the bed, telling his new wife how good it was going to be when she would finally get it.
It is too bad, because I think that if Akabur's Patreon income would be something like $1000 per month (which he can extend with income that he gets from other sites), he would be much more likely to produce output than he is now. With $1000 a month, he has to show that he is working, because he needs that amount to increase rather than to shrink. But with $12000 a month, he probably does not care if he loses half his subsidizers.
I really think that sending money to Akabur in the hopes of getting him to produce a new game actually has an adverse effect. It is sad, but making it easy for Akabur has considerably diminished the chance that we will ever see something new from his hand.
