Re: Comprehensive patreon list
I don't blame you, man. I don't think ill of people who are wary of Patreon, I totally understand it - I'd be pissed if I was supporting development of a game and the creator got lazy like that. 's why I ended up making v.075 of Crisis Point, I didn't feel like there was enough content in the original v.07 release so I did a free mid-month update for everyone who donated.
The way I see it, a Patreon update should never be entirely inner workings. They need to happen, seeing as they're the foundation a game is build upon, but there has to be something there for everyone, or you've failed your patrons. Only a select group of people would ooh and ahh over the new and improved save system, retooled stat growth, or anything of that sort.
I can understand the tad bit of jealousy, breeding season is way over funded for what it is.
BUT, you can't really blame the creators. Honestly I think he just got a product that BLEW up, and he is like OH SHIT OH SHIT, which is why he acts overly humble. Also why it went from stable to shit, they pretty much said FUCK IT lets start over, make it bigger, better, stronger.
Sort of what dayz did, they blew up and said "nah, nah we do this shit right". Seems like they are trying to use the money to the fullest, IMO.
(Incase you don't know what I mean, dayz, started as a mod of a game, it blew up in popularity, but instead of just releasing a standalone download for it, they decided to use and upgraded engine version and essentially start from the ground up, which sort of pissed a lot of people off, cause well, the standalone is still behind the mod in features nearly a year later. Not to mention the original creator left because they didn't do it the way he wanted, so ya, these things happen, try not to confuse it for malicious intent, these things just happen when they get overly popular and demand grows exponentially)
But they are also being smart, not vetting everyone who wants to "help" the project, but ya, they do need like at least one other programmer, the guy is ganna run himself ragged. Dude is under a shit ton of pressure I am sure, but he doesn't just wanna hand off his creation (code), nor is it easy. All the revisions he has been making would be a clusterfuck to get someone up to speed with I am sure, so he mainly has 2 big issues, the fact he can't just get another programmer willy nilly, but also that he DOES need to get help soon, or people will just view the project as a money sink.
P.S You gata remember it was ONLY him till he brought purple on and delegated all art to him. And once that happened they started redoing everything, which was about the time I stopped sending my measly dollar, cause well I was there for the bestiality, but then it just became a furry game, oh im sorry "anthro" *cough furry cough*.
Anyway ya, I don't think its very fair to call out breeding season. its simply a small time thing that blew up and now these small time people are like OH SHIT OH SHIT, and are trying to rectify it by "making it better". Like I said, very strong similarities between this and dayz development IMO.