I'm not concerned with what others are doing with this game at the moment as I'm not involved in it.
That's actually genius and dunno why every dev in shitty cuntries doesn't do that. Make a vanilla base game that's legal in your own cuntry and just tell someone else on the other side of the globe where it's legal to make the most depraved loli/shota shit imaginable for it as a 3rd party patch (though probably limited to the canon of the story and general guidelines that the dev wants). Just send them the files for the Daz characters and other props needed. I'm sure the loli mod for Sims 4 was made this way (when lolis are not even allowed on Steam, and certainly a big public company like EA will deny any involvement).That means like "someone else, that is totally NOT the original creator of this game" will make additional smol content for the game, most likely applied in a seperate patch.
A patch that is not supported by the creator , The Narrator, because it wasnt made by him....
But it would still be nice if you could spend a few bucks if you like this game
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At least thats how i understood it. Not the first dev to do it this way
I gut tells me more like payment processors screwed SS over (and by exrtension everyone on it). They should just do like Paypal and take everyone's bank account details and process payments and payouts themselves and bypass those Nazi's altogether. In the meantime devs can set up a crypto wallet and put a link to that right in the OP if money is really that important.
What's this? Is the current version (v0.8.0) a remake or something?
A New Beginning was basically failed experiment. Basically what happens when you pay too much attention to F95 comments. It had one release before it was canceled/abandoned and the dev went back to the original after snowflakes were bitching about the "NTR" in that too.
I don't think it's only SS's fault, cuz I got Boosty and Buymeacoffee and people cancelled their subscriptions on Boosty. Well, at the moment I'm just thinking about making a different game, because I think I'm failing with this one. I don't know, but the signs tell me so.
My intention now is to complete this project, even if I have to rush it. But if things don't change, I will drop the making of Chapet 2.
If you are going to measure success/failure by paying sub numbers, sadly that's a setup for failure every time since these days hardly anyone pays for porn even in general, and AVNs are still kinda niche as well. For me I probably wouldn't be too into them if it weren't for the Golden-Age-esque stories as well as a way to fap to some kinks that would get me arrested if I was caught with real versions on my PC. For everything else it's free on the internet almost everywhere, it's why hardly anyone pays for it anymore. For every Dr. Pink Cake or Ocean (no idea why people still pay them, their updates to their boring vanilla college-setting AVNs are over a year apart now if not longer, might as well just look up "college coeds fucking" on Google and fap to that, at least that's real porn) there's probably 1000-2000 "failures", if you still want to count 1000+ followers/fans that simply don't pay anything as far as money as a failure. As far as TFSS, personally I like it, otherwise I wouldn't be here commenting on it's thread or looking forward to next updates. I do know that marketing makes a big difference as far as money goes, as the aforementioned DPK and Ocean probably spent a large % of their income on it since it's like selling ice to Eskimoes for vanilla content. I'd start with a personal webpage and also put a crypto wallet link there and link that here too, no such thing as too many payment methods. Beyond that it's like starting any other business, takes money to make money, and no small amounts of it (some devs even go all-in like Inceton and get a business loan and start their own studio and hire a dozen people right off the bat, probably $300-500k if not more, worst case scenario it fails and you're bankrupt for the next 10 years, at least in the US, 10 years up repeat and try something else after rebuilding credit, luckily I did ok enough the first time but that was my long-term plan).
This is what I see and think at the moment. I'm not 100% sure I'm failing, but maybe in a few months after I finish this chapter, things will change. I didn't say I wouldn't do another chapter for sure, but this is what I think is best at the moment.
Eh 561 follower subs on SS (none of which can upgrade) and 160+ on Boosty. I wouldn't call that chopped liver. If anything it's Boosty, not nearly as many have heard of it (with even SS a distant 2nd from Patreon, that prob won't improve given their shitty customer service, Boosty is 3rd) and people tend not to trust a foreign company they've never heard of (both Patreon and SS are US-based, had to look it up but Boosty is in Netherlands, for some reason I thought Russia), as the majority of paying subs are in US.
Do keep in mind what Nicest_Incest said earlier, too. Because of the prevalence of adult games these days, it's difficult to make a living from it quickly. From what I've seen, it generally takes a few years to get to the point where you might have a steady income from it. But, if you avoid abandoning projects and stay hard at work, there's a decent chance you'll succeed over time. I would be cautious of wrapping this up too quickly, either. I see a growing number of comments saying that a rushed ending is practically the same as abandonment, which also could reflect poorly for the future. I'm not saying keep grinding this for years to come, of course; just put a close to this in a patient, controlled way.
So much this! It depends, I suppose, on your expectations to qualify something as being a "success". But given the time typically needed to reach bigger numbers, patience really is the key. You already seem to have decent numbers compared to many, many devs I've seen working at this for a long time. It can be discouraging not to become hugely successful extremely quickly. However, if you stay consistent, communicate well with your supporters and potential audience, and keep improving your skills over time, I have no reason to believe you can't reach your goals for AVN development.
DK was a good example. At one point if I'm not mistaken he had over 8k subs (almost 10x his current numbers, me one of them at one point before I quit Patreon back in 2018 after starting to get bored and moving away from vanilla content). Decent-sized monthly updates the first 3-4 years helped grow it. Then he thought rushing endings to start a new one every year a few years ago would somehow be better. Couple that with 100% paywalling his AVNs by tier (the current under-dev one is $10, only other way to get it is pirate it when a leaker grabs a $10 sub just for that purpose every few months/updates and even older completed ones that people have probably already got from F95 or here are $3-5) and he now struggles to keep above 1000 subs.
The cousins and auntie are hot but I wanna see the results of the pregnancy bars of mom and sis, which if I had to guess was planned ch2 material after MC went back home. Blonde pubes on a girl in Daz are kinda rare as well.
That's why I have to confirm myself that this game is appreciated and that people want to see a sequel.
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