discussion Absolute game drought ?

[archaelon01]

Too many AI games and too many games that are just...too normal, playing it too safe. Hard for creators to get back their money for resources too due to everything risky/taboo being banned on every platform.

 

[fappingwanker]

I wonder, can't you release a vanilla base game for Patreon, which is like a boring/nonsensical/censored with 25% of scenes from the real game?
And then under a different name, add the remaning 75% scenes through an incest patch/mod on pirating websites like this one?
The full game would still send people to Patreon, since the base game already does it.

That's what I would do.

 

[Schizo169]

I wonder, can't you release a vanilla base game for Patreon, which is like a boring/nonsensical/censored with 25% of scenes from the real game?
And then under a different name, add the remaning 75% scenes through an incest patch/mod on pirating websites like this one?
The full game would still send people to Patreon, since the base game already does it.

That's what I would do.

Some devs do exactly that, albeit not that drastically. AFAIK it's not that cut and dry though, Patreon will not just turn a blind eye when you're trying to go around their policies.

 

[ddaytz]

Some devs do exactly that, albeit not that drastically. AFAIK it's not that cut and dry though, Patreon will not just turn a blind eye when you're trying to go around their policies.

Yeah the disincentive of banning your possible only stream of income for that work has really made it difficult for some authors. You'd basically already need an established game and then add mods, which is hard enough to do in the first place.

 

[SilentHunter]

Let’s recall the circumstances surrounding the flourishing of game development in 2020–2022. The COVID‑19 pandemic. People were in quarantine, which freed up a lot of free time, including for developers.
As for AI. The development of neural networks should increase the number of new projects (which is exactly what’s happening), but let’s not forget that AI is just a tool — the talent (or lack thereof) of the developer determines and will continue to determine everything. Although we shouldn’t forget about the fundamental dialectical law of the transition of quantity into quality. How many masterpieces appeared in 1920–1922? No. Even taking into account all the variety of tastes and fetishes, we can talk about at most a hundred projects. The rest is either abandoned or outright junk. So I wouldn’t be too gloomy about the prospects, although I can only sympathize with fans of M+ content. But that’s their problem; as outright cynics say, “Who cares — it’s someone else’s misfortune.”

 

[Karamchad]

It is absolutely because of the nonsensical bank scandals going after ANY form of adult game.
The maniacs that attacked the violent game No Mercy had a great weight in that case, making it known globally.
With dwindling options for monetization, there is no proper economic incentive (one of the pillars of any form of artistic creation).
Without a doubt, the AI mass producing slop also contributed, but I believe in less effect since adult gaming is a different niche than just looking at pictures.