discussion Do you think the golden age of speciality VNs is behind us or still to come?

[Tosser]

Yea. There are three things I see at play here:

• The legal hurdles. The issue with Proud Father has to be eye opening for us all, regardless of where we live.
• Payment issues. How to monetize this when CC companies want to distance themselves from smut (I see this as the biggest hurdle)
• Unprofessional devs looking for a quick/easy payday.

The first two will lessen the third, but I see all three as factors that play into the "past the golden age" hypothesis. We will not (and cannot) know until enough time passes anyway, so its all speculation.

Money will always be the biggest issue - the more companies that refuse to allow payments via more traditional avenues and into known "sponsor" services like Patreon and Subscribestar the harder it will get to support devs. The more hurdles a person has to jump through to pay, the less likely they are to do it, and if they can't do it fairly anonymously, they will likely not do it at all.

 

[iluvpxrn]

Soon enough patreon will find a way to put heavy restrictions on games, and other sites will get taken down unfortunately

 

[ORodimus]

Everything is ahead as long as there is demand for them

 

[Requiem7]

As long as the technology improves vn's will keep getting better

 

[darkie]

with AI getting better and better i think the VN´s will aswell in time

 

[Deleted member 112299]

I think that more people will think about their privacy because companies and governments are too insolent. I think tor will become faster or there will be some other technologies involved. Crypto will grow for a long time (but stay a niche). More people will rent servers for small things

 

[Mrjayded]

I think as restrictions increase and people ruin things for all of us, we will see people find a way around. I think this has always been an issue that needs to be circumvented so I think we still have some great VNs coming. I also think AI will assist with better art and help assist story writers too