discussion How long is too long for a game to have an update...?

[Hynegard]

Truly depends on the game. Are you supporting it via Patreon? Then a few months at most. Otherwise? Well, the Dev is doing it for free...

 

[Requiem7]

As long as the game ends up being updated i don't mind waiting. I hate to see games being abandoned

 

[PathOfHate]

I am okay waiting as long as the author communicates during that period, talking about whats going on, etc, and just generally giving some form of confirmation of life lol

 

[User_111887]

Depends if the dev remains active and gives updates and previews than I can be more forgiving, but if they ghost and stay silent after a month or two then it's safe to say that the game has been abandoned.

 

[MattShizzle]

Anything more than about 3 months really. Keep it where you can remember what was happening. A year or more is over the top ridiculous.

 

[User_51541]

Honestly I think a game of these types (porn) they should have a regular update every month even if it's just a small one the longest it should take is maybe 3 months max

 

[Ribaso]

12 months if the story is big and good enough

 

[User_111574]

Not more than one year (in exceptional cases), generally not more than 6 months.

 

[Krmk]

It depends on the game, if I really like it I can wait months, but the amount of content has to be worth it.

 

[dereguedeixe]

4-6 months. If it the game dont get updated in that time i usually stop coming back, at least for a while

 

[Tristepan]

As long as you don't pull a Summertime Saga and do a whole year without updates and then remove 3/4 of all content to make an engine update.

 

[Sharat]

If there’s like 6 months without any update, i assume the game is dead.

 

[User_1516]

This is super subjective. If the Dev offers no updates on the project or progress of the update, my limit is 3-4 months, but if the Dev is super communicative with the community and the game is good I'll wait as long as it takes. I also understand that devs have lives outside of creating these games and real-life takes priority.

 

[Black Raven]

Depends on update size and communication from the dev. Also the quality.

For devs that are not deving full time it's normal for it to take more time.

Still, 6 months without any update is pushing it.

 

[Spammy]

Definitely half a year if there are only 5-10 minutes of new content in the update at the end.

 

[Mrjayded]

I know it's subjective but I would say after 6 months if you don't have an update, the game is dead

 

[dartred]

I don't care much for the wait. The update needs to reflect on how long it took. I'll use power vacuum as an example. When it first released, it had updates every month and a half or so. Then 3 months, 5 months, 7 months, 9 months and next update is looking like it's going to take a whole year before we see the update.

The thing is though, you can see the quality of the updates get better every update and the content gets longer. Latest update took me a whole day to play through. None of that 20 to 30 minutes to finish an update BS. It took me a good 10 hours to play just the update.

So long story short, if a game normally gives you 1 hour of gameplay for 1 month. Then if it gives me 10 hours of gameplay for 10 months of development, there's fundamentally no difference. So i'm not going to get mad that the update took longer to come out.

It's when it takes 10 months to update but only 2 hours of content. that tells you the dev wasn't doing shit and just letting money roll in from subscriptions while he sat on his ass.

 

[MattShizzle]

I'd rather have it shorter than that. 10 hours of play in an update? WTF? Rather have an hour or so and not so long between you forget almost everything that happened.

 

[Deleted member 112555]

I threat all games as fineshed.

Outside of bleakheart games i dont expect it to ever get an update.
Better safe myself the dispointment.

 

[Deleted member 112299]

2-3 months is ok, 5 - is a lot