For all the beauty and quality of the extreme drawings, I would choose more history, quick update.
If finances allowed me, I would do just that. But unfortunately, my account, both in the bank and in the bitcoin wallet, is not of that level.
So it will take 7-8 years from the beginning of the game to reach its first sex scene on corruption route
I was going to say, four months sounds optimistic right now. Unless L&P gets major pushback from his Patrons, I think he will continue to stretch the development cycles. I still hesitate to use the word "milker" because I don't think he's milking people, but until he gets pushback his only incentive is to keep doing what he wants to do. If that means spending a whole week on a single image he'll do it unless his Patrons get pissed. From where I sit right now, I think we'll only get two updates this year. If that happens, and nothing changes from L&P, 2022 could see similar output.
Regarding being abandoned, this game has been showing those signs since last year.
You are correct I think he should take a year between releases of the update by this he can add 2-3 playable together in a single update which will be much better than just 5-6 minutes of gameplay we are getting now per update
Agree that the symptoms are all there. Not saying it's all over and we won't see anything else from this game, but it's hard to imagine another two years of development and we're looking at only two more days in the life. At some point, surely, L&P will have to evaluate the situation and make a decision about how to proceed.
Of all the ideas about speeding things up, I think this may be the best yet. If L&P were looking at things in much larger chunks it might actually help to streamline things - realize they don't need so much detail (dialogue and inner monologue) in every single scene, they'd probably learn to better appreciate the story for what it is rather than focusing with ever more intensity on a single image and what it is
I started ASOIF at book 2... I am like... its... how do I ... shit!!!
You know, this may actually be a fair comparison. If 2021 and 2022 only have four (or even six) updates, and the story has progressed fewer than two days, then even the most diligent and committed creator would begin to run out of gas.
There are 18 days left. At present rate, about one day per year (let's be optimistic and say lightly more) so call it 15 years.
Personally, I don't think they can be compared.
I see your point, but he wouldn't be the first creator to shut down a financially successful game. I think sometimes, when the creative joy has be rung from a game, an artist can decide that they would rather try something new rather than force themselves to finish something that they're no longer in love with. The longer a project stretches, the more likely this could happen IMO.
pigeons are sexy
Maybe it has something to do with the concert event? You have to consider that the concert is not the actual event, but what takes place afterwards. Sophia, Ellie and Patricia will go there together by car to watch his performance. I don't think Sophia will stay there alone after the concert, do you? For what reason? And what would Ellie and Patricia think? Maybe the telescope comes into play then? She goes to the balcony, she knows he's watching her and slowly undresses for him and they both masturbate to climax? Other idea?
I don't think we are quite there story-wise for what you describe.
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The demo was released around Oct 2017. So it's more like a decade from demo release to first sex scene (approximately).So it will take 7-8 years from the beginning of the game to reach its first sex scene on corruption route
When I coded the spreadsheet, the main thing you can change is the time between updates, since that's the thing we're really just guessing at. I originally kept it at 90 days, since that was between the 2 months L&P was aiming for, and the 4 months people were saying at the time.
In my spreadsheet I already keep track of which characters are in which events, so I may be able to knock something up. That's why I find the pace of the Dylan route so glacial - I can easily and quickly determine it took 29 events that Patricia achieved in her second (Seeing Sophia naked). Even Ellie did it in 14.I don't think we are quite there story-wise for what you describe.
It is a plausible scenario though, similar to the teasing during the basketball break, this time a little bit more explicit maybe, but still at the level of teasing for Sophia IMO.
(and as it has been pointed out, the telescope is not really useful to watch a neighbour 20-30 meters far away
I think that what happens at the concert depends also on how the events of the day unfold.
So far we have seen Sophia naked at different levels in all events of PD 12, which is quite a start of the day!
With everything else that is coming in the next release we have to realistically think that not all events will be so explicit.
It would be interesting to have a graph similar to the one already done for each character by Jude6 in which we keep track of the nudity content/level of each PD.
I hope lightning strikes on Emma and Cathy's heads, so that the whole event will be around the rest of those 3.
