- Aug 6, 2017
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It's cute that you think this will ever get released.
HTML Female Agent [v1.20.1p] [Crushstation]
I admit, I do find it amusing. The current weekly apology-fest, the endless groveling, the bargain basement manipulation attempts, the ridiculously pompous imaginary planning documents combined with the comments in the thread give me more entertainment than I ever got from the rough draft FA story and other assorted scribblings published to date. That being said, I do think the thread should be terminated with extreme prejudice as a public service. The money this game siphons would be far better served going to reputable developers who actually want to release fresh content.
FA blew up during the pandemic when people were stuck inside. Most of his support are people from then who just never unsubscribed. Most have probably forgotten the game exists
So you're saying a lot of them died from Covid and are still collecting Social Security, which is then transferred to the FA Patreon? This is an even bigger scam than I thought...
You know it's getting bad when he has to doctor even the relatively positive messages just to make them less critical. Probably so as not to offend The Lovely Victoria™
Well, it's a transparency report, not an honesty report!
It's not even a report.
To be a report you need to *report" your work.
That's just his week/monthly personal diary/newsletter.
90% of the indie games are crap and are made by naive and overly ambitious individuals. The remaining 10% are worth it, yes. But paying for early access in such a climate? Might as well go and gamble in a casino, that would be more productive use of your money. Early Access is a mistake, Patreon is a mistake.
Patreon works really well for supporting people in quite a general sense... Like, if someone is making art that you like, or putting out a podcast, or just generally being fun and entertaining online then it's a neat way of saying Thank You for the entertainment that they have provided. It also works quite well if you are a super-fan of an author or an artist and you buy their stuff but want to be even more supportive than regular capitalism allows. Patreon works in these cases because support is not tied to any tangible results... you give people money because you like 'what they do' and you stop when you stop liking what it is they are up to: You are effectively saying 'Thank you' until you no longer feel the need to be grateful.
Conversely, Patreon is *really bad* when it comes to supporting specific projects as it sets up this weird balancing act whereby creators are slow-rolling their output so that a project doesn't end while also doing the absolute minimum possible to ensure that their numbers don't dip too far.
The problem is that there isn't a clear boundary between the people who will be helped by Patreon support and the people who will wind up getting absolutely ruined by it. By and large, the people who will benefit from Patreon are the people who have managed to get themselves into a place where you can imagine them doing the work indefinitely: EvaKiss clearly has a really good work ethic and you can imagine her finishing her current project and moving on to the next one. Ditto that Femdom specialist who has two games on the go and does one update for each every year... they're slow as fuck but they have four games to their name and you can tell they're a perverted nerd who will never stop making games about women who are 7 feet tall who want to sit on your face until you pass out.
Crush, on the other hand, is an excellent example of someone who has been absolutely ruined by his success... at this point, people are paying him 5k a month just to produce excuses for his refusal to do any actual work. He's like an American farmer who is being paid a fortune by the government not to grow corn. There's no way that he's finishing this game and the idea of him finishing this game and then starting a second game is just laughable. Crush is a perfect demonstration of the problems with the Patreon funding model... he's like those Youtubers who only produce one 4 hour video a year; he's someone who used to do good work but has now completely checked out of what he used to do. However, because he was so massively overpaid for what he once did he can't really afford to walk away from the money and so he's trapped in a gilded cage... getting paid a professional salary to produce endless excuses for not doing any bloody work.
Conversely, Patreon is *really bad* when it comes to supporting specific projects as it sets up this weird balancing act whereby creators are slow-rolling their output so that a project doesn't end while also doing the absolute minimum possible to ensure that their numbers don't dip too far.
The problem is that there isn't a clear boundary between the people who will be helped by Patreon support and the people who will wind up getting absolutely ruined by it. By and large, the people who will benefit from Patreon are the people who have managed to get themselves into a place where you can imagine them doing the work indefinitely: EvaKiss clearly has a really good work ethic and you can imagine her finishing her current project and moving on to the next one. Ditto that Femdom specialist who has two games on the go and does one update for each every year... they're slow as fuck but they have four games to their name and you can tell they're a perverted nerd who will never stop making games about women who are 7 feet tall who want to sit on your face until you pass out.
Crush, on the other hand, is an excellent example of someone who has been absolutely ruined by his success... at this point, people are paying him 5k a month just to produce excuses for his refusal to do any actual work. He's like an American farmer who is being paid a fortune by the government not to grow corn. There's no way that he's finishing this game and the idea of him finishing this game and then starting a second game is just laughable. Crush is a perfect demonstration of the problems with the Patreon funding model... he's like those Youtubers who only produce one 4 hour video a year; he's someone who used to do good work but has now completely checked out of what he used to do. However, because he was so massively overpaid for what he once did he can't really afford to walk away from the money and so he's trapped in a gilded cage... getting paid a professional salary to produce endless excuses for not doing any bloody work.
- Aug 15, 2018
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it sounds logical... only dead or brain-dead can support this from the beginning in continuity
Rules lol. It gets the abandoned tag after 18 months with no update or 3 months with no communication. Crush has been doing his weekly Patreon blubbering so he's got that covered but we are getting closer to the 18-month update rule. Unfortunately there is no quality rule on the update. Meaning that even though he is supposedly planning to release the lifepath rehash for the 3rd time, that probably satisfies the requirement.
So it needs 1 fucking and half year for this forum to tag a game as abandoned.
Basically by just publishing a newsletter monthly on Patreon promising things for 17 months but no updating F95 will just say " keep the nice work fella! "
I'm sorry but this rule is so damn trash.... no wonder most games are not even finished never.
Agreed... the rules need to be tightened up.
I didn't wade into the forums for a while after discovering this place and I've definitely given money to unscrupulous devs. I get that this is a pirate site but I think there's a duty of care when it comes to warning people about the possibility of getting ripped off.
- May 2, 2022
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With the story still not finished, it offers a really good play. After reaching the unfinished ending once more, I really want to try the Patreon version of the 1.6.3 (Old Engine), and see how it was for myself. I was considering supporting the game for its enjoyment it gave me, and also to access the beta test version but, 10$ is too much for me if I am only going to "support" a game which is on the brink of being called Abandoned.
Fortunately I got to experience 1.20 version of the game with its full mode from this website, and not the weak public version.
Fortunately I got to experience 1.20 version of the game with its full mode from this website, and not the weak public version.
You can always play the free version from Crush's web page:
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The only differences for Patreon version are ability to pick bigger boobs which is cosmetic, being able to have more than one perk at once (which is, again, very much cosmetic) and the back button. The story is the same. You could probably in fact enable these Patreon changes in the "free" version with a small tweak of the html file, much like it's possible with the current one.
- Jan 25, 2020
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Is it a play though? It's just a VN with false-choices. You're just clicking through.
That's fine if it's your cup of tea, but I really don't think anyone could consider it playing a game.
- Sep 4, 2019
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I really enjoyed my first play though, when I was 18, but now I am 97 and my pension doesn't go as far as it used to, and I am low on Viagra.
Should I stop my Patreon for this?
Should I stop my Patreon for this?
No worries. During his fifth mandate, Trump sold Patreon to the Chinese, who promptly closed it.