*Sigh*
This guy. Considering a quick search of his name shows that he spends 80% of his time on F95Zone complaining about update speeds and delays for various games, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but I suppose I'll respond.
Ah, I knew you would come out guns blazing with your pals and insults. With the time you spent stalking my posts you could have spent actually working on your project!
1) How do you know it didn't increase the speed of updates?
It's called logical reasoning SirD...After two months or so, you mentioned in your OWN dev log that you hadn't even STARTED on renders yet, since the writing wasn't done yet. Only in more recent dev logs did you indicate having started the renders, and we're already at the deadline date you set. Having more equipment wouldn't have sped up updates because it's your writing process that's held that up. You have tons of people on your F95 Polarity page complaining about your slowness and lack of communication. Alorth has even said elsewhere that you are "picky." You yourself have admitted this in other words - you should just own it.
I've told you before that I respect your process as a writer, but you deceive people into believing your updates will be faster with more Patreon $$ when that simply isn't the case. As I've said before, it's not just you - the whole Patreon system is flawed, and devs take advantage of that. In your case, more money for equipment isn't going to make you any less of a perfectionist with your writing. You can afford to be that way though, and to delay deadlines because that money comes to you either way.
2) $115,000 a year?
Such a clever meme when you apparently can't do simple arithmetic? Since another user mentioned your other projects should be factored into update speed, then it's only logical that your patreon funds for Polarity/Neko should also be included. Radiant has been raking in slightly less than $6,000 a month for a while now. You combine that to your $1,600 for Polarity and Alorth's $2,000 for Neko Paradise and you get the $115,000 per year. Was that difficult, or do you need me to use a meme?
3) I'm going to provide you with a small tip that will serve you well in life: arguments based purely (or even mostly) on assumption... usually aren't valid (unless your ultimate goal is shouting logical fallacies from the rooftops).
I'm not sure you actually know what a logical fallacy is, especially since most of your post is ad hominem.
4) I've provided ~7 hours of pure story gameplay (aka no filler, probably more if you take into account varying paths), >85 animations, >3,250 images, >15,000 code blocks, >a full-sized (on the larger end) novel's worth of story, and much much more in less than one year as a developer -- my very first year, no less.
This was all while improving & learning, and working a full-time job (58hr weeks, then 36hr weeks, then back to 45hr weeks) for more than 9 months of that year. For Radiant I write the story, the scripts, the code... I handle the marketing and testing, I manage Patreon, SubscribeStar, BuyMeACoffee, Ko-Fi, Itch, GameJolt, and the various other platforms we offer the game on as well as social media.
For Polarity, I work on that game and do all of the aforementioned things 100% solo, with virtually no help, even doing the vast majority of testing on my own.
With all of that in mind (and various other personal things that you don't know, and probably wouldn't care about if I told you)... am I really going to have to listen to your entitled whining every time I visit the game thread? Because if so... then please, for the love of God... keep your "future money." I don't want it. I doubt Alorth does either.
Or is what I said here enough to satisfy your lack of understanding for how games are developed/armchair game development for the time being? Do I need to start writing a report on my daily responsibilities from the last year as well? I'm not sure if you got the memo, my guy, but complaining doesn't make games develop faster.
Your responsibilities in the past and time you used to spend at your other job is irrelevant to what we're talking about now. Also, nobody asked you to write reports on daily responsibilities...but add strawman to your toolbox of logical fallacies. You told people the next update would be in 3 months, and 3 months later you're nowhere near being done, and won't even offer an estimate now. You and your buddies telling people that more patreon $ would have sped that up is just not accurate, as per what I said before.
Yes I know you don't care about MY "future money." Why would you when you have hundreds of other chumps salivating at the chance to pay you without knowing when the next update is going to come? That's my whole point.
You're a fan of our games and I appreciate/respect that. I'm always cordial/respectful/friendly to players and communicate with everyone regularly via Discord. I don't want to alienate you or single you out --
Oh come on now. The intention of your post is to do exactly that...and really? I've seen you being patronizing AF to plenty of posters on here. Heck, you have an entire section/hit list on your discord channel reserved JUST for you to ridicule others that say things you don't like. I fully expect my posts to be highlighted there, if they haven't been already, so your cronies can come at me. Btw, I'm only being a bit of dick here in my response to you because of how much of a condescending dick you were in your post.
Now you've made me write this long response that's going to annoy everyone else. You can keep coming at me with your insults, and I'll keep responding, or you can make everybody happy and focus on that update!
