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aesir150

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Like you, I don't know why the game stopped. And I never claimed to know it exactly. The game was stopped long before I expressed my opinion here. So it's not up to me.

What I know is that almost never a porn parody is actually completed into a full version in the end. I have followed several of these games with great interest and enthusiasm. And so far everyone I've ever been interested in has been abandoned. And there must be reasons for that.
Its because making porn parodies doesn't pay well, especially how often long it takes for a game to gain popularity and how much effort it takes. Even if it gains popularity most people pirate the game anyways.

You have to realize that Patreon takes a flat 12% cut, then they also charge you a bunch of other fee like currency conversion fees and transaction fees which is like another 7%, then when you include taxes which is like 20%-30%. That means you're losing about 38%-50% of your revenue before you even get to see any of it. A game making $2,000 a month means its makes a total of $24,000 a year which isn't even enough to pay rent for a tiny studio apartment in most US cities. Then when you factor losing at least 38%, thats only $14,880 a year. Basically no one can survive on that.

Then you have also factor in websites like Patreon constantly screw over their content creators by making dumb censorship rules. Which makes basically job that doesn't even pay enough to even cover rent an even bigger liability. Then add in the potential of someone threatening to sue you is simply enough to sap the motivation out of anyone.

Even without the threat of a lawsuit where you were to make your completely own new intellectual property porn game, the amount of time it takes to develop the game is staggering, and in most cases the skills you learn has no benefit. Because most people don't want put on their resume oh I have lots of experience using Renpy to make porn games, or my only experience in sound and video editing comes from my crowdfunded porn game.

In most cases people simply either learn technical skills from making their porn games then use it as a gateway to learn how to make other stuff that can actually get them hired a normal job, or they simply get burned out, or realize that making self published indie porn games is simply just not a stable or reliable method of income.
 

ogr blanc

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yeah, I loved this VN, there is another Life Is Strange game here, but I don't care for it. It's not bad per se, it has different routes and choices matter, but it's not this one.
i tried playing that one, but it feels too choice based. and it didnt help that the walkthrough i had for it asked me to do things that were not possible from the start. almost as if it was made for a far older version of the game. so i just gave up on it.
 

exazubi

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i tried playing that one, but it feels too choice based. and it didnt help that the walkthrough i had for it asked me to do things that were not possible from the start. almost as if it was made for a far older version of the game. so i just gave up on it.
Me too. But the other one, assuming we're talking about the same, didn't really blow me away. First of all, the 2D gameplay isn't great. Secondly, it is based more on voyeurism, not on sex that you have experienced yourself. In terms of atmosphere it doesn't appeal to me. The game here was really worlds better.

But unfortunately it is almost always like that. The very best games are never finished
 

exazubi

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This game being abandoned is a tragedy. I hope the dev is ok, he completely disappeared from the internet. :(
I hope so. Because he is really good. I always hope that at some point I'll accidentally find a game that has his style. Hoping it might be him, under a different name. So far without success. He really seems to be gone :cry:
 
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I like to come back here sometimes hoping that LocJaw returned and the game Abandoned tag was gone.........i really hope thier ok, if LocJaw quit then they might have deleated their patreon (which is only getting like 15 bucks a month) or twitter but since both still up i feel like something bad happened and its just left there abandoned since no one is there to delete the accounts....

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jazz154

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I like to come back here sometimes hoping that LocJaw returned and the game Abandoned tag was gone.........i really hope thier ok, if LocJaw quit then they might have deleated their patreon (which is only getting like 15 bucks a month) or twitter but since both still up i feel like something bad happened and its just left there abandoned since no one is there to delete the accounts....

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...why would they delete their account if they are getting free money? Milking people for all they can by scammers is being done all the time.
 
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...why would they delete their account if they are getting free money? Milking people for all they can by scammers is being done all the time.
Yeah True thats is a good probability...but he's only getting 14 bucks a month and that's before patreon takes thier cut. Considering you can make triple the amount by working only 3 shift at a 711 for a month I doubt that money would be useful....plus locjaw never really came across as the scammer type. The updates always had a good amount quality sfm content
 

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Yeah True thats is a good probability...but he's only getting 14 bucks a month and that's before patreon takes thier cut. Considering you can make triple the amount by working only 3 shift at a 711 for a month I doubt that money would be useful....plus locjaw never really came across as the scammer type. The updates always had a good amount quality sfm content
Tbf, even if it's only a few bucks that's still a passive income of somekind. Which is you know, better than nothing. There's also the options of: He forgot, he doesn't care, he's dead, etc.
 
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Tbf, even if it's only a few bucks that's still a passive income of somekind. Which is you know, better than nothing. There's also the options of: He forgot, he doesn't care, he's dead, etc.
Considering some of Loc's final posts discussed health issues, I think the most likely possibility is clear.
 

thevampirate

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After 4 years this is super abandoned. Even when he was active he only updated about twice a year just barely often enough to keep this game from being tagged abandoned between each update.
 
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