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Re: Akabur Games
Yeah... 12k per month is kind of a lot. I'm not saying I wish he didn't have it. I'm just saying... I don't know. It feels weird. Again, though, he does good art and kind of has this particular market by the neck.
As for trying to stay up to date, I think I'll just sit on the sideline twiddling my thumbs until the full, English version comes out. It seems a lot easier than working with broken games and trying to patch it with English.
Yeah... 12k per month is kind of a lot. I'm not saying I wish he didn't have it. I'm just saying... I don't know. It feels weird. Again, though, he does good art and kind of has this particular market by the neck.
As for trying to stay up to date, I think I'll just sit on the sideline twiddling my thumbs until the full, English version comes out. It seems a lot easier than working with broken games and trying to patch it with English.
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In my opinion 12K+ per month should allow an enterprising person to do much more than he is, and his contributors should be expecting more than what they appear to be getting. People started throwing money at him so they'd get a better Witch Trainer, more quickly, and he didn't really deliver. Now he makes over twice the money, PT:GE appears set to take twice as long, and he's so mum about the actual quantity of content that it might be 3 CGs and 10 scans of I-was-rushed-and-ran-out-of-time sketches.
Well, yes and no. To my knowledge, Akabur has never once said he'd use any of the money people contribute to fund game development. Just that it would lessen his budget burdens, and that he'd use it to buy equipment and conveniences for himself that might, in theory, speed development.
In my opinion 12K+ per month should allow an enterprising person to do much more than he is, and his contributors should be expecting more than what they appear to be getting. People started throwing money at him so they'd get a better Witch Trainer, more quickly, and he didn't really deliver. Now he makes over twice the money, PT:GE appears set to take twice as long, and he's so mum about the actual quantity of content that it might be 3 CGs and 10 scans of I-was-rushed-and-ran-out-of-time sketches.
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Someone should just hack patreon and re-direct the funds he's getting to a cause that's actually worth-while. I'm not even talking feed the poor worth-while here, though that's a good idea too!, I'm talking have that money go for something that it will actually have an impact on.
Someone should just hack patreon and re-direct the funds he's getting to a cause that's actually worth-while. I'm not even talking feed the poor worth-while here, though that's a good idea too!, I'm talking have that money go for something that it will actually have an impact on.
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I'd sort of like to study Patreon. Yummy Tiger appears to run a decent project, and he's got his set to pay out on major updates. That could be once every few months, or once a year depending on how ambitious an update is, and how much time he can devote to it. That seems a fairly reasonable set of terms to me. Yet, his next update is pledged about half of what Akabur pulls down every month, and I can't help but wonder how much of that is just people thinking they can part with $10, regardless of how often they'll be re-billed. I'm betting there's some overlap in supporters, and many of them have given Akabur 5-10x as much due to monthly billing without thinking about the difference.
There are other factors, sure. One of them is all the "reward levels" Akabur put up, and then immediately suspended the rewards for. About 1,500 of his Patrons paid and signed up for Kickstarter-style rewards that they've never once gotten. Well, people's names went into the credits of WT (whoopie), and you can get access to the super secret galleries (of art leaked ages ago) if you contact him. He's not about to expend effort looking at his donor rolls to see who should have it and hasn't gotten the password or whatever.
I'd sort of like to study Patreon. Yummy Tiger appears to run a decent project, and he's got his set to pay out on major updates. That could be once every few months, or once a year depending on how ambitious an update is, and how much time he can devote to it. That seems a fairly reasonable set of terms to me. Yet, his next update is pledged about half of what Akabur pulls down every month, and I can't help but wonder how much of that is just people thinking they can part with $10, regardless of how often they'll be re-billed. I'm betting there's some overlap in supporters, and many of them have given Akabur 5-10x as much due to monthly billing without thinking about the difference.
There are other factors, sure. One of them is all the "reward levels" Akabur put up, and then immediately suspended the rewards for. About 1,500 of his Patrons paid and signed up for Kickstarter-style rewards that they've never once gotten. Well, people's names went into the credits of WT (whoopie), and you can get access to the super secret galleries (of art leaked ages ago) if you contact him. He's not about to expend effort looking at his donor rolls to see who should have it and hasn't gotten the password or whatever.
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Re: Akabur Games
I don't know if people remember this but Akabur did have to clean up his Patreon because some people were just saying about payment, but used that as an excuse to see all the Patreon "exclusive content" So I really don't believe those numbers at all.
I don't know if people remember this but Akabur did have to clean up his Patreon because some people were just saying about payment, but used that as an excuse to see all the Patreon "exclusive content" So I really don't believe those numbers at all.
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There's some of that, yes. People pledge for a bit to get access and rescind before the payment goes through. When they undo their pledge, it reflects immediately in the total. Akabur has posted videos of the clean-up he does after payments are processed, getting rid of pledges that didn't go through for various reasons, and the total never drops more than a few hundred from that.
You have to remember, access to the feed is what people are after because none of the rewards mean anything, and he wouldn't provide them without at least one successful payment anyway. That costs you one fake dollar as a pledge.
If you want to knock his total down, the biggest cut is that Patreon takes 5% and expects creators to cover credit card fees, so his net before taxes (which he ought to be paying) is between 90%-92% of the total. I don't know what Russian taxes are like, or if he's paying them.
There's some of that, yes. People pledge for a bit to get access and rescind before the payment goes through. When they undo their pledge, it reflects immediately in the total. Akabur has posted videos of the clean-up he does after payments are processed, getting rid of pledges that didn't go through for various reasons, and the total never drops more than a few hundred from that.
You have to remember, access to the feed is what people are after because none of the rewards mean anything, and he wouldn't provide them without at least one successful payment anyway. That costs you one fake dollar as a pledge.
If you want to knock his total down, the biggest cut is that Patreon takes 5% and expects creators to cover credit card fees, so his net before taxes (which he ought to be paying) is between 90%-92% of the total. I don't know what Russian taxes are like, or if he's paying them.
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Omnikuken
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Re: Akabur Games
New Azalea renders by Dahr, she changed a bit.
EDIT : He's inking the new "gasping-from-behind" scene, with added perk : he needs to re-do most of the PT stuff with her since they (Aka and Dahr) switched models in PT:G
New Azalea renders by Dahr, she changed a bit.
EDIT : He's inking the new "gasping-from-behind" scene, with added perk : he needs to re-do most of the PT stuff with her since they (Aka and Dahr) switched models in PT:G
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Re: Akabur Games
Any news on how long the translation is going to be
?
I haven't worked on it today yet but now that the error has been fixed I plan to do as much as I can tonight. I just know it's going to be a nightmare because now I have to go back through the script and find out if I left spacing anywhere else and then I have the issue that I have translated around 30 or so scripts and just realized that since I have been trying so hard to keep to the original translation that the writing is terrible. I'm not happy with what has been done so far so I have to go into my list of completed scripts tonight and be a little more adventurous with the script because a word for word translation is going to be no better than what someone would get from hooking translation software to a Japanese game and the the whole goal for me in this was to make a translation that someone could pick up and never know that it was ever in a different language. Except for the fact that I clearly marked in the top bar that it's the Russian version and that it was translated by me.
EDIT: I'm thinking that I may just open Akabur's witch trainer and just copy his script word for word. That way all that would need to be translated is the new content, which happens to be about 70% done. Actually it's almost guaranteed that what i'm translating is actually supposed to read exactly like the original version. Although I can flat out say that they doubled the amount of endings so that is still going to have to be translated. I love the new public whore ending for Hermione so far.
The only problem with trying to copy Akabur's script though is that I can't find where the JEdit program that comes with Ren'py supposedly is and Scite does not allow 2 instances running at the same time, so I can only work with one script at a time right now
Any news on how long the translation is going to be
?
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Re: Akabur Games
*Says goodbye to Christmas release predictions* ..... IF and I mean IF he can deliver on all the "massive improvements" he's been on for ~8 months, this is gonna be Game of the Century, if not, hope the internet blackhole and implosion will slap some sense back to him.
*Says goodbye to Christmas release predictions* ..... IF and I mean IF he can deliver on all the "massive improvements" he's been on for ~8 months, this is gonna be Game of the Century, if not, hope the internet blackhole and implosion will slap some sense back to him.
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I yet have to see a game with all the features akabur promised...
^ I said "all" but meant more: deliver something on all the stuff he's planning, like a few new scenes per girl, a few tweaks and whatnot. Not just vaporware and "screw you all into pushing me with a time limit" gimmick he's been on for the last 2-3 years.
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Re: Akabur Games
The patrons that support him obviously do it out of their own intend. For me, supporting someone with ~$50 per month is way too expensive since I can buy full games for $50. I jut curious about his product delivery compare to, for example, studio fow. Ofc, studio fow has more people working on it. Nontheless, similar amount of payment should warrant similar product delivery (as least in quality, if not quantity).
The patrons that support him obviously do it out of their own intend. For me, supporting someone with ~$50 per month is way too expensive since I can buy full games for $50. I jut curious about his product delivery compare to, for example, studio fow. Ofc, studio fow has more people working on it. Nontheless, similar amount of payment should warrant similar product delivery (as least in quality, if not quantity).