"Well waking up to this is fucking awesome. I feel completely shit and betrayed."
"He is also mumbling around saying how angry he is and how we are thieves and basically crying ever since on his twitter."
Well, I mean you are thieves by definition. I also don't understand the need to have every thing translated 100%, it's a short demo and not that complicated to understand. From what I'm reading, F95zone users are also interacting with the dev on twitter and trying to explain how piracy 'isn't really that bad for devs'.
I don't think taking the game files and translating them into English makes you a thief but f95 generally has a community that posts full games all the time including full games that are simply translated. Perhaps its the case that the dev didn't understand what the person translating was doing, or maybe he did take offense to his game being modified at all without his permission, either way i don't think the person who is translating 'Kredyn' has any intention on stealing, only helping by localizing a game that as you said should be relatively easy to translate at it's current state, therefore its wrong to call him a thief.
I'm all for the plundering lifestyle, but if a dev gets mad when he catches you out, don't try and act like you're the victim in the situation.
Obviously devs would prefer if their game wasn't being pirated, but i don't know how you can occupy this space and not know that it is happening on a regular basis. I wouldn't tolerate any justification for why someone is pirating my shit either even if they might be correct. The Dev doesn't want you to do it, so whether you continue to do it is your own deal, but don't make it out like you are doing the dev some kind of favor by making something available that they have behind a pay wall, in this regard i completely understand his frustration.
It sounds like Kredyn was doing what hundreds of other people do for other games, they are taking to make the game more accessible to an English audience, this doesn't make him a thief, but he *is* operating on a platform where people are actively sharing his game.
Also, stop the patreon shilling. It's a broken system with far too many restrictions on content creators. At least shill the ruski Subscribestar.
It isn't completely ideal, but its more reliable than other similar services. With a game like this one, with the content being what it is, he'd have to be very careful about screenshots, but i've seen other devs operate on patreon for years and rake in thousands a month there, so in my opinion its the best option.
It seems like Asimofu is utilizing the underperforming Ci-En as his main source of income for the game right now, but Ci-En has issues with a language barrier and other accessibility problems, i'm suggesting that with the right attitude and upload frequency, he could be making several times what he is making on Ci-en.
Despite it's issues, Patreon seems like the best option to me, i don't have an experience with subscribestar, but i can say for certainty that a support base for femdom games already exists on Patreon for similar games.
Situations like this can be roughly equated to a slightly attractive coma patient you have no relation to, yet have been encouraged to foot the bill for life support.
Sure, you 'could' throw money at this dormant lump of flesh that may or may not ever wake up and benefit you or anyone else, because you want to see them stay alive.
Or, you could cop a feel and get it out of your system, and move on with your life.
Really strange comparison, but whatever. Look, i've bought almost every femdom game on dlsite for years now and i've supported devs on other platforms for a similar length of time, i don't do it because i'm trying to get the end-product, if i was simply trying to do that i could do what so many others do which is just pirate it, but i am investing in the dev himself so that its profitable enough that he continues to do this kind thing. Not everyone is willing to do that, but someone has to.
The 'pay for final product' structure is kind of archaic, while there are several Japanese who will buy the final product, and a few people in the west such as myself, most people in the west won't pay for a product in a language they don't speak, they might still be interested in the game, but can't justify spending money on something they don't understand.
As previously mentioned, it isn't about pursuing the maximization of foreign dollars amongst would-be pirates, piracy is way too rampart and cultural among this population right now, what you can do is what many games companies do now, which is offer expanded access to the few willing to pay for it to maximize profit from 'whales' which will partially offset the other losses, by using this model, along with the traditional release of the game when it is ready, you will make several times what you would have otherwise, its just a good business practice right now.
I'm trying to be as respectful as possible but once again, i don't know how Asimofu could have operated in this space for as long as he has and not already acknowledge the rampart piracy which is just part of the equation, throwing a public fit and talking about adding japanese-oriented restrictions which will lock out *all* foreign support isn't going to work and it will piss off the people who
are willing to shell out some money per month to support him -- some of whom he's already blocked on twitter.