Wait I'm honestly confused how this is questionable. It's a metric ass ton of work and passion doesn't fill the belly for the amount of time he'd use doing it.
If we're gonna strawman our positions, over 200 countries with a fractional 1/10 people writing a novel, hoping
maybe one day they'll get published. So, those people working their asses off, spending hours in front of a typewriter or computer screen, trying to make something half-decent, they deserve less patience than a guy with a semi-committed team trying to translate a porn game? Perspective helps, friend. Here's some.
I'm not saying that he should ask for money specifically. I'm saying that since he's working for free there should be no expectation that he should follow through completely.
He said he would take on the project. Anyone with any semblance of integrity is going to stick to it, or, barring their ability to do so, will do their best to make sure that the project is completed otherwise. Either way, when you say you're going to do something, it's a general consensus that you'll follow through. Y'know, having integrity.
Kind of like how scanlators for manga don't finish some manga because life happens or they lose interest in the manga.
Again, a strawman. From what I know, if a manga gets dropped by the translation team, they'll either pass it off to another team, or explain their reasoning and leave their work for others to pick up if the interest exists. It's not just a simple "I don't feel like it" thing, either. Scanlation teams have backlogs full of manga they need to translate on a
weekly basis. They're overworked, underpaid (lol), and utterly swamped with requests before Monday. Most of the work is typesetting, too.
Dargoth is one man with a dedicated team working on an rpgmaker trilogy that sees yearly releases. You're comparing the CEO who sits around doing nothing to the cubicle rat working his ass off with hopes that
maybe the boss will notice all his hard work and promote him to a cushy office position. I am confused how your perspective on things is this bad.
All I said was to let the guy take a few months off once in a while.
He's probably got a job, friends and family just like anyone else. And sometimes, a job, friends or family gets in the way of translating hentai games.
I'm sure they do. But, I worked my ass off to publish my first novel and, following criticism, took it off amazon and decided to step back and only drum up hype when I felt I could commit to it completely. I'm now working from all angles, what with a temp company, putting hours into my novel, asking people to critique it, doing side stuff on other forums, and all while having other commitments. I don't know Dargoth's situation because he never espoused about it, and I respect him for that. Often, those who play the "pity me" or "have patience because x" card either have ulterior motives, or just want to make excuses.
Yes, he should announce if he's stepping down or taking a break. (he might've said something on the discord, I dont know). He's probably bored as fuck translating it, let's not forget he's not a machine.
He can be bored if he wants. He can decide if he's just not interested in putting in the hours this week, and that's fine. I don't get where you think I'm haphazardly calling for Dargoth to be bullied or hung for failing to work at some rate nobody set. Those of us with a bone to pick about the progress aren't impatient or entitled. We waited about a year for most of part 1 to be done, and he could only manage 70% at best? And then part 2 dropped, and TTR made it clear prior to part 1 that all 3 parts could be merged. Well, la-dee-da, Dargoth somehow didn't prepare for this and had to go back and make time-consuming adjustments that delayed his work further. Now, almost a year later, and the only thing keeping progress from slowing any further is a lack of news on part 3's release.
Gonna go with "what is lack of time management and allocating duties for maximum efficiency" for $500, Alec.
Its only been 2 months. Part 3 is still nowhere to be seen. Just wait, he'll get it done (I hope :^) ).
Dargoth didn't just start 2 months ago. He's been at this almost 2 years. He's had more than enough time, a significantly-greater amount of bodies committed to the task than Rogue on his own. Hell, from what I recall, Rogue even helped a bit. Whether he got frustrated and fucked off (likely), or explained that he was only putting in some work to help accelerate things, I can't say. What I do know is it took the team a long time to become this cohesive, and they did have a list of priorities with story being at the top. I don't know how much of that has changed, or if Dargoth is even still attached to this project except in name. I do know that this is probably going to be a grace period for them with TTR not yet releasing any info on the third part, and they should be knuckling-down in anticipation for the worst.