Stories that left you disappointed for a reason

[seneya]

From what I've heard CC has deals with them

afaik Shepherds author also had a deal, before transitioning to Twine at least. But to me, these deals always sounded like something decided on a case-by-case basis, not just "ask and ye shall receive". Still, if they were to really push it, it would just get a bunch more people to transit to Twine.
It simply isn't practical for them to enforce it, I guess.

 

[f8butterfly]

afaik Shepherds author also had a deal, before transitioning to Twine at least. But to me, these deals always sounded like something decided on a case-by-case basis, not just "ask and ye shall receive". Still, if they were to really push it, it would just get a bunch more people to transit to Twine.
It simply isn't practical for them to enforce it, I guess.

Like others have said, I don't think they want authors leaving. That's probably why their rules are so vague and they don't typically do anything about this. The only reason that one author started updating their public release frequently a few months ago was due to people's outrage and was not caused by any intervention from COG.

 

[Serpent]

From what I've heard CC has deals with them and there are barely any games from her that I'd call fully released.



Edit: She even has a Heart's Choice game that as usual is not finished yet iirc and that would be official and not hosted, right?

Yeah, but she's publishing through them, as can be seen on Steam. And if she's publishing through them, she makes deals behind the scenes, hence why all of that looks like the way it does, but also, she does have some three ifs published already believe it or not, and I think all of those are through them

 

[f8butterfly]

Yeah, but she's publishing through them, as can be seen on Steam. And if she's publishing through them, she makes deals behind the scenes, hence why all of that looks like the way it does, but also, she does have some three ifs published already believe it or not, and I think all of those are through them

Makes sense. I do think a lot of authors are given that deal and secretly have one. Some COG releases have gone months to a year without receiving any updates but the Patreon version does and I doubt authors would risk any punishment (there is no punishment) if they don't.