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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.
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.
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.
Exactly. I actually think that I said it once somewhere here, but it's one thing to have a cool concept/idea, and a whole other thing to bring it to life
We must have different standards for popularity, then, because I would've never called those unpopular. They came up in recs, got tons of notes etc.
There are some I follow that barely get mentioned if not at all online. I agree, those two IFs I've heard of and seen author's recommend so I doubt they stopped updating due to lack of exposure.
Which ones, if you don't mind me asking? I'd like to see recs that aren't just the same names over and over.
Mb, my tired eyes thought that you wrote that they were unpopular
Disregard my previous remark, mb
I keep hearing about this game and I legit can't understand the appeal. The gimmick of dating personified objects seems fun but the fact there's 100 of them and the snippets I've seen of the gameplay already makes me doubt each is going to amount to much more than a few jokes about the object + a stereotype associated with it repeated ad infinitum. Also I've heard there's absolutely nothing more to the characters after you get to max relationship, which just pushes you to do something else and forget about the one you just maxed. And if that's the case, I'd rather just go romance someone in Persona, since there I can at least blame my lack of visiting my girlfriend after getting her to Rank 10 on my year-long quest to kill the Demiurge.
something something we need to go back to the days of pigeon dating sims
The appeal is that chronically single retards are yearning for a touch of anything, doesn't even have to be a human anymore apparently, so they'll rush at the first sight of anything that has any type of "date" word in it