Even if there's no version update with the game, some update on what's been going on for those of us who don't subscribe on Patreon of Substar would be nice. This was exactly how Lilith's Throne went to the gutter, lack of communication from the creator which eventually bred toxidity out of resentment and distrust.
Personally, gating news update with patreon/substar subscription never made sense to me. If it's art work... yeah, I can understand the creators only show them to supporters. But wouldn't it make most sense to let everyone know what's been going on with the development?
Not a fan of Discord myself since I don't like chatroom. But thanks for pointing to reddit as a source of information. Although I would still question why there's a need for 1 month's delay with the news update. Since the main point here is about the transparency of crowdfunded game makers with their community. Going back to Lilith's Throne again for example. I'm not going to pretend there wasn't other issues (Innoxia repeatedly going back on her own words again and again really eroded trust the non-discord community had in her), but people having no idea what's going on in the large gap of update draught was a huge issue.
Bottomline, I don't see keeping timely information (unless it's once again, art works) away from non-subscribers to be a good reward for those who support the creator with money. Since it really doesn't give any incentive to those who are paying, all it does is grow distrust with people who are already hesitate to support the creator financially.
Can totally see it becoming a Big issue if the game continues to Have long waiting times between updates. Still always kinda expected the capital to be the "Do or Die" of the game. The massive amount of buildup from other characster could only mean that when we got the capital the Wait would be massive or the content would be lacking. Since the creator has yet to give me a reason to be dissapointed in the game I'am going to Believe they're trying to avoid the latter.
Still, the Wait can easily end up killing interest in the game so lets hope it sin't much longer
Agree. And to be honest... I don't see the actual content of Capital to live up to the hype by this point. Honestly think Threshold took too much time to get it out (if I'm the one developing I definitely would have gone straight to the capital post cave and not do the whole Lybyrinth section), and people's imagination has been flying wildly in every direction.
I wouldn't mind the long wait time, or the actual content of the capital not live up to my imagination as long as Threshold being transpirant about what's being worked on, and what we should actually expect. Since to this point we still don't know what the demon lord is like, and the suspence is really killing me.
Oh it would be very optimistic of us to Believe that the capital will release in any state that can be considered complete. If anything, once it finally comes out i can see 1 maybe even 2 years of updates dedicated to fleshing out the Capital and its many interactions with other characters.
I would guess the biggest reason why the creator would flesh out so many things before actually giving access to the capital (Seriously we got an entire new Village just when it looked like we were getting into the capital) its very much about the daunting task of creating something that can compare to what has been hyped up. Something something, first steps are always hard