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If we are picking buttholes, 1.8B was very nearly 1.9 if not for community backlash against the idea

But yeah letter versions are typically bugfix's with the odd small  content drop in-between. 

1.9 is taking longer than normal cause of the sheer amount of work it will take to make good and bad endings for every main character, then continuation of Alice's quest and the updated love route for Anna to make it on level with slut etc. Communication has been handled badly, there is no shying away from that, but hopefully lesson learned. Personally I would prefer to wait a little long so we do not end up in another broken/revamp save state again and a load of glitched quests. 

As for Roundscape Eclipse, years have been burnt into it at this stage so I do not foresee a derailing in preference to Starmaker. But heck knows at this stage what comes after 2.0 and the break. There are sure to be thousands pushing for more Starmaker, but with these being Kal's personal projects he might choose to go down the path of a Arenus Remake or something completely different..

Roundscape Adorevia 6.9 Release, I think we have more chance of Half Life 3 at this point. If there is a definitive answer to this long held question, it might be a good idea for one of Arvus Games to post it on the Steam forums. 

Not to mention, Kal normally likes to do a game jam around this time of year as well, so that might cause further delays if he is partaking. 

Long story shot a little more community management would go a long way, and hopefully stop a lot of the Negative Nancies... though there is no pleasing some people so you can never win 😔

Hello there,
It is true that Adorevia wasn't handled the best way there is no doubt about it, but for Starmaker's case is a little different. We always put some of the new content that is going to be on the update on the planned features and the thing is, stuff gets added out the blue because of "hey, this would be neat to have" mentality, which is another reason that makes it hard for Starmaker to have a kind of "progress bar".

In regard to how updates work, the last big update, and the transparency of when it will release or what progress has been done. While true that there could be some kind of advice about the progress of what has been done, that is kind of difficult without spoiling the content that is coming, and while there was a timeframe before, we have always advised that to be an estimate (I'm not discussing this topic again so let's leave it at that) and is a main reason why there's no date now. Starmaker content creation is different to a regular development, out of the blue something that Kal thinks would be nice to add shows up and then is more work to be done.

The last "big update" was 1.8B, yes this is not the regular, but it is in fact a big update. It brought multiple scenes, minigames, locations, new character and the reworks of more scenes, and NO, this is not "content that was planned and couldn't make it to initial 1.8", is brand new content that Kal wanted to put in game due to the time it was taking to get 1.8B out. The reworked scenes even though were planned, did not include the ones done for 1.8B, all updates more and more reworked scenes are done to match the new style. So yes, is around 3 months since the last "big update".