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whats the story with updates on GoG - when do they generally become available? 
I see that the Bree DLC is also still not there as well

My condolences Runey.
been through a similar thing myself, best you can do is to just .. carry on, once you had the time to grieve properly.
Stay strong mate

Now thats what i call a reply, hah :)
Thank you.

If you would like, I will offer my 2 cents based on my work in IT projects. Some of it might be obvious, but you would be amazed how many people tend to ignore the obvious stuff...

Re: increase quality at launch:
As a player I can only applaud you for doing that, however you might want to set strict limits on how much effort are you willing/able to invest in doing that. Im sure you have a vision that you want to achieve, keep in mind that perfection will never be achieved and you need to set a compromise between what you can and what you want (otherwise you will never finish the game and just end up "improving" something that was always good enough to be published).

Re: EA v Full. You dont really have to invent the wheel here and I will provide 2 examples that you can get experience from. The first one - positive - would be "Being a Dik". Dr PinkCake (these porn names.. srsl.. always in stitches :D) opted for seasonal launch with 4 episodes each that are clearly divided and you know exactly when you are transferring from episode to episode (there are summary screens). However there is also a clear and visible difference between the visual quality of the episodes (massive, massive difference between what happens in episode 1 and in episode 8 both in quality and quantity). Season 2 is sold as a DLC for season 1, but apparently Season 3 will have its own launcher, so I am unclear if he wants to sell it separately or as another DLC that changes the launch of the game...
The other example is Lust Theory by Inceton games. Again seasonal launch - but each season is sold as a separate game.
He went all in with the 1st season (including voice acting), but that left him drained for season 2 that is still on "mixed" reviews and is considered "unfinished" by the players when compared to season 1. I would venture a guess that he simply got overambitious after the initial success and then ran out of money. (still better than his "Inside Jeniffer" where he got whacked for terrible writing and mediocre animations).

Regarding the upscaling of quality - I would honestly leave it 1080 for the entire game, so that you can maintain the same level throughout. Once the game is fully out you can then see if it might be worth it to upscale as a sort of "deluxe dlc" or even a free patch if the game does really well ;)
As most devs found out, once you go steam and you do well, there is very little reason to opt for android launch, as the limitations are just too big for these games.

RE: Pricing: You are a game developer, not a charity. You need to make a livable profit..  You might even want to rise the price of the base game higher, but then put out the DLCs (if you go that way) cheaper. Or even adjust it later on after launch. I would say, decide based on how much game time you provide at what quality.

Looking forward to your future content :)

im curious, is there a roadmap that can be followed with "expected" ETA?
mind, i get software development cant get exact predictions (had project managers like that, always a good joke)
just wondering whats your idea about when you will hit EA (i assume you wont go with full launch anytime soon) on steam

ah thanks, that explains that then

just curious Runey, itch.io is currently running its anti-porn policy - is it also affecting you ?
if so, whats the next move for you?

and here i thought that this development is pretty much dead.
Look at that huge patch note, hah.. great job man

talk about progress hah.
Its always so great to measure how far we have come.
oddly enough though - i somehow like the old hotel building better (not the environment around it, just the building), cant even tell you why...
looking forward to buy this one day as v1.0

no mods, clean download from here - no previous saves either.
just download, unpack, run the game and click continue.
maybe you can direct it to start a new game if no previous save is detected

heh, found a bug for you Runey.
When starting the game after a fresh download (no previous save games, think clean install) - after clicking on continue the game crashes:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

  File "renpy/common/00action_other.rpy", line 537, in __call__

    rv = self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'load'

Not sure if this is know, from a practical standpoing this is a minor thing - so, just to let you know :)

I cant believe that I ended up checking on a porn game more often than any other game on my wishlist.
Runey, what have you done to us with your masterwork :D

thats such a great idea!
I really like that there will be more overall lore added to the game (aside from H-scenes ofc)

ok... i was missing the hot springs scene in the morning.. nevermind..

just progress the story, it will come (pun intended) :D

not sure if Im hitting a bug or..
I am on day 40, had the scene where android peeks on you (the first encounter) some time ago and Ellen is "in her room" ever since.. i cant seem to progress this storyline and i cant upgrade the hotel either (no upgrades thus far) relations with all girls are on lvl 16. Maria is the exception being lvl11 since i have to get the rest of the girls to progress..
What am I missing ?

not yet.. still downloading haha :D 

chill out, its comming :)

oh this is great!
this is exactly what i had in mind

I am by no means ashamed to admit that i came here for the "plot" - and I certainly enjoyed the plethora of scenes.
But boy oh boy I stayed for the actual plot, the story and the writing is really good and a pleasure to read.
Hell, I'm checking every few days if the next patch is out already as I am so curious how will the story progress (even though common sense is telling me that obviously isnt going to happen anytime soon :D)

Keep up the great work Runey
Also I made an account just to compliment you :D

Edit: I almost forgot...
It would be nice to see which perk has each girl earned. I kinda missed that in my playthrough

Edit2: Happy new year ^^