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In light of recent events in the VTuber Industry its time to share a good old lesson that helped me survive my early years as a professional:

Fuck you, Pay me!

(Old but gold, so take it to heart, don't let people fuck with you so much)

https://t.co/ZHX2dH7fWR

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@ALegendaryDrops You know they only do that because they have to do SOMETHING to win in the attention economy.

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@TimSweeneyEpic You know thats a bad faith argument ... All Steam asks for is giving steam customers the same prices for their games as they do for other platforms.

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@ThaiGermane I didnt even have time to come by big sadness ;( Hope you had fun and lots of sales <3

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It depends on how big your addressable market needs to be to survive as a studio but overall you're spot on. Studios with thousands of workers for AAA games, by self strangulation through "investor driven" financial targets and soon by hardware limitations, will wither away like they weren't ever here.

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@shimizuaiyu You just need to bounce between them so you never feel like you stopped working on them xD

[LueLuxe - VRChat/ VTuber 3D Models @LueLuxe]

how it feels

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@EmbarkStudios @fourthcurtain Literally just stopped doing regular updates to one of your games because youre so fast kekw xD

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@Grummz Bro stop lying, paypal has stolen artists money for YEARS now for doing NSFW commissions. Thats not news.

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@TruckChanVtuber The ITCH.

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@ToxiKuma Dont blame the artists who make a informed decision on how to be able to financially survive in this economy. Customers decide what they enjoy and if what you say IS factual it only reveals, that the customers made a choice on what is valuable to them.

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@ARCRaidersGame Just remember guys that those are the devs that think that a pay to play game needs a skin store. For every sliver of content they give you they release something new to up-sell you on. Cant even give us a complete product as originally advertised.

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@MakotoIchinose6 what the fuck lol xD

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Do @EmbarkStudios and @ARCRaidersGame think this is too much to post as feedback on their discord?
(yes they do)
A player telling you that they uninstall because your game creates a toxic environment should be feedback you welcome and make an effort to improve things.

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@TheIshikawaRin Love when people confidently say wrong things

https://t.co/ZLpVFD6YzF

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@lotfgame @BGroundNPC

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@MattHausmannAtx @Dexerto I read through 50 answers to this post before I found a single nice person. I dont think its just Dexerto thats full of it, its the entire dialogue here on twitter.

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@Dexerto Dexerto fucking sucks. Their no better than IGN or any of the other media reporting on games. Grifters 101 bullshit.

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Earnest Devs doing hard work but getting laughed at by Games Media for not being AAA from the get-go. Makes me feel fucking icky.

[Mac Reynolds @realmacreynolds]

hey guys - I co-founded the studio that made this game and thought I'd give a little more insight for those curious. We made Last Flag because we loved REAL capture the flag when we were kids, and none of our fav CTF game modes allowed actual hiding and finding. We wanted a complete new game experience for players with an affordable price, no microtransactions, and every cosmetic earnable by playing.

We're a small indie studio - so our game and marketing budget is 1/10th some of our competition (if you want to even put us in the same category as "major shooters"). We fought hard to get the word out, but our launch day had surprise overwatch & rivals update (& more). Cutting through the noise is really, really hard.

The irony is that many of the outlets who didn't want to cover our little game before and at launch are now sharing the story of its low CCUs (not as bad the stories say, but still too low). So lots of people are saying "why didn't anyone market this?", but we tried!

All that said, our team is so proud of this game - a lot of love went into it, and I hope our players feel it. We're workin on more maps, contestants, game modes, custom game modes, etc., and making sure the game stays alive for the people who gave it a shot or are just hearing about it. Thanks for listening, and keep supporting indie devs ❤️

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@ARCRaidersGame Are you ready to give us PvE without rats and shoot on sight muted assholes?

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@Jouhatsu_ai You're fucking ridiculous you know that