Excuse the rushed post... Asia announcement...
As of now, something will be released on time. This week has been depressing and sleep has come plentiful, meaning my time is even less than normal...
It all began as a very big VShojo fan. Zen left last week, which was extremely confusing to me.
Then Mousey dropped her thing and well, if you followed it... You know the rest. Needless to say, I have seen a few genuinely good people crying this week because of it...
Then came something I had thought about but didn't expect. I have been insulated from any issue involving this CS nonsense, then came that emoji I screencapped above and the Itchio apocolypse.
I was livid. Still am. It's been a few days and I don't want to get up, I don't want to go to work. I don't want to do a thing. To be honest, Itchio just cleaned me out of an average of $300 dollars a month. I have a $69 dollar payment pending (lol) and I am not sure if it will come... There's also around 80 still needing to be drawn and I don't think I will see that. I think Itchio will use this as an excuse to end NSFW content. I feel Itchio is annoyed by our presence after using us as a MARKETING PLOY after the Gumroad fiasco, then pulls the rug when they got what they wanted. Furthermore, I can't begin to hurt enough insults at Leafo, the CEO of Itchio. That emoji was disrespectful. I feel personally insulted by a CEO and thus, I will not use their platform anymore. Fool me once, shame on you... I am not getting fooled again.
I left my house to do errands. Stopped at a light. Pounded on my steering wheel asking if there was anything scared in this shitty world anymore after a few hours of rageposting on BlueSky and realizing I needed air and to not have my eye twitch realizing that likely my hope of not working 40 hours a week was slipping away and fast.
As a creator, I try to be authentic and me. I know its not corpo to admit I am a person with thoughts and feelings... but I am... Anyway, to the facts again:
If you owned my game on Itchio, you still have access. If you got a code from me, its still valid but I unpublished it and will not seek any public offerings on Itchio anymore.
I will always stand on my principles. I will not be RIP Bozo'd by a CEO and expected to swallow my pride for a few bucks. Not how I work. I will take the L and go my own way...
Thankfully, Patreon already unwent the "payment processor drama", so I dont think another round is due for here..... for now... But who knows. The goal posts are constantly moving and that's nothing to do with IN THE BAG... Yeah, hi In the Bag. Forgot you existed with all this drama on top of drama on top of drama...
Bug testing has proven RPGM is a different fish to fry. I orkin man one bug and another is found. I still feel the foundation I have laid is very good, but I will need to do somethings with release 2. Thats another thing about the Itchi-pocolypse. I wasn't sure about even doing release 2. BUT... I will need to make release dates like this one the new normal. Lots of time because 8 days a month to work on ITB and live life is... not a lot. Something would need to sacrificed.
See you guys again in 6 days. Thank you, Philip for being a rockstar and always going out of your way to check on my messages and dropping me "surprises" to remind me that the frequent silence I get in working on all this doesn't mean no one cares... Y'all got lives too...
Anyway...
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Bye now. Asia.