Shady Corner's Winged Cloud Exposed Piece

Judge Heath here, speaking on behalf of the whole team when I say that we were really impressed with this piece of investigative journalism.

Now, this might seem a bit out of place on our patreon, but we felt it was important to share for a lot of reasons, which I'll go through in no particular order, but that stem from a baseline opinion that the erogame industry is a real industry, not a joke, not something that is not worth the money being spent on it, not something that can be swept under the carpet, but a legitimate form of money making that is rarely, if ever, treated with anything approaching respect. It is also riddled with unprofessional behavior, people lacking in business ethics, or understanding of how to properly run things so that trust is built and maintained.

The first reason we felt, on a personal level, that this piece needed to be signal boosted goes back to the way we were treated in the very beginning. When Breeding Season, the highest grossing Video Game Patreon at the time, went under, it was covered by several news outlets and bloggers from Rooster's Teeth, to PC Gamer, to Kotaku, and out of all of those, only Gameranx took the time to get both sides of the story and post a followup piece. Very few of the other articles treated the situation, a $42k monthly patreon going down in flames, as anything other than a joke due to the fact it was an adult game, because how the hell could adult game makers have professional and ethical standards right? If they had those they'd not be working in porn. So seeing any serious piece on the problems in our little slice of the game industry is refreshing and should be promoted.

The second personal reason we had for boosting this piece goes back to the circumstances of our founding. Team Nimbus was founded on the principle that we wanted to run this team like a legitimate business. We wanted everyone working for us on proper contracts, working for proper wages for full time when possible, and being given proper credit and recompense and reasonable work hours and schedules. We rarely, if ever, bring up Breeding Season ourselves, but for those who have followed us from the beginning, which is to say, from the point where Breeding Season fell apart and Cloud Meadow rose from the ashes, you will know a key factor in Breeding Season's demise was HBomb's treatment of his contracted employees. Everything that Team Nimbus does these days, on the business side of things, is made with an eye towards ensuring our employees are properly compensated for their work, avoid burn out, and take enjoyment in working for us. 

Finally, we are promoting this because, just as we felt our company needed to be founded on principles of fair dealings and ethical business practices, these things need to be promoted in the adult games industry as a whole. We cannot sit idly by while people find themselves betrayed, belittled, and trapped by those who will take advantage of their work, and feel that they have no where to go for justice, that no one will care because they are 'just making porn.' This situation for such people is understandable, everyone in our company operates under a pseudonym to protect their identity due to the risk of being blacklisted in the rest of the games industry, or in other industries we might want to one day move too, simply because we made a living off of getting people off. No one should feel trapped because of that inherent risk.

So we're asking you, our Patrons, to watch this piece, and spread the word about the bad faith dealings of Winged Cloud and the person running it, and to give Shady Corner (Whose Youtube Channel Can Be Found Here) your support! You might remember them from the review they did on our game. 

Winged Cloud EXPOSED! - Dat Game Review (YouTube)