Survey results! (Pixiv Fanbox)

Introduction:

Below are the results of the supporter-only survey that ran from 28 February 2022 till 21 March 2022. Total amount of participants was 213; which is a significant part of the supporter fanbase. I once again want to thank all participants for filling out the survey, the data obtained from it is very interesting and a great help to me in the endless quest to keep improving my content and produce better rubbery smut. ^^

I’ll start with a short summary of the points found inside the survey and if needed be my future actions to address them. Below the summary I’ll be diving more deeply into each point and share my thoughts on them, and the end of the survey will contain a link to the raw data of the survey (in .pdf format).

Summary:

- Results of the survey show that the quad-HD is the more used version (89%) under the participants of the survey. Support for the potato version will nonetheless continue.

- Survey results show that most participants are (very) positive about the general content. I’ll be keep going the same direction as I’ve been going for the past few months with the general content, with the focus on keeping to improve the general content as presented.

- 13% of the participants experience game disruptive performance issues. To mitigate the annoyance this gives I’ll be implementing an auto-save system into the game together with updates to some of the core components of the rpgmaker mv engine.

- Difficulty of the game is experienced as neutral/easy under the participants. Since this is a porn game this is by design and I’ll try to keep the difficulty in this range, although the difficulty of the game will of course continue to scale with the players level.

- Most participants feel they can easily reach/contact me (granted when I’m not sleeping or working in one of my side-jobs).

- Most participants (strongly) feel they’re getting their money’s worth supporting me. Although most will (understandable) not make use of a “donation-only” Tier I’ll nonetheless be making one for those that are inclined to do so. :3

Individual findings on each point:

1: Usage of either the potato or quad-hd version

First up we had the question if people made use of either the quad-HD version of the game or the potato one. Results were as follows:

After closing the survey it turned out that 89% of the participants used the quad-HD version and 11% the potato version. This was actually pretty surprising to me as I’d expected that less people would be making use of the quad-HD version. No worries though; even though usage of the potato version is lower than expected I will keep maintaining it along the quad-HD versions as usual. ;3

2: General content

Second we had the questions about the general content inside the game. These questions were answerable in a 5 point scale; ranging from strong disagree to strong agree. The results are as shown below:

As seen in the image above most of the responses in this part laid in the agree to strong agree range. I’m glad to see peoples’ been enjoying the general content of the game, and I’m especially glad that most seem to be easily able to find out what they’re supposed to do inside the game. I’ll be honest and say writing isn’t (and never has been) my forte, so seeing that the game’s story and NPC’s are also pretty liked also makes me very happy! ^^ Most also seem to like the custom battle system of the game, and although I will of course keep expanding on this system as well it’s good to see that its foundations seem solid.

All in all I think considering the general content most are pleased so I won’t be making major changes in this regard; other than keep trying to produce better and better rubbery smut! >;3

3: Performance

Secretly my entire reason for making this survey, the third question was about the game’s performance. With the release of V0.20.1 I’ve had an increase of people reporting stability issues (freezes/FPS drops) inside the game, issues which I thought mostly resolved since V0.17.1. Needless to say these reports greatly concerned me, so it was key to get a somewhat accurate view on how widespread these issues seemed to be for most. Below are the results:

As seen in the above image 87% of the participants experiences none or light performance issues (rarely or never on the crashes/total freezes) whilst 13% experience game disruptive performance issues (always to sometimes). Although the numbers are less worrying than I originally envisioned they are still worrying nonetheless, especially since it’s become very hard to find the exact cause for these random freezes/crashes of the game.

As such I’ll be going for a symptomatic approach to these issues for the coming update. One of the most annoying factors in these random crashes/freezes is losing a lot of progression inside the game. After all, nobody likes replaying 10 minutes of content because they forgot to save and a random crash came along. To ease this annoyance I’ll be implementing an auto-save system into the game that saves to a separate save slot each time the player exits/enters a new map/area. I’ll also be updating both the pixi.js and nw.js (engine parts rpgmakermv runs on) to it’s latest stable versions, which hopefully will also decrease the random freezes/crashes some are experiencing. And finally I will of course keep trying to find the cause of these random freezes/crashes.

4: Balance

Fourth question; game balance. Results are as shown below:

Most of the responses this time were neutral, with the weighted average laying more to the easy side than the difficult side. I’ll say this as an adult game developer and say that this is how the game’s intended. Balance is something that will always be difficult to get right, and since this is an adult game in which people are looking to have a “good time” I don’t want to wall off any scenes behind unreasonable difficulty spikes. However, this will not say that the battles will not scale as the game progresses, so not levelling your character will of course make the end game battles significantly harder.

All in all I’m pleased with the results of this point and try to keep the difficulty skewed towards the neutral/easy range whilst also considering the player’s level/progression into the game.

5: Contact

This point was about direct contact with me, as with the other point see below for the results:

As with the previous point the median answer was neutral for this point, with the remaining responses tending towards the agree/strongly agree side. I’m glad to see that people feel they can easily approach me; since that’s also the feeling try to give when chatting/talking with you guys. ^^

There will of course be times were I’m a bit slower to respond, when I’m working on the game, working in one of my side-jobs or simply sleeping in bed, but know I always strive to respond to you peeps in a timely manner, especially when you’ve got any issues/comments! ;3

6: Support Tiers

And finally we’ve the point about the support tiers with the results as shown below:

Above all the most important question in this point was the first one: Do people feel they’re getting their money’s worth when subscribing to me. It truly warms my heart to see that 80% of the responses were in the agree/strongly agree section: I’ve only been active for just over one year now, both as an 3D artist and game developer, so seeing that people feel like their money is well spend can’t be a greater compliment to me. Thank you! ^^

In hindsight the question about how expensive the tiers are is a bit of an unfair one. After all, what’s cheap for one can be very expensive for another, and having supporters all over the world it’s only logical that there everybody feels different about this question.

And finally the question about the higher “donation” tier. Results show that not many would make use of such a tier (which I can totally understand), however a small percentage is open to the idea and I’ll never refuse more support, so I’ll be adding a “donation” Tier somewhere in the coming week. This Tier will be donation only and there for the people that want to show some extra love; content for the other tiers will of course remain the same! ;3

Link to the raw data (.pdf file):

https://mega.nz/file/QnIBjayB#btcHFFIM60bcNzWBWexOYWlPxmMZS_uKyLFYhT5_Lps

That’s all regrading the survey, thank you for taking the time to read the results and if you’ve got any questions/remarks feel free to make them in the comment section below (as always)! ;3

Greetz,

Scriptor