Gren: @GalaTheFish: We are all bored. Kaz, the hell are you doing? It's been 6 MONTHS! Half a year since no updates... Is this going to be a thing every fucking year? Srsly last year we got 4 months hiatus and now this... If you plan to do these kind of campaigns every year then we are doomed. I'm not sure how you expect new readers to get attached this way...
Rinrhajii: @Gren: I hate to be a wet blanket, but I hardly count the oct/31st update an 'update'. It was just a couple images to sate us since the last one was in JULY! (10 months ago)
Cereal: Well, it's mostly out of the merchandise and stuff, so once everyone gets their pineapple goodies Kazuhira can start working on the comic again.
Gren: @TemporaryFace: Good ol' times... Such marvelous golden age has faded long ago and likely we will never experience it again.
Nowadays we are lucky when we get an update per month, and that's an insane amount of time considering this comic is mostly a writing fanfiction... so when shit like this happen and you got to wait half a year well... it's really disappointing.
Gren: @Cereal: Dude, I know he's been busy with that stuff, and I really have nothing against him making money out of his work. The thing is he can't put the comic on ice for half a year, that's really stupid cause that's like sabotage his own creation. Regular readers will stop reading this thing eventually and new readers are unlikely to be fond of non regularly updated comics. So it's all directly proportional: less updates = less readers = less money you can make out of them.
D_C_N: Merch aside, I personally would prefer slower good updates, as opposed to a bunch of fast, meh ones.
Besides, coming up with Ideas for good story progression takes time. A bunch of time. And then there is executing the idea, sometimes scrapping it and starting over. And then there is a art. And sometimes gifs.
And that's not even taking into acount anything else that may be going on at the time. In this case, a bunch of merch that needs to be shipped.
Besides, is it really fair to not want Kazerad to take on a big project "between updates" since unless he kills Katia, or ends the comic, he'll always be in between the last update, and the new one.
That's just my opinion, idk, maybe I'm just an idiot who likes to hear themselves speak, or read themselves... type.
Gren: @ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: What worries me is that this is going to keep happening over and over again. Every year the comic progress slower and slower and these projects do nothing but deepen the problem. I really don't want to sound like a bitch, but six months is damn way too much. And i'm calling it, next year we'll have the same shit over again and we won't have other choice but wait month after month like idiots. If he refuses to further any progress in the story during those campaigns then why he can't be smart enough to have some backup... you know, some pre-made chapters that he can easily post every so often, at least one per month, giving some rest to people's anxiety while he can focus every effort in the merch and shipping.
But no... that's not his style. He just expect people to forget about those insane hiatus with a stupid flash minigame, that's why he did it again even when he said next time he wouldn't mix large updates with these big projects. He lies about flash updates actually not requiring that much time to do and assuring it's like 80-90 percent finished, and then BAM, half year of waiting. Somehow i don't think is fair for the fans, regardless of the waiting, the fact that the author is dishonest with his audience it's just not right.
Gren: @D_C_N: Well, of course everyone has their own opinion in the matter, I am not pretending to be the voice of the fandom.
In my case at least, I got hooked to the story with those short but faster updates and to me they not seemed mediocre at all. Actually, the fast pace made me feel involved in the story, it seemed much more interactive back then and was easier to grow fond of the character since the story is like a part of your life when updates with such frequency.
Don't get me wrong, I do like flash updates, those animations and minigames are really cool and somehow allows the reader to interact with the character in a much more personal way. However, the way that's affecting the progression of the story is a serious issue. Every year the pace decreases, we've been stuck in Kvatch since years when half of the story happened solely in the first year. That's why I think they aren't worth the wait. I think people is more interested to know what happens next rather than a minigame they'd likely play a couple of times and then won't touch it ever again. And if that wasn't enough, these campaigns can only worsen the situation.
BTW I don't have idea what you mean in your fourth paragraph. The "big project" I mentioned was the merchandising campaign, I'm not asking him anything but to update the comic.
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Nowadays we are lucky when we get an update per month, and that's an insane amount of time considering this comic is mostly a writing fanfiction... so when shit like this happen and you got to wait half a year well... it's really disappointing.
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Besides, coming up with Ideas for good story progression takes time. A bunch of time. And then there is executing the idea, sometimes scrapping it and starting over. And then there is a art. And sometimes gifs.
And that's not even taking into acount anything else that may be going on at the time. In this case, a bunch of merch that needs to be shipped.
Besides, is it really fair to not want Kazerad to take on a big project "between updates" since unless he kills Katia, or ends the comic, he'll always be in between the last update, and the new one.
That's just my opinion, idk, maybe I'm just an idiot who likes to hear themselves speak, or read themselves... type.
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But no... that's not his style. He just expect people to forget about those insane hiatus with a stupid flash minigame, that's why he did it again even when he said next time he wouldn't mix large updates with these big projects. He lies about flash updates actually not requiring that much time to do and assuring it's like 80-90 percent finished, and then BAM, half year of waiting. Somehow i don't think is fair for the fans, regardless of the waiting, the fact that the author is dishonest with his audience it's just not right.
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In my case at least, I got hooked to the story with those short but faster updates and to me they not seemed mediocre at all. Actually, the fast pace made me feel involved in the story, it seemed much more interactive back then and was easier to grow fond of the character since the story is like a part of your life when updates with such frequency.
Don't get me wrong, I do like flash updates, those animations and minigames are really cool and somehow allows the reader to interact with the character in a much more personal way. However, the way that's affecting the progression of the story is a serious issue. Every year the pace decreases, we've been stuck in Kvatch since years when half of the story happened solely in the first year. That's why I think they aren't worth the wait. I think people is more interested to know what happens next rather than a minigame they'd likely play a couple of times and then won't touch it ever again. And if that wasn't enough, these campaigns can only worsen the situation.
BTW I don't have idea what you mean in your fourth paragraph. The "big project" I mentioned was the merchandising campaign, I'm not asking him anything but to update the comic.