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I've heard the suggestion that the slowdown last year was caused by an increasing focus on Starter Marriage, that it was the most popular feature on the site. I'm not personally a big fan of it, but if it was drawing in a lot of attention, new money, etcetera, it's only sensible that Daphne and co. would prefer to keep focusing on that, I encourage it in that case. What I don't understand is why Starter Marriage has also not gotten an update since May of 2025 and we are rapidly encroaching on 2027. Moreover, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't really understand why it would take so much more artist resources. Surely just one of the contracted artists would be doing the work for it and it's really just one art piece per page isn't it? I feel like I must fundamentally misunderstand why it's such a time and money sink compared to a whole issue of a comic book. Again to be clear I certainly don't want to come off like I'm complaining that 'this ain't my taste so why's it getting attention', since there are a lot of different pieces that aren't my cup of tea, and I'm just waiting for ones I do like to come back. Also given daphne's last post was the end of august are we sure something *hasn't* happened to her?

Yeah, Starter Marriage does seem to have eaten the rest of the site. I suspect it’s a money thing; software development always takes way longer and costs waaaay more than it looks like at the start of a project. The fact that *all* the artists appear to have more or less abandoned Daphne at the same time seems like less of a policy disagreement and more about “I can’t pay you.”

I don't even think this is the case, with Lessirova being announced; an entirely new multipath interactive comic to code, then that would double any pain caused by starter marriage if there was any. I believe it's something more. Just trying to stay optimistic we'll get a continuation of starter marriage before the year is up.

Love the entire series. The artwork is wonderful.

See, but that then comes down to poor planning. I guarantee if the members had been asked, “SM at the cost of regular content writ large for the better part of a year or longer, or SM gradually released in 4.x updates or 5.x updates to ensure consistent delivery of the base product,” the members would near unilaterally have preferred the latter

Yeah, Starter Marriage does seem to have eaten the rest of the site. I suspect it’s a money thing; software development always takes way longer and costs waaaay more than it looks like at the start of a project. The fact that *all* the artists appear to have more or less abandoned Daphne at the same time seems like less of a policy disagreement and more about “I can’t pay you.”

I have thought for a while that Starter Marriage was the problem. When I would get on here and every post was fixxes for it, it convinced me that it was much harder than anyone thought and that burnout was inevitable.

OneDollarBilly and Sturk (for example) seem to be producing, but not at prolific rates. It is hard to believe that, if work was available, they would not be producing. I’d love to see some new Expanded Universe or Roll Playing.

These pipeline troubles really did seem to start right around the time Daphne’s Fantasies announced they were starting to embrace A.I.

I wouldn’t deny there’s a link between the pipeline issues and AI, but I think it has more to do with the push to get the next big Starter Marriage update out.

OneDollarBilly and Sturk (for example) seem to be producing, but not at prolific rates. It is hard to believe that, if work was available, they would not be producing. I’d love to see some new Expanded Universe or Roll Playing.

These pipeline troubles really did seem to start right around the time Daphne’s Fantasies announced they were starting to embrace A.I.

The thing that matters is if those artists are producing elsewhere from MCC/DF projects. If their slate is full because the work pays better, or their own personal work is taking priority over work-for-hire projects, MCC takes the L.

I personally accept that we're not entitled to any kind of explanation, but also that in the absence of information, speculation is the going currency.

OneDollarBilly and Sturk (for example) seem to be producing, but not at prolific rates. It is hard to believe that, if work was available, they would not be producing. I’d love to see some new Expanded Universe or Roll Playing.

These pipeline troubles really did seem to start right around the time Daphne’s Fantasies announced they were starting to embrace A.I.

Even the weeklies on the comic side have been nonexistent for two weeks now. This was after Daphne claimed that SJI would be returning on a once per week basis with consistency, which was my whole reason for resubscribing