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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

The only answer I can imagine that makes sense is personal catastrophe, and the most likely personal catastrophe is something health-related. At this point I expect to check the site one day and discover it gone, with the domain for sale by a squatter. All things pass, and there isn't another competing site I can take my business to, so, here we are. More in sorrow than in anger, nothing but appreciation for years of product, etc, etc.

I personally don’t think it’s this. Daphne already went almost completely quiet on the forums after couple months ago, especially in relation to any questions about the slowdown, but was still putting up new issues when they were ready.

Agreed, and the work has still been coming out of the other half of the business. If this was the case I think the whole operation would be more evenly affected.

It does suck, and not in a fun way, but it could be as simple as the artists aren't available. I know Octavia Moon said around this time last year that she's retiring and keeping the handful of commitments for Daphne but doing nothing else.

The only answer I can imagine that makes sense is personal catastrophe, and the most likely personal catastrophe is something health-related. At this point I expect to check the site one day and discover it gone, with the domain for sale by a squatter. All things pass, and there isn't another competing site I can take my business to, so, here we are. More in sorrow than in anger, nothing but appreciation for years of product, etc, etc.

I personally don’t think it’s this. Daphne already went almost completely quiet on the forums after couple months ago, especially in relation to any questions about the slowdown, but was still putting up new issues when they were ready.

The only answer I can imagine that makes sense is personal catastrophe, and the most likely personal catastrophe is something health-related. At this point I expect to check the site one day and discover it gone, with the domain for sale by a squatter.

I can't know if this is what's going on, but in any case, this is the inherent fragility of a one-person company. For what it's worth, for this very reason, I've treated this site as "it could be gone tomorrow" from day one.