Sorry I don't get what you mean about January?
January is the blue-haired woman at the gym. In the first revamp, Tony can have a multi-part sexual encounter with her that is one of several ways to cut off any ongoing relationship with Nicole. She appears in TACOS on two occasions, either indicating that she'll reappear or just that she's an Easter egg for long-time players, but so far there's no indication that things will play out as they did in the previous version.
I.e if we the players don't let Anne cheat with Martin then she doesn't work for Martin later down the line and the first time we see him in the game is the last time.
That dallying with Martin was the
only way to turn Anne into a code-verified cheater was one of the dumbest choices in both the original and the first revamp, considering how often Anne could and did cheat.
Tony doesn't have to cheat. He can still have fun with other women and Anne is ok with that. She even sets him up with Nicole and later into the game she even brings his Ex back into his life and persuades him to have sex with her also. Anne even says that she doesn't care who he has sex with just doesn't want him to have sex with his work colleagues. She even gets a kick herself watching Tony have sex with others.
It's not that simple. He doesn't
have to cheat, and players obviously don't have to make choices that let him cheat, but how many actual consequences does he suffer if he does? How does it affect their relationship if he does? We're back to talking about the previous versions of the game, but Anne can
end their relationship in Punta Cana if she discovers Tony getting a BJ under the wrong conditions (she can also be fine or ambivalent about it), she can be okay with Nicole in one instance and very much not okay with it at a later date (again depending on conditions), she begs him not to fuck certain coworkers and yet there are no consequences if he ignores her, he lies to her about everyone involved with the diner (and even has internal narrative about how he has to lie to her about it), she expresses displeasure about Tony and his coworker to Troy (one of
her lovers) yet never passes that displeasure on to Tony, and there are countless other encounters — like, for instance, with Anne's mom — that never reach Anne's ears, and obviously never will. The psychodynamics of Tony fucking his ex and listening to her beg him to take her back, while that same ex is still secretly fucking the father that stole her away from him...a father who is
also fucking his current wife and hiding it from him...are too incoherent to contemplate.
Anne's only turned on by Tony having sex with other women in very specific situations. In others, she doesn't even know or care that he's there (the swingers' party, the boat trip). In still others, she's actively hostile (Nicole sleeping in their bed, the hot new programmer).
So we move on to TACOS, in which Tony can have sex with Francesca three times, begin a clearly sexual relationship with a waitress, and never admit it. Without consequence. That's such a...huge......difference...........from the................original..........................
If she didn't lie to Tony then there would have been no problem
Unless she had to confess all the sex she never, ever confessed to him. We don't know how he'd react to that. I mean, anyone who played the game would assume that Tony would be fine with the doctor, with Marcus, with the desk clerk, and so forth...but it's not because he finds it actively hot anymore, it's because he doesn't give a shit about the details of what or who she's fucking, only that she's doing it in the first place.
I will agree that he probably didn't think about what could possibly go wrong if he did it.
Because he quickly loses interest in
her interest. His fetish efficiently obliterates her agency within that fetish. She's no longer his wife, participating in a shared adventure. She's an object to serve his kink, and no longer an actual person, much less someone he supposedly loves. When they're together, he pushes and pushes and pushes until she acquiesces...until he no longer has to push, and she just does it...and yet, when he expresses the slightest doubt, she lays into him. Because she also recognizes that he no longer cares. Meanwhile, he cheats and cheats and cheats — after the diner, he never gives a single thought to how she'll feel about it — and it doesn't matter. Because, again, they both tacitly understand that this is no longer a marriage, it's a one-way fetish in which he doesn't care what she feels and she doesn't care what he wants.
In the new revamp It's not a case of tony pushing her to do stuff
Yet the word "push" sure comes up a lot.
I do wonder if Anne is perhaps not as in love with Tony anymore
By the end of the first revamp, she
definitely wasn't in love with him anymore. And he was largely indifferent to her. I don't think the plot developments were what truly forced the dev to face that he'd lost control of the story, I think it was the impossibility of calling their relationship a
relationship anymore. He made an attempt to just hit a dumb reset button, but obviously that didn't stick.
