Just finished the game's latest update and was surprised to see that there was a hint that the MC would soon have to contend with NTR rivals. This would make me very happy but not everybody feels the same way, naturally. Entire board civil wars have been fought over it. However, if the NTR is unconsummated in reality they are just antagonists or romantic foils. You know, only there to make the MC look better, move the plot along, and give him challenges to overcome. This makes me think about whether there is any dramatic tension if losing the girls to these guys isn't possible. I imagine a balance can be struck and there is a way to thread the needle in such a way to make no one upset. Maybe by playing around with some of the NTR tropes (business trips, bribery, harassment, corruption, blackmail, etc) but having the rivals be unable to get out of their own way or have the love interests be capable of overcoming their feeble attempts. One of the darker sides of the NTR fetish is having the heroines be too incompetent, lustful, or powerless to resist. It would be thematically interesting to see that subverted. This might be too much to ask from a porn game, and if it is tried there will probably be an outcry from zealots on either or both sides of the debate, but who dares wins in the end. It is better than playing all those other harem games where every other guy in the world seems to be eunuch or the ones where they don't seem the exist at all.
