Hey Spatenklopper,
We're venturing outside of our traditional writing style to try to find what works for people and what doesn't. While we're extremely proud of Avalon, it didn't meet our expectations in terms of popularity. We want to write something that people want to read. We're trying hard to take into consideration the complaints and criticisms our player base has with A Petal Among Thorns and address them as best we can. If you feel like we've overused certain words or phrases, we're happy to go back through and make alterations if this is a common complaint.
This has been an extremely difficult market to break into. Much more difficult than we ever could have anticipated. We've already had to abandon a game due to severe critical disapproval which is something we were devastated by. It was a hard lesson but a valuable one. With A Petal Among Thorns, we're exploring a more sex-oriented story catering to a male audience. Men tend to prefer youth as younger women often had a better-than-average chance of birthing healthy offspring. It was an evolutionary preference developed through natural selection. Reminding the audience that the girl in the story is young engages heightened arousal. At least, in theory.
We'll make adjustments before we finalize A Petal Among Thorns and we're confident the end result will be great. We have made peace with the fact that we won't, and can't, please everyone though. We hope you continue to enjoy our style of writing even as it does change and grow.
Thank you for your interest.