Jfc the entitlement of people. To punish devs for doing what they want with their game? Are you hearing yourself? Do you think you are entitled to what the dev makes? When you pirate stuff, you are owning something you never paid for. That is in no way justifiable to the dev who had to make the product. If you don't like it, then just don't subscribe. But no, the dev has to follow Filipis' wishes because he is the main character in this world, and has to develop the game the way Filipis wanted. You have no moral ground to stand on. You are just leech like me and everyone else. Even I, someone in a game pirating site who also pirates porn games, isn't this entitled or self-righteous. I may dislike something but I don't pretend as if the dev owes me something.
Do you even know what enshittification means? The game going into the direction you don't want isn't enshittification. This is a porn game, it was never realistic. You're complaining about rubbing on film as if having your girlfriend's tits getting sucked by someone else is totally realistic and amazing writing. Enshittification means a product quality going lower on the purpose of exploiting its consumers. What is there to exploit by the dev? If people don't like the update and thus less willing to pay, then how is that enshittification? You just don't like nts in the game, that doesn’t mean it's enshittification. Keyboard warriors are really the most amazing creatures in the world, they are the loudest online and yet somehow write the dumbest things. Go back to Twitter where you can scream idiocy among your kind and feel as though you're superior than everyone else.
Unfortunately people like these are the reason many devs abandon their games. Unfortunately those who like or support their game has to suffer for it.
Yes, piracy should be weaponized to punish devs that intentionally exhibit anti-consumer behavior.
In the case of AAA games, it's flooding the games with ads for MTX or subscription services.
In the case of AVNs, it's prioritizing adding paid/exclusive content over, you know, actually developing the story forward. Because at the end of the day, these are supposed to be
Adult Visual Novels, not games in the traditional sense of the word; I'm not playing A Phone Affair for the riveting mini-games and/or puzzles that reward me with another .jpeg, I'm here to get somewhat immersed into a fantasy where my kinks "come true".
And spending time creating/developing mini-games & puzzles (
as well as rewards for them that probably have nothing to do with the story told) at the expense of quality storytelling goes precisely against this philosophy.
For example, it sucks that Eternum gets leaked by pirates because that dev doesn't lock ANY in-game achievements/rewards behind any sort of additional subscription - everything Caribdis adds to the game is the same for whichever Tier member you may or may not be, a.k.a. to the benefit of EVERYONE playing it. He's not spending his resources on trying to bait more people into subscribing for him, his focus is on putting out content that
everyone gets to experience.
