Everyone is ignoring the pandemic effect. Many people had lots of hours at home, and time for AVNs available. The same happened with streamers and esports, their audience fell down as the pandemic finished and people are spending more hours in their real lifes. BADIK, Milfy City or AWAM have inflated numbers because they took advantage of those years, but they do not reflect the real state of AVNs in 2023. I guess all of them have patreons that are paying 5$/month, ddon't follow the game and they are not aware at all of the chargings.
Also you have the age problem. For me, as I found the game 1 year ago, I still have very very present the days when Dylan and Sam where youngsters who didn't knew how to swim and who though putting their hand on Sophia's hip while playing basketball was the end game for them. For me they are something around 13 and the slow developed kids, the geeks, not the chads of their promotion. Suddenly, in 3/4 days, they are about to have sexual experiences with the mother, and the girls around them are giving them relationships or sexual openings. For me its mind blowing because it makes absolutely no sense.
The game needs somekind of "5 years later..." to make any sense at all. Whitout it, all the Dylan and Sam are absolute SHIT lines. It's on the edge of legal consecuences. If you see Dylan or Sam as 17yo, if they are cool, have some swagger and nice bodies, you can understand certain degree of sexual attraction. Speak to any school teacher in real life, that attraction is real. But if you think of them as geeky 13s (as they were portrayed initially), this is creepy as fuck and if I was the neighbour who finds this out, I was calling social services and the police. This is not exciting incest, this is child abuse. The game faces this problem, if you watch the game from start to finish, its child abuse, if you only have last episodes in mind, then its unrealistic but posible with lots of perspective stretch and shity writting aceptance.
So the problem is that the author has to please 3 audience now. The steam puritans, the people who are tired of waiting for 6 years and want the sex scenes NOW, and the people like me that want a good novel and are not interested in exchanging shity writing for cheap short 3dcg porn clips. It's almost imposible. So as the game tries to stretch itself to cater all audiences, it's downfalling into shit.
The last flashback killed me, I must admit that my preference for this novel had fallen HEAVILY. It was top tier for me, but now it's low tier. For me this was the king of FMC NOVEL, now I know its going to be a soft porn clip once every 3 months. Nah, not worth. I think this is going in my mind to the same drawer as Milfy City, check randomly once a year or so if its already finished.
