Man why didn't i just shut my mouth and carried on -> this convo backfires at me extremly...
The big difference between Eadric and Joker and Sheppard is that Eadric talks a lot, has his personality, has a SPECIFIC background of a medic and has his family issues that comes out in 0.5 with Isolde, Eadric is closer to Geralt than Joker, is not meant to being self-insert.
Honestly that really doesn't dismiss my point tho. A lot of H-Games have a pretty strong background and focus on the character, and still allow you to rename your character. I really don't want to drop that on you with an ill-intent, but your Game isn't special enough or different enough compared to other H-Games which also gives you the option. And as i pointed out above, conceptually H-Games just work differently than normal games, and there is also is keypillar why it's different to H-Animes and Porn - because you don't strictly follow a video as a voyeur, you interact and play the game which opens up to immersion possibilities.
it's okay, I think that's mainly a you thing.
Maybe you're right...
I as an author don't really like my characters losing their name.
1. Still i'm curious about it, what if someone would make a mod which enables renaming the protagonist? Would that take away your character?
2. However it kinda explains why you act / feel that way, because look at it from the lense of a author like a book or movie, not from the perspective on a Game-Developer which would give the players more options, so they can enjoy the game how they want.
If i would be in your shoes(so a mere fictional example), while i would put canonical names as well, i wouldn't be bothered about an entirely optional feature which players might use, which aren't effecting me in any negative way... because most likely i will never know or see what the name they pick and as long as they don't take their (re-)name as canonical and try to force it on i dunno forum/wiki i don't see any problem. For me that would be just a consumerfriendly optional feature, which - again as asked above, are even added via mods in other games as well. So i dunno. Like don't take me wrong on this, 99% of time i'm pretty much that type of guy which 'defends' the artistic freedom of developers and dislike when people try to push to much what kind of content shuold be allowed and what not. But that's such an miniscule minor feature which can have such an effect on the players, that i can't understand why on the devside on 'some' devs is such a counter-attitude...
I experimented a bit here:
You must be registered to see the links
, it's a short experimental game and the supposedly sandbox fantasy rpg will also have a nameable mc so
please wait some more
Look, that 'll come off as entitled (maybe it even is) and while i find it nice of you, it doesn't help me to give me a suggestion on other Project of yours, when i'm right now interested in this Game and this 'missing feature' is a problem for me. I mean i even sparked unneccessary a conversation/debate over it, and it backfires at myself because right now this convo and seeing your stance on this(<-especially that) pretty much ruined my mood for your games to the point that i'm not even sure if i test the other ones out or heck - even check the next update out. This is one of the few things where i'm quite stubborn. And i tolerated the non-nameable char because i really did like the rest of your game. But now seeing how differently we see things on this, it's a bit harder for me to overlook this.
Also - and that's absolutely no joke and also consider that it might a bit later because right now i'm a bit broke rn, if this game game 'would've' a nameable character, this would've 'pretty much' be an instabuy on steam for me (or again - considering broke context - soon as possible), but now i'm not even sure if i ever would. So honestly, i don't really care what you've planned where you than grace and allow plebs like me to insert and fully enjoy your games.
Anyway, i want to close the topic on my side, might still read your potential answer to this. Even while we've a different stance on this and it effected my outlook on your games, i still and i'm geniune with his, i might be a bit heated on the topic and passionated about it, but i don't have any ill-intent on anyone and thus why wish you much luck with this and upcoming games. But imma outta here.
with best regard
The Next Raikage!