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if the 5k only serves to gain time but you take away all importance, it would be just like giving it to Quinn to pay his current debt.I was wondering that, too. It seems implausible, but then again I really don't see the need to introduce yet another stripper in the game when poor Brandi is all but forgotten. At this rate, she might have to pay us to get a lewd scene!
I don't understand this line of thinking: giving the players a choice to use the money is cheap because it causes their actions to have an impact... but preemptively negating that choice is good because it forces things to happen automatically?
What am I missing? It's not like $5000 is enough to overcome every obstacle for the rest of the game, so as long as the player chooses when/how to use it it seems perfectly fair. As shazba said, it's likely the money won't even be a complete solution on it's own, just enough to avoid a crisis and deal with further problems later.
That would certainly be my preferred outcome with regard to Maya; the MC's money can be a down payment to stave off immediate ruin, then Maya can earn the rest of money she needs on her own. That seems more interesting than "Thank you MC, but your check is in another castle!"
they wouldn't actually have any impact, because the urgency is already decided by the game, so delaying or not is completely arbitrary (on DPC's part).
we don't know when Maya really needs that money, if now, in a month, in 3 months etc .
and it doesn't even make sense to me if the choice is just to give it to her or not, in this way it becomes a senseless fork in the road, if I can't decide what to do with that money I might as well give it to whoever asks for it anyway.
would carry less weight than the $10 on Mc's birthday.
Whatever problem that money will solve, it will have the workings of a deus ex machina.Except it's not a deux ex machina. This 5K's been in the game for a while (and hasn't been used yet); we always knew the MC's mom came from a wealthy family. It seemed pretty obvious the letter his dad was holding for him at the end of ep5 was gonna be an inheritance. Turned out to be a pretty lame one considering the circumstances. But it definitely won't completely solve Maya's dramas, it'd just be a stop gap to get her through one more semester or something like that.
Have the diary stolen would just be a repeat of the guitar being stolen, and at this point in the game, if it was any of the college students, the mc would just storm in there an beat the fuck out of them and take it back.
But a horrible twist that would piss me off is if the MC was reading something very sensitive to the story, but before the big reveal he has to rush off to help some other lamer who can't solve their own shit, and then someone steals the book. Maybe the book is going to reveal that Jill and the MC actually are related and Tybalt gets his hands on it, or even more demented, Jill does, but she wants to hide the truth fro the MC (not very likely, but just spitballing here)...
a solution that has fallen from the sky, without any merit on MC's part, which will fit perfectly into a problem that MC could not otherwise have solved.
not so significant when MC comes into possession of it
I hope too that the mother's diary has some development, otherwise it would remain a cheap sentimental corner, but other than to spite him, why would they steal a book from MC?
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