From about the third or fourth season BaDIK has given me an unmistakable Game of Thrones vibe.
The worst thing though is the over the top devotion that BaDIK fan's have for the game. Yes the music is good, but many other games have good music. Yes, there are some excellent renders in the game but there's also some really awful ones and overall the quality is inconsistent at best. The animations are mediocre. The characters are compelling but in fact are basically stock characterizations. The worst part though is that having gotten the player hooked on the characters DPC doesn't know what to do with them, the story is the fatal flaw in the game.
I think you've got it almost backwards. DPC clearly does know what he wants to do with the characters and has set them up on long arcs. The problem is that he's willing to take narrative shortcuts (or even outright cheats) to get from one point on the arc to another.
Maya, for example, has been foreshadowing her issues with Patrick since day 1. Yet the eventual explanation for the mechanism by which she was ensnared was still complete nonsense. DPC could have taken the time to write out a more coherent (if slightly less extreme) version, but he felt the financial-babble version was adequate as long as it was done deliberately. In the grand scheme he's probably right (we can mentally edit the story to hold together easily enough), but it's still an unfortunate omission that makes it harder to gauge just how effective Sage's help might be.
Another problem is that while the characters are more than just stock stereotypes, DPC is still willing to lean too heavily on those stereotypes when it makes his life easier. Hence why Sage can be amazed that the MC is rejecting her advances even though her recent love life has been nothing but rejection from Chad. Sage is a hot, sexually experienced girl and they never expect rejection - her current character arc at this point in the story be damned.
Jill manages to run aground on both of those problems. DPC wanted her to help the MC through his Maya crisis at the end of Season 1, so Jill gets to act wise and measured in those scenes. But her romance also needs to be temporarily derailed by Tybalt to maintain pace with the rest of the game. Rather than write Tybalt as a genuine threat (at least in the romantic sense) and allow Jill to meet that challenge head on, DPC just doubles down on Tybalt as hopeless ass and Jill as naive virgin, tosses Jill the Idiot Ball and calls the matter settled. It's extremely frustrating and weakens the rest of Jill's material (some of which is very strong), so hopefully it will end soon and we can move on to the next phase in her arc.
In short, I agree there are real problems here, I just don't think they're quite the ones you identify. And even with those flaws, I personally find the end result pretty compelling. Perhaps that will change someday, but for now I think BaDIK is the best AVN out there, warts and all. That doesn't make me objectively right by any means, but it certainly doesn't make me a rube unable to see through DPC's con either.
Fine gentlemen of this lovely establishment, a quick question if you will. *Ahem*
The hottest HOT?
Josy, of course. She's the overall hottest girl in the game (combining looks, personality and sex appeal), and she's now a HOT. Therefore she's the hottest HOT.
Q.E.D.