Who said that Eric has someone besides Anna, in the original it was unknown like and Max is still a sick psycho, let's see the branch with Eric and how it all ends.
If you don't like Max then why do you play, no mater what happens to Eric, Max will be there till the end, sooooo.
I don't know if Aleksey will use the same reasons as original, but I think he would come up with something. I doubt we would get rid of him if not. Here's what Aleksey said about Eric.
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Aleksey90 Will we be able to git rid of Eric in this game.
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Yes, there will be a number of ways to do this.
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Good question. There's still a lot to do before we get rid of Eric. Now all the holes are being filled before aunt Kira arrives. After that, Kira will be introduced to the game and this is a big job. After that, there will be a lot of events with all the characters, including the development of relations with Eric. If you really look at the volume of what needs to be done for v0.04, it will take exactly more than a month. And most likely the moment and ways to get rid of Eric will be present in v0.05.