I didn't say "BB was Eric", but - and I can't stress enough that
I was there, I saw all this in discussions behind paywalled Patreon posts and I won't be fucking gaslit about it - that Eric was the primary antagonist of the game. My impression - all it is, since it's all we had to go on - was that Max actually getting to fuck his family was something to be developed on a slow boil. Probably the friendship route would have remained mostly about voyeurism, but Max getting to fuck Ann, Alice and Lisa was the explicit end goal of the War path until DS caved to the pressure.
If aleksey is only developing the Friendship route, then I'm probably done with the game. Voyeurism and sharing really aren't my bag. Seems like half the devs on the planet want to remake Big Brother and none of them can manage to actually do it.
I was there when the game was starting, I was a patreon back them. The idea was to make an incest game, nothing more, that was the original idea, DS was asked many times what would be the focus and he said it would be incest. Then it came the update bringing Eric and all the shit that happened with that same update, but DS kept saying that the focus was incest. He literally thought that incest mean seeing your family members fucking. He got a huge backslash for that, since incest and voyeurims/ntr don't mix well and he started to have problems with people not liking Eric or that the update only bring Eric content, that he was too powerfull and all that. He started losing patreons and then "cave in" and put a way to remove Eric, he kept saying back than that Eric was just a part and that later Max would get the girls. He is the antagonist but Eric really isn't necesary at all, Kira is, Eric is just the asshole that Max has to take out of the game in the original so he can progress with the girls, nothing more, in fact DS is making his new game without needing Eric at all (he gives the option to see or not Eric).
So again, the original focus of the game, the original idea, was to make an incest game, he had in the banners the incest adventure of your life or something like that, so it was normal that he got backslash when he didn't do incest. I for my part decided to stop being his patreon when he didn't delivered the promise incest and kept doing content with Eric and nothing for Max, so DS got more people saying him that Eric need to go back in the day, because that wasn't incest but NTR, so he didn't "cave in", he was just making his original plan a reallity, he the moment that got rid of Eric, made the game an incest focus one, most of the time, so he fullfilled his original vision, that was making an incest game. That was the original story, so I don't know why people think that he was planning for a NTR game we Eric was the focus, or where he was the main attraction, because his idea was to make an INCEST game, and that game becomes a reallity once Eric is gone. When he understood tyhat his idea of incest wasn't really incest, he tried to sell it as making a competition with Eric to "win the girls" but he didn't know how to make a competition with a rival in a game, Eric seemed to use cheats and you could do nothing so, I will blame DS skills, nothing more. But his focus/intention/objetive was to make an incest game.