I'm taking it personally? I'm not the one who's coming up with different ways to kill off Eric. I'm fine with Eric as an ally or enemy, since I know it's a game.
I just think it would be more interesting and, dare I say, satisfying, to keep in Eric as long as possible, simply to find ways to fuck him over and reach the status as Alpha Male by beating the previous one. That's how you become the Alpha. Not by letting the females dispose of him and "settle" with you. Any other game that has this type of content has the MC grow as man of the house and shows the others his worth, so they see him as the alpha male. Max on the other hand, in the original BB, shows nothing, other than convenience. In the end, he's still a little beta cuck, who's just promoted to alpha because there's no one else in the running.