this game won't survive without eric. know why? the others didn't.
Might do fine with the vanilla harem people for a while, but those games are dime a dozen. The last update where Dev bait and switched NTR with Lisa has me done. Kind of a dick move to string the NTR path along and then drop it right at payout.
In other topics,
I keep seeing people say MAX is the MAIN CHARACTER. Eric has to go because MAX is the main character.
To all those people. You do not really seem to get NTR. It's not NTR if Max is not the main character. That's kind of the point. NTR does not suddenly make Eric the main character. You, the player, the main perspective, Max, is the main character dealing with the issues of NTR.
Here is an outside example to help:
The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic revenge story that focused on the PoV of the main character, Edmond Dantes. His friend betrays him, has him thrown in prison, seduces his wife, and takes his child as his own. This is literally an NTR story. No one who has ever read it would even think to say Edmond is not the main character.
Now, you can certainly write a story where the "main character," is not the PC but rather another. I've seen that before. But that's not what we have here. We have Max, and his family, and an interloper. The story is about how Max handles this. Does he do away with Eric (War* and make his family into his harem. Does he prefer to use Eric to gain what he may not otherwise have *Friendship*?
What you are really saying when you say "Max is the main character, therefore NTR and Eric must end," is that you don't want NTR and have decided to not do an NTR route. That's fine. It is the Dev's choice. But don't pretend that's not what is happening. It is not that NTR is not in cards that bothers me, it is that a token effort is given to it to draw the widest audience, and then it is cut to appease your real audience.
Wish Devs could just be honest for once on this. It's not the story that can't abide an NTR route, it is that you have chosen not to do so.