If you notice all my faithful referring to this story have been in quotes, not once did I not place it in quotes showing I understood what the dev meant even if he can't or didn't articulate what he meant properly. The term he should have used instead of faithful was loyal. She can still be loyal to Alan even if she is unfaithful, not being able to articulate properly shows he still has much to learn about writing, I didn't say any of this before as it would seem I'm trying to attack him or his abilities. Instead I was pointing out the flaws in what he wrote and how he tried to describe things.
Funny you say it was a minority yet you say it was so many who liked it. Do you have numbers to back any of that up? If not your just making an assumption. If I saw 10 people discussing things before that scene and then only 3-4 after I could say the majority left but I have not because I don't have the numbers to say it accurately. I can also say as proof that his patreon support lost about a 3rd of it's monetary and over a third of his paid subscribers after that scene. I have not used any of that information since I don't know if any came back or if his support is all from newer people. I forget the site that shows a graph of patreon accounts but it shows it by month and gives approximate numbers, also has yearly ytd and other options. His Pat account went from over 130 down to approximately 70, money went from 1130ish down to between 7-800ish. It also went back up and back down as it seems to fluctuate up near update releases and down in the following months after. That particular month after release is when he had his biggest drop so rapidly. Again without being privvy to the specifics I never brought any of that up until now since I can't say for certainty it was caused by that scene specifically.
There would never be a truly faithful route in any netorare game as anytime someone other than the husband/boyfriend has any sexual contact with the LI it's cheating. IMO the reason people were interested in a "faithful" route was to see how the dev would let you handle Clara doing things ONLY for the mission or to protect Alan and if it would be handled in a way where forgiveness would make sense. As I and others have stated netorare doesn't always mean sex but with corruption it usually ends up that way. Without the Leon scene Clara could still have become corrupted to leave Alan from all the other interactions she has and will have with other men or she could resist and stay loyal while performing those acts. Instead it was a forced cheating scene that was the opposite of what the dev even defined as Clara being "faithful" so people were "upset" about being told one thing and then having the opposite happen(being lied to or mislead). Hence why the big uproar that happened. Did you see the post where someone attacked the dev about having a lying and misleading overview and his dev notes being the same? The dev went back and edited the first post containing those after that. As I said I know people left and/or stopped posting because they felt lied to about the change in the story.
Not saying it should have had a true faithful route as then it wouldn't be a netorare story. I said it would have been better if he had let it play out like he stated having Clara do things and get corrupted by them from the mission or to protect Alan. Honestly one of his descriptions of the way he was handling the corruption one being physical(turning her into a slut) and the other being emotional(her falling out of love with Alan) made me wonder what he was trying to do as either way the only thing that would change in the ending would be if she left Alan because of falling in love with another(emotional) or just because she wanted better and more sex with others(physical). That's the main reason I asked about the game in the first place as the story seemed interesting to me but alot of the devs explanations made no sense with what he was asking the player to do. How do you change an ending if she leaves either way, unless you become her cuck. Not alot of options there which is why I started asking questions in the thread, unfortunately it was shortly after the Leon scene so most of the comments I got were pertaining to that scene and how it was handled. I've seen more positive comments about it updates later than I did when it first came out which shows there are newer people interested in the story which is good for the dev.
Dude, the dev isn't strictly connecting 'faithful' with the whole one-man-woman dictionary meaning. He could just be trying to show how messy and complicated relationships can get, particularly in the kind of game we are playing. So no need to lock it down to just 'loyal' and attacking how the dev writes his game just cause you didn't or can't understand his point. I and so many others here have did based on our discussions before and after you showed up here.
As for the patreon support, yeah, it dropped after the scene but only the ones who got butthurt dropped. I am glad it did cause they can stop trying to hinder the development of this game and another reason why I nicknamed the update as the "cleansing" update.
After that it went back up to 150+ as per last update. Obviously, many patrons just sub for the update and drop and wait for the next or wait longer. So there's no surprise as to why the numbers drop after an update settles down. But on average it only keeps going up. So it's a fact that more people are getting interested in the game, even after the cleansing update.
About the 'faithful' route, it sounds like you're thinking it's all about righteous choices. But to humor you, if she only did things for the sake of the mission or Alan, it will be so much easier to forgive her. Because morally, she never cheated on him. So there is no true cheating taking place here. But now it should be clear that the story is proceeding in such a way that it will make players make a complicated decision on what to do with a partner who cheated on you but under unique circumstances.
That is the highlight of this game and I am glad the game took this turn instead of going the cliche route where its all about "Forgive me because I did it for the mission and I never did anything else wrong. Then the husband will say 'Okay, baby. I will forgive you because you were forced into it." Nope, that's just too easy and simple.
If you wanted to talk about corruption, she is getting emotionally corrupted by Leon and after the cheating update, physically as well (ignoring the other bad guys).
I think the story is doing a great job of exploring the nuances of relationships, and it's not always easy to categorize Clara's actions as one thing or the other. You say you don't get how things are going to end. Then why not just wait for the story to finish and see what those 6 or 7 endings are instead of complaining before the dev can do anything.
