What a shame... tough your decision is understandable as you have to suck up to patreon's rules or face a ban.
It has to be noted that you did started developing the game with non-con content and went happily along creating more of this content for a long while, until of course patreon started breathing down your neck... it's quite saddening that the platform forces you in keeping this facade, but it is what it is I guess.
I've talked about this before, several times and at length, so you may have seen me giving a response along these lines before. I also want to be clear that I don't mean anything personal by any of this, and I don't mean to be offensive, so I apologize if anything comes across as rude - I simply want to be as clear as possible whenever this conversation comes up so there's no room for misunderstandings.
To be 100% clear, Patreon never contacted me about my game's content, and never directly requested I change it. The change was a preventative move when Patreon started really cracking down on their ToS changes, to make sure I didn't lose my income; however, I had been wanting to remove noncon for FAR longer than that. When I started CPE, I didn't think it would be as big as it is (or part of my livelihood), and I simply followed the trend of what other adult action game devs were doing - non-con/game over rape - instead of thinking through the implications of it. The more I worked on the game, the more I realized how much I disliked it, both from a game design standpoint (forcing loss to see the content you want
kills pacing) and because
I do not enjoy non-con. You can see this somewhat in the way the game's old content was more dub-con than non-con, I wasn't comfortable making non-con even then. I was originally not going to change it because I didn't want to upset the people following the game (which you have, perhaps understandably, misinterpreted as me "going happily along creating it"), but when Patreon's ToS crackdown happened, I saw no choice but to remove it to protect my livelihood.
Despite the fact that it was ultimately brought about by Patreon's ToS, in
my specific case, it was something I already wanted to do, and the end result is a game I am FAR happier with and infinitely more proud of. I wouldn't change my decision for the world, despite the literal years of harassment the change brought on.
If you don't want to believe me when I say all this, and would prefer to pretend it's a facade I put on, fine, that's your prerogative. Just try not to be surprised if someday, a Patreon competitor opens up that's fine with non-con (or Patreon relaxes their ToS), and you still never see me going back to creating non-con. Because I won't.
