Consider the early stage the game is at.
Most of the game, so far, has been about setting up content, factions, locations to explore and such. it stands to reason that if you kill the girl that is meant to introduce you to a faction, you will not get that introduction. The reward of good-ish behaviour in this context is what puts you in a place to, in the future, make choices that will lead to developments that might be mutually exclusive.
We do have a necessity to force through certain plot elements to simplify the work on the render side of things... for instance, you will always find your way to the new car, whether you kill Asani and/or Kyra or not.. (if you kill both, someone else will give you a clue to where to find it). This is because it would make no sense to have to double the workload on any panel that includes the car... because you'd have to make a render for the old car and one for the new car in every future scene, which is just a waste of time, from a production pov.
As it is, you can make choices that already come with a degree of variation. For instance, if you leave the decayed alive, they later reward you with an extra scene with Fairy...whether you allow Ivy to die or whether you buy her from them using the statuette. We have made it so that even if you choose to buy her from them, you still get Emilia, albeit at a later stage.. so by siding with the uggos and doing the morally questionable thing of stiffing the queen and buying yourself a slave, you don't loose anything but gain a scene with Fairy and get Emilia later in the game.
In the future, there might be situations where indeed choosing a faction makes it so that other factions either close their doors to you or reduce your influence on them considerably.. but that is very much something that we must still define and might also not happen quite in the terms I just used.
I am aware that there are players that want "everything in one go" and want all of the girls at the same time. I assume someone will make a mod to make that possible... but we aim to tell a story where events that happen carry consequences in the long run, and, ultimately, not all girls will be happy with all of the choices you will make.
Yes, this is a harem game; no, it does not mean that any and all of the girls you see on screen will be yours foreverandever all at the same time.. if that's your aim, I suggest you play harem hotel or corruption.
In fact... Saving all of the girls might very well bring some serious consequences later in the game.. not all of them are your mindless slaves.
It is not yet defined, but there's a good chance that to see every sexy content of the game, by the time it is finished, you will have to do at least 1 or 2 playthroughs after the first one... or at least occasionally scumsave and scroll back.
I realise that some of the players will be annoyed by this... I guess we will do our best to make the replay value worth it, and the story different enough to make the replay a different experience. I say it again, we're trying to write a compelling and coherent story and have it be open enough to give the player agency... it's a difficult balance to achieve and we are fully aware that we won't be able to make everybody happy.
For the players who are playing the game purely for the sex scenes, I am sure there will be a good samaritan out there that unlocks the gallery for them whether they play the game or not.
Let's face it, we all know how this forum works... a bunch of you will probably come to this thread in the future, to ask for a full save, so they have the gallery unlocked already and don't have to scroll through the game, no matter how little grind there is in it... you will understand me if I say that we don't make the game with those "players" in mind.
