Some of you might have missed it, but only a few months ago, Patreon got in a huff and banned/blocked the account (And relative monetization) for this game. Reasons were stated to be it violating their content policy.
As is often the case, the relevant content moderator probably never even opened the game and just hit the game based on things read on this very forum or whispered in his ear by some disgruntled asshat.
Either way, a course correction, however minimal, was deemed as necessary to show some consideration to the intimation of the Patreon people, and to be able to say we made enough modifications to fall back within the guidelines.
We needed the game to go back to flying under the radar on that platform, which constitutes, so far, the main dev's main source of income.
it was considered more prudent to not shove NSFW action with Ain in people's faces in one of the first hot scenes of the game.
Will a day come when the game will have its revenue stream spread across multiple platforms enough to be able to give one of them the finger if they impose limitations? we will have to wait and see.
Maybe, in that case, a revisit to that particular scene could be considered.
Until then, the scene is as you see it.
That said, you people should be happy about all the good stuff that did remain in the game, which is most everything else.
The panic inducing block could have meant axing a whole bunch of potentially controversial content, and it didn't.
There are no further cuts planned, which is not to say that a potential rework of a scene, if DS deems it necessary for quality purposes, might not change minor details or flavours in said scene... no guarantees on that can and will be given at this time, but there is no immediately apparent need for any of that, nor is there some kind of plot going on to soften or normalise the game to some standard one or the other player might not agree with.
We still mean to act as freely as we like in creating the content and giving it context, but we do live in the real world, and if those 5 renders, with the implication in world and character building are so important to you, I suggest to play that particular scene on an old version of the game, or just look in the image folder of said version and put it on your screen as a wallpaper.
The freedom to be as out there and outrageous as we might like does come with some, sometimes self imposed, boundaries, and is not any stronger than the freedom to be less outrageous if we feel it's better for the story, the game, the overall product. The patrons of the game understand that this freedom is also freedom from the preference of one or the other contributor, or fan of the game.
