If that's true.
Talking from a neutral standpoint now that I played the new game. What's the Point of Sub point at all? Why the decisions?
Example: first scene with Zoe. I don't think any sub even when he doesn't like Zoe woul take the option to kiss her ass. I guess all have done that but tell me if I am wrong. It's a forum we can talk about stuff.
You mean sub points in general, or sub points for the individual girls? I only play femdom and lezdom games (the former only as a sub), and if for example you snub Zoe, (do not kiss her ass, or even if you do but later on refuse to be her chair and intead look through the papers yourself for her and find out about Acetonius) you will stop getting her domme scenes and she will treat you more or less as an equal going forward, even admitting to her sister that you are a pretty useful apprentice. If, at the same time, you for example completely submit to Leah or Salma, they will treat you as a sextoy/slave that is below them, so the individual sub points matter quite a bit. If we're talking sub points in general, I think they affect interactions with side characters (like the 2 nekos) and, even according to the in-game stats, Yuki's attitude and scenes as well. Overall I don't find a problem with the new sub points system - it allows you to be a witch's slave and another's equal, so you can avoid the submissive content for characters you don't like (like in my case Salma cause I'm not into futa) and see all of it for those you do like. The only minor annoyance about it was the required restart, but that's not so bad with the skip function.
Why the Mini-games, the stuff a sub player wants is behind losing the game. I guess it is the felling of losing that's giving explanation and is arousing for some. Which is ok. But I play games to win.
I'm not a big fan of content on loss either, but if my choice is between femdom on loss and maledom on win I'll always go for the former. I never get anything from the "feeling of losing" and know of several femdom-only players on f95 who don't even play games where they have to be defeated to see femdom as, like you, they will always play to win. I am more neutral on the matter as the main reason I play porn games is for satisfying fetishes/kinks, not for "winning", (to be fair not even in RPGs or Assasin's creed games I was never a "completionist", as I care more about roleplaying as my character and keeping them morally/ideologically consistent than I do about finishing all the quests on one playthrough) so I will make the choices that allow me to experience that content, regardless whether that means losing or winning a minigame.
I can get turned on by a well-written story where MC is being genuinely manipulated/outsmarted by a dominant woman, but not by losing an easy minigame, and I don't think that there are many subs for whom the act of losing a minigame itself is arousing... (no kinkshaming or anything, but I just haven't heard of any and I spend time only in femdom communities populated overwhelmingly by subs)
This is from Patreon and the same is here on F95 in the Dev Notes.
He has to change it If the comment from @Konstantinus is true. That's misleading, that's false advertisement and sorry to sound bold is work of 10 minutes and should have done as it become clear that maledom is thrown out of the window.
That's a must. He's asking for money on Patreon. This is Business.
Technical one scene, but who will see that spanking now?
Fully agreed with this part - only replied to you as I myself find the new sub points system useful, and because I think you misunderstand what most subs find arousing (eg your minigame comment), but I'm not a patron either and I fully agree that, if
Nikociant has decided to scrap the maledom route, they should probaly ammend the patreon and dev notes to no longer advertise the game as "maledom" and just mention it has some "maledom scenes" instead. We should however wait for the dev's comments on this, as they always posted regular updates and I'm sure they'll clarify what the status of the dominant route is going forward.
Welcome to my world with this issue btw - more than half the games labelled "femdom" on f95 are harem games with tags like "creampie", "blowjob" and several other maledom and vanilla kinks, with the only "femdom" in there being a couple of "reverse rape" scenes! (which could easily be hinted at with the "reverse rape" tag alone...) I'm not saying this game is definitely mislabelled "maledom" (as Nikociant hasn't mentioned yet whether they really scrapped the maledom route for good or not), but I'm just saying that on the other side of the fence we often have to deal with games mislabelled as "femdom"... (some would say it's the norm rather than the exception) Anyway, this is between you guys and Nikociant and I'm sure it will get solved amicably as they're a proactive dev that until now always kept in touch with the community/players and answered most posts!