So T8s could all be potentially dead end fodder, half developed, teased and pointless lol. Thats TWENTY EIGHT characters of screentime for no reason - im not sure abandoning them is much better in all honesty. If theyve been added they might as well be used whether funded or not and they could very comfortably be used for the more extreme kinks the game features with little to no consequence compared to using the kinks with the family or his classroom. Still glad there will no MORE being added but yeah if theyve just been junked then i hope the merge removed them from the game as its a lot of fluff and harddrive space reserved for no reason but unfulfilled cock teasing.
The game is bloated character wise so trim the fat or retain it and develop what we have without mass increasing the number we already have - there are plenty to develop now without adding in more not core to upcoming story events. Hell most of these girls could easily be employess all across town to fill out the sandbox elements without needing to create new character models and backgrounds as well as the various school activity clubs and what have you (gardening club for example needs more so i guess they can use the ones weve seen and barely seen since - minimalise dev time on creating more filler to pad out things and hell let us fuck em whilst were at it).
I don't think the sandbox is going to be complex enough to require filler characters. I think it's just filled with optional events with established characters, that you can do in any order and even skip. That said, T8 characters would probably do well having the majority their content take place in the sandbox, with daytime events needing the prerequisite sandbox event to trigger or something.
I think they need to either make proper use of the characters in a way that works, or just excise the T8 characters entirely. Assuming Alice is the only girl that is currently defunded. All the build up was ultimately pointless, and her fans are disappointed. Now for the remaining 27, who the hell is going to bother getting invested if it takes one bad payday of some random guy to completely render all that characterisation and build up pointless? If anything, any screen time a T8 gets is just going to piss off players because they're taking up screen time of someone who is definitely getting payoff. Even see characters I was looking forward to progressing with is going to be frustrating to see them actually progress.
And more T8+ supporters are probably going to pull out, because the world is a shit show at the moment, and some of them probably can't help it due to their financial situation going down the shitter.
For the sake of more pleasant discussion though. What T8+ characters are you guys fans of? I like Reiya purely because she's related to best girl Sloth-Chan, and I'm always down for a sisterly threesome, and I'd like to continue whatever fuck we have going on with Michiko and Migoto. Ilyia has a neat design too.