I'm new in this stuff bro, what do you mean by incest patch? Thanks in advance!
if i may ask for what is an incest patch needed???
what is different??
i think sooner or later Ashe will rail her Mom and Sister anyway even without patch.
For both of you, as I think the only replies to your questions - Alabama joke aside - failed to accurately explain the situation.
And since Wilmer is new, here's what to know about this game (and A LOT of other games). Most adult visual novels and/ or porn games that feature implied incest do not overtly label it as such. Consequently, when you play as the MC in a game, the person that is supposed to be your mother is labeled "landlady" or "mentor" and your sister is "roommate" or "friend." Thus, all of the relationships are modified so that there is
technically no incest happening between characters.
Some games allow you to manually set the relationships and you can even change the nicknames for characters to play into these relationships but many do not. Therefore, an
incest patch is a modification to the game's code that changes all references to the characters and their relationships to reflect who they are actually supposed to be (or just who, in your incest-fueled fantasy, want them to be).
There are many reasons for this, but here's one of the biggest: MasterCard. See, most game developers do this as a passion project... you know, for the love of art and storytelling (and a good fap). But creating a porn game is A LOT OF WORK. Therefore, most ask for money via donations, subscriptions etc. In order to accept payment, many developers use existing platforms to facilitate these transactions, namely Patreon and Subscribestar. These platforms allow game developers to monetize their work and build communities with their fans. In order to function and provide the services they promise, these platforms have to operate within the framework designated to them by both the government (you know, laws) as well as the dictates of vendor partners that provide necessary services upon which THEY rely in order to operate.
Patreon is arguably the biggest and most popular resource for game developers. Game developers rely upon it to make enough money to support themselves because some have even left their jobs to attempt to be a developer full-time. Patreon was pressured a few years back to acquiesce to MasterCard's standards for adult content - which, among other things, included a prohibition on incest. Since MasterCard has over a BILLION credit cards in circulation (totaling 32% of all credit card payments internationally), it would be detrimental to Patreon's business to lose the ability to process effectively 1/3 of all transactions through the website.
So, Patreon adjusted their policies and said if an adult porn game wanted to be on Patreon and use their platform, the game could not (among other things) have open incest. Hence the common "landlady" and "roommate" workaround. There may be other requirements or hoops that a developer has to jump through to meet Patreon standards, but I am not a developer so hopefully one of them can chime in if you still have other questions.
