I don't believe the devs know how F2P games work. There needs to be a fun way to unlock scenes for free - aka an actual game. Grindy bullshit isn't fun. Gallery mode being free doesn't make it F2P. Gallery mode being free is just a demo. If people have to purchase Harem mode to even be able to unlock scenes, and then fucking seasons passes on top of that? Who do they think is willing to spend all that money to fap? I wouldn't be surprised if this "game" fails from the get go. All it is, is a scene viewer anyway right? What's preventing people from uploading videos of it to free tube sites?
If the devs really want to make a F2P porn game work, there needs to be a fun, addicting gameplay loop that brings people to come back and unlock new scenes. Multiplayer Left4Dead or multiplayer xcom or whatever of that nature. Fuck stupid timegates/energy gates - anything that encourages people to stop playing is retarded. Unlocking new scenes should take a long time if F2P, but still doable. Premium time can be purchased to speed up the unlocking progress. Season passes can even be implemented for some timed exclusive perks. However, everything should still be able to be unlocked for free - even if character/location unlocks are done via gatcha style (but fuck lootboxes).
I've played plenty of F2P games that I've enjoyed, but seriously fuck the devs if they expect me to have to pay to fap, and then timegate my unlocking progress on top of that. That's anti-fun. I'd rather go watch SFM/blender porn and jerk off for free.
I mentioned the same thing a few months ago when it became apparent they had lied to everyone and the project had radically shifted priorities and was in the process of being turned into a predatory skinner box, yet Echo82 and the rest of the paid shills were quick to "correct" me and call me out for being so suspicious of the devs.
There needs to be an engaging gameplay loop in f2p games to not only keep people coming back to the game, but to also entice them to spend money.
World of Tanks/War Thunder have fun multiplayer modes with a plethora of vehicles to choose from and upgrade, along with the enticing prospect of grinding for newer and more potent vehicles down the line. Devs make money by selling ways to grind faster, or exclusive vehicles that offer unique gimmicks.
Another example is Fate/Grand Order, which not only offers an interesting narrative with high-quality presentation, but also involved RPG mechanics that include party composition, leveling up characters etc. The draw comes from unlocking new chapters in the story and trying to get your waifu/husbando of choice.
The one unifying feature that both these games have is a fun gameplay loop. Fate Grand/Order would be nowhere as popular as it is if it were a pure visual novel.
And what does this "game" offer? Rewatching the same canned animations over and over again to get more currency so you can buy more animations you'll have to repeat ad nauseum to do the same thing all over again? How is that supposed to be fun? Where's the gameplay?
Do they honestly think people will stick around after he's finished fapping after some 10 to 20 minutes?
And there's also the issue of content. Warthunder can get away with their pace of updates because the gameplay is fun, but all this game has on offer is animations - pathetic customization of the characters, no ability to mix and match the costumes, almost zero interactivity during the scenes. To keep the playerbase engaged they would need to release new characters, monsters and most importantly animations at a very quick pace - yet we've seen in the past year that are either unable or unwilling to do so - barely any new contant has been added since February of this year.
And all of this is ignoring the fact that you have to buy the game, then buy yearly season passes on top of that, grind to unlock the content you've actually paid for (and we all know they'll be selling "unlock season pass content" DLC soon enough) - and all on the promise that the developers will be able to supply enough meaningful content to the game to justify what is defacto a subscription.
Meanwhile War Thunder or F/GO regularly release new content completely for free.
This turd is so predatory and the devs so greedy they'd make even the most shameless Chinese f2p developer blush.
And the really hilarious thing is that if they were to introduce gameplay, from what they've shown it would also be the same kind of grindy, RNG reliant garbage as the porn part - just that instead of sex animations they would be selling you lootboxes (or as MTG players know them, booster packs) to get card jpegs you can use in the RNG heavy gameplay to grind some more.