First, for the whiners, this is clearly the "Parker as hero" path.
Yep, sure, of course, because “MC a victorious hero” is what a game with :”
WARNING: There are strong,
non-avoidable elements of blackmail, coercion and NTR (depending on your definition of NTR) in this story.” is all about.
I remind you that the worst TERRIBLE BLACKMAIL AND COERCION in the entire game so far was a bit of groping and “show me your tits” that you might expect from an Activision office. There wasn’t a single non-con sexual scene.
Yeh, I’ll probably drop the Patreon support. The HAPPY END out of nowhere is really out of touch with what the game was built around.
It’s not even that the story is bad - half of the new chapter had a decent writing and renders - but it suddenly changed the direction from what was written as an NTR bad end to “fuck you, MC won through doing nothing smart, story is over”.
Eh, someone will probably like where the game is going now. I don’t. Good luck everyone.
P.S. Rich, I like you, I really do, so let me explain some things. People in this community have a certain expectation of the game and it’s direction, formulated by the tags and warnings and released episodes. If you disagree with that framework, it is fine, but don’t read the comments here then. You might see it as a story you want to tell, people here see it as a story set up in a certain genre, with certain tags and certain elements. If you do not deliver upon them after making an impression that you are going to, you are subverting expectations and people get mad.
If you do not want to read complaints about lack of NTR porn, you should not read comments left by people on a porn game website in a NTR games section. Go to steam or other “artist” platform where expectations are different.
There is a fundamental miscommunication between you and players about what the project is about and what to expect from it.
What you essentially did is promoted the game to the NTR-loving porn game players target audience, and released it to them - f95zone, SS, Patreon, NTR tags, WARNING: NTR, porn renders, all good. You did it well enough to set up a project and keep it going. However, here is the kicker - you set it up in the F95zone comunity and pushed away all the non-ntr folks by putting on NTR tags and WARNINGS. You are left with a very special audience.
It is not that you are bad, or people are shit and full of negativity - you just attracted the wrong crowd, that you were not going for, not the target audience you wanted. You want to release your artistic vision, but people that you attracted expect to see very different result from what you are producing. It is not that what you are doing is bad, it's just what you are producing is not interesting to people who are receiving it, and they are trying to correct you and scream at you that you are doing something wrong and come off the right NTR-porn game path, which you never intended to follow.
This is the same thing as what happens to the first Big Brother, where dev wanted to go NTR voyer, and assembled a crowd of normal porn games - project died.
If you want my advice - stop coming to f95 for now, people who read this thread are not the people you are trying to attract. Better yet, divide the game at A and B as separate projects, and remove "ntr" tags from B entirely, since it is not going to happen (as obvious now). Promote it like a normal, non-ntr heroic version of the game, treat it like a blank slate, and get the crown of people who appreciate this kind of things. Create another thread for it. Stay there.
You gotta understand your audience, man. If you don't, you are only getting pushed back by negativity that comes not from the game itself, but from miscommunication and could be completely avoided.
