Lightning round-response to comments I've seen:
"Why is [X] broken?"
Because you're playing an alpha version. Should've waited two days and gotten the beta.
"Why so much Mason?"
Because I wanted to, and because it makes sense for the plot. You have the option to brush him off and go do something else, if you want to.
"Where are all the other girls?"
You mean Madison, Gabby, Nicki, Viola, Carolina, and Brittani? They're here, and all of them get pretty important plot developments. I'm adding a small Ashe scene to the Beta. Pepper, Alex, and Risa were all just in the last chapter. That's the entire main cast, appearing in the last two chapters. I mean, if you're unaware of Sapphire's identity, then Pepper kind of appears in this one, too.
"Why so many new characters?"
Because FiN doesn't take place entirely inside your apartment, sex-mansion, etc. You go out in the world, and tend to meet people there. Don't assume that, just because a girl has a name and headshot icon, means they're going to be overly important. It's just easier to figure out who's speaking when there's not four people with the name Unknown talking back and forth. The main cast are still the girls on the cover.
But, every girl also has a supporting cast, and their own plotlines which sometimes overlap. That tends to mean that yes, there are a lot of characters, and yes, some of them are even women. That doesn't mean they're love interests. Likewise, if you can have sex with someone, that doesn't mean they suddenly became an important character. It means I'm making a porn game, and am trying to work in as much sex as I can, without derailing the plot.
"Why's Friends Indeed even linked here? Why does he even use Patreon?"
I don't know why it's linked here. I've tried to remove it, and the mods put it back. I've tried to remove the "Vanilla Version" because it's not a "Vanilla Version" of FiN. The "Vanilla Version" of FiN already exists, and it's called not installing the patch. Seems like a lot of extra work for the uploaders, but whatever. I literally cannot control what happens in the original post.
Friends Indeed isn't just a version of Friends in Need that removes certain menu choices. It also makes significant changes to certain scenes/renders, softens language here and there, etc. Patrons of Friends Indeed can't get access to certain channels on my Discord. I don't link to Friends in Need from my Patreon. I do about as much as I reasonably can, to keep them entirely separate. As for why Friends Indeed, and my Patreon, exist -- because a lot of people subscribe there, so someone clearly wants it.
"What the fuck, nothing even happened, guess I'll come back in a year."
I get more done in six months than most devs do in a year, so I'll probably see you sooner.
"I paid nothing for this but I'm still upset!"
Sorry?
