I think it's a bit of a stretch, because we don't know whether the alternative wouldn't be at least as much or even more successful. That alternative doesn't exist, so we can't compare their respective performances.
It could be argued that there's enough of unnecessary and annoying changes that were aimed at exactly that -- like, pretty much inventing "focus antagonists" for each movie simply because that's what the audience is so used to, when there's no such thing in the original material.
I completely agree it's the creators choice and even if they say one thing early on you can't expect to keep their promise as it's still their project, even if I'm one of the ones who don't want the NTR I also trust they're keeping true to what they say anyway and its gonna be a save them before they go through with it type deal but even if they don't I'll probably just speed run the last segment to know I 110% the game because the creator put a lot of work into it and if they make a full game I'm playing the full game, I've been following this and Summertime Saga for quite some time now I'm not someone who rushes progress cause I don't know how hard it is to make games of this quality as a side project to whatever else I'm working on so I'm happy whenever I get a notification for a new patch instead of complaining "Finally now bring out the next patch sooner" progress is progress in my eyes plus the creator could honestly be worse like Team Cherry's lack of info for years on end for a highly anticipated game, yes I know I'm comparing apples and oranges all I'm say is take what you get gracefully cause they could just scrap the game altogether if they wanted I wouldn't blame them with the backlash for the choices in their own game
I mean, it looks like that kinda stuff is getting added after the mains routes, since there are choices that are just greyed out currently that seem like they'll lead to that. So it really has no impact on those who don't like it. By the time they're getting added, the game would functionally be complete for people not interested in NTR. So, really, what is the issue?
Yeah that's true, only having NTR endings would be pretty lame.
Truly, this dev doesn't respect his game which is a L dev for me, some dev I'm familiar with will confront users who wants to add something/alter the story that the dev originally created, to the point the dev will even encourage them to not play/support their own game (for those who is not a fan of).
But it seems like the dev has always wanted to do it, why else open so much possible ntr scenarios and teasings, seems like he wanted it but didnt do it cuz fear of backlash, he left it open as possibility and now he wants to do it.
It was always like that. There's a map but only so you can click on next spot/event which will advance sub-plot for character who currently has the spotlight. Rinse and repeat.
