When I first stumbled upon this site I tried games and if I liked it I played, if I did not I did not. There came a time that I found a game that I really liked. It changed the way I view these games in general and they way I played them. The game took a turn that I really did not like (along with many other players) and I posted my first message. It changed nothing the game continued along the path that the author (as it should) regardless of what the majority seemed to think. That developer is very successful.
Afterwards, my posts tended to point out my opinion on what specific developers (developers who talked about their money goals) could do to make their games appeal to a wider audience. However on the day this update was posted, I had exchanged several posts in a forum for a game that contained rape but did not have a rape tag. After that ordeal (the developer actually claimed that telling a mother that if you do not have sex with me then I will hurt your daughter did not constitute rape) I thanked God that there was a HALEY"S STORY update. Imagine my disappointment to find that the author had made Haley a victim of rape, statutory, but still rape.
Now we are all in an uproar over this update. Posts flying from those that hate, those that love, those that are somewhere in between. All these posters (including me) speculating on Haley's motivations. One poster suggesting that Haley must be crazy look at the way she pushed MC toward these other women. If we wanted we could come up for possible motivations for Haley to push her brother toward other women. Maybe she was afraid of her feelings and felt if her brother was involved with someone else, they would stay off this incestuous path that would be doomed from the start and could only result in driving them apart forever. But the truth is it's a porn game (and at least up to this point a really good porn game,) so the developer had only two choices: introduce other women for MC to have sex with or move the Haley relationship much faster. Actually, are there any such games where the MC only has the option to have sex with one character? To have sex scenes available from the start of the game MC had to either cheat on Haley or Haley be aware of it.
My point is we are spending all this time debating why the characters are doing what they are doing. I am sure when Viitgames was creating this update he wasn't sitting there thinking, "now what would Haley do in this situation." He has a story in mind Haley's actions are what are required to drive that narrative. She's not a real person. Viitgames made these decisions not Haley. Maybe he went this direction because he thought it would be funny to piss a bunch of people off. Maybe he's reading these posts and laughing his ass off. Maybe he did it because he knew it cause a storm of comments which would draw attention to his story and generate more income. Maybe it's just the story he wants to tell. He hasn't responded to any of the posts here, he does not seem to comment to posts on his Patreon page. Perhaps that's the only sane thing to do. Create your story, collect your money, ignore all comments. The next update will come. Some of us will hate it and we will leave the game. Some of us will love it and some of us will just live with it. I just had to take a step back and ask myself why I was so invested in this. It's just a game.
