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This is a common misconception, Patreon's change of terms isn't the reason for that scene's removal. The official explanation is linked to the game's narrative pace.I think the reason is that Patreon started cracking down on games with rape and incest in them, they had to cut out the rape in the beginning because of it, they probably had a lot of ideas for Tekrok content but now can't use it. Well i hope that's the reason and not that they just couldn't be bothered to actually work on him.
The point is that this game turned out to be not he kind of game most people expected. It's just not a game about playing a female character who gets increasingly corrupted and sluttier. It's not modeled after the classic JRPG games of the corruption genre, like NN was.I'm sad to say that I'm ready to write this game off. I don't know why but after a promising first chapter every additional update has been disappointing. Not only have the updates been taking ages to come out (Noxian Nights had a 4-5 week release schedule, Kingdom of Deception takes several months) but the content of KoD just isn't at the level of NN. Sure the early NN suffered from a lack of good scenes that featured the protagonist (Riven) but it eventually fixed that in the later updates after her corruption. KoD on the other hand started out strong on that front and has gotten weaker over time. Like why the fuck is there finally a Hellhound scene and Sabia is not the one getting fucked? How come the most intense Tekrok scenes all occurred at the start and now he's pretty chill? What is even the point of having a female protagonist if you aren't going to feature her as the main girl getting railed all the time? I understand having "voyeur" type scenes in a game with a male protagonist but here it just makes no sense. I'm not playing as the entire female cast, I'm playing as Sabia. Unless they are currently doing something with Sabia I couldn't give two shits what the rest of the girls get up to.
Ah well. People are still willing to support this game after the pace of updates and the quality of them has gone down the drain, so we only have ourselves to blame.
And, honestly, it should've been clear from the start to everyone that thought otherwise, because the emphasis put on a realistic world and on complex narrative is a dead giveaway that this game is not like NN. The latter was on the derpy side of the spectrum, the narrative never took itself too seriously. KoD on the other hand is a serious game from the start, it's all about power and political struggles in a land of racial prejudices and wars.
If that doesn't tell you that you won't be going around getting your brain wired to like being fucked left and right, well, you're at fault for deluding yourself because the game doesn't even try to hide its realistic-fantasy nature. It's still an adult game where sex is a focus, but that doesn't mean that sex is always the end, sometimes it's just the mean to a wider end of delivering a good visual novel.
And visual novels, by definition, are very akin to novels, they're about a story delivered through text and visuals.
I am no SJW and indeed I hate SJWs (they ruined my Star Wars and are ruining Linux, those damned ***), but your first argument makes no sense. A strong and independent woman can totally be the main character of a porn game. Not all porn revolves around the woman being submissive and getting degraded. There are people into femdom as well.But you dont get it. She is supposed to be a strong independent woman thablahblahblahblahblah then dont make a porn game.
The quality of the updates gets worse every time they release one. Fewer scenes, worse drawing, the story does not move forward. Its come to a point where the game is just boring.
Your statement is just narrow-sighted and probably influenced by your taste, which is also actually a taste of mine, but that doesn't mean there can't be a porn game with a strong feminine lead.
Finally someone who gets it.Well, the biggest issue people seem to be having with the actual content being put out, independent of the long release schedule issues, is that KoD is turning out to be a lot more like The Last Sovereign, with its focus on plot and systems and character development over porn, than Noxian Nights, which was a cookie-cutter RPGMaker fuckfest from start to finish that made you go out and whack goblins every so often where the characters bore only a passing resemblance to the originals. Sabia herself can be played more like Simon if she's on the Dom path or Riven if she's on the sub, but the differences go beyond that.
Sabia is much more of a rounded character than Riven was, for example. Even on the sub path, sex is clearly a tool for her. You can make her fuck everyone she can to gain an advantage or a favor, but she's not going to just go down and work the tents for the fuck of it. The solution Hreinn seems to have decided on to compensate for the drop in Sabia dickings is to feature the other girls - Neve, Ylva, Maply, Vehlis and Elmy - in a variety of other sexual situations. Now, in Noxian Nights Irelia and Katerina had their own scenes as well, both solo and group events where Riven either wasn't around or wasn't participating, and no one had a problem with that because Riven was getting a bunch of scenes herself and had a few repeatable scenes unique to her. Sabia by contrast is having LESS sex as time goes on and no repeatable scenes at all.
Now, the argument can certainly be made that Sabia having less sex makes sense, even if she is a sub, because she's reached a point where she doesn't need to fuck as much any more to gain power. By this point in the story she has her own raiding group, has solidified her position as a rising power within the tribe, and theoretically has enough lundils to avoid working in the goddamn General Store again, though every update keeps proving me wrong on that last point. But that argument goes to my original point, which is that KoD's first priority is clearly not the porn. Which is all well and good, but I can see why people who were expecting Noxian Nights: Copyright Free Renpy Edition would be increasingly disappointed by the game's trajectory.
Truth be told, I think KoD is at its best when it's focused on the character interaction and at its worst whenever it makes me play Simon Says: Silver Swords Edition (Now with 200% more MOMENTUM) (Also Featuring the WILD AXE from Jadk's Bar). I can't say I play it for good faps. I realized early on that wasn't what it was going to be focusing on. Honestly, there are only two scenes I have fapped to in KoD, and both of them have been done better elsewhere.
TLDR: If you're into KoD for the characters and story, playing every update will probably be worth it for you. If you just want to see Sabia fuck an ever-increasing variety of penises, you're better off waiting for every other update, at best, or finding something else to spend your money on (assuming such folk are among us).
Thank you for taking your time to write this up, I appreciate it.