How would you like the game to progress?

  • Keep going as Visual Novel with some choices and linear story

    Votes: 1,699 65.1%
  • Branch to sandbox with map, stats and RPG elements at certain point

    Votes: 910 34.9%

  • Total voters
    2,609
  • Poll closed .

Rosen King

Engaged Member
May 29, 2019
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Damn. Can hardly say I'm surprised, though, especially with the Patreon ban. Ironically, despite the note about the market being oversaturated with AI-based porn VNs, the whole Patreon situation is actually stifling the side of the market that this game was aimed at. After all, the oversaturation is caused in large part by people seeing Patreon as an easy source of money for projects that are quickly thrown together (not just with AI art, but also with canned 3D model programs), so banning entire fetishes from Patreon (and any other site that attracts the attention of the credit card companies, like Pixiv) will stop people from making them altogether.

Even worse, since the quick-and-easy way of making VNs has become so normalized, it's more difficult to convey the value of games made using other methods and business models, whether that means games using real art or those that don't rely on the subscription-based Patreon model. We've already seen from this game that people have trouble wrapping their heads around how long it takes to make the artwork compared to the 3D model games, and are less willing to support the game because of it. This sort of thing will just lead to the further homogenization of the market, and the extinction of anything that can't fit into those models - which now includes the only fetish I can get off on, naturally.
 
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