"Readers fully understand that the characters Vi and Eric are having a blast and there's no issue between them. As pointed out several times, however, "the characters loved that" doesn't make an audience love something too. " — Adamska
This phrase of yours resumes it all. You can even understand the story, something many that are always complaining here can't, but even so you're trying to put your own opinions higher than that of the characters themselves who are living it, and also ignoring the bigger part of the audience that's fine with the story so far with minor criticism.
This is a work-in-progress. As such, it is open to changes made frequently and expectedly. There were parts of the story that the audience did not like and as a result, CG changed the story. He can write whatever he wants but not considering his audience would be a "fatal" mistake for the visual novel. (See below)
CG himself, and those defending him here and on Discord, have used the phrase that as long as. 'Eric likes it, it is fine'. We have discussed that phrase ad nauseum. But it is important to understand Adamska is saying, just because you keep using that phrase does not mean that it makes up for the weak excuse it provides in the story to justify extreme behavior of a character. It will only go so far. And in fact, it has already reached its limit. Maybe not for you, but for a large number of people. (Again, see below)
You guys keep picking this game apart way too seriously. Vi's headspace, Eric's headspace, their motivations, NTS/NTR, rudeness to Sai, etc, etc, etc. It's a game. It's fun, it obviously has a good story and illustrations, and it's sexy. I'm sure everyone on the thread can at least agree on those three things. You may not agree with everything that happens story wise, but you don't have to because it's not real, it's a creators fantasy.
These threads get so tedious with the plot and story criticisms about this or that, wanting to know motivations, thinking the way Sai was treated was wrong, etc, etc, etc.
To my knowledge, Circle is not a professional. I may be wrong but I don't think that he's ever wrote a published novel or play and I don't think that he is a screenwriter in the movie business because he would probably be doing that if he had the talent.
He's (or she's) just a person who enjoys making and crafting a porn game and compared to the other offerings out there, he's pretty good at it.
Here's everything that we know about the 2 main characters:
Violet and Eric are 2 18-20 year old young adults. They are both extremely horny. We know that Eric loves fucking Violet and gets really turned on by the idea of Violet fucking other guys. We also know that he is not immune to the charms of other women, especially when they use Vi to seduce him. Violet we know wants to fuck other guys, not just for herself but because she knows Eric likes it too. We know this from her thoughts and everything she has said going all the way back to chapter 1.
Like poster yourmomma keeps telling everyone, go back through the game and pay attention to everything that Violet and Eric say and think about their relationship and what Violet says and thinks during both photo shoots. It's all right there.
Is it perfect, no. But it is a great porn game so just enjoy it for what it is and stop trying to rationalize real world ideas, values, and scenarios on something that's just meant to be fun fantasy.
This entire forum is designed for people to discuss every aspect of a visual novel. Only an illiterate moron would come here to say, "Porn good, story bad."
Guess what? Professional writer or not, he is now considered a professional. He is getting paid to write this story. He pays attention to this forum, Discord, Patreon, and who knows what other forums to learn about how people feel about the story. He DOES make changes to the story based on that feedback, not just his beta testers and a few trusted individuals. That is just smart use of the tools provided.
Ask ten people how they feel about this story and they will give you ten different answers. It would be in CG's best interests to listen to that feedback. Point of fact, he lost supporters because of content that people did not like. He changed that content as a result. The feedback is important to him. Stop pretending that it isn't.
CG can write the story any way he wants. He can choose to ignore all the feedback that the story is going sideways. He can choose to only accept the feedback, "Porn good, story bad." Both will have consequences. If you want to really influence things, get your porn buddies together and provide financial support for that opinion. But that is NOT the opinion being largely supported currently on Patreon, Discord, and F95.
So, have all the discussions you want about what a majority is (in your later posts) and why you think the story is going just the way you like it. I guarantee that CG is seeing a different picture. One where there are a lot of people who supported the story BEFORE Chapter 6, and are not happy with they way Chapter 6 went.
I wan't to disagree a little on this take. A lot of uber popular games of the genre are more about - the current couple(MC and FMC) finding more expirienced couple, which leads them into those uncharted territories, in an other word corrupting them.
It isn't about corruption, it is about mentorship and learning from an experienced couple. They do this to avoid making the mistakes that end relationships.
Where is this majority? Those who are crying ntr this ntr that? I don't think those are the indended viewer group. The whole situation was super hot, I can confirm it, dev not changing a thing does confirm it, all proofreaders and people helping him do confirm it,
yourmomma can confirm it.
Half the group find it anti-erotic and they're trying to shame everyone that doesn't agree with them with accusations of trying to force NTR into the story.
When the reality is the other half are the ones actually reading the story. Are ignoring the tags and simply happily anticipating how CG moves the story foward, because we enjoy the story and the characters for all their flaws and don't demand a neat cookie cutter story theme or kink.
Gentlemen, you've devolved the argument back to a, "Well, I like it the way it is so CG shouldn't change a thing." "You don't like it because you self-insert." "You don't like it because you are not interpreting the story the way I am."
What makes you right and everyone else wrong? Both points of view can exist. I can dislike something for the same reason you like it. Putting one's self into a story is the very point of storytelling. This is not a weakness. Not everyone has the ability to do it, also not a weakness.
And more, "Read the dialogue, it is all there in plain sight." Again, for you. This dev jumps around with poor control of the story A LOT. No doubt in part to his defining the kinks 'his own way' and playing it loose and fast with 'genre-bending' ideas. Not having a solid understanding of human behavior while writing a story about human behavior tends to have that effect.
People are pointing out the weaknesses they see in the story. Just because you are fine with EVERYTHING in the story, or because you view it as
just porn, does not mean that everyone sees it that way. Again, both points of view are valid.
Lastly, I'll remind everyone that there is an ignore feature available. It can make your quality of life much better when attempting to enjoy posting on these forums. That goes both ways.