MidnightKing
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Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the idea behind that mindset is that lewd game devs are only creating these games purely to make money? Or is that because it will reach such a relatively small audience then why bother? Either way I disagree with the sentiment.With how limited the audience is and how much actual work it is to write high quality characters, it makes little sense to do that for adult games, and further to answer to a bunch of horny pirates that steal your work anyway. I'd still like to see it of course, but my standards are far lower than what I'd expect in a non-adult game, and I think it's utterly unreasonable to expect any different.
Even if someone had a great idea for something and started that process, I'd only ever take it so far for an adult game, treat it like a demo or proof of concept, then save the rest of it for a mainstream Steam release.
I was about to go into a more detailed spiel, but I'll put it like this: I'm a very amateur artist with an art account that has like 50 followers. Does that mean I should stop putting effort into the art I create, given that I'm not reaching a big audience and am not making money off it? Perhaps it's a bit pretentious to compare lewd games to pieces of art, but the common ground they share is that people are using these things as outlets for their creative visions. Some people do it for profit or whatever sure. But for me, and I'd imagine a lot of others, it's a passion they can put their heart into purely for the fun of creating it in the first place. There's also a certain joy that comes from sharing that with other people, no matter how small the audience is.
My standards in comparison to say a AAA game are much lower as well, but there's still tons of quality lewd games around the site that I'd say even beat mainstream games when it comes to writing and characters. You don't really need a budget for that, but rather just a talent for writing. My favorite game on this site is quite literally one of my all time favorite games even outside of the porn game spectrum.