I've been working 80+ hours, am in a fair amount of pain due to rolling my ankle hard enough that I've probably popped ligaments, and work my ass off on this game only for people to come into the thread and endlessly pop off objectively rude shit or constantly rag on the same points for the hundredth time. Suffice it to say, my patience is wearing a bit thin as of late, so my responses are going to be a bit more spiced. I apologize for my short temper as of late. It is uncharacteristic of me but I feel I'm warranted the right to be human and be subject to my emotions from time to time.I haven't been super active in the thread, but I'm a little surprised about the hostile tone because someone else has different preferences than you, if I understood correctly? Don't forget it's an open forum so many people who feel similarly to who you responded to—including the ones who'd never say anything (lurkers) or would use more civil wording when stating their preferences—are also under fire with your response. I'm not trying to tone police by any means, but I just wanted to express my surprise as I've seen you be very chill and civil otherwise.
To be clear, in the following comments, I'm not telling you to do anything. It's just my thoughts and perspective.
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To my understanding, I would enjoy a large majority of the game. A very small portion (lesbian, lesbian cucking), as I understand the current plans of implementation, would potentially ruin the entire experience for some, unfortunately myself included. I don't think developers should change their game into something it isn't because of feedback from players, but in some cases like here I think it truly makes sense to give the power to the player as both things have the potential to exist.
To re-iterate a last time: naturally, anything you do with your game is your choice. I just wanted to throw my 5 cents in, as a fellow developer, and perhaps offer the different perspective in a more easy-to-understand manner. Cheers.
Edit:
To address your response regarding the definition of cucking:
There's both willing and unwilling cuckolds, although I believe the original definition required it to be willing. It gets a bit muddy when you start talking porn. I don't think the exact definition is that important though. All that's really important here is that the player would be a non-participant; they're watching. Replace Orra with a man or her partner in the situation with a man and think about the situation again, hopefully that makes it clearer what others would see it as when not into woman x woman.
A more complex thing here, is that although you can write the character to love it, you do not overwrite the feelings of the player who may be feeling very differently because they were put in that situation. I'm aware the immediate thought may be it's literally impossible for you to account for that always or even give a shit—I know. It goes back to blabla player choice, I'm sure it gets tiring to hear me be verbose about that
Now, to respond to your points.
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Response to edit:
I agree with you on this except for basing it on "MC/Player being a non-participant." Like I said above, I feel the better thing to base the definition on is if it's a 3rd party being involved. So long as it's all 1st party and "in-house", then it's not cucking, it's just a wannabe 3some.
It's also a lot easier to determine cucking if you look at the intent. An intent to steal/demean/humiliate/or other negative emotions is part of the appeal of cucking. Cucks and the affiliated parties want THAT specific thing.
Two girls putting on a show for you and getting really into it or having some fun on their own completely unrelated to MC isn't cucking. The intent is to provide/please/excite/arouse/ or in the second scenario, to have a good time with each other.
Lastly, you're right. I can't overwrite the players ability to enjoy/hate things. All I can do is shut down the haters and tell 'em to move on. Sometimes I do that a bit more aggressively than I probably should.
