To be honest the incest taboo is more a social construct than a psychological or evolutionary imperative. Its well known that it takes multiple generations of direct incest to really start to cause any defects. The real reason incest is frowned upon in society is the fact that it often comes from abuse. People are more likely to be happy for Jon and Danaerys than they are for Craster and any of his daughters. Granted Jon and Dany aren't M/S or B/S but instead A/N, so its already more acceptable in society. Still, it's all about circumstances and relationships. If two consenting adults wanna enter into incest who the fuck cares?
I noticed Sisterly Lust has an update, and I know they hid their incest content behind a simple console command. I think that might be a better solution than a patch in the future. Keeps it in game, removes it in case someone actually has to play the game, and that's that. They don't even have to change the title either, since the sisters are still sisters even if you aren't their brother.
The Sisterly Lust and DMD methods are more risky, because it's clear to Patreon that the content exists and was always meant to be restored. However, with a patch hosted offsite (ie Lewd Patcher) you can claim a third party has restored the content.
I mean, as long as they let Ren'Py encrypt the code I don't see how Patreon is gonna know. How many reviewers do they have that are also coders? I already doubt their reviewers actually experience the content. The idea that their reviewers experience the content and are also capable of extracting and compiling the script to browse though it is incredibly unlikely. You and I might know that's relatively simple, but they aren't going to.
They don't have to, if the developer is telling people how to restore the content by effectively just 'pressing a hotkey' then it's clear to anyone at Patreon, regardless of technical expertise, that the developer is breaking the rules.
I saw that too, or for example a konami code type of unlocking sounds great in theory, but lets say the case is they get reported by individuals on some kind of crusade, if they add hints on how to unlock unwanted content it would still be bad.
They can, but if Patreon were to discover that information (or a user were to report that information to Patreon) then they're screwed. At least with LewdPatcher its clear its a third party site that isn't operated by the developer, and users googling "game name patch" should get it as one of the top results.
I guess you're right. I just feel like Patches are great for people who are active in a community, but they don't work well for the audience as a whole. Maybe I underestimate the community though. I know people like my brother would need to ask someone how to do it, not because it's hard, but because he simply isn't confident with computers.
It depend of what you call community. Here, when a patch exist, the game is patched before being uploaded. I haven't take a look recently, but I'm sure that other major sites do the same and/or add a link to the restoring patch. So for the underground/active part of the community it's not really a problem.
Yeah, that would make a difference. To be honest though the people who I think developers would want to get their content as intended are the honest patrons. They want the people paying for their project to know what they are offering and to know they can expect it from them. As I've said previously, the worst part of this isn't that they're cracking down, because we can and will get around it as all rules are made to be broken. The worst part is that your ability to showcase your kink as a selling point of the game is inhibited by the regulations.
As a male teacher you wouldnt want to be left alone with any students even if its something harmless like answering questions about the homework. You can get a suspension just because a student claimed you did something. I know theres reasons for it, but it really bothers me that just because I got a dick that I am going to fuck my students. The last three sexual relations in my district have been from female teacher, yet I have to go to seminars to remind me to keep it in my pants. Sorry for the rant.
Most likely America's stuff. Dunno about western Europe but in eastern no one gives a crap about such a things and such accusations sound stupid as hell for us. In fact even real relations with teacher probably wouldn't really matter if they were quiet enough to not make it a public issue
That would likely kill the indie industry. The reason this format works is because these people are being funded. People who do this funding need to stop thinking of what they're doing as paying for content and start seeing it as investing in it. Don't get me wrong, I'm right there with people who are frustrated by something they've crowd funded not doing as well as they'd like, but that's what makes this system work, we just need to promote the devs of quality content and let the failures die.
