My take on why this project has failed to gain traction.
I've seen opinions on why some people believe this project has failed, and I believe some are viable, but only to a certain degree.
1. Such as: Being to tied to a love interest with (so far) no ability to discard. (also a sense of guilt in cheating)
But I give you (WVM): A game with mass appeal for reasons that are a complete enigma to me. I would think the artwork alone in that game would have killed the project, but not so. Every single facial expression in that game (other than the ones where it looks like the women are under a deep spell of hypnosis) looks like it came straight out of a horror film. Even a simple smile is absolutely frightening. But I digress.
Anyway, WVM has a really annoying and moronic girlfriend that you can NOT get rid of. Who looks like an alien, or a deep sea organism of some kind, or at the very least a blowfish. And she thinks the MC is Gods gift to all of womankind and he has her blessing to fuck every single one of them, because he is so wonderful and the entire world needs to taste his goodness (beyond absurd). But maybe since she's not an obstacle, then she's not a problem, I guess.
Not trying to offend fans of that game, but at least try and see it through a more objective lens. I mean it's success has to be very baffling and discouraging for struggling game artists who are actually good at their craft. Sorry.
2. A lack of incest (or incestual contact still too far off in the story's future)
I give you: 2 great developers (off the top of my head) who are absolutely flourishing without any incest driving them. DrPinkCake and PhillyGames.
3. A slow moving Story
I give you: Another 2 games off the top of my head: (A Wife And Mother). Roughly 3 years in development and has to be the ultimate definition of slow burn. No sexual contact of any kind for the MC yet, except on a route that maybe 5 people are playing. This game is very successful (and I actually like it so, not flaming).
And (Dual Family): A very slow story and another one of those games with support levels that are a complete enigma to me. It's developer is a lazy, lying con-artist who hasn't even updated his game in over 2 years, and just keeps stringing along his supporters with lies upon lies and countless empty promises. Yet he maintains a substantially large group of seemingly brainwashed cultish supporters. Again, this is another case where, struggling, hard working developers just have to be completely disheartened and flabbergasted by what they are seeing transpire with this anomaly called "Dual Family"
IMO, the 2 biggest reasons for this game failing to gain traction are nailed by
Abhai Here
#1,254 . And that is; A lack of advertising. Silk never really put his game out there on the channels that tend to make other games really successful (even when they are bad, or never even update).
And by
jamdan here
#1,259 . And That is; a looming fear of NTR. Admittedly this game does give off a vibe of it potentially happening if you are on the Mei route. Now if you take that, and couple it with a large percentage of players not wanting to stay faithful to the wife because it's boring for them (even though she's lovable), then you have a serious problem. I've been active on this thread since the beginning, and I've noticed that some of this board's most notorious NTR loathers have not posted here in this thread for a very long time. They abandoned this ship a long time ago, and so I imagine many, many other less vocal ones have as well. Perhaps they are waiting in silence to see if silk can be trusted with that infamous 3 letter word. IDK.
I wish Silk would just hold on for a few more updates, to where the MC will be back home with his family, I think he'd start to see some giant growths in support level. While I don't think the lack of incest is one of the biggest underlying factors to the failure's of PI, I do think however, that it would certainly give this game a enormous boost in popularity.
With the unique attractiveness of said family members and Silk's ability to write realistic character interactions, I think he could deliver some really interesting and believable incest without the use of the typical, moronic, tropes we've all come to know.
