You can refund the game, if you are not happy with what you have received.
Patreons have to pay every month, though. That is, even on a lower tier, a lot more money for essentially the same product. So you should understand that them getting it a few days earlier is to be expected.
But why is some content skippable then if it wasn't meant to be skipped? If someone wants to pay for the game on Steam, does it really matter if they want to skip some of the content? I'd say make the best game you can with the resources you have and let everyone enjoy it in their own way.
Now you've just got a kinetic novel, playing out the way the author wants. This is not tagged as a kinetic novel. Should re-tag the game and have the open world elements and choices removed. In fact all choices, as why would you refuse anything? Why does Corruption only play out the way you or anyone else thinks it should? If I want her to go at 50% corruption, why does that ruin other people's fun?
You missed the point.
Go read a romance novel if you want a wholesome game about vanilla sex with a woman and her husband. TF you playing porn games for? Why are you even here demanding the dev waste time and resources making stupid paths that have been proven time again only to be voted on in polls by 2% of their patreons? That's what happened in perfect marriage polls anyway, 2% are waiting for faithful scenes. Paths are stupid. Waste of dev time. Waste of player time. 99% of time I figure out what paths are available, choose the best one or the one that can hit the most scenes, and ignore the rest. Why do I want to clutter up my save folder with 10 different stopping points and then have to muddle through shit to find it? Paths are an illusion choice, but in reality they are 10 stories. Faithful path is never going to be played. It's not an interesting story. It's already implied the MC could be faithful but she wants to be a whore instead. We don't need a path only 2% of 1000 people will play, for the contrast.
I mean...its easy...you don t like a Story branch...skip it. No harm done. Rileys Story wouldn t change just because of this. Maybe as a Dev you need 2-3 more Renders (if you skip everything) and the Game Ends ends at a certain Point for some players. Lets say they (the Players) want Riley to stay faithful and a "good" girl...(because its called "Steps" of Debauchery and as a player we should steer the Steps for Riley)...then let them have a few extra renders with a happy ending like, someday Riley wakes up and realise that she is done with her manipulative enviroment and stops it. Then BAM...the Game Ends for those Players. 2 - 3 Renders with Riley, her hubby and 1-2 Babies, a house and a white picket fence. Everyone is happy and those, who wants to dive deeper in depravity, should do so. I am not a Developer, but i think this shouldn t be to hard to do. Even in the Game "Anna" (a CORRUPTION Game) you can choose a faithful way and the Slut (corrupted) Way...and "SoD" is at least 10 Times Better with a much more likeable Character. Btw..its your fault Fooxied....if you had created Riley old and fat, with saggy Tits and a flat ass..then we wouldn't be having this discussion In those sandbox games where MC avoids corruption, you trigger a game ending, and the MCs life goes on as normal and she lives happily with her husband - it's like 5 renders, and the game is over. The dev could do this? I guess? It's less of a waste of time.I don't want to start a fight here but in more than 90% of the sandbox games available here, you can skip all the content you don't want to see.
The issue with this is that 99% of people will be trying to get max corruption level, and won't even know what level of corruption gets what ending - so they will demand a walkthrough mod that points this out in game, or they will want a cheat mod to cheat max corruption. Again majority of players want to see the max corruption route because it has the most sexy scenes. Nobody really wants to see a 70% corruption ending. Maybe if they are bored and already got off from the 100% one.Varying types of corruption levels could make great multiple endings.
Perhaps instead of throwing everything at the wall for a player, perhaps enable (or in-game express interest) or not specific types/categories of scenes? For example, blackmail, exhibitionism, bondage, etc., and then skip over the content a player may not like. Just trying out 'Golden Mean' right now and it has a section to do just that.
In this game's context I think it'd be more along the lines of allowing customization in the types of corruption/kinks each player prefers. Not everyone is the same, so providing options like this game potentially seems to do, can appeal to a broader base. If someone isn't into contrived blackmail scenarios? Skip it easily. If you aren't into the streaming? Skip it. Does Ivy or Madison not catch your fancy? Skip it. Do you like it all? Have at it! Knowing I may only be into a subset of the offered paths, I fully expect to miss content. Being subjected to endure things that I have zero interest in means I walk away entirely. For me, that's been MOST games in this category.
For me, skipping the Dean blackmail is not missing most of the game. I went back and played it to the end of content and it had a couple of scenes I missed. So yeah, I missed a couple of things but stuff I'm ok missing.
Perhaps the game is better as a kinetic novel then an 'open world' game, as it'll allow you to require everyone to do the corruption events you expect the player to go through. It's your game, and all power to you, but I'll be moving on from it now.
The entire point is often being misrepresented. I don't want to have no-corruption. I was just asking for customization to avoid seeing the type of corruption events that put me off these types of games. Other games like Golden Mean let you cater to the types of events you like (select) and ignore (deselct) the rest from their "Fetish" page. Good game, although I prefer female MC leads as opposed to male.
And I'm pretty sure you are not trying to understand my point of view. This is also not Male protagonist game, which is tons easier to create. I would like to believe that creating multiple endings with just couple of renders is possible and gives a sense of sufficiency for the player.
Thank you very much. I had already indicated I'm moving on, but I appreciate the subtle nudge. I'm obviously not the only person that is misunderstanding something, based on other replied but ok.
