I wouldn't create a game like that. But if that was my intention, I would orient myself more in line with what the member of the patreon team said above. So, I would adjust my visual representation of consensual non-consent rather than to avoid it entirely.
To be clear, your visual representation of consensual non-consent would need to be non-existent, because that is what Patreon demands. They
explicitly state that consensual non-consent is not permitted.
I'm not sure if you understand that, so I'm trying to be as clear as possible.
What you're saying communicates that you think Patreon allows consensual non-consent under certain circumstances, but I don't know how you could think that if you read the portion of their rules which talks about CNC which I quoted in my last reply, hence my confusion.
Or I would do it like the developer of "Friends in Need" and do two paths and make the second one like an incest patch. Works right now, doesn't it? Most of these things are technicalities more than anything. The status quo has been changed and that makes developers who dance on the line nervous, I get that. But incest has been banned for how long now? Two years? And it's everywhere.
I'm not sure why you think something being functional means it's good or that the alternative (in this case, payment processors not censoring artists through websites like Patreon) wouldn't be better.
It's not like Patreon's rules don't make the product objectively worse.
I would say the incest patch is the best solution, but even that risks players not seeing it and playing without it, like I originally did with Elvensang.
Incest still being popular doesn't mean anything.
By the way, it's not just creators who dance on the line who are nervous. As far as I know, there was never any indication that you couldn't depict CNC play on Patreon. Now it's banned. Previously, people who depicted that were not dancing on the line.
This doesn't even just impact people who depict CNC play. First they banned incest and rape. Now it's CNC play. Given that payment processors have forced other websites to restrict NSFW content, or in Gumroad's case, ban it entirely, there's no reason to think Patreon isn't going to continue banning types of erotic content, or potentially all of it.
Yeah, let's just pretend that there is no relationship between sexuality and let's say porn and porn games. Because that makes perfect sense. Let us just agree to disagree on this one.
Looking back, I think the way I replied to your point was a little confusing, but I definitely never said there was
no relationship between sexuality and porn/porn games.
My point was that rape being present in many porn games is not an indication of an unhealthy relationship between sexuality and AVN development.