A very kind person private messaged me with the helpful info I needed not to mention the fact that apparently this is a very common issue with this game. I apparently missed the harem route due to a single bad decision which was: "choosing Cassie over Eve in the Lingerie store". How could I have possibly known to do this? And why would that 1 seemingly random choice make such a big difference in the harem path?
And why not?
If you actually read the dialogues, you know that this option gives you some arguments that you then use to convince Cassie to stay with you.
I guess that's not a good enough reason.
The Naughty Captain What are the odds that anyone would ever go through hundreds of forum posts before playing a game while not even knowing that this was an issue they'd be dealing with just so they'd know what to do while playing? This was clearly a mistake by the walkthrough mod maker for not guiding players properly and yourself for even making this an issue in the first place. I understand having to have a minimum love points for harem to happen as this is quite common (though not usually that strict), but for a seemingly random decision to also matter greatly in the harem is a bad game design choice.
I'm pretty sure that there are enough warnings in place to inform you that your choices will have consequences. You chose to play the game knowingly. You can't blame me for that.
I understand you would prefer a simpler "Please stay, so that we can fuck to death." option.
Sorry, this isn't that kind of game.
That choice may seem random to you. Not to me.
You chose Eve. Cassie didn't like that you deliberately intended to cheat on her before you too were even a thing. You also missed some key argument to convince her to stay. That's as simple as that.
Being called a mediocre writer shouldn't be taken so harshly either in my opinion as I imagine you're probably not some published famous writer or anything... you're just a solo dev doing your best in writing a story and spending countless hours rendering to make a vn porn game. You're likely not spending countless hours writing and re-reading several times everything you write and have actual professionals to proofread to be sure it's perfect. I'd probably consider at least 95% of the writers for VN porn games to be mediocre at best. So I mean no disrespect in that regard. Also, I didn't say your grammar and spelling were horrendous, I just said that I'm used to seeing bad grammar and spelling in these kinds of games... as in it's quite common (even with top selling games) and I'm used to it.
I wouldn't mind knowing what kind of culture you grew up with and why that would even matter as I've never heard of adults being treated as children by the police.
And I literally chose all the nicest / complementing options in the game, avoiding arrogant sub / dom choices... and got no reward for doing that. So I guess you're right in that we have different ideas of what a nice guy is.
I probably overreacted. It's a "no painkillers" day and I'm a bit irritable.
I guess you don't know me and have no clue how I work because despite what you may think, I worked countless hours on this script and I have a proofreader. I wrote about 200 000 words before editing for that update alone. I scraped, edited, and rewrote everything several times to get to those final 87 000 words.
English isn't my native language but I do my best to write something decent enough so that my proofreader doesn't want to die when he works on my script.
So, no, I'm not the best at writing, not in french and probably even less in English. But being called mediocre sure isn't a compliment.
If it can reassure you, I have no doubt that I have a lot of work to put in before I can write something good by my own standards. This isn't the first thing I write but that's my first game, and my first work in English. So I guess I'm still a newbie. I won't apologize for that.
I understand you don't like my game, my story and the way I write it, though. That's fair.
Being called mediocre, on the other hand, isn't. That felt condescending and judgmental and I didn't like it.
That being said, maybe I misunderstood you. Maybe you intended it as a compliment. After all, as a filthy French man, I'm probably unable to understand the subtleties of the English language.
emigrate2230 If it's a common complaint / concern, then obviously it shouldn't be dismissed and ignored. Majority opinions should matter as the whole point of a game is to have a memorable experience, and given that it's a porn game, being a pleasant game should be prioritized too. How is it a pleasant memorable game if I (and apparently many others) become really upset by the game's design?
Then I must be lucky because so far, my last release has been greatly received.