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Patrons invest in development hoping for lewds or whatever, while steam purchasers are buying what is offered in the store. You're conflating the two groups, and they're not the same. Steam purchasers aren't inherently AVN connoisseurs who need all their fetishes tickled. Some will buy it just because they're curious. There is nothing on the store page that promises sex scenes of any kind, the most it promises is partial nudity. It doesn't have an adult tag on steam. They ARE buying a VN, and there is no attempt by Ocean to sell them an AVN the way you describe it.thats it, if the steam release is suppose to attact a new fan base, then the people that play it will play a so called adult visual novel with zero nudes and zero adult content, so are they suppose to be looking forward to season 2 with the thought of oh joy let me support this developer on pateron with a monthy amount that puts out zero lewds in his game, how are they suppose to take away the summers gone steam version with any hope to see any of the females naked and in sex scenes for the future. i know i would not, i would not want to support a developer if i played there so called adult visual novel with no adult content what so ever. you have to think about a fresh new player and their mindset buying summers gone and what they will take away from playing it .are they suppose to be excited for the story full of beautiful women that are fully dressed, i would imagine not. especially when it is marked as a adult visual novel and it is played like a visual novel. a person will buy an adult visual novel to see naked women and sex scenes if they buy this adult visual novel and it has zero naked women and sex scene they will not be encouraged to support this developer anymore i imagine. if they wanted just story they would buy a visual novel. is the point to hook them with story by buying summers gone on steam and then have them support on patreon with a monthy pledge to still see very little lewd content and have to wait for a long time to see maybe a handjob in a year or so and maybe a blowjob maybe 2 and 1/2 years , let alone any real sex with any of the females and you will probaly have to choose who you have sex with ,you will not be given the choice to have sex with them all i imagine, summers gone is not a harem game.
You're judging everyone by your own tastes. People buying it on steam aren't necessarily here, and this might be their first VN of any kind. The idea that adult only refers to sexual content is ridiculous, as is the idea that no one wants an adult game without lewds. Clearly there are plenty that do, otherwise SG wouldn't have a larger following than "XYZ Mommy HAREM sim 2024" There are quite a lot of explicit games with less support than Ocean has. Most AVN's that deliver lewd content every update because someone's favourite didn't get porked become so boring and predictable, the faces are interchangeable, it's the same basic positions on loop. People subcribe to a patreon because they want to support what the creator is doing already, not because they want to hire someone to make a VN. Anyone who wants a custom VN could actually go hire someone to do it easily enough.
People will play and follow this without lewd content, I don't see why this is surprising. This whole thread really shows that it has happened. The little bit of lewd that was removed - 1 single scene, all the rest was nudity. The game hasn't dies since the jacuzzi scene changed. Most of life doesn't have lewd content. The income of the non adult games industry is far far higher than that of AVNs. This website is a bubble, and Ocean doesn't want to be limited by the bubble.