Ain't nothing wrong with hooking your bro up with a girl.
Then don't make said girl an eligible romantic choice. Make her some online dating deal or something. As I mentioned, my biggest problem with that route is how it locks you out of content, and I think DC already mentioned getting rid of that dumb design, am I wrong?
The Problem you will face is that you need alot of traction for this to even be considered with alot of patreons behind it as that would include alot of work and rework of stuff and even some stuff being thrown out that DC and the team already did.
Another problem you would face is that IF you manage to get DC and Sploosh to actually do any of that they rework yet another element of the game which would put future polls even further behind, everyone would start bombarding them with new ideas for story elements. And of course they would get mad if their idea would be deemed unworthy.
YOUR best bet is making a mod for that and getting some ppl together to make it happen. Cause i don't see any way for you to get any of this done or convince DC and Sploosh to make any of that.
If you do. Kudos to you. But i don't see how any of this would work without some serious headache or backlash from the community towards them if they did that.
Also least favorite is Erik poll wise? Have you heard about a girl named Judith?
Well, as I mentioned, if people liked the idea, you guys should talk about it more often. So far Erik's route is my personal least favorite route, on top of all the problems I mentioned like the fact that the game broke with his update. As I mentioned, if the whole thing is going to get reworked (because of the rigging system and new animation methods), might as well rework the whole thing.
I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't make it into the game, though, it wouldn't be the first dumb decision taken by DC, but who am I to judge. As for the mod, I don't care enough to do that, I think mods can improve what are otherwise shitty games, but I'm not a fan of doing those, since at that point, I just can do my own version of it in my own game, and, well, there's already a better version of Erik in the form of Dex in Dandy Boy Adventures. It's basically the same character, with none of the drawbacks of Erik (crybaby guy that for some reason is fucking his mom, or cornering you with options).
As for Erik being the least popular option, I mean it. He scored barely 2% in the last poll, while Judith actually scored 51%. I think Judith lack of popularity in previous polls was due to other options being better, not necessarily for her being unpopular, but I don't think Judith ever scored 2%.
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AmazonessKing:
At least in my view that would indeed be quite a degradation of Erik and his role in the game and actually even a more boring story. There are way too many games where MC's male friends are nothing but plot devices and have no role at all when it comes to sex or any of the lewd stuff. I always liked that SS was a bit different.
I mean, I get that some people don't like threesomes but that doesn't mean that the game can't have any. Is it really so bad to only agree with ~98% of the content?
It's certainly true that Erik's story and the choices will be changed quite a bit, but losing the threesome and his relationship with Mrs. Johnson would objectively be pretty bad...
But yeah, last but not least I'd agree with
Miðgarðsormr that it's probably close to impossible to convince either Sploosh or DC. After all, DC specifically wrote the story as it is and Sploosh seesm to like stuff like threesomes etc. even more than DC.
Edit: As to why his story isn't that propular? Those who like milfs will likely perfer others like Debbie/Diane/Maria/Tina/Melonia and those who like the schoolgirls probably won't have June, who is basically just a female version of Erik, as one of their first choices.
That's the thing, MC male friends
SHOULD BE NOTHING BUT PLOT DEVICES in these games. I don't give a single shit about him or his friendship, but I don't want to diminish the role he already has. He should be a sidekick at best and giving him so much spotlight is most probably the reason why his route and himself are so unpopular. Being different doesn't equal good, and numbers talk for themselves.
And here is the thing, Erik's route ultimately won a poll for it to be in the game in the first place, meaning Erik's poll was popular
BEFORE the actual plot was revealed, and I don't doubt the reason was Mrs. Johnson alone, since she is a fit MILF, and that's a rarity. So you have to wonder what brought Erik from being so popular it won a poll, to only scoring 2% in a poll when other routes like Roxxy's or Debbie's route remain popular even after it already won once. I think it has less to do with archetype or fetishes and more to do with the plot since Roxxy's plot is praised to this day for Summertime Saga's standards.
That being said, what I propose will most likely make everyone happy: Erik will be fulfilled, Mrs. Johnson friendship will remain the same if not better, June will get probably a better relationship than what she got, and the MC will not be locked out of any of the girls at the end, which is one of the biggest criticism the game got as well, and also, as I mentioned again, you can keep the threesome if you want as an option in the end, but you got to ask: Why keep content than more than 90% of your audience will actively avoid anyway?
Hell, who the hell will find it hot seeing this guy have sex in the first place? That's the biggest question when it comes to this. It's probably one of the biggest boner killers in the entire game.
Thanks for reading, though.
EDIT:
Confirmed by I think the mods or devs? Erik will have a full Rework as well as Mia. Also, the plot WON'T revolve around getting Erik laid. You don't need a scientist to figure that's the best choice.
