You are absolutely right about that
joblo9394 .
I have thought many times about removing all the side-characters from the game and creating smaller VN's for them and let Sweet Affection be completely about M&S (And Suzie.)
But personally I also like that we are basically creating 10+ separate games into 1 game world.
Dividing the game into multiple chapters? At this stage that would be a complete nightmare to implement.
M&S are Level 10, Sidney is level 4, Rose is level 3, Eve is level 1 and etc.
If all characters would be level 4 (Just an example), that might be something we could do.
But at this stage it would be incredibly annoying for everyone (including myself.) having to continuously switch between chapters depending on what story you want to continue.
20GB / 7GB, it's not perfect, I'll be the first one to admit that.
And I'm continuously looking for ways to deliver my game to everyone as smoothly as possible.
I'm always open for suggestions when it comes to that.
I am thinking about zipping the packages into multiple parts.
For example, the LQ in two parts of 3.5GB and the HQ in 4 parts of 5GB.
But my experience is that usually comes with a lot of user error with unpacking.
In a perfect world, I would be able to buy a server, maintain it and keep it up just so everyone can download
the game without any issues.
However, I am definitely not in a financial position to do that.
Filehosts, torrents are the best that I can do.
But in the end, the game size is only going to get bigger.

And hindsight... if I knew the things that I know now...