Firstly Its not just my perspective... If you look up the definition of cheating in the dictionary it is the act of deception. Anne is deceitful with Tony on a number of occasions not just with martin.... Top of my head there was Ryan the second time he visited when they had sex but Anne denied that they had sex..... There are many other examples but since I haven't played those chapters in ages can't remember them all.
Secondly if there was no cheating in the game then why did the dev do a reset in chap 14 where Anne supposedly confessed everything to Tony and yet in chapter 15 we find out that she still hasn't told Tony about Martin. She also lies to Tony about his uncle and what exactly happens in the club.
There have been a few occasions when Tony has spied on Anne and has mentioned that he is starting to question Anne's faithfulness. Beginning of chap 14 springs to mind when she was in the beach hut with a stranger....
Also how can Tony have a problem with her cheating when he doesn't know that she is cheating. He obviously will have a problem with it otherwise Anne would have told Tony about Martin in the reset in chap 14....
Your view is how you have played the game. My view is of how I have played the game. I have played all routes and the fact still remains that even if you don't chose for Anne to do anything with Martin She still cheats with him and others.... therefore our choices do not matter and Anne is a cheating whore who obviously has no respect for her husband or her relationship...
I know that you will respond with some crap about how can she cheat when they are in an open relationship. You can still cheat in an open relationship by being deceitful with your partner...
She's only deceitful with Ryan, if the player chooses for her be deceitful. You can choose for her to be honest and tell Tony when he asks what went on between them. That isn't the same with Martin. Even if you choose for her to have sex with Martin, Tony finds out about it the following day, when Anne openly has sex with him in the bathroom. After that, you can choose for him to encourage her to go to his room, so he can watch them having sex. At that point, the assumption is that Anne will continue having sex with Martin, with Tony's consent, because he wants to watch them doing it. But when Martin contacts her, she chooses not to tell Tony, even when he asks who called her. So at that point she's openly deceiving him.
The assumption has to be, that she did tell Tony about Martin during their come clean chat on holiday ( in Chapter 14), if she hadn't already. But since then Mircom has decided to proceed with the game in Chapter 2, as if everyone decided to allow Anne and Martin to have sex, and also never allowed Tony to find out about it from Emma. I'm guessing that's either been done to save time going forward, so he doesn't need to have two completely different routes where Tony knows and where he doesn't, or most likely because he wants to create friction in their relationship that was never there. So in the future he can make the game follow a more conventional cuck path
Personally, I hate that decision, because I allowed it to come out, as soon as it possibly could. And the scene, where Anne tells Tony what she really got up to in Miami with Martin, as they're both lying in bed, and she's jerking Tony off, is one of my favourite scenes in the whole game. Because Tony ends up getting really riled up, and for the first time completely dominates Anne, and she loves him being like that. I have a feeling that scene will get omitted if Mircom goes back, and alters Chapter's 1-14 to fit in with the new reality.
The scene you mentioned at the beach in Chapter 14, could be construed in various ways, apart from the way you saw it. It could be a reflection of Tony feeling unsure about Anne, where she didn't own up about having sex with Martin, and also with Ryan, if the MC came back to watch them. Another possibility, is that it was there to prepare the ground for Mircom changing various parts of the game in Chapter 15, so that everyone is on a similar path where Anne's honesty is open to question. But as of the end of Chapter 14, that just wasn't the case on all playthroughs. On mine, where she did tell Tony, and she's subsequently told him about Troy, Drake and Malcolm, that scene just didn't make any sense. Because Tony already knows that she doesn't tell him everything that she's going to do or has done on the spur of the moment, because she admitted that that was the case, when she eventually told him about her and Malcolm having sex on the beach, several weeks after it happened. So why would that episode bother him in any way? It would only bother him, if he already suspected that she hadn't told him about other stuff in the past (eg Ryan and Martin) or the Dev was already planning to change the game in the next update, so that Tony felt that way in all instances.
You're belief that she's cheating, is your interpretation of what cheating would be, if it was you in place of Tony. And that's a perfectly valid argument for you. But it isn't happening to you, it's happening to Tony, and he doesn't view it that way. If it was me, it would probably be cheating as well. But I'm not playing as me, I'm playing as Tony, and he does not view what Anne has done as cheating. And you can tell that, by his totally underwhelming reaction when Anne eventually reveals what happened with various guys, like Troy, Drake and Malcolm, when she had sex with them weeks before. It didn't bother him at all, because she only agreed to tell him when she had sex with other guys, and since she was now doing that, she was keeping her side of the bargain. From your perspective that's cheating, but from his perspective it wasn't. Because he not only allowed her to do it, he wanted her to do it. And she told him about it afterwards, just like she agreed to do.
In the future, it looks like all this could change, and Tony is going to become much more suspicious of what Anne's not been telling him. Because all the instances where she was honest in the past, and owned up to having sex with various people, and subsequently made him inclined to trust her, will be treated as if they never happened. Which I personally am not very happy about. I believe any attempt to do that, will be a change for the worse. It's trying to make the game, into something that it never was.
Edit: I just saw a post where someone says that the Dev has stated, that Martin's content being forced on players was a mistake ( I'm hoping that also includes the changes to Martin's content as well), and will be rectified in the next update. So hopefully, it was just a case of us jumping the gun, and there not being enough questions at the start of Part 2?
I don't know why Mircom didn't ask more questions about people's choices with the main characters in the game? Just those people like Martin who appear regularly. I'm hoping that this was simply an omission and not a decision to make wholesale changes to the game? Which will make it into something completely different?