I'm going to operate a kind of master list for the kind of development decisions that make you seem like an asshole piece of shit and endlessly frustrate your players.
This shit that has no place in any of the erotic games that people are making right now, yet are apparently in every other game. It's because they are all copying each other, because one guy made money doing it that way and so everyone who is trying to milk money out of patreon is doing it the same way.
Here we go:
Save points.
How many times have you been playing an in-development game, and encounter a game breaking bug? Probably pretty often. No big deal right? You could always just reload your save, UNLESS it's in a game where the last save point was 3 battles and a 6 minute cinematic ago. You can't even troubleshoot the issue for the dev because after the second or third attempt to get past the bug, you're so sick of the same shit content that you just want to kill yourself IRL.
Chores, Showers, Work, etc.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't get to brainwash coeds/ fuck my hot secretary/ throw fireballs/ cum 14 times a day into different women. What I do get to do is take out the trash, wait tables, sit in traffic, etc etc etc. The amount of games that force you to wake up, get dressed, take a shower, go to work, wait tables, pay your taxes, mow your lawn, pick your grandmother up from her doctor's appointment, make dinner, do the dishes, and go to sleep three times between every sex scene is proof that these developers think their Patreon subscribers are subhuman. Even if the player character is hot, I don't want to look at the same still image of them in the shower for an enforced 14 seconds every “day” in the game.
Days/Nights
Yes, days and nights aren't a problem. Certain types of events occur during the day, others at night. Makes sense. However, if there isn't a solid narrative reason for why an event can't take place on a Tuesday, then GTFO of here with this days of the week shit. This is a porn videogame. I know I just went to the gym, went to work, sucked some dicks at a gloryhole and committed a triple homicide. I don't need to sleep. Don't make me go to sleep. Don't make me walk home so I can use my bed and then sit through another 20 second shower.
Big ass maps.
You guys know which games are the problem here. Making a map is literally the easiest thing you can do in RPG Maker. These fuckers fling off 50 screen city maps and promise 3 games will use the same space, it will be full of interesting locales, individuals, experiences, whatever. Maybe these things will come in the future, maybe they won't. In the present all it means is that while your player character is taking out the trash, going to work, sorting out bank errors and fucking their own mother you, as the player, who is trying to stay hard with one hand and jump through stupid hoops with the other, is going to be running around for literally minutes between scenes.
Story is on rails, player isn't.
If I don't have any choice in what my character is about to do, then don't make me walk there. If I have to go from my house to school to work to home again for the first 4 days of your story, then just take me there yourself, Patreon developer. There's a million things out there I could be jacking off to, I'm giving your game a shot, and before I even have a chance at becoming aroused you have made me waste 50 minutes of my life between a 37 second shower, a mini game where I lace up my shoes, and a trip to the store for milk before I got to an even mildly erotic situation. I'm not saying a story can't be on rails, obviously it has to be at times, but if it is, don't let the player ping around off the walls randomly because they don't know which of the 140 houses you put in the gameworld is the ONE they are supposed to knock on the door of. Being able to talk to a handful of random NPCs about the weather on the way is not a meaningful design choice, but it is a giant waste of my time.
What else is there?
This shit that has no place in any of the erotic games that people are making right now, yet are apparently in every other game. It's because they are all copying each other, because one guy made money doing it that way and so everyone who is trying to milk money out of patreon is doing it the same way.
Here we go:
Save points.
How many times have you been playing an in-development game, and encounter a game breaking bug? Probably pretty often. No big deal right? You could always just reload your save, UNLESS it's in a game where the last save point was 3 battles and a 6 minute cinematic ago. You can't even troubleshoot the issue for the dev because after the second or third attempt to get past the bug, you're so sick of the same shit content that you just want to kill yourself IRL.
Chores, Showers, Work, etc.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't get to brainwash coeds/ fuck my hot secretary/ throw fireballs/ cum 14 times a day into different women. What I do get to do is take out the trash, wait tables, sit in traffic, etc etc etc. The amount of games that force you to wake up, get dressed, take a shower, go to work, wait tables, pay your taxes, mow your lawn, pick your grandmother up from her doctor's appointment, make dinner, do the dishes, and go to sleep three times between every sex scene is proof that these developers think their Patreon subscribers are subhuman. Even if the player character is hot, I don't want to look at the same still image of them in the shower for an enforced 14 seconds every “day” in the game.
Days/Nights
Yes, days and nights aren't a problem. Certain types of events occur during the day, others at night. Makes sense. However, if there isn't a solid narrative reason for why an event can't take place on a Tuesday, then GTFO of here with this days of the week shit. This is a porn videogame. I know I just went to the gym, went to work, sucked some dicks at a gloryhole and committed a triple homicide. I don't need to sleep. Don't make me go to sleep. Don't make me walk home so I can use my bed and then sit through another 20 second shower.
Big ass maps.
You guys know which games are the problem here. Making a map is literally the easiest thing you can do in RPG Maker. These fuckers fling off 50 screen city maps and promise 3 games will use the same space, it will be full of interesting locales, individuals, experiences, whatever. Maybe these things will come in the future, maybe they won't. In the present all it means is that while your player character is taking out the trash, going to work, sorting out bank errors and fucking their own mother you, as the player, who is trying to stay hard with one hand and jump through stupid hoops with the other, is going to be running around for literally minutes between scenes.
Story is on rails, player isn't.
If I don't have any choice in what my character is about to do, then don't make me walk there. If I have to go from my house to school to work to home again for the first 4 days of your story, then just take me there yourself, Patreon developer. There's a million things out there I could be jacking off to, I'm giving your game a shot, and before I even have a chance at becoming aroused you have made me waste 50 minutes of my life between a 37 second shower, a mini game where I lace up my shoes, and a trip to the store for milk before I got to an even mildly erotic situation. I'm not saying a story can't be on rails, obviously it has to be at times, but if it is, don't let the player ping around off the walls randomly because they don't know which of the 140 houses you put in the gameworld is the ONE they are supposed to knock on the door of. Being able to talk to a handful of random NPCs about the weather on the way is not a meaningful design choice, but it is a giant waste of my time.
What else is there?
