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It really depends on the intention; if you want to tell your product is sex heavy, then you can do that to warn others of what it is, if your product is story focused, you'd rather want to reserve such moments to late-game, where they'll hold strong emotional value, because that's how sex is generally viewed - a reward for staying for so long, or doing well enough.
I seen products that try to combine both, with varying success, but most of the time they were rather disappointing messes of both story and sex, which means people who looked for a good writing will be disappointed, while sex loving folk will be also pissed due to lack of actual sex focus they want. And that's the worst thing you can have out of 3 design option. And in fact, certain story focused games were ruined by sex scenes because their creators did them in a way they feel shoehorned, not natural otherwise and diminishing the value of the plot.
But in general, as long you have proper goal for a product, you shouldn't have a problem. Have a clear plan and don't try too much, or problems will arise with such direction.
I seen products that try to combine both, with varying success, but most of the time they were rather disappointing messes of both story and sex, which means people who looked for a good writing will be disappointed, while sex loving folk will be also pissed due to lack of actual sex focus they want. And that's the worst thing you can have out of 3 design option. And in fact, certain story focused games were ruined by sex scenes because their creators did them in a way they feel shoehorned, not natural otherwise and diminishing the value of the plot.
But in general, as long you have proper goal for a product, you shouldn't have a problem. Have a clear plan and don't try too much, or problems will arise with such direction.
But then you have to make sure that the random girl is NOT way hotter and cuter than the primary characters. Happened to me a lot of times and then I got pi$$ed off because there was no more sex with that girl.
I personally believe that most of the players go for the harem route anyway or at least with multiple characters (no monogamy). So early sex in a game/VN is defenitely a good thing and will not drive people away.
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Depends mostly on the characters and the story, and how well they're both written.
If early sex scenes make sense in the context of said story and don't come out of the blue, there is not much reason not to include them.
Having said that, if the reason for not having sex scenes early because the player has to grind stats or whatever it would be better imho to just show the scenes straight up.
Whatever you do though, it will create expectations for the following chapters of the game. So ideally you'd have a strong sense of where the story goes and what the characters do in it.
If early sex scenes make sense in the context of said story and don't come out of the blue, there is not much reason not to include them.
Having said that, if the reason for not having sex scenes early because the player has to grind stats or whatever it would be better imho to just show the scenes straight up.
Whatever you do though, it will create expectations for the following chapters of the game. So ideally you'd have a strong sense of where the story goes and what the characters do in it.