I had a whole rant typed out but what's the fucking point....
Cliffnotes version...
There are some who are external enough from others that seeing them on the side is possible long term, although that is dicey going into the endings and your character will still be a cheater, just longer term.
Still a harem and still defeats the whole purpose of the entire not sharing thing. They may not know they are sharing but they still are.
Actual solid acknowledged relationships where everyone is in the know, won't be huge, but can be larger than 3
Still a harem. When you start hitting 3+ women in one relationship you're in a harem as per the tag rules here and still defeats the whole not sharing thing.
Lets not even get into the Katie and Jenna thing that at one point was an instant breakup but now they are on the verge of fucking each other.
This is making Katies entire character arc to be the single most pointless thing ever because none of it matters anymore.
May aswell have Monica go down on them both, that makes as much sense.
The worst part, for me ... because I was doing it, is the fact I spent the past..... year or so?
About that long?
Telling everyone there is no harem, mocking people, arguing with people, mocking and arguing with people .... to pop in today and find out I was made out to be a complete and utter lying bitch because it is a harem game it's just not labelled and skirting saying "well, he may be fucking all these women but he's going to be a nasty cheater ... but still fucking them all"......
I'm annoyed for 3 reasons. When I was first told this wasn't a harem game, i'd stopped playing. I stopped because, unpopular opinion, unless it's full poly with everyone involved I find basic harems to be boring as fuck and this was looking like a harem game at one point.
Then I was hit with the old, choices will matter. Cheating has concequences. I fell for it. Here I was, expecting a glorious fall out like Become a Rockstar which is what I thought all the suspicion points were building up to which made choices matter because they had consequences.
Only, they don't as I just found out. So I feel lied to from that alone.
Then I spend all this time backing that dev up and telling everyone else there is no harem which now makes me out to be a liar and that does piss me right the fuck off.
Lastly, story and character development matter to me. If I wanted porn i'd go to Pornhub, I play these because they have plot and characters I care about. So when I play a game that's stretched out for a few years and watch these characters grow and certain developments happen only to find out they are utterly pointless it kinda kills it for me. Regardless of knowledge of events, having a character, in this case multiple characters, all dislike the idea of sharing then have them either join groups for the very purpose of sharing or still have the MC banging half the world it ruins the development of that character and renders it pointless. Whether they are aware of said sharing or not they are still sharing their man with multiple partners. That development only works if there is follow through and consequences, which there aren't as said to me here.
So now I know where it's going. I apologise to everyone i've argued with over this and especially those i've mocked. I was very wrong.
Now i'm going to find some wine because this has been a fucking depressing evening and this bitch needs a drink ...... or the whole fucking bottle.