To each their own, but personally for devs that doesn't like to include harem option, it's like kind of missing the point for "adult" games.
Go ahead and say it...
porn games.
This is a porn game... With a good story and enjoyable characters, and no option for a harem. Same thing happens in a lot of porn.
When I play these I'm not looking for 100% realism, as long as it's 50% believable and 50% accounted for by a somewhat decent explanation that's enough in my books.
That doesn't mean there has to be a harem.
Let's be realistic here, the people who are so disappointed at no getting a harem, that they're no longer playing or going to play the game, didn't care enough to ever read the thread or notice the lack of harem tag. They expect it. Much like the people who confuse this for an incest game and erroneously call the incest mod, a patch - they expect it to be an incest game.
This is far from the only porn game where the MC doesn't have a harem, and those who're "butt hurt" over not getting one, only care about the pics, not the story or characters. They see themselves as the MC, and all the women as theirs regardless.
I gotta say, in my opinion, this statement is misplaced.
I already wrote this in my review, but up until EP17 this game was very clearly designed to get it on with every single character available.
Nope.
It's designed for you to
make choices, and those choices were always going to have consequences.
The dev WANTED you to play around with her. The Nerd-Girl gave you her blessing, even pushed you to do it, as you would expect from a harem game.
A more sexually open voyeuristic character doesn't equal a harem. You saw what you wanted to see.
If you play without a harem in mind, this game is frankly boring and lacks the appeal to play it multiple times every time a new patch comes out... the days just fly by with barely any content, unless you go for all the girls simultaniously.
You've been playing a game
under development... You do realise what that means, right?
You're getting access to pieces of an incomplete product, which allows multiple paths that may or may not block off some characters/content.
Are there ANY Events or scenes in this game you don't get to see, unless you limit yourself to a specific character? Not that I know of. So why should anyone excercise "self-control or discipline" in the first place???
Yes, why should anyone exercise any degree of self-control or discipline...
Oh wait, because we're supposedly all adults and not kids that lack self-control or discipline!
How about, the game isn't what you wanted it to be, so do the grown-up thing and just leave it alone instead of complaining and trying to make out that the devs are to blame for people expecting something that's been
repeatedly said to not be happening in this game. Show some dignity.