TCOJ well, that is certainly more clear in your reasons and a much better explanation than what you previous provided, I appreciate it!!
In answer to your well thought-out reasoning, my only defense is TIME... pure and simple.
The biggest setback to doing these games is that it is on a release-by-release schedule... for example: Chapter 4 of "Wicked Choices Book One", BEFORE the additions to it in this REMASTER, took almost SIX months to finish telling and releasing to the patrons... that means, for six long months, patrons (and other players) were waiting to move forward in an agonizingly slow story... one that actually (someone like
Sierra3 may have to correct me here) only takes place in a span of a couple of weeks Real-time.
And most of that couple of weeks is what I call storyline "ether" time (time that passes that the Players or Readers never see happen)... so, it took me a whole year to push out events that took place (in story) only a couple of days game time.
Now, because of this, you have a sort of lag effect taking place...
You have players who have kind of grown accustom to the shit that the Antichrist (their character) is facing in RL and want the story to just move forward, get past all of the bullshit "blah, blah, blah" and just get down to the nitty-gritty and give them someone they can bang and fuck in each release....
You have a writer (who is also doubling as an artist) who is tired of grinding on the same shit, over and over and over again and finding out that to complete one chapter that takes up 40 pages of novel writing actually takes 6 freaking months to render and produce to tell the freaking story... and that writer just wants to get past the agonizing backstory and start actually taking players on a journey to turn them loose, run free... so, that writer took some storyline short-cuts to speed things up for his patrons and players.
Could I have done the slow burn of waiting for the Antichrist to come to grips with the shear level of fuckupedness he finds himself in, to spend the time for him to hem-and-haw for a while before becoming corrupted or pure enough to go ahead and perform the ritual (that needed to happen, so that he could ascend to Power, like he was meant to do) or wise enough to tell his family and small alien princess to go fuck themselves and end the game on a note of purity...
...absolutely, could've done that... but honestly, how many Patrons would've I have kept in doing so? Drag things out like DMD for two years as a creator before the daughter even touches her father's dick... draw things out to the point where I've just milked the shit out of my patrons like other creators.
Also, did I WANT to drag shit out long enough for me to be satisfied that the MC is either comfortably accepting the bullshit that he's found himself in and no longer a namby-pamby enough to no longer chastise himself for wanting to see his daughter's nipple while she bends down in front of him, or Mr. Goody-two-Shoes enough to tell his family to take a flying fucking leap, drain the bank account and setup shop in Tahiti on the beach somewhere sucking down Mai Tais and watching the sun set on the ocean?
The Magic Eight-ball says "Fuck No"... so, yeah, in order to speed things up, keep my patrons and sanity as a creator, the soon-to-be Antichrist said: "Fuck it" and decided to pork his adoptive niece on a stone dais in the basement of his fucked up in-laws, so that the players could move forward to actually having "powers" to use and that the creator they followed didn't masochistically fuck with their wallets and give them a serious case of blue balls.
So, on that, I admit it... the creator fucked up in that and I own it. *nod*
My bad.
(PS: this is meant as a tongue-in-cheek answer, not a rip on you or bashing you... my form of pathetic writer's sigh of resignation)
