If you don't want this to have bad impact on some of the players, forget the wife, forget everything of the mc pasts after he takes the new body and don't put that in the game because you can't control how the players will feel about it, you say the mc don't have feelings about his wife anymore but you can't say that about any who plays the game, as you can see some people even like the wife and want her to be a LI, my suggestion is that you don't shoot yourself with such content.
You want to only center the game in the new "mc" then do it but what you think can be a nice gesture to find some guy for the wife may turn potential people off from your game just because that will be forced on them.
The mistake many devs make is that they think the most important thing is how the mc feels, but when you make a game what you should think is how the "players" are going to feel, not the mc, not you as a writer.
Just ask yourself, if I was in the MCs shoes will I go and find a boy for my wife ¿just like that?
maybe you will, but I can tell I certainly won't, every person is different.
Normally i would agree with u, as the resulting shitstorm wouldn't be worth it in most cases.
But in this case:
-It's clear from the beginning that the marriage only exist on paper and that the love between them is long gone.
-The MC, at least his body, dies...which ends the marriage on legal terms, emotionally it has ended long ago.
-The talk with the goddess makes it clear that the ex-wife is no LI (additional to Mc thoughts about her).
-The character of the ex-wife doesn't even exist at the moment, nor is there any focus on her (background ect), how should any player like her at the current state of the game?
-The dev said clearly that there will be no sex scenes with her and other males, despite not a LI.
Personaly i despise NTR content, but whining about NTR in this case is ridiculous.
Yes most people wouldn't like to search a new partner for an ex (even if u have moved on), but no one said the MC needs to like it, it is the price for his new life, that's not a bad deal in my books.
The dev decided to make her not an LI, from what he said she has a difficult personality and the job of finding a partner for her will be a challenge.
So my guess would be, that this will be a major part, story wise, so it would make sense that she is not an LI and changing the story just because some are not happy about it is a far worse decision, u will never make all the players happy either way. So let the dev tell the story as he intended.
Some mentioned to make the ex wife a temporary LI for some fun, but that's by far the worst decision u can make, if we need to find a new partner after that, the shitstorm would be granted + it would be far worse.
