You make an investment, no guarantees in contract writing, sometimes the investments don't pay off.
Sure. But there is also a line between someone failing to deliver a product because of XYZ reason, and or because the one you're sponsoring sucks your money out and runs away at last second: A scammer.
Look at HW, you can't exactly claim that the people who invested in him "got unlucky", same with Pure Onyx or other scam game #57.
A normal game company would get sued to shit for pulling the stuff they do. And, that's why I've mentioned accountability so much in the comments I've made. Because its so important to be on the lookout for potential scammers and calling them out. Or developers who can't be relied upon to deliver on what they've promised.
As said, game looks good. And it sucks Matey has to deal with entitled people. Most of the stuff I am saying are just personal beliefs of where success or failure lie, as well as theorizing. I strongly believe Matey would find more success by going full porn or no porn at all rather than tip-toeing in the middle. Because you'd end up with a product that would only gain the limitations that porn games have while not getting the support of the porn game audience because of subpar porn content (I can't comment on whether it would be subpar or not because of the current stage of development. I am merely guessing from what would be possible in a reasonable amount of time).
Game looks amazing so far. And there is a great likelihood I'll buy it. But I am mostly invested because veering more towards the porn would set a new standard that could and would change the H-game industry as we see it. And that's something I'd (personally) like to see. The game failing due to tip-toeing would not let that come to fruition, which would hurt paying
and non-paying people. It would suck to see it not reach the potential it could.
The current strategy of keeping the porn as DLC/Mod
could work. Giving tools to help mod it would greatly expand the possibilities. But you'd have to catch one of the audiences (H-game playing or non H-game playing people) to actually make that a reality.
Best of luck.
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