The fan base was accumulated when the game was still in active development. It had great renders and endearing characters, and the developer soon abandoned the awful idea of Eric. Also modders quickly made keeping Eric at bay fairly easy, so it wasn't such a chore.
I don't think Eric was an awful idea, what was awful is adding Eric as a surprise, people at first expected another normal incest game but the creator didn't want it to be so simple. I think that if from the start the creator said "I'm gonna add a rival" everything would have been better.
More annoying than Eric is how the content is hidden behind hours of grind.Not to mention almost all events that matters are once or twice per week so you need to wait even more.
I wasn't defending DS, the game is too grindy and with little thought behind it. Only the first 2 weeks or so before we enter "frozen part" have at least a bit of quality storywise. After that we enter the infinite number of days that we just try to find routes to follow and to kick Eric out.
You won't have to worry about that anymore XD
Eric specifically was an awful idea. A rival in and of itself isn't a bad idea, but Eric was implemented poorly and suddenly changed the direction of the game. I don't even think that DS intended Eric to be a rival. The incest part of the game was somehow you watching your family get fucked by Eric, or getting his sloppy seconds by currying his favor, or cutting deals with him so that he'd leave you one family member to yourself. The reason we kept running into more and more difficulty in trying to get rid of Eric in early updates was that DS didn't expect or want people to resist him. The hardness level of opposing Eric and the shear futility of it was meant to steer people back on the track of being friends with Eric.
I disagree,I think he played his part fairly well,IMO he was meant to be disliked by the player and the purpose was achieved.Cutting deal with him felt dirty and again,IMO that`s how it supposed to feel.
It`s a good game,very nice renders and models,the story is engaging as a paradox,the worst part of the game - way too long grind - made me apprecieate every new scene even more,I was invested in it,it made me have real emotions.
Stepcest is banned by Patreon as well. Anything that hints at a real or anything approaching a family relationship is forbidden. Other authors have gone the route of changing the relationships to "roommates", and then offering some patch or code to restore the incest. But it's yet to be seen if Patreon cracks down on that or not, since that kind of thing is a very poorly kept secret.
