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I know this is all hypothetical, but it would really help us understand where your motivations lie.
Well that's a very American point of view, in France, we'd rather protect children from seeing a murder than a nipple. And feminist groups protest by publicly showing their breasts.
Of course, like everywhere else in the world, prudishness is on the rise, but we are still far from the US.
In Europe, a game with nipples would be PEGI 12 (The Void for exemple) while as soon as there is a murder of a human (monsters are ok to kill), it's PEGI 16.
But I suppose the industry is mostly shaped for the American market (with China taking more and more importance, which won't solve anything).
Yes, hit us up on Discord, and we will help you out here. :)
Good question.
No. We wouldn't. However, it's a lot more complicated than some people are making it out to be, and we had a very hard time making a decision on this. We are also taking the time to reply (to civil feedback) because we care deeply about our players, and we like to be transparent about things, as always.
What we would love, is if the industry would treat the AO rating like a REAL rating, and not the "kiss of death" in the video game world. Most platforms simply won't sell a game with an AO rating, and even on the platforms that do, the rules change constantly, threatening the continued success of the product. If we were able to sell only one version of the game and keep a viable business model, we would. Our decision to add the charge onto the explicit content stems from the large amount of players who own the base game, but are not interested in the patch. We see this trend on and off Steam, so it's nothing to do with the visibility of AO products on Steam. The small extra cost covers the extra work associated with maintaining two products.
Regardless of what some people think, this game has a LOT of players who are simply not interested in the explicit aspect of it. We've put a lot of love and care into the core game just as much as we have the content in the Explicit DLC, and that hard work is paying off with opportunities that are forming on the horizon for us. We already have a major celebrity joining the cast, who is one of the top 10 streamed artists globally on Spotify in 2022, and we have more surprises coming very soon.
We aren't at liberty to discuss everything we have in the works just yet, but be on the lookout for some very big and cool news dropping in the near future.
A few other things to clear up; We are not trying to make an "all ages version". We are going as raunchy and as edgy as possible in the M version. It will still have nudity, sex scenes, and anything else we can get away with.
The success of this game challenges the hypocrisy of distribution platforms and services like Twitch who ban anything sexual, and glorify violence, but then also make exceptions when convenient. What we would love to see, is fair treatment of this type of content for all developers, and as we keep pushing the limits and standards continue to change, we will update our base product to continue pushing the limits. Our goal (other than just making a fun and raunchy game for people to enjoy) is, and always has been to be a challenge to that double standard, and to let the players decide what type of games they want to play, not the industry. If one day we, with hopefully the help of other studios, accomplish that goal, then there would be no need for a patch to begin with.
Bottom line; We have big opportunities in front of us, and instead of selling out and dropping the adult content, we have made a commitment to our audience to keep making the content that so many of you enjoy. There will be growing pains and decisions you may not all agree with, but the end result will be more and better content from us, and more acceptance of the type of content we have to offer in the mainstream.
If you owned the game/DLC prior to the price increase, you don't have to pay anything extra for the patch. If you are having an issue or the patch isn't showing up in your library, contact us on Discord, and we can help you out with that!
We usually try to answer any form of contact, but we have a ticket system on Discord, and it's the fastest way to get help.
So that's it, in fact, people who buy the adult content are funding the extra cost of having an all age version...
it's not at all what you previously told us, anyway it's always sounded like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Like suddenly, the adult content has become an extra cost because it became bigger ? Yeah, that's what happen in an early acess, things tend to grow bigger than when they weren't there...
What was the date of this increase?
But are you seriously suggesting that children should be exposed to literal pornography? Do you really want to put that on record?
You see, now I can get this. It would have helped to be straight forward up front. If it's just a matter of extra costs introduced by Steam's ever-changing regulations, then just stick to that instead of trying to dress it up with "all the cool new stuff" that you're going to give us.
Still, I feel like raising the price of the base game would have been better. People expect an early access game to raise in price when it goes full release. That's the benefit of investing in it early. They don't expect to have to pay for previously free content that is an essential aspect of the game. But I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree on that one.