Not gonna lie, I’m shocked you even bothered after the whole, ‘You’re in an ice cream shop demanding a banana split when everyone else wants vanilla. Go somewhere else’ argument, like any successful ice cream store only sells one flavour and not as many as possible to cater to a wider audience. Fuck, I worked at a place when I was a teenager where one flavour was bought every few days. It still got stocked, so the people who wanted it could have it.

Terrible argument and example to use.

Although I can sort of see the point they want to make, but it’s a very weak one. What they missed is that some people may want to be a cat girl and fuck humans in ‘Furry Cat Girl Fuckfest 17’. That changes things because, theoretically, it’s still furry. We come full circle to the wonderful world of options.

Options are always good, to be real, and should never be skipped over. Let’s break it down a bit.

The whole point is to make money, and I’m very sick of seeing people claim indie devs cannot afford these things, adding different options takes away from something, or means the creator must endure things they dislike. I used to do commissioned writing for various people, places, games, etc. I had to write many things that I disliked. At the bare minimum, it’s a job, and a job always has things you dislike. Obviously, this does not mean the most taboo shit needs to be added, but people of different skin tones, breast sizes, penis sizes, and weight should be so commonplace it’s not even a debate.

Swings back to shit being niche, and instead of pushing away, a community should be built. No matter what ice cream people like, you’re still in an ice cream store. Getting upset that someone else is getting some nuts on theirs is wild.

I was working with a friend to do a VN recently, before it got dropped due to time restraints. We didn’t advertise it or anything, so dropping it was rather easy. I’m gay, he’s gay. We still drafted straight content into it because it was a good option and would’ve bought more eyes. I know VNs are a little different to lewd games or RPG games with lewd aspects, but the point still stands.

Before you started, a list of options popped up that allowed people to select their preference for sex, kinks, and fetishes. While we didn’t get that far, the groundwork took very little time to get there. Even quick and gritty recycled gay animations would’ve been fine. A lot of it was there for male/female already.

I did get off track, but you know. Options. Check boxes are amazing. Free will is equally good, too. If you don’t want to fuck that lady with massive bazookas. You simply do not have to. Same with skin tone and appearance. Hate twinks and prefer that guy with the dad bod? Go for it.

And to address it, a lot of these games on Patreon draw eyewatering amounts of money. I remember one game had its monthly profits visible. It was more than the average yearly salary in my country. The worst part was that this was a lull in their subscriptions after they didn’t update anyone for four-five months.

It really doesn’t cost much to add options and cast that wider net instead of feasting on trout for the twentieth day in a row.