"I have no financial interest whatsoever" means you don't have any impact, either. I was talking about people being willing to spend money or invest capital when there is a high degree of uncertainty. If you only buy a game once it comes out and gets good reviews, you aren't in the cohort I was talking about.
Certainly did for me. NSFW content is something I very much enjoy in fantasy like D&D, but generally don’t want in the tabletop game. Putting it in a D&D video game is a great example of taking advantage of the strengths of the medium. As a single player video game, it can allow players to indulge in content they might want from D&D but not want to do in a social context.
All games are NSFW. You shouldn't be playing games at work. By dint of them not belonging in the workplace, period, they can have whatever content they want.
I mean, you joke, but like… all of the most successful CRPGs have had elements of that. It’s an important part of the formula, particularly because there is a huge portion of the audience for that genre that come for the romances first and foremost, and don’t really care what the rest of the game is like. Some folks really do play BG3 and other games like it as dating sims, and just tolerate the tactical combat games that come attached to them, as something they have to get through to unlock the next romance scene. I’d be one of them, except that I happen to also enjoy tactical CRPG combat.
Yes, to an extent. But also, it has to have something that makes it feel like D&D. It doesn’t have to feel like playing the tabletop game, but it does need a certain D&Dish ja ne se quois, else it’s just another generic fantasy game/movie/whatever.
Bug Venn diagram overlap for those two interests. The dating Sim side is sort of a "social combat" I guess?
Well, @Ruin Explorer already hit the nail on the head in post #35. One circle of that venn diagram is white dudes who like fantasy, action, and boobies. The other circle is women and queer folk who like fantasy, romance, and boobies. The overlap includes people who like fantasy, and people who like boobies. Also, there’s a not insignificant portion of folks like me who started out in one of those circles and moved to the other.
