If people don't buy the game because there is no explicit sex scenes, then the game must suck.
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...people who want porn in a game will still likely buy a good RPG that doesn't have sex, but people who don't like porn and don't want it in their games will struggle internally about buying a game with porn in it even if the game is good.
Just jumping back to this (time zones, and many posts)...
This suggestion only tracks in the perfect world scenario you're setting up in order to make the point. It doesn't tack in actual reality. Here's the actual reality:
I'm a modern, mature adult, not a 1% super rich person, and someone who doesn't have an infinite abundance of time to play games, so I have to make choices. I don't have the time to play two games, and I don't have the budget to buy two games - I have to choose which one I want to invest in for the time being. If I, as an adult, buying games for myself, have to choose between a reportedly well written and made game with no adult elements and completely family friendly coverings for everything, OR a similarly well written and made game that caters to adult elements and tastes and contains optional adult content in relation to my character... I am Definitely going to pick the latter to play, over the former.
The point made (to which this was response) about isolation of possible sales going both ways is very much legitimate.
We're still more or less on the same 'side' of this discussion - that being the group who are pushing for appropriate options in the game settings to censor or avoid those sequences if the player wants to, without actually removing or limiting their production. I'd like to be able to tell the game how my various different characters choose to groom and present their squishy bits, so they show up accurately in intimate moments... you'd rather those bits not exist in the game engine at all while you're playing, and we can both get what we want at the same time, if Larian do this right.
