Originally Posted by kanisatha
I think some here are misunderstanding the OP. The issue is not that the game has sex and nudity in it and that these things are upsetting to people with prudish sensibilities. The issue is that for many fans of the game, the sex and the nudity *are* the true selling points of the game. For possibly millions of the game's fans, the sex and the nudity are what they're here for, and not really for anything else about the game. And if this is true, yes it is a big 'if', then the lesson for other RPG developers for the future will be: put a whole bunch of gratuitous sex and graphic nudity in your game if you want to get big sales numbers whereby people won't care about bugs or plot holes or story inconsistencies, etc., in your game.

Meh, I really, really doubt this is true. There is ubiquitous, free porn on the internet if that's what people are REALLY after.

Instead, I think what likely happens is that the sex gets the game more attention. Like remember when that "bear scene" got really popular and tons of people were laughing about it? I doubt that scene *alone* made people buy the game because "OH WOW I CAN HAVE SEX WITH A BEAR". Instead it probably got a lot of people thinking, "Oh hey what a funny looking game", and then they checked it out and bought it if it sounded good to them. Sex itself wasn't what they bought it *for*, but it was what got their attention.

I also don't think that this is necessarily going to inevitably lead to people only caring about the sex. Indeed, I think it is very likely by this point that Larian is suffering because of its bugs. I think by this point many people have gotten to Act 3 and been disappointed, and as a result will think twice about buying from Larian in the future, at least on release. Sex isn't this magical factor that glosses over all the flaws in a game; indeed if it was don't you think developers would have figured it out LONG before now and games would have already become nonstop softcore porn?