Been thinking of the upcoming Sinner's Choice VN and have a question
Your stand on sharing full playthroughs/scenes/detailed summaries of visual novels?
Yay
Nay
Some third answer (Pls elaborate in comments/RBs)
Voting ended onJun 14
I ask this because there's always been some debate on sharing full content/full playthroughs of other types of games vs with VNs. With other types of games, the story is not always be the main push, and there are other mechanics/features that can hook the player to try the game themselves. But in VNs, the story IS the game. This is especially so for (predominantly) kinetic novels, such as what Sinner's Choice is getting advertised as.
On one hand, people who are interested in the premise will buy anyway regardless of whether they know the full story or not. For those who don't, maybe they might end up liking what's in the game and decide to buy it after seeing a playthrough. And for those who cannot get the game due to not having the right platform/cannot afford it, well, they weren't ever going to buy it anyway.
On the other hand, playthroughs of VNs could instead reduce a person's incentive to buy the game. I have heard smaller indie VN devs share how full playthroughs and piracy have completely tanked interest and sales of their game. This last bit is less applicable to a product from the Obey Me franchise, but even so, I'm sure it still has an effect. I know that's also why a lot of the Japanese VNs are stricter about full playthroughs being shared...
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