One recent edition to the dating that I really liked that Jam City recently ruined? Polyamory. When the dating minigame came out, you could level up romance level with multiple characters without the game punishing you for being a dirty cheater. And just accepted that your character is polyamorous and it's cool, and I felt really seen by this as a poly person. But this February they ruined it, with the part wher you can go exclusive. Firstly if you decide not to go exclusive they get sad (1/3)
Hey dude, thanks for ur ask! :)
For my perspective, instead of seeing it as a polyamours thing, it's more like this: people have different tastes when it comes to liking. They'd want their MC to have different people to date, and most people will choose only one option, like Barnaby, Penny or Talbott. I don't really think JC purposely make this feature because polyamory, mostly because they want the players to have different characters to choose from.
Yet I found really cool that I can still go out with different characters. I'll always choose Talbott for obvious reasons, but I really enjoyed my time going out with Badeea since I really liked her and I kinda ship her with Candy so. Also I went out with Jae as well and it was historical 😂
And for me, the concept of polyamory is very interesting, and kinda new to me. I've never heard of it before joining this fandom 2 years ago. I met this really cool artist @lunasilvermorny, whose MC happened to be poly. So yeah, seeing that I could go out on dates with different characters was really cool and great!
but yeah it feels kinda bad that suddenly you start dating and if you wanted to date someone else you you just can't because "no no we don't like cheating here"
Wait, JC managed to ruin this too??
Luna shall rise and protest!
Here’s a suggestion...
If you don’t want people to choose dating different characters, maybe don’t make all of them in love with MC... They all throw themselves at MC (to a level that it’s even creepy), so it makes sense to want to explore more options.
