Hey everybody, got an update on the future of Crisis Point today.
I don't know how many of you have heard about it, but Patreon recently updated their guidelines on adult content - specifically, they clarified many things so there's less ambiguity, and chief among those, adult content involving rape, incest, bestiality, or loli/shota are no longer allowed on Patreon. There's a huge can of worms we could get into regarding these rules, but as many of you know, Crisis Point has elements of non-con and bestiality. Non-con is an element of the game as a whole - though, to be honest, it's a very minor one. With the lore we have set up, Alicia is always at least a little willing to have sex, even if her primary focus is her mission. Bestiality is a bit trickier, since two of the enemies in the game are undeniably breaking that rule - the Insects, and the Hellhound. Yes, bugs count as bestiality, even if they're giant. With our current content, funding through Patreon is a ticking timebomb, and because of it we're going to be taking steps to alter our content so we no longer break the rules.
Before I get into the specifics of what's changing, I just want to
emphatically state that I am not interested in trying to "get around the rules" by trying to find loopholes or keeping the forbidden content a secret. Crisis Point is my only income, and while those workarounds might allow us to keep this content
temporarily, it is in no way a good solution when I rely on Patreon to survive and have absolutely no savings to speak of. Please understand and respect this. With that out of the way, here's a copy-paste from our Discord server, detailing all of the changes we have planned:
For those of you just joining us here in the discord, here's a recap of everything that's happening with Crisis Point regarding Patreon's new stance on adult games.
-We will be removing the Hellhound from the game, and replacing it with a more alien-like enemy in the future. The sex scenes and CG will stay mostly the same, just with a new enemy design that shifts away from bestiality. The Hellhound's CG was going to be added this update, and since this update is so close to being done, I'm hoping that we can fly under the radar just long enough to get this update with all of the Hellhound's sex content out - then in the next update, we'll be removing him. This will rely entirely on everybody staying quiet about the Hellhound's existence though, so I would appreciate your silence on the matter.
-The insects will be staying mostly the same, but they will get a small update to their design and colour scheme to make them appear more alien. Unlike the hellhound, their design won't be changing much though, so I don't expect to have to remove them from the game for an update or two.
-We'll be making some alterations to the game's overall non-con content; to be more precise, we'll be taking the existing story element of the planet's atmosphere enhancing libido and cranking it up to 11. Alicia will be horny the entire game, and every sex scene will be canonically consensual. In addition, we'll likely be removing the "knockdown" mechanic from the game, and making sex a positive thing you CHOOSE to do instead of a potential punishment you get by failing. I don't have definitive plans on how to implement this, but my current idea is that you gain HP by having sex with enemies, and you have to initiate the scene yourself instead of getting KO'd to get in a scene. This change falls 100% in line with my plans for the game to begin with, so I'm not upset about having to make it at all - in fact I think it'll make the game better.
One final thing I want to stress here, I am not interested in finding a way around these changes. A LOT of people have tried to give me ideas on how I could get around changing the game, but this is not something I want to do. I'm not interested in ignoring their rules and hoping I fly under the radar; I'm not trying to make illegal games here, I just want to enjoy making this and any future games through Patreon, and I'll be following their rules to make it happen.
Update on the Hellhound situation. Lustfire didn't finish the CG and he's on vacation now for two weeks or something like that, so unfortunately we will not be including the Hellhound CG in this coming update before removing the Hellhound. Can't release something that doesn't exist.
For those of you worried about these being only the beginning of changes, please don't worry - these are the ONLY changes we plan on making, as Crisis Point doesn't fall that far outside of the new guidelines to begin with. The only way we'd change anything more is if Patreon further clamped down on us and forced it, which I believe to be highly unlikely. There's not much else they could ask other than banning adult content entirely, and we're not about to make this game SFW.
If anyone has questions about any of this, please don't hesitate to ask here. For those of you that are Patrons, PLEASE don't talk about any of this on patreon - many of us H-devs are convinced Patreon is using a bot to search for keywords ("bestiality", "rape", "non-con", "incest", etc) and suspending pages that have those words anywhere. Someone's patreon page was suspended for having a disclaimer at the top of their overview stating (truthfully) that they DON'T have bestiality, incest, rape, etc in their game, and simply having that disclaimer got them flagged. Right now, I'm trying to be as careful as possible to stay under the radar while we transition, to avoid losing income, which would lead to immense stress, which would lead to less time spent doing anything productive, etc.
Alright, that's about it for this subject. Today should also have a game update release in a bit, in which the Hellhound will be removed and the Insects will have their redesign. If any of you want the most updated content possible, I highly recommend either pledging and downloading v.27 Hotfix 1 through patreon, or trying to find a download for it somewhere online, as that will be the last version with both of their original forms intact. Thanks for your time everyone, and to those disappointed in the upcoming changes, I truly am sorry. I wouldn't change existing content like this unless it was necessary.