Re: Monster Girl Quest
However as somebody on the Ntelliware forum pointed out, that could end badly in the same light as the Hot Coffee mod killed GTA San Andreas, leading Rockstar Games into a series of lawsuits and recalls, so we are debating once more how to handle things.
The current top thought is to release a rated version (Censored and dumbed down) and an unrated (no censorship at all). The product keys would be interchangeable, so if you bought the rated version, you could download the unrated version and your product key would work for it as well, and vice versa.
To use your example, it would be like if a movie producer got permission to remake Nightmare on Elm Street, but without a rating of R or below, studios won't fund it and movie stores won't carry it, and the MPAA just announced that movies containing images of nightmares are now NC-17. You could make an unrated movie, but you don't have the money to make it and it wouldn't get enough publicity without the marketing. So, you can either give up, change everything, or play by the rules and make an R-rated version to get the movie funded and out in the open, then simulatneously make an unrated version to release. That way you get funded and you can now remake Nightmare On Elm Street. Stores agree to carry the rated version, which generates publicity for both the rated and unrated versions. And in the end, you got to make the unrated version you wanted to and mass distribute it as if it were R-rated. It's basically just bending the rules.
To be totally honest, the biggest reason for hiding the sexual content by default is for money. Ntelliware is just starting out, Hero will be our first title, and in order to make it we need to raise about $20k. While the idea has been pitched by a few fans about accepting donations and offering rewards similar to a kickstarter project, the odds of it raising 20k are very slim, whereas Kickstarter gets more pulicity and would have a better chance. But in order to comply with kickstarter, the game has to be non-pornographic. So the best running idea is to get a non-pornographic version funded, and while developing it, simultaneously develop the full version of MGQ 3D. If anybody has a better idea to raise 20k, we'd be happy to not even worry about making an M rated version, would be easier on us anyhow. But if not, then this is the best we got.
So for those who want an accurate 3D remake of MGQ, you'll get it don't worry, we just have to make a non-hentai version too.
Thanks for the well written feedback! I fully agree with you. As I said earlier, the game is being made to fit the explicitness and sexual style of MGQ, with full hardcore H-scenes, but then censored so to speak, with a DLC to remove the censorship. Kind of like 3D Custom Girl, it is censored by default, but there are mods to remove the censorship.
However as somebody on the Ntelliware forum pointed out, that could end badly in the same light as the Hot Coffee mod killed GTA San Andreas, leading Rockstar Games into a series of lawsuits and recalls, so we are debating once more how to handle things.
The current top thought is to release a rated version (Censored and dumbed down) and an unrated (no censorship at all). The product keys would be interchangeable, so if you bought the rated version, you could download the unrated version and your product key would work for it as well, and vice versa.
To use your example, it would be like if a movie producer got permission to remake Nightmare on Elm Street, but without a rating of R or below, studios won't fund it and movie stores won't carry it, and the MPAA just announced that movies containing images of nightmares are now NC-17. You could make an unrated movie, but you don't have the money to make it and it wouldn't get enough publicity without the marketing. So, you can either give up, change everything, or play by the rules and make an R-rated version to get the movie funded and out in the open, then simulatneously make an unrated version to release. That way you get funded and you can now remake Nightmare On Elm Street. Stores agree to carry the rated version, which generates publicity for both the rated and unrated versions. And in the end, you got to make the unrated version you wanted to and mass distribute it as if it were R-rated. It's basically just bending the rules.
To be totally honest, the biggest reason for hiding the sexual content by default is for money. Ntelliware is just starting out, Hero will be our first title, and in order to make it we need to raise about $20k. While the idea has been pitched by a few fans about accepting donations and offering rewards similar to a kickstarter project, the odds of it raising 20k are very slim, whereas Kickstarter gets more pulicity and would have a better chance. But in order to comply with kickstarter, the game has to be non-pornographic. So the best running idea is to get a non-pornographic version funded, and while developing it, simultaneously develop the full version of MGQ 3D. If anybody has a better idea to raise 20k, we'd be happy to not even worry about making an M rated version, would be easier on us anyhow. But if not, then this is the best we got.
So for those who want an accurate 3D remake of MGQ, you'll get it don't worry, we just have to make a non-hentai version too.
