It's been a couple of days since my last update. Essentially a lot of things happened. I was sick for a couple of days, Then I spent a day just playing Fallout 4. Today I was back working on the game and have the first 200 renders of chapter 9 done. The script is already done so its going to be decently fast to get the release out. I also was thinking a lot. Mainly struggling with the itch.io issue. I am a huge fan of the idea of allowing people to have a way other than patreon to help support the game, and to get early access to content without feeling locked into a patreon subscription. But obviously the issues with butler are seriously hindering that. I think I have a way to solve the issue though. I typically compress the updates to 80% so that all the images and stuff lose about 20% quality but when I am getting my renders in 4k losing 20% is really not noticeable at all. I don't even see the difference on a 60inch 4k monitor, well in the renders I don't I notice a bit of quality drop on the 4k monitor on the animations but not enough to notice while its in 1080p and I don't notice it on my 32inch 1080p monitor. If I released the stuff with 0 compression though the game would be at 6gb. Just chapter 8 alone added 3gb. But after compression it dropped down to a 800MB update.

None of that really matters to most of you though, So onto the point. The issue with itch.io is that they only allow me to upload 1gb files. So I messaged support what a week or 2 ago? Still no reply its very annoying for me because they are supposed to upgrade you to 2gb if you ask for it. But they are just radio silent. So I have 2 alternative solutions that I thought up.

1. Split the game into chapters like have each chapter as its own "Game" where I can upload them as separate files on itch.io.

2. Compress the game to 50% compression for all previous files and leave whatever is "new content" at the standard 80%.

Option 2 would keep the game whole, while also allowing it to work for mobile users. So I think I am going to try that first. Though I will also continue to redirect people to patreon for a better quality for the older chapters on patreon.

I am curious for feedback here though. What do you think I should do?

Also would you like it if I uploaded as an exclusive thing for patreon members the full uncompressed versions? I don't mean as like for paid members only thing. As I am sure you have figured out by now I upload the same game for the paid members as I do for the free members. The paid members just get it earlier. Though I have been debating adding a special paid members exclusive tier where I will make a paid member only scene once per update. To give a bit of a better reward for people to want to go for the paid subscription. The only reason I haven't done that yet is because I feel like it may not be fair to the free users. I know I get it.... that's kinda the entire point of a paid subscription getting something no one else gets.... I don't know part of me just feels "wrong?" doing that without someone asking for it first.

This all goes back to let me know what you want. I am not opposed to changing things up. I am not someone who can't handle criticism or anything like that. Well I am not good with people that are just ranting to kink shame others. I am very against that. I give 0 fucks what your kinks are. Like there are thousands of kinks, right?

I mean for me personally I have a few I have always been interested in. Things like Sharing, Cheating, multiple penetration, gangbang, among many others. Though I have also said I am personally not into Cucking. Which is why I changed the story to be more of a sharing thing because that just flows easier for me as it's something I personally can get behind. It's one of those things where I don't think I would ever go for it IRL but thinking about it is different you know? That's also why I try my best to include anything people want to see as long as it makes since in the story.

Example I don't see how I could incorporate anything furry for the people that are into that. As the story takes place in the real world. Not a fantasy setting I mean, does that make sense? So as long as it makes sense to the story I have no issues with adding it. Though that is something I can and will be adding to Mushoku Harem as there are 2 girls I already have made for the game that I will be adding which would fall into that category. But for MH I don't see how I could add things like sharing....well Wife sharing specifically as you know they are all sharing Rudy.....so... But yea I was thinking about adding an ntr toggle for that game and having sporadic nightmares that Rudy could have where one of his girls is doing one of the male characters. That's the only way that I could make that tag work in that game in my head anyways. So why I haven't done that yet? Mainly a fear that in doing that I would lose a lot of players who see a tag and instantly bash the game. I don't want to go through that bashing again like I did for the first few months when Her Fall released.

Well I am currently compressing Her Fall to 50% to check how things look and see if it's below 1gb. If it is then I will be uploading that to itch.io tomorrow. Like I said let me know what you want If you don't want compressed and think the split chapters idea would be better let me know and we can try that also.