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Dear Gay Harem staff, Feedback opportunities for improvement: Building a game casually around bedding Sex Workers so they start sending you money in exchange for nothing in return… is at best unrealistic portrayal of what being their pimp is & what you would need to do to maintain a working relationship with the sex workers. …At worst it is encouraging dangerous stereotypes that Sex Workers still fight today! I am a sex worker & I would sue any employer/manager/agency/security via my trade union if they were treating me in the way the game lays out as we’d accept. It might work if the game were a dodgy landlord roleplaying game instead. Multiple times however I have told you that I am happy to help you with improving the above with you m, as I see potential & I support change even in governmental organisations regarding these topics. Leaving you with a more fun and still sexy playable game. However I’d only be open to talking about it in a video call. Pushing people that have clearly stated they aren’t written communicators into doing that is not the type of treatment I’d need in any collaboration, so maybe it was a good sign to see this early. A lot of creative people have learning difficulties & so have preferences for how they want to communicate for them to be able to do it effectively or concisely. Some other easy things you could do to improve your game: •Pair your micropayments to supporting actual Sex Worker led organisations such as our trade unions, charities, Rights lobbying groups, hardship funds (such and the covid hardship fund) and housing projects. If you need a list of good ones contact me, I am a Sex Worker volunteering in many of them & your help could save lives & end discrimination and which can trap people in this work. This will help the public pay in your game and you can tell the public that payments in game supports Sex Worker care in many ways. If you want a gay male sex worker project then “Molly House” in USA or “Banana Milkshake” in UK are first thoughts coming to mind but many are open to Sex Workers of all genders & what they do often benefits all types even at legislative levels. Molly house does a lot regarding male sex workers and substance use and mental health. Banana Milkshake is a social bouldering session for the guys helping community form and people needing help getting signposting as an initial engagement. •Stop treating black characters and people of colour like extra rare special wins. Be aware how high a level you have to be because you left game stops being all white. The game is so white feeling & the diversity finally in it feels extra objectifying. It doesn’t sit well in this decade & suggests E.g. you don’t have a black staff member who could have been heard in meetings to avoid this path. Not that it ever sat on, did racism in games was left unchallenged more in the past. It isn’t even possible in your game to make the player avatar any ethnicity from the start, or a non-ethnicity such a blue person if wanting space from increasing further white normalisation. Obviously a lot of art in your story line “shows the user” and has a set ethnicity. So why wouldn’t you do this with a non ethnicity for mass relatability such as the young man who becomes blue when eating the fruit giving him his “sexual powers”. •Embrace that people will play it vertically on mobile before any other method. …also that sections of your game just doesn’t open on mobile reliably such as a “path to valour” etc seems to struggle maybe when many people are attempting to open it. •Your login or play screen image is not the quality of image you should lead with either, it is school themed roleplaying underage, and non-consensual role-play themed, and just sloppy manga compared to illustrations of special characters wins. It is SO themed it will put some users off even at this starting point. Why do I care? Because you are one of few companies making a gay sexual game, you will be reaching many closeted people and setting a role model of what quality, gay people can expect from games… You seem to want to do better otherwise wouldn’t have all these surveys and forums etc & the community deserves that you get there. Dragon has my details if you want to have that video call meeting. Sincerely Jason Domino, International Sex Worker Rights campaigner

So, today I've encountered an unpleasant thing. That there are some people here, who are not into the game really, but write questionable shit in the club chat. One of our club members already left the club, because our club leader is not going to exclude the guy, writing this stuff. I am thinking to do that too, but before I do, I want to clarify the situation: it is against the rules to write this kind of shit in this game, right? Or not? I have all the screenshots if needed. I can upload them here. I don't want to open the support ticket and stuff on that matter, cause we all know about the timings of reaction (and I'm not sure if it is the proper topic for support team).