I'm not pandering to anyone, and I not planning to. Yes, big breasts to appeal to me, as much as any of the other features I've added to these Thilians. And I can agree that I am sexually attracted to those features. But it doesn't mean that I'm exploiting their sexualized appearance to satisfy my dick.
I have a deeper love for them which is what fuels my affinity to create this world where they can be accepted by others who see them for what they are, and not something which is shallow and dishonest. They have character, and aspirations. Of which I may have not made very clear in some of the character biographies. It's the kind of love I'd have for a busty wife of which I'd chose because I find big boobs adorable, but not distracting. I would share my life with her and actually focus on her needs, her own wishes and aspirations. I'd say that I find bosoms as precious as a little baby. So, where's your "fetish" card now, slugger? *smokes a Churchill cigar*
Let's say, hypothetically, I'm someone who's playing the pre-Alpha for the first time. I load up the game, mindful that it's incomplete. I know the stuff I'm going to see is just the start of the backbone, the most essential, basic things only.
I see the character I'm playing as. What do I know about the character so far? I see she has breasts that jiggle while the rest of her model is ram-rod stiff. I see she's wearing low-rise pants, a midriff-bearing shirt, no shoes, and some kind of work helmet. I don't know her name. I don't know her career. I can make the connection that it has something to do with flying ships, but beyond that, I don't know what she does. I don't know anything about her culture, so I can't conclude there's any reason as to why her breasts are jiggling. I can make the assumption that it's just bad character design (who the heck would wear
low-rise pants to work? and where the hell is her bra??) and there's nothing to prove me wrong in the game. Playing through the pre-Alpha doesn't help me; there's still no information or narrative about who she is. I don't know anything about what she's like as a person. There's a number of different places explore and a bunch of different ships to fly, but as for the person I'm playing as, literally the only thing I know about her is that she has bouncy breasts.
I, the player, comes to the conclusion that in the developer's eyes, the protagonist's bouncing breasts are more important than her character and that's why they were included in the pre-Alpha.
Even if your justifications for having floppy boobs were in the game, I still think they're ridiculous. There are a million ways a culture which reveres secondary sex characteristics could go about displaying that, but you picked the most self-serving and obvious ways. Heck, there are a million backstories the Thilians could have had, but you gave them one which ensures they all have big, perfectly round breasts with no signs of physical imperfection. Your "Abya Harness" looks like a parody, that's how absurd it is. If this were just mindless fetish fuel, again, I wouldn't care, but you keep insisting this is something we're supposed to take seriously. I'm almost more put-off by your lazy writing than your failure to portray your protagonist as anything other than a Vehicle For Breasts.
And my fetish card is right here.
EDIT: Oh, darn, he's gone already?
