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Understandable, I'm familiar with the difficulties in getting over the platform barrier. But hypothetically, if the stars aligned and you did get a port made (or, alternatively: if I got a Windows machine at some point in the future, and you updated some games in the meantime), would those versions be uploaded here?
That's actually what I mean by "path-locked" - the initial reactions dominate the conversation, and everyone responds to those instead of what the game is actually like now. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence)
You're welcome, I hope it was helpful.
I don't know if there are any adult games specifically that tried that - the examples I'm familiar with are mostly things like fanfic and fan art, in the context of some very toxic internet spaces. Itch probably isn't as bad, but I recognize some of the same patterns happening in your comment sections.
My impression as a total newcomer is actually just what you describe - that the comment section ended up path-locked by people early on yelling about NTR, and none of them updated their models when you actually changed the game. But I'm an outlier who actually reads all the evidence before starting to form an opinion.
The "NTR-Free Edition" really was my rebranding suggestion - cut off the mess and start fresh, while making clear that you did hear the complaints and change the game in response. You wouldn't need to change anything about the actual game, because (as you pointed out) you already made that change.
Just found this game and haven't actually played it yet, but I've seen that kind of "rebranding" backfire before - there's a certain type of person that goes "aha, that devious [liker of things I don't like] is trying to conceal their knavery, I will go into the comments of the new thing and warn everyone."
(Tangential linguistic pedantry: My only gripe with the "3YoV" title is that you tried to abbreviate "30" to "3," and numbers don't abbreviate like that, so it reads like "3-year-old virgin." Also, either both the Y and O should be capitalized, or neither - lowercase letters in abbreviations are usually reserved for prepositions, so it actually reads like "3 Years of Virgin." Which is definitely an improvement on "3-year-old virgin," but still not quite what you're looking for.)
Maybe make a new version titled "30 Year Old Virgin: NTR-Free Edition," put in a description that talks about how you've heard the feedback and removed all the NTR, and just have it be the same game?