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I understand your position, but I dislike comments like this precisely because, as you acknowledged, someone reading them without context could walk away with a very damaging and inaccurate impression.

If you want to discuss these concerns on Discord, that’s completely fine, since I can explain everything there more easily. I am already well known within the Hispanic AVN community, where I have an established audience and have been involved with these kinds of projects for years.

NeXusTC is not some unrelated company secretly promoting my game. It is my own brand and ecosystem. I am the owner and sole developer of the NeXusTC Ren’Py Player, and I am also the creator of this visual novel.

I created the app to address a real problem for Android users, who represent over 90% of the audience in my Hispanic communities. The app and the game launching around the same time was simply a coincidence and a blessing. I had already spent four months working on the app before both projects happened to be ready around the same period.

Since you say you have considerable technical knowledge, I would genuinely appreciate it if you tested the app and gave me detailed feedback. If you discover anything that does not work correctly or could potentially harm users in any way, please show me. That kind of evidence-based feedback would be extremely valuable to me, and I would take it very seriously.

I have spent years building my name and earning the trust of my community. It would make absolutely no sense for me to sabotage everything I have built by releasing something malicious. Some people might believe I should keep the game and the app completely separate, but I disagree. I genuinely created the app as a solution for Android players, or at least that is what I am working hard to make it become.

I understand that the game disappointed you, but I personally believe that if a public comment offers nothing useful to the developer, there is no need to leave it directly on the developer’s own page. I would never go to another creator’s page just to tell them that I think their work is bad. I might discuss my opinion privately with people close to me, but I would not walk into the creator’s space and throw it in their face.

Even criticism that seems minor to you can hurt, because neither you nor anyone else knows everything I had to go through to create this project. I understand that negative reviews will exist elsewhere, but I do not want unsupported security suspicions or comments like this on my itch.io page.

Thank you for explaining your position

Tanxui11 hours ago

I've done some more research, and even though I'm still a bit sceptical overall, I don't think my malware suspicions are as justified as they initially seemed. So, I removed them. As promised, I apologize for denting your reputation with this. I recommend you to make it more transparent that you are the actual developer of the app!

The rest of the review stays up though. I believe that my review IS useful to you, it is feedback from a seasoned AVN enjoyer who values good writing. It's also useful for other players who are trying to decide whether the game is for them. You have the power to enforce permitting only positive comments about your game, but that can eat a lot more trust than what I did. It's up to you.

TioCuba2 hours ago

I understand, and I think this is better.

I know I could have simply deleted your comment, but I waited for you to respond because I didn’t want to be disrespectful. Even though the original review could have given people the wrong impression, I would gain nothing by immediately deleting it and then having others claim that I remove accusations instead of addressing them.

That said, I will eventually remove the unnecessary comments in this discussion because they no longer lead anywhere, including this one. I’ll leave them up for a while so you have time to read my response, and then I’ll delete them.

I also understand that negative feedback can sometimes be helpful. However, I don’t consider every negative opinion to be constructive feedback. Briefly saying that the game looks polished on the surface and then dedicating everything else to criticism is not the kind of feedback I will personally accept as constructive, now or in the future.

I’m not saying that people must only praise my work. If someone genuinely wants their criticism to help me improve as a developer, I expect it to be informed and balanced. They should identify the good aspects with the same specificity they use to identify the flaws. If they are missing important context, they can also ask me questions before reaching conclusions.

Otherwise, it can easily become personal opinions presented as “constructive criticism,” and I don’t consider those two things to be the same