@Sangie

I heartily dislike MLP but I doubt it could be considered tantamount to sadism, scat, and dismemberment…

… although I really hope it doesn’t show up in the next game, that would be strange.

Sure, I’d be glad to help playtest, or anything else really.
I was going to also suggest having a variety of choices in the sex scenes as well, though. Positions and cameras, mostly. Otherwise it seems too prerendered and scripted (that was another problem I had with the sex scenes in CG – there were some “options” in some of the scenes but you had to progress through all of them to get to the end anyway, so there is not really any choice). So having a choice of positions and actions (which vary depending on what scene it is – for example, in the first Max scene it was pretty much exclusively oral so you wouldn’t have the options to screw him) as well as a choice of camera positions and angles (close-ups, POV, things like that) would really seal the deal on the sex scenes.
Like I said before, choice = replay value. I know it sucks logistically but that’s really the only thing seriously lacking on CG. As well as different genders, I suppose – throw in a few females to appease the straight crowd, and maybe a transgender to mix things up. (I’m of the rainbow persuasion myself so I don’t have any problems with the all-male all-gay cast but, shockingly, not all furries are gay.)

[EDIT] agagahhagha I forgot to add that you should probably put a link to the manual in the game, I didn’t know it even existed until about halfway through when I was looking for a character list.

What in the world could you have possibly done all those 16 weeks after you get hearts for everyone? I admit I thought there was only one heart at first (and assumed that perhaps you had to keep up the relationship much like The Sims lest it deteriorate) but after a while you surely had to try something.

I disagree; DRM free. Keygens are easy to make, believe me. (Haven’t made any but I know those who can, and they’ve become exceedingly good at it.) A key would only be an annoyance to those that have actually paid.

I should also point out that “locking” it to a name is also probably a bad idea if you’ve paid in full, but having a default name for gifting is probably good. Although it’s probably somewhat difficult to dynamically generate an installer that knows in advance what the default name should be. Perhaps – and this is a big “perhaps” – you could zip up something with a simple file inside that has the default name, and maybe even a default character setup, but that’s a bit convoluted for something that minor.