Talk:Crimes of Passion, Book 1/@comment-46194428-20200703045302/@comment-36836718-20200705114203

I didn't say that success depends on gender. I wrote that we would have Across the Void 2, Nightbound 2, and The Elementalists 3 if things had worked out the way PB planned. And we know that sequels had been planned. Across the Void had Book 1 in its title, they tried to gain more readers for Nightbound with the cover change (but alienated its fans instead), and they initially said that The Elementalists would cover the studies. But something went wrong since two of them are cancelled for good and we don't know when and how they will ever revisit The Elementalists. While ILITW was successful, ILB seems to have not been successful enough so we don't know when and they revisit it. Another gender of choice series that could have filled the current gaps. We know that there have been gaps because as soon as NB and TE were ended, PB wrote that they need to reschedule. They expected the stories to be successful but they were not and had to come up with a backup plan.

And it's not like they can say "well, that story didn't work out so let's quickly write a new book and release it within 3 months". We know that planning a book takes at least a year, sometimes 2 or more. Examples are Queen B (1+ year), Open Heart (2-3 years), The Elementalists (2-3), Blades (about 2 years if I remember correctly). Or "we have a genderlocked book reasy but let's quickly add in a gender of choice MC with four more faces, hairstyles, ten outfits and the appropriate pronouns in 16 chapters. Manually." The script may be ready but the artwork is expensive (Hero 2). For gender of choice, it's twice the money as a genderlocked book because: faces in multiple versions depending on mood, hairs, outfits, and potentially accessories. Double the amount of coding to reflect gender. People complain as soon as a pronoun accidentally gets messed up. I know the prices artists charge for one artwork alone. At the same time, The Royal Romance/Heir adds a lot of expensive artworks (outfits for you, all love interests, and The Heir in almost every single chapter) and there it works out. People buy them. Some buy every single outfit. From a commercial point of view, it's likely they look at what sells and what doesn't. Their CEO himself wrote that, at some point, they only looked at the financial figures and not at what would have been the right thing to do. He apologized and wrote to give them time to fix things and that we may see the results at the end of the year. Which is why I wrote to give them time. If you don't agree, that's fine. You wrote your opinion and I wrote mine. If anything is unclear? you can always ask me.

For me, the topic is settled. We can simply agree to disagree and move on. :)