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Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1410/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (61.1%)">AstralAir - prologue patch released, 32,124 / 63,940 (50.24%) lines translated >Kiminozo - Common route translation complete >Lovely Cation- 26% of lines completed >Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3rd project released ch 1-5
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>>14264980 Well, I guess I can understand that if you're entirely uninterested in gameplay, but it actually does have a pretty damn good battle system, so I wouldn't call it "boring shit." But I can assure you from playing Sora no Kiseki FC that the story outweighs the gameplay significantly, probably even moreso in SC.
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>>14264991 JRPGs are, practically by design, universally awful to "play" (I use that term loosely). The only reason people trudge through them is for the story, and why bother when you can skip the bullshit and read a good VN instead? You even get porn as a bonus.
If I want gameplay, I'll play something actually fun and not a monotonous menu-driven grindfest.
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>>14264843 Why do you think Haruka is going to bomb? Haruka is the type of game that usually sells very well for MG (lot's of sex). I don't think there's anything to worry about.
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>>14265007 While you make a valid point, not ALL JRPGs are like that. For example, Undertale is, for some ridiculous reason, a shmup. So it really depends on how they handle it.
This is also why I prefer action RPGs, like the Tales series. That kind of gameplay doesn't get old to me so I'm playing it for everything it has to offer and getting a full game's entertainment value out of it.
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>>14264498 What Witch Boy raised was decent for a mobile vn though, it's just that the goal was too high for what was being offered. In the all-or-nothing approach, kickstarter goals have to be reasonable.
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>>14264498 >Sekai tried to publish something with no audience Incorrect. As NTY proved beyond doubts, there's an audience on the BL market. SP simply made a very poor decision in regards to the type of BL game, costs and tiers on the kickstarter.
On another note, I don't agree with kickstarter as a business model. Regardless of the reputation and trust a company build up, there's always risk (even if it's little) on supporting a product in early stages of development.
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>>14265249 >Incorrect. As NTY proved beyond doubts, there's an audience on the BL market. There is an audience for high-profile ordinary BL games. But there is no audience for a low-quality non-ero mahou shoujo BL VNs.
A certain type of BL games has an audience. Witch Boy doesn't.
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>>14265249 Honestly, I think Witch Boy could have succeeded if they weren't so lazy about the campaign until it was already beyond saving. The first couple days are critical and no one wants to contribute to something that doesn't look like it's going to make it. The game was always going to be a hard sell, but I guess they figured they could just coast and people would throw money at them (it took DAYS for them to even post about the project on their own Tumblr). They even got a decent chunk of press coverage. It's really inexcusable.
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>>14265293 I think Witch Boy would sell about as well as Hatoful Boyfriend. It clearly is a game mainly for people who'd play something silly.
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>>14265307 >no one wants to contribute to something that doesn't look like it's going to make it That's really odd considering you don't pay unless it meets the goal. I can see not contributing if you the goal is too low for what they want to do or the rewards look more expensive than the pledge tiers they are for, otherwise I don't get it.
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>>14265553 It's just a psychological thing. People are more inclined to contribute when something is close to its goal than when it has a long ways to go. It doesn't just apply to Kickstarter either. The same principle even works on dumb shit like social sharing buttons, people substantially are more likely to hit the "tweet" button if it's displaying a large number.
>>14265545 Nah, it's not as meme-tastic as Hatoful (and probably not as genuinely good either). It's a pretty niche title and the main audience for that kind of thing (i.e. Tumblr) is really touchy about the subject of the game's main gimmick.
It could have probably made it if the campaign had launched with at least one stretch goal and those reward tiers they added late in the game along with the promotion they started doing half-way through. Why they didn't start with that shit is beyond me.
Alternately, they could have just gone the freemium mobile route like the original and probably would have raked in way more cash than KS/Steam ever would have made.
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https://connect.jastusa.com/support/discussions/topics/5000047459/page/80 >Many would likely be happy to play games before release and provide feedback with only a free copy as compensation. MangaGamer has been doing this for a while and it's worked well for them. As expected of sanahtlig. Trying to spread bullshit on official forums of other companies. He's right about the part of JAST needing to learn how to properly beta test their games though.
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>>14265737 Given how shit the pay is if you ask for it instead of credit, it's not really that big a lie.
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>>14265737 http://ask.fm/MangaGamerStaff/answer/115357102066 >Do you pay your beta testers, or do you consider playing free nukige the reward? >Our beta testers are paid via Paypal, in proportion to the length of the game they're working on and they receive an additional bonus if they complete a Tester's Corner write-up for our blog. >However, we do offer game vouchers for beta testers who request them, though. This was near 1 year ago though. Since then MG started to make more money and it's possible they updated their ratings. Only someone working for them would know this.
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>>14265737 I'm not going to open that link and risk an aneurysm but I hope people are calling him out on his bullshit. Dude must be pretty bitter about that forum ban.
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>>14265737 I like how JAST pretty much killed their small forum community.
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>>14265812 I find it funny that he always tries to defend any poor behavior from companies, except a temp ban which he gets really angry over.
I'd be more angry over having to wait another month on bug fixing, than waiting 5 days to post on a forum.
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>>14265877 It's especially funny because the ban was completely justified. His butt's just hurting because they dared to ban the great sanahtlig.
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>>14265877 >I find it funny that he always tries to defend any poor behavior from companie he's a self-important blowhard, but theres no need to make shit up. he's been bitching at jast even since shiny days, hell, he's even been doing so in that thread.
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>>14254704 How could you do this to me.
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>>14266239 How could you fall for some stupid shit in the middle of the thread. If it was actually out people would have had a response to it. We ignore people who post such simple trolls.
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>>14266362 >implying its not out Anonymous
MG posted a new thread for license requests from current partners. They posted a google spreadsheet with top requests:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LPiidttiwCcNsak-Z1VawRFyvOaNJ39ESAjNmzRJXDc/edit?usp=sharing Anonymous
>>14266406 Proof positive that nobody gives a shit about Dies Irae, Baldr Sky, or any of the other vaunted real deal bullshit.
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>>14266415 >current partners Anonymous
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>>14266406 What the fuck even are some of these.
Also who the fuck uses the word vaunted.
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>>14266399 ...That is a webm of Soul Nomad.
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>>14266415 The top requested title only had 25 votes. Obviously, the voters are a very small subset of MG's buyers. Green Green, really?
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>>14266440 That is not even remotely Soul Nomad.
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MG's licensing survey likely gave them more valuable data than their license request thread does. It's usually the same few users requesting different games over and over.
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>>14266530 Your mom's not even remotely Soul Nomad.
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>>14266538 While I hate to use the phrase, MangaGamer's forum basically seems like a containment forum. They let the idiots have their fun there and think they're influencing things so that they won't cause trouble elsewhere.
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>>14266538 You mean you're not interested in those 14 people posting random moege #999999 every post?
>MG's licensing survey likely gave them more valuable data It bothered me they only showed the top 10 -- which are the most retarded requests possible.
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>>14266552 I post there. It honestly is. The staff don't even like visiting because the people there are fucking incapable of reading.
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>>14266562 >It bothered me they only showed the top 10 -- which are the most retarded requests possible. Which was why they were willing to show it. They don't want JAST or Sekai to netorare any of the titles they plan to pursue. Flowers was one of the few top 10 titles MG had a shot at, but look what happened. They'll likely be very secretive from now on.
The survey attracted alot of casuals, so the results weren't surprising. I requested titles that I actually thought would be within the realm of possibility for MG to pursue.
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>>14266596 You'd think Innocent Grey would have respected their deal with MangaGamer.
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>>14266552 When MG split the BL/Otome games into their own thread, that's exactly what the people requesting those games accused MG of doing, but they're not being ignored any more than anyone else is.
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>>14266627 That's because there's no one for them to ignore there.
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>>14266570 Says a lot about just how awful it is when they prefer to visit this place, fucking 4chan, over their own forums.
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>>14266421 >current partners >softhouse chara Nope
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>>14266596 I highly doubt Sekai Project would be able to take any such titles anyway. Ever since they blew their load on Clannad and Grisaia, they have been picking up nothing but no-name shit and worthless "big name" shit.
>>14266625 I also doubt it was an exclusive partnership if JAST taking Flowers was even possible.
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>>14266807 Do people think it's part of softhouse-seal?
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>>14266828 Mangagamer apparently does.
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>>14266810 It's not about being an exclusive deal, but why would you work with a company for years and then just give your product to some company you don't know?
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>>14266892 I'm sure they've at least heard of JAST.
And MG probably never expressed their interest in localizing Flowers directly to them, so they might've assumed they weren't interested as those games are nothing like Kara no Shoujo series.
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>>14267032 Fuck off, furry
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>>14267042 >Skeletons >Furry Boy, I wish this board required an IQ test so retards like you could be kept out.
