Visual Novel translation status Amagami - 1st day patch Released

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MangaGamer
>Free Friends 2 - Jan 26th release
>Magical Eyes - Feb 29th release
Higurashi Hou -Watanagashi released
>Bokuten - 75.2% translated, 42.21% edited
>Da Capo 3 - 75% translated, 68.8% edited
>OZMAFIA - 93% translated, 22.34% edited
>House in Fata Morgana - 98% translated, 20% edited
>Myth - 93.1% translated, 81% edited
>My Boss Wife is My Ex - In testing
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, 18.13% TL 18.13% edited
>Supipara - Ch 1 near beta
>Yurirei - in testing
Himawari - TL and editing finished, in scripting
>Beat Blades Haruka - in testing
Umineko - Picked up
>Tokyo Babel - 100% translated, 58% edited
>Negai no Kakera - 4% translated
Princess Evangile W Happiness - Picked up


JAST
>Sonicomi - Summer release
Flowers - 100% translated, 23% edited
Seinarukana- Waiting on LE prototypes
Sweet Home - 34% translated
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- Translation 83%
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sumeragi Ryoko - 100% translated, waiting on test build


Sekai/Denpa
>Root Double - Kickstarter started, planned March release
Nekopara 2 - 2/20 release
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title in TL through end of Nov
Atom Grrrl - 100% translated
Narcissu 3rd - 88.54% translated
Narcissu 0 - 89.23% translated
WEE 3 - 8.26% translated
Nenokami - 37.79% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
Chrono Clock - Picked up
Tenshin Ranman - Picked up
Witch Boy - Kickstarter failed
Darekoi - Picked up
Wagamama High Spec - 2016 release
Mayoi Hitsuji no Kajuen - Picked up


Other
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
Little Busters - Picked up
Tomoyo After - Picked up
Muv Luv Trilogy - Kickstarter succeeded
SubaHibi - Official release planned
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - 2946/10293 (28.62%) lines translated
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Kickstarter started
Magical Eyes - Winter release planned
Zero Time Dilemma - 2016 release
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

Sorry if I'm out of the loop. but AstralAir is an edited machine translation?

>>14600024
You really are out of the loop. If something is fan translated nowadays, it's basically a machine TL.

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>>14600024
The first and only patch they released for it was unarguably machine translated.
http://imgur.com/a/QMgjQ

Since then, they've done the usual thing of claiming that they've started over, pulled new translators out of their asses, and everything is 100% fixed without showing any actual proof of it.

>>14600116
>>14600148
Well that's sad. I feel bad for you, EOP friends.

Noble Works was too? I saw some comments stating translation mistakes were found immediately after it came out.

>>14600151
When even Reddit is cataloging lists of errors from the first 5 minutes of the game and calling it bad, you know it's fucking bad.
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3y4g72/nobleworks_full_translation_patch_released/

>>14600157
Damn, normally I'd think Reddit would be supportive of every faggot that releases something.

>>14600180
They typically are. They love Sekai Project and all their awful translations. So it takes special effort to get them to sit up and notice.

Is there going to be a JAST panel at Anime Expo? I would like to see their showcasing of SoniComi while angry mobs demand where seinarukana and sumaga and flowers is.

>>14600186
>>14600157
What are you even doing over there? Please stay away from me, you might be contagious. Or let's face reality: You most likely are, Redditor, so fuck off.

>>14600239
There's nothing wrong with going on reddit. There's nothing wrong with posting on reddit.
Just like how its good to check different news sources, its good to check on different visual novel discussion sources.

Discriminating someone who goes on a website is stupid.

Who you actually hate are dumb people.

The sad truth is that they're everywhere, even on /jp/. It's just that reddit has more popularity and a more encouraging environment and enables those retards to openly speak out and say stupid things. It's like how 4chan enables everybody to say hateful aggressive things to everybody else. If reddit didn't have any rules, it'd be essentially the same as here.

>>14600292
/jp/ is a lot more civil than it used to be, for what it's worth.

>>14600214
>angry mobs
>JAST
Its long past the point when people cared about them enough to get angry.

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The quantity of remaining evangile wallscroll bundles has decreased from 44 to 40 this week, and it has maintained it's secondplace ranking on the charts. As usual, hardcopy sales don't appear to be too intense.

In other news, although the bundle continues to obscure sales, freefriends 2 is likely outpacing that OELVN that's launching at the same time as it. judging by the popularity sort

As always, this tracker is powered by anonymous like you, so post order numbers if you got em'

>>14599937
>>Da Capo 3 - 75% translated, 68.8% edited

Only 2 more years to go.

>>14600541
and ~Da Capo II~ Plus Communication never

>>14600549
Only if DCIII on Steam proves to be a big hit like or better than Princess Evangile. Which would probably not be as easy with all the magic craziness that goes on with the series.

>>14599937
>>14599933
Why is Magical Eyes listed under MangaGamer? It's a Fruitbat Factory release.

>>14600608
Sooner or later, Steam will have enough VN saturation that not every title brought to Steam will be an instant hit. When that time comes, maybe certain companies that basically make it their business model to "translate" (i.e. steal existing fan translations) VNs and then make a tidy profit by selling it to the weeb Steam crowd will no longer be feasible.

>>14600613
Probably because MG sells and promotes it,
http://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=160

>>14600617
> Steam will have enough VN saturation
Unless miracle happens and there's 10+ VN releases per month, its not ever going to get "saturated". People move on to new shiny toys instead re-reading same old shit forever (moreover, half of steam crowd doesn't even read shit they bought ), so older releases do not compete with newer ones.

>>14600618
>promotes it,

Let's not tell fibs here anonymous

>>14600618
Yeah, but they do the same with, for example, Konosora (which is clearly Moenovel), or No One But You (published by Sekai on Steam). Does that make them MangaGamer games too?

>>14600541
Kouryuu has been much faster these past months. Just look at the previous thread where its translation was at 70.3% translated and now it's 75%.
At this pace I'm expecting DC3 translation to be done in less than half a year.

>>14600608
I suppose the guy that is still doing PE videos will play DC3. And since the game is long as fuck, it'll have a lot of exposure (provided he does a lot of videos of it).

Anyone else feel that MG has too many cheap, generic looking VNs up in their lineup? Was checking out if there was anything worth getting (purely based on visual aspects at first), but I had to click quite often until I finally found some games that didn't absolutely SCREAM generic VN style, cheap mass-produced backgrounds and boring characters. So genertic that all of those characters could be exchanged from one game to another and no one would ever know the difference.

InnocentGrey stuff looks okay, I'm divided on minori (the art looks nice, but the characters don't), maybe Liar-soft? But that's about it, I wouldn't even waste a thought about buying that other trash.

>>14599937
>Beat Blades Haruka - in testing
MG is really pushing for a fast release. The progress on Haruka has been really fast.

Also, didn't MG say some weeks ago that they should have some news on Umineko quite soon?

>>14600673
You have shit taste.

>>14600680
It's not even in testing, it's out of testing at this point.

>>14600694
Thanks for your input, peasant.

>>14600709
>>14600673
Funny how you call someone else a peasant when you're the inexperienced one around here. /jp/ generally doesn't take kindly to newbies, so I suggest heading over to /vg/'s VN General thread; you'll have much better luck fishing for recommendations there.

>>14600955
>This is 4chan.
This is your problem. 4chan is a collection of boards. Often, when outsiders or /b/tards refer to '4chan', they instead refer to /b/ rather than the whole site. Board culture differs per board. 'Reddit is our enemy' is a /b/ thing, as is as calling other people 'newfags'.

/jp/ generally dislikes Reddit, but that is due to a lack of respect for how the site works (encouraging attention whoring and group behavior with their forced names and voting system) and their userbase, not out of some petty rivalry.

A lot of people we like to see posting here also post on Reddit, particularly those involved in VN translation (commercial or fan translation). With the current state of /jp/, you can hardly blame VN fans for going to Reddit when looking for VN discussion. It may be full of newbies, but at least they still discuss VNs there.

>>14600673
Um, you must have an awfully strange definition of "cheap", given how minori puts more money into visuals than any other eroge developer.

>>14600998
He's some clueless EOP, just ignore him.

I wonder if after that shitting on moege if arunaru's current project is moege. Haro said something to the effect we'd see the influence evangile had this year in announcements and mangagamer was probably the one who ended up with chuable soft with no one in particular lined up to translate anything.

>>14601074
He said its something with gameplay, so I doubt its moege.

>>14599933
Starry Sky in Summer TL is kill, while Black Wolves Saga and Ken ga Kimi are on Hiatus and might be dead as well.

http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

>>14601100
No he didn't.

>>14599937
Grisaia Meikyuu is 75% translated, Atom Grrrl!! is expected to release in Q1 2016, and Narcissu 3 and 4 are done with TL and editing and are in testing.

Sekai really needs to do cleaner updates, instead of mentioning these in separate KS updates and their monthly wrap up videos.

>>14601100

I don't remember seeing anything to this effect

>>14600625
OELVNs have been spamming Steam as of late. Casual Steam users can't tell the difference.

>>14600618
It's a 3rd Party game, it says so right on the store page. It's going to be on Steam too, so it makes no sense for it to be listed under MG when it's not their release.

>>14601157

If you want to get even stranger you could notice that it's actually listed twice

>>14601123
Dan88 half-asses this nowadays.

But at least he finally removed White Album 2.

>>14601261
>But at least he finally removed White Album 2.
Why?

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>>14599933
I thought the girl in the upper left hand corner was Asuna Kagurazaka for a second.

>>14601408
Because the TL is shit

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Oh MG, please license this. It's 07th Expansion with good art. Steam users will eat it up.

>This all-ages horror doujin title by Ryuukishi07 comes out concurrently in package form via Toranoana and electronically via DMM.com. All boys in the Suzuhara family leave home to live by themselves once they have reached a certain age. By training their mind and body without the help of others, they are deemed to have become men. Susumu has been prepared for this day, and set out from his home to live by himself in an apartment owned by his distant relative Tsubakiko’s family and to attend Susuda prefectural high school.

>He spends his days happily and comfortably, but there was something strange about his classmate Toe. She always holds what appears to be a Japanese doll to her chest. There were whispers that it must be a cursed doll whose hair would suddenly grow long. It appeared to be just a weird doll, but his meeting with her was destined to happen.

>Ryukishi07’s back to writing horror/mystery instead of trying to collaborate with other writers. Luckily, he’s also got a proper illustrator (Kazuharu Kina) to make the characters not look so derpy. The origin of the story is probably the Okiku doll, with its curse spreading to the students at the school. It might be an interesting read for those wishing for a change in genre or just wanting more of Ryukishi07’s stories

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>>14601489

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>>14601489
>>14601497

>>14600673

I bet you think Himawari is a no-name lolige

>>14601408
Remember flyable hearts? You do? Think of the TL for white album 2 as a step up of it.

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80 days left.

>>14601489
>>14601497
>>14601501
Seems cool. I'll play it when it comes out later this month.

>>14601545
I don't give a shit about what you bet. I've read VNs when you didn't even know neko and baka yet.

Watching root double struggling to fund is so satisfying.

>>14602387
But going to be depressing when they 'surprisingly' get multiple thousand+ donations at around the halfway point when things are looking dire.

>>14602396
At least then they're not really making any money off of it.

>>14602780
Except for the 90 or so thousand?

>>14601621
You'll be disappointed and no-one else will care

>>14601489
> didn't read final product
> didn't read even trial
> hypes stuff based on just preview art and short synopsis from illiterate moron
I sure hope MG knows better than listening to people like you.

>>14603007
Doubtful. They have Winged Cloud and AJTilley in their catalog.

>>14603134
Both require zero investments from MG and bring them plenty of profit, no reason to not accept such offer.
On other hand licensing and translating random not-yet-released game requires huge investments with completely unpredictable RoI and risks.

>>14603150
A MG with 99% OELVNs when?

>>14603239
Give it a couple years.

>>14599937
When will we see Sumaga release?

>>14603656
Never.

>>14603656
After Seinarukana.

>>14600680
The reason for Haruka fast release is MG actually want to bring better marketable Alicesoft modern VN like Daiteikoku, Blade Briders and Rance series. Too bad Alicesoft prefer start their localization with something old so they don't have no choice to choose Haruka instead. So they hope this sold enough to convince Alicesoft to localize their big title.

Arunaru and Maria works fast anyway.

>>14603685
>Daiteikoku

You vastly underestimate the size of that game, the size of Mangagamer's audience, and how horrendously shitty it is.

>>14603688
>horrendously shitty
Your brain is "horrendously shitty".
It must've hurted your amurrica feelings very deep that you keep spamming this shit for years whenever anyone mentions it.

Just get over that not everyone likes your horrible RNG grindfests. Some people prefer chess-like gameplay with deep strategy and planning elements.

>>14603713
Daiteikoku has none of those things.

>>14600467
1-10-16
149057

>>14603713
When'd you come back, Dingus? What can we do to get rid of you again?

>>14603783
Good to see you're still a psychopathic paranoid.

>>14603007
>Implying most of MG's most requested games aren't just things people saw on vndb and thought looked cool.

>>14603934
That's why they license stuff translators liked instead bothering with "requests".

>>14603951
Yes, which is why we're getting Pygmalion instead of one of Propeller's good games.

>>14603957
Pretty sure that's just a case of "Let's do the two most recent games"

>>14603959
BlackDragonHunt pushed for them to do Pygmalion because he thinks it's a good vn.

>>14603959
No, it was stated by MG staff several times that propeller provided them several options but one translator asked for Pygmalion specifically and they went with it.

>>14603957
> good games
You didn't read any of them and just parroting whatever retards like clephas or dumb fucks at EGS said.

>>14603965
I read Ayakashibito and want to read the rest of the works by that author.

>>14601621
>>14602932
I'll care :(
But seriously I totally forgot about this game, but now I'm hyped again.
At the very least I want to see how much they actually DID translate.

>>14603992
It's Insem, so 'translate'.

From Chinese.

>>14603971
Then better look forward to Tokyo Babel, because Pygmalion was written by someone else.

>>14603685
Haruka fits the profile of games that sell for Mangagamer perfectly.

It's also much newer than Rance VI. So I seriously doubt Mangagamer don't prefer Haruka over VI

The whole Rance thing is just to convince Rance fags to pay up hoping that Rance will be next when we all know it will be Escalayer

>>14603713
Very few people considering the reaction of the vast majority of people who played Daiteikoku.

>>14603713
The game doesn't give you that though... it doesn't give you enough information to make smart moves, and punishes you for not knowing. Think how Sengoku Rance would be if you couldn't see the units the enemy had and then you lost the game if you failed an attack.

>>14604534
Why do you act like its still 1.0?
Little issue with not knowing about typical fleet setups of particular nations was already fixed long time ago.

>>14604528
>Haruka fits the profile of games that sell for NUKIGEgamer perfectly.

Yep.

>>14604529
> Very few people considering the reaction of the vast majority of people who played Daiteikoku.
VNDB: 307 votes total, average 7.84 (good), 200 out of 300 votes are 8 and above.
EGS: 中央値72. While its a bit low, its nowhere near "bad game" or anything like that. Drapeko is 71, yet people from your clique treat it as almost-kamigem.

>>14604579
Which is what sells for Mangagamer.

>>14604580
VNDB is useless because 90% of voters only played the partial. The bloat and the protagonist is just as bad.
Core Route is the only thing good about Daiteikoku

And no. People don't think Drapeko is that good and nobody is claiming Drapeko would be a great pick up for Alicesoft

>>14604572
Honestly? Because I haven't played the game since it initially came out. Never really had much a reason to re-visit it, so I wasn't aware of how it changed since then. All I know is that it came out barely playable and they scrambled to patch it.

>>14600292
>There's nothing wrong with going on reddit. There's nothing wrong with posting on reddit.

Fuck off retard.

>>14603685
Haruka is a big Alicesoft title in Japan, just not among EOPs who don't know shit outside Rance.

>>14604595
*A great pick up for Mangagamer

>>14604607
They added scouting after some complains about that aspect.

With the ludo bitching last thread and this shit now, you'd think this place is /haniho/

>>14604612
>Haruka is a big Alicesoft title in Japan,

Which shows shit taste isn't unique to Western audiences.

>>14604528
Rather than Escalayer I hope Oyako Rankan please.

>>14604767
Sanah, pls.

>>14603685
>Daiteikoku, Blade Briders and Rance series.

You pleb never learn huh ? Daiteikoku is fucking garbage. It was so horrible and it bombed so hard in japan that Alicesoft was in their second bankruptcy because of it. The only good Dai title which is considered as one of the best eroge ever is Daiakuji. You faggot stop asking for this shit, we all know it's because of the "lol hitler loli is so kawaii" so fuck off already.

>>14605112
>it bombed so hard in japan
You have very wild imagination. Its one of their best-selling titles, with more sold copies than many Rance games and many times more than other titles of Dai-series.

Daiakuji is doujin-level trash with almost zero story, very short and boring h-scenes and very annoying gameplay. If you would know Japanese, you would know that its nothing than just dumb gag about "lol nazi feminists conquering japan wwwwww".

>>14605139
What kind of alternate dimension do you come from? Did Nazis win the ww2 at your place?

>>14605151
Unlike you, from existing one.
www.getchu.com/pc/salesranking201104.html Daiteikoku outsold everything but Eustia.

>>14605139
>>14605174
Not even him.

But it selling so well did major long term damage for Alicesoft because everyone was hyped as fuck about it and then it was mediocre shit and basically destroyed Alicesoft's good reputation.

>>14603965
>dumb fucks at EGS said

>If the majority opinion disagrees with me, then they're wrong and it's not because I have shit taste.

>>14604528
If MG does Rance, I bet they'll start with Quest.

>>14605228
>>14605174
You're both idiots. It sold marginally better (and worse) than games with a one year or less development time. It was closer to an entire decade in development than not, including scrapping the entire engine at one point. Money in vs Money Out. It's not complicated. It sold well, but Money In vs Money Out. It's not a complicated concept. And it did not sell "many times more" than either Daiakuji or Daibanchou.

>>14604607
The only change was to show the enemy ships before you committed to the attack. It's still the same trivial RPS design at its core where if you bring the ships it tells you to, you win a flawless victory, and if you bring literally anything else, instant game over. It still doesn't tell you that you have to sit on your ass and wait or do certain things to unlock the ships you need at various points, nor has anything done about the ridiculous bloat nor the terrible characters. It's only gone from completely unplayable to alternatively completely obtuse and completely trivial.

>>14605308
> 1 or 2 place at every shop
> insists it bombed because voice in the head said so
No wonder such cretin like you couldn't manage to master such simple game.

>>14605325
So I see the concept still eludes you then.

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Does this sound like a competent translator to you?

>>14605348
And if he doesn't pass, rest assured you'll see him in SP's ranks.

>>14605348
They get tons of applications but almost nobody passes tests. They had to turn down several licensing offers lately because all translators are already assigned, often with several projects.

>>14605363
So, it's a matter of lowering standards or lowering output. I wonder if they'd have any luck if they dropped the bar slightly.

>>14604579
>NUKIGEgamer
I keep seeing this on several places but but then I look at VNDB and half of MG catalogue isn't even a nukige.

>>14605348
Well, you have to be fluent in the language to be a competent translator, and the guy over there is suggesting JLPT N2, so he probably already flunked MG's test (though who knows what's their standard for nukige).

>>14605348
I'm not even N5 but I'm smart enough not to pay for such low quality certs. Can I be a translator too?

>>14605556
If you can pass the translation test!

>>14605570
After watching hundreds of hours of anime, I'm basically half Japanese.

>>14605586
Are you good with kanji?

>>14605348
It would be scary if someone with JLPT N3 would be translating something I am supposed to spend money on. If anything, I should be reimbursed for wasting my time on something that may or may not resemble the original story.

>>14605661
Hell yeah, man. For instance, this (山) is san and means three.

>>14605675
You little shit, almost got me there. Even though those are obviously four strokes, so it can't mean three. Unless you were misspelling tree, because it sure looks like a cactus.

>>14605707
Dude, the stroke at the bottom represents the palm. The three vertical strokes are three fingers.

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What does he mean by this?

>>14599937
>SubaHibi - Official release planned

Who made up this bullshit?

>>14605818
hertz

>>14605715
Are you sure it isn't a man? I can see two arms and a penis.

>>14605829
Yes, I'm sure. The kanji you're looking for is 太.

>>14605818
It's true.

Looks like some people have started to back the Root Double KS out of fear of not getting the game, and not because they really want to back it.

>>14605845
No it fucking isn't. I know because I'm the one who translated it.

>>14605859
moogy said it was true

>>14605866
Moogy has done jack shit for the project.

Is there anything going on with Eiyuu Senki PC? I was able to find the Russian patch that ports the PS3 translation to it, but it's still in beta and doesn't have any of the H-scenes translated. Is anyone planning to finish it off or is that the best we're gonna get?

Rest assured I'm gonna tear this fucker a new asshole on IRC. This is the last time he gets away with pulling this shit with MY work.

>>14605905
You do realize that what he did might cause the project to be hit with a DMCA if you try to release it without the developer involved.

>>14605905
応援しています！

>>14605905
>Rest assured I'm gonna tear this fucker a new asshole on IRC. This is the last time he gets away with pulling this shit with MY work.

And remember, screenshot or it never happened.

>>14605379
They tend to release alot of nukige, though it isn't surprising since they're cheaper to license, cheaper to translate, and are guaranteed to turn a profit.

After Princess Evangile was released in March, with the exception of the Higurashi retranslation, they didn't start releasing more non-nukige games until September. Overall, still not a bad year because several noteworthy games were released and licensed.

http://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2016/01/interview-sekai-projects-samuel-munson.html

>>14606812
Literally who? Did sekai get a new spokesperson or something

>>14606936
He's not new, he's the guy in Sekai's monthly wrap up videos.

>>14606936
I think it's that fat korean looking dude. The one in their youtube videos.

>>14606949
He blinks too much. And I don't think he's a particularly talented public speaker. They should at least edit out when he stutters or flubs his lines.

>>14606949
That's surprising they'd hire a korean don't japs hate them

>>14607115
I just said he "looks" korean. I'm not an expert on asians.

>>14607230
He's not a Mexican?

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>>14605878
pretty much be happy with what you have because you ain't getting much more anytime soon.

>>14607586
Kamyu is a highly underrated titty monster

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>>14607617
she really is, too bad ray romano 2 isn't getting TL'd anytime soon.

>>14601489
>no R07 art
D R O P P E D

>>14607723
What about those boxing glove hands appeals to you?

>>14605852
That's exactly what I'm doing. Seems interesting enough. I hate Sekaii project pulling this kickstarter shit all the time, but I have a bad feeling this will fail. It'll be interesting to see what happens if it does. From the kickstarter, it looks like they're shooting for a March release which means they're already in the midst of translating it and dealing with the engine. If the kickstarter fails, would they actually just drop all the work they already have done for it?

>>14608028
Or just stick that shit on Steam anyway.

>>14608028
Well have they paid for any of the work Lemnisca has done? They could easily screw over those guys if the KS fails.

>>14608028
If they're aiming for a March release, the translation should already be over. It takes more than a few weeks to edit, script, and beta test a game (though given SP's quality I wouldn't be surprised if they were skipping beta testing altogether).

>>14608088
Root Double was already mostly translated as of two years ago.

Apparently Aroduc's translating Baldr Sky.

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Is this what happens when you piss off a fan translator?

>>14608523

Is this that ancient ass drama again?

>>14608523
So they say "fuck xseed" by buying their games? Xseed supposed to feel bad about it?

>>14608533
He wasn't even a translator. He was a hacker trying to profit off a translator.

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>>14608523
lmao this guy

Libra's pledges have slowed down again and it's still making more each day than root double, that's some top kek right there.

Though to be honest it's probably the lazy ass backer rewards that's killing root double more than dovac/SP's burnt bridges.

>>14608576
The Libra guys are making one hell of an effort with their KS, you can tell they really want to succeed. And yeah, their bonuses are much better since it's the actual original devs doing it.

>>14608576
Root Double's rewards are so terrible even by the awful standards of how Kickstarters usually rip off whales.

>>14608523

Fucking teenage drama bullshit. Nightwolve needs to get a fucking life.

>>14605379
Probably because they're the only company that releases nukige regularly. And the Western stigma is that if you release any porn you're just a porn company (yes, I realize all eroge is porn but you know what I mean).

>>14608922

Sekai and JAST both release porn, yet they aren't porn companies. The difference is the porn dominates MG's catalogue.

>>14608932
>JAST releases porn, yet it isn't a porn company.

Fixed.

>>14608932
How is JAST any different other than their inability to actually release titles regularly? Almost all of their products are porn.

>>14608971

JAST either releases gameplay eroge or story centric VNs. Over the past 4 years they may have released 1 straight up nukige that wasn't heavily focused on gameplay.

Compare that to MG who probably released 10 straight up nukige in the 2 years, which is actually a decrease in what they used to release, and that's not including games which are nukige in all but name... like Sakura Santa.

>>14608995
>released 10 straight up nukige in the 2 years

You're off by around 100%.
They translated six themselves in 2015. Plus released a few more EVN nukige.
They translated 11 in 2014. 12 if you count Shuffle's fuckfest fandisk.
10 in 2013, or 11, again, for another Shuffle fuckfest.

This doesn't count things not on VNDB either, like Demon Master Chris.

And they already have 6 announced for 2015 (or 7 with another fuckfest fandisk) with almost certainly more to come.

>>14608995
JAST's two highest profile titles last year were Starless and Shiny Days, two games entirely about porn.

>14609011
Where did you get six from? Are you counting KuroInu as three separate titles? I only count four. KuroInu, Haruka, Boss Ex, and FF2. If you count W Evangile(which from the sounds of it has enough text to not be a fuckfest) that is only 5.

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These Kickstarter fucks show up literally everywhere.

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>tfw this is never gonna get fully translated

>>14608576
>>14608609
Ironically Root Double might be failing because Sekai listened to feedback from backers.

>Why no digital copy free with physical copy of the game?
>Why do you promise ports but never deliver?
>The rewards I backed for still haven't arrived!

Thought there's also the possibility that the devs didn't have the time/money to invest more effort in their KS and/or Sekai just assumed it'd be a slam dunk.

>>14608995
>like Sakura Santa.
I don't count the 3rd Party games, since they don't work on them, they just put them in the catalog.

>>14609922
I wouldn't count W Happiness, since it has enough non-porn content to get an all-ages release.

The only other thing he could be counting would be Kindred Spirits, but while the plot involves sex, it's not graphic and there's too much characterization and plot for it to be considered a nukige.

So, 7th day of RD made less money than 7th day of both Libra and Narcissu. Good, good.

https://twitter.com/dobacco/status/686381969509191680
> We pay translators from 4 to 10c depending on skill
What. So they know very well that some of their translators are total shit, and just pay them less while selling result for same price regardless? And then claim with straight face that their TL is okay or that it was because they rushed things?

>>14610204
I wonder how a side by side chart comparison would look?

>>14610208

Either that tweets a lie or sekai's kickstarter breakdowns are lies. The math doesn't add up.

>>14610290
Dovac lies about costs?

What a shock.

The Witch's Garden's project's competency tests provide a truly horrifying look into a Fuwanovel project's mind.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwNpxsFIk0UsNC1UT25RTDhzZjA&usp=sharing

>>14610472
I'm not following that link, but my assumption of a fuwanovel test is if you can translate a text on google translate level or if you are just "making things up" because the words don't match google translate.

>>14610204
On one hand, it'd be nice for SP to wake up and realize they can't be relying on KS every damn time. On the other, I hope this doesn't send the message that the west's interest in VNs is a fading fad.

>>14610585
Libra is doing just fine, so it's not that. It's just that Sekai Project isn't managing their kickstarters well and burned through too much good will. Now that there's competition for crowdfunding, they can't keep asking for >100k goals in most cases. Developers should just kickstart their own games, without relying on Sekai Project.

>>14610585
They know that. They're stripmining the fuck out of it for every last penny they can get.

>>14610596
I'm no kickstarter expert, but is 20k with 7 days left good? It feels like more than 2k per day.

>>14610719
Yeah, that's fine. There's generally a large surge at the end.

>>14610208
>We pay translators from [...] depending on skill
I wonder how much they pay for "qualitty assurance"

>>14610719
>>14610748
There's a notice that goes out with 48 hours left to go, so you can sometimes see surges

>>14610757
$0, because playing a glitchy game will grammar errors is only a reward that backers deserve.

>>14610719
They're 100% guaranteed to make it at this point. The end days of a Kickstarter get a surge similar to the opening days.

>>14610822
Good thing they got talked out of their original goal.

https://aokanatranslation.wordpress.com/
>The game is finished. It is both translated and edited
>So what does this all mean? Don’t expect a lot of progress for awhile. For now, enjoy the anime and stay positive.


How long until we get the announcement that it's officially coming to the west?

>>14610872
It might not be officially announced until AX or Otakon.

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I really don't like it when reward designs are to be revealed later. What if I don't like the look of it?

>>14610931
That's what happens when you are desperately scrambling because you thought your Kickstarter was going to be a shoe-in and now have to improvise on the spot.

>>14610931
Well, that's shady as fuck. Here's some expensive shit that you're getting, but apparently it doesn't cost us a nickle.

>>14610931
No XP? Suffering.

>>14611047
Don't worry, it will just cut into the extra profit that dovac was hiding in the cost breakdown.

>>14611191
Obviously.

>>14611075
>DirectX: 9.0c and up.
It will likely work, either out of the box or after minimal patching. I'm pretty sure that Japanese version supports XP, so this one should as well.

>>14611262
It's not necessarily the case that DirectX 9 indicates XP support. Vista added some calls to the Windows API, and if the game uses any of these then pre-Vista support is out of the question.

But if the original had WinXP support it's not likely to be an issue.

>>14608564
This reads like a 60 year old person wrote it

>>14611666
Don't piss off your militant right-wing hacker

>You're not gonna get away with it, Tom! You're not! At the very least, I'm gonna try the issue in the court of public opinion like I should've done a HELL of a long time ago! I can do this for free, at the very least. Certainly would love to afford a rottweiler of an ambulance-chasing lawyer and prosecute both of you bastards to the fullest extent of the law, but obviously, the work was unlicensed to begin with, so rationally, I couldn't achieve justice with you (on the flipside, you're legally neutralized so I ain't scared of you in the slightest bit! You retro-actively endorsed, approved of, legitimized, legalized, etc. *EVERYTHING* that was necessary to produce those script files, and you got your fingerprints on the Felghana Manual images too, not to mention the Ys Typing Tutor.), but certainly I could with DeuceBag though I'd have to go to the state of South Carolina for the jurisdiction!
>What he did constitutes "unjust enrichment" off of my back per what one of the lawyers I spoke to told me! I never would've done technical/programming labor for free much less to go uncredited in order to extract Japanese text, build software to translate it, hand it off to a criminal, backstabbing partner, who then would get to translate it in record time, then hand it off to a for-profit corporation for 100% credit and 100% profit, never to be seen or heard from again! The both of you are disgusting! DISGUSTING! And I wish I had never met either of you f#cks! Anyhow, I ain't going away quietly like you thought, like you would've preferred m0th3rf#ck3r! You're a criminal in every sense! The both of you! F#CK YOU!

>>14611677
You really have to wonder what's going on in that nutjob's head that would spark a decade long tantrum.

>>14608537
That's an imported copy of Ys, bought directly from Falcom.

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>>14611862
I've been doing some reading on his site since I'm kind of curious. Seems like he made this translation tool and he wants credit for his work in extracting the script and providing this "easy to use" translation tool so they didn't have to use Excel.

>>14611873
> edict
> find and replace
He should sell it to fuwanovel and sekai project, it will be huge success there.

>>14611873

That's it? From the way he carrying on I thought he single handedly translated the entire thing, only to have to stolen from him.

>>14611873
>>14611907
That's only scratching the surface. The short version is:

He created tools for extracting and replacing scripts for early Ys games.
He posted the scripts asking for someone to help translate them.
Some guy responded and translated them and they continued working together.
Eventually, they reached a game and NW withheld it from release. You had to donate to him to get access to it.
Someone donated, then turned around and released it publicly. Nightwolve flipped his shit (and still is) about entitled fans stealing his hard earned money from him.
XSeed licensed Ys for localization and contacted the translator. The translator and XSeed signed a deal, and XSeed sent him their copies of the scripts, which the translator put his old stuff into.
Nightwolve flipped his shit again over this for being cut out of the deal and being uncredited for "being responsible that the translation existed at all."

He did no translation work whatsoever, and claims to have "made fan translation history with a decade of work and 60,000 patch downloads." If you dig a little deeper into his site, you can also find his many rants about how fans are all entitled assholes because they never DONATED money to him and he'd have never put in his hard FAN work if he didn't expect to be paid for it. He's been throwing fits about XSeed and that translator ever since then.

>>14611926
Sorry, between the withholding and someone donating then releasing the 'beta' was around six months. It's not something that happened immediately.

>>14610585
>On the other, I hope this doesn't send the message that the west's interest in VNs is a fading fad.

But it is.

>>14611926
On a side note, do the translators who are contracted on working on "real" games yet still niche and text-heavy, like the Kiseki series, get paid the same as VN translators?

>>14611939
They can actually live off what they're paid, so they definitely get paid significantly better.

>>14611938
They can think that after I get an official WA2 translation, and not a moment sooner.

>>14611934
He also went on a paranoid hunt for the one who released it and claims to have torched their site to the ground in revenge.

>>14611967
That's never happening. Sekai even said that WA2 was impossible for them to license. Not sure what the exact details surrounding it are though.

>>14612029
They'll license it after they kickstart Galaxy Angel for $100,000 for all three.

Is the Root double kickstarter a bust?

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>>14612029
Maybe because Atlus has exclusive rights since they've done other Aquaplus titles. I don't seem them localizing WA2 ever though. Hell, who knows if they'll even do Uta 2. On a side note, I just dropped $100 to import the C89 Mitsumi Misato art book.

>>14612047
We don't know yet. dovac might donate 50k (as separate pledges) just to keep Sekai from looking bad.

>>14612047
It's already in sub 1k per day territory, Sekai is going to have to do some shit to save this one.

>>14612113
To be completely honest, could this just be because the west just isn't interested in paying for game like Root Double? It's nowhere near as famous as Clannad or Grisaia. And once people hear "amnesiac protagonist" they probably assume it's some generic story. There's a limit to what a non-kamige can hope to achieve. It's popular in Japan, but so was Himawari and that's not exactly taking the western audience by storm either.

>>14612130
RD is definitely far more famous and desired in the west than Libra, yet Libra is doing better.

>>14612137
That just shows that waifus and porn sell better than actual plot.

>>14612130
It's a combination of people losing trust in SP, a project goal that is way too high, and the game being on limited platforms. There is an audience for this in the West, but it's people buying Zero Escape games, and they don't know that this exists and if they do, they don't play games on the PC.

>>14612137
Libra has a better run campaign with tiers that people actually want besides the most basic $30 one. This Root Double campaign was poorly conceived and planned.

>>14612165
Also fraught with white lies.

>>14612149
I'm sure kickstarter fatigue is also setting in. That and serious story visual novels have never done that well over here. Moege and nukige just seem to attract bigger numbers then something serious.

Don't be surprised when mid-February Root Double has a lot of jumps as people get tax returns. I fully expect that if at any point Dovac wants to add in some money, he would do it then to seem as none suspicious as possible.

>>14612149
>people losing trust in SP
The people who really cared about the game are backing it despite not planning to initially. Others just didn't care about it that much, it was just another well-regarded vn to read.

>a project goal that is way too high
Libra's is only 10k lower.

>and the game being on limited platforms
Libra is only for PC, there's no way it'll make its over 220k stretch goal for a Vita port.

>>14612198
>210k stretch goal

>>14612130
If anything people in the West usually go for games like Root Double. Though I think there is a slight difference in the markets for sci-fi VNs and generic moe VNs like Libra, with the latter being the type to splurge on higher tiers so they can get overpriced cute anime girl merch.

>>14608523
Oh man it's like mangagamer's satoko towel buddy all over. I guess every company has one of those.

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>have a full-length project that needs to be caught up on ASAP due to awful illness last year
>second one is flowing smoothly and waiting warmly
>third one coming out of hibernation and back onto the table any day now
>beta-test review and revision stage for an older project about to spring up
>a fan-project I'm doing for free has been patiently waiting for me since the turn of the new year
>my condition has finally started improving after months of agony and a swathe of permanent damage that will drive away women forever
>mfw

I'm feeling good, /vnts/. I'm going to deliver the best I can for us all, so that no one has to suffer reading mangled English on these things. Not while I still draw breath.

I'm not going to die anytime soon but fuck me if this problem doesn't destroy any and all ability to get anything done.

/blog or something I don't know I'm medicated and not thinking straight but I just want to say I'm working hard and I love you all for enjoying the same things I do

>>14612387
Fuck off, cocksucker.

>>14612387
> permanent damage that will drive away women forever
Did you get infected with leprosy or something?

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>>14612395

y-you too

>>14612398

You're not far off the mark. Hugely aggravated eczema to the point where the dermatologist first thought it was shingles. Also, it got infected in places (most painfully around the base of the neck, where the skin naturally creases and tends to remain covered in heavy clothing, forming a perfect breeding ground in the cold winter months).

It's far more under control now but back when I was running around thinking it was just a wintry season thing that would pass soon I didn't really treat it properly.

I can see if I can get some high-def pics of it (phone selfies don't have the quality to do it justice) but I don't think that's really related. The important thing is that I have meds for it now, it's not aggravating me much anymore, and I'm back in action.

... not like anyone should really care who I am, but whatever. I just hope that everyone can fap happily to what I work on instead of gagging on gibberish.

>>14612438
> not like anyone should really care who I am
The dildo editor, obviously.

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>>14612457

FUCK

>>14612457
Yes. The one who sucks cocks.

>>14612438
As someone who has a bit of eczema on my arm, I can only imagine how awful a more severe case would be. No fucking clue who you are, but I hope your condition continues to improve.

>>14612387
Kill yourself

>>14612511
Just a Mangagamer editor with an inflated sense of self-worth since he tweeted that he sucked on a dildo to understand how it sounds to suck a cock.

>>14612438
As someone who also suffers from severe eczema I know your pain my man. Glad it's getting better for you atleast.

>>14612438
Well, that sucks. Moisturize and buy soaps without perfume in them.

>>14612438
>Hugely aggravated eczema to the point where the dermatologist first thought it was shingles. Also, it got infected in places

It's pretty likely that it'll heal over the course of a couple years and you'll just end up with some discolored pockmarks. If it's not on your face, I doubt it'll matter.

Not that it matters anyway, you edit japanese porn and post here so you're a permavirign for life regardless.

>>14612572
What dedication to the craft. He should be commended.

>>14612660
Sucking dick is its own reward.

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>>14612562

pic related

>>14612511
>>14612575

Damn, I was told eczema wasn't that uncommon, but I didn't think it was this common. Or do eczema and VN readers go hand in hand?

something something correlation causation

>>14612644

It's all over my neck at the very least. It attracts hilarious stares in public all the time already to the point where I try and wear a (comfy) scarf while out and about for more reasons that just keeping away cold air. And that's just what's visible, it's all over... other... places as well.

The dermatologist sincerely offered to recommend me a good plastic surgeon, no joke. I declined. Porn doesn't pay that well, unfortunately.

>permavirgin

Hey now, can't write good porn without firsthand experience, y'know.

>>14610472
ok redditor
Stuff were translated incorrectly on purpose to test the TLCer who was applying.

>>14612660
Didn't he change something the author wrote because he thought it was dumb?

>>14612741
And then TLCed incorrectly for the QC test too.

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>>14612708
>It's all over my neck at the very least. It attracts hilarious stares in public all the time already to the point where I try and wear a (comfy) scarf while out and about for more reasons that just keeping away cold air. And that's just what's visible, it's all over... other... places as well.

I speak from the experience of my own multiple MRSA infections. You can google it to see what those look like. I had that back in 2012 and they've all mostly just healed into discolored spots.

>>14612756
And then released with incorrect lines for /jp/ test.

>>14612777
It'll all be fixed in beta.

>>14612775
Why is Doddler doing nothing but playing Tree of Savior lately?

>>14612859

I dunno why you'd ask me, but I assume it's because the Canadian FBI is still stalking him during parole so perhaps he's hesitant to be his usual talkative self and he's just decided to waste his life playing mmos all day.

>>14612859
Mostly just not talking much rather than playing all day. Working on Yurirei and Free Friends betas atm.

>>14612889
Is Haruka going to be the February release? I promise not to tell anyone.

>>14612889
He's posting about playing it every day.

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>>14612752

This again? Fine, I'll bite.

In any work, there will be continuity hiccups and general screwups that don't get caught, whether it's an original JP release or post-EN-localization one. Hell, I'm sure there are some even in stuff I've worked on myself, somewhere, but the idea of multiple passes is to try and catch everything humanly possible.

For example, there's a scene in what I'm currently working on in which a character somehow takes the safety off his pistol TWICE in the space of a few lines, to say nothing of the fact that he should've taken it off ages ago, y'know, as he drew it and before pointing it at someone who would otherwise be perfectly willing to kill him with his bare hands. Especially not when the character with the gun is described as a crack shot and extremely experienced and dangerous killer.

You don't have to be /k/ for lines like that to make you wrinkle your nose. Breaks the flow and all out, MUH EMERSHUN if you're a memester.

Sp what did I do? I went through the (JP) game to find the lines in question, took into account all the spritework and SFX used in conjunction with each line. Used the one instance of "caCLICK" SFX (there wasn't a second one, despite him "taking the safety off" twice) to describe him pulling back the hammer on his pistol, which, yes, is a thing you can do on many automatic pistols, not just revolvers. Capped the work off with a final line-by-line of the scene to make sure it all still fit together, and the scene - the GAME - will be wrung through a beta test before release as well.

Throughout the entire process I checked back in with the TL to make sure that the spirit of the scene was maintained—although this isn't saying much about this specific scene/fix, because said TL is already pestered for hours on end daily as I bounce questions off of them as I work.

These are the kinds of problems that good editors should catch onto and figure out fixes for, work that transcends mere "proofreading".

If you have a problem with this and demand to read something "unadulterated", go write your own fiction and don't ask anyone to give it a readthrough, then go back and read it a day later. Go on, I'll wait. Guarantee you there'll be some problem with it somewhere. Years of writing (bad)(fan-)fiction have taught me that mistakes aren't merely an event, but an inevitability. Every single piece of fiction that goes through a publishing house is put through the scrutiny of a editor, and believe me, every single piece needs it.

I'm not defending "rewriting culturally offensive material" by any means, good LORD no, nor am I supporting editing for its own sake: "hurr hurr gonna make this the new LotR", "hurr hurr I must leave my permanent mark on this work that I didn't write in the first place". I'm just saying that trying to frame the editing process as "changes to original source material" is a really catty way to try and rile anti-censorship people up for cheap e-peen, or to somehow claim that all writers are perfect and that all stories are flawless. Even publishing houses print hardcover books with egregious errors from time to time. I own several books where I've taken a pen and crossed out a name to replace it with the correct one, or inserted a quick note in the margin.

fuck me i need to get back to work

>>14612944
>fuck me
If there was anybody willing to do that, you wouldn't be needing to suck on your dildos.

>>14612944
I admire your dedication to your craft, but I can't help but feel your time would be better spent just working within the script given.

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>>14612752
>>14612944

Can we skip having this argument for the nth time and just go back to shitting on dovac

>>14613031
Dude, just imagine all the visual novels translations he could fund if he won. It's for the greater good.

>>14613037
If I win I'll try to get Dies Irae and Shin Koihime Musou licensed.

>>14613037
As if he'd continue working if he got that rich.

>>14613050
Try? Just buy up the companies.

>>14613031
I'm sure the first poster was talking about rectal juices but the tl;dr was amusing. Also, I must correct that it was cucumbers that he used for his editing prose.

>>14613060
As if I know how to run a business. Give evospace a briefcase of money and send him to negotiate. Then I'll just sit back and see what MG can do with an actual budget. The ugly site will be a thing of the past. And there will be actual advertising.

>>14613060
Your manga lied to you anon, you cannot "just buy up" privately owned companies.

>>14613097
Well, I'll admit I have no idea about business law in Japan, but you can execute hostile takeovers of private companies. The shareholders are just a smaller group of people. I'm sure the shareholders/funders of eroge companies aren't necessarily their founders and wouldn't mind selling.

>>14613105
You underestimate how small these companies are.

>>14612944
>for cheap e-peen

Which is also the reason you're making these posts on /jp/.

>>14612387
>>have a full-length project that needs to be caught up on ASAP due to awful illness last year

Ozmafia

>third one coming out of hibernation and back onto the table any day now

Kuroinu

>beta-test review and revision stage for an older project about to spring up

Freefriends 2

>second one is flowing smoothly and waiting warmly

???

Wait, I got it. Maybe they want to release Seinarukana at the same time as Aselia's new game!

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>>14613264

I figure that ridiculed for caring too much is better than letting people draw their own caricatures of someone who never says anything.

>>14613318

>???

Whew, if that one was public knowledge, someone fucked up somewhere big time. Good to know there's no breadcrumb trails leading to that one.

That said, I do hope we'll announce it soon. I'm vibrating-in-place hype for it myself, but I'll be the first to admit I don't have 100% normal tastes. I think I can safely say that it's a big'un, though.

>>14613371
Which one's the fan project?

>>14613369
>at the same time as Aselia's new game!
wat?

>>14613670
http://aselia.everlasting-corp.co.jp/

https://vndb.org/t7084/4#78
Apparently MG decided to jump into KickStarter business.

>>14613714

Might wanna actually read that. It's just more promotion for libra.

There's a similar deal going with sekai/denpa right now except with an iris "digital shikishi" instead, so I guess both will be distributing it?

>>14599937
>SubaHibi - Official release planned

Any information on this?

I have been checking the translation wiki page every day for the last half a year since it was last updated waiting for that last percent to be done.

>>14613857

Moogy tweeted some shit about it

>>14613868
Moogy's full of shit. He's not a part of the team and hasn't been for multiple years.

The fact that he's accepted as a source shows what a joke this visual novel translation "status" has become.

moogy-hecka-dunno

>>14614337
Reminder that Himawari is a no-name lolige and the art looks as expected.

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How low can it go?

>>14614607
It's still higher than your expected yearly salary for the next ten years, basement king.

>>14614655
>not being a NEET

wow look at this normalfag

>>14614607
Since it's a lost cause, people should just donate to Libra of the Vampire Princess instead.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikandijapan/libra-of-the-vampire-princess-visual-novel-english

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>>14614713

It would appear that mangagamer email actually had a fairly considerable effect

More than I figured it would atleast

>>14614713
Why? I don't care about Libra and I heard it's pretty bad, too.

What to do? Libra seems like garbage and RD is with SP.

>>14614746
They're probably making that first stretch goal now.

>>14614758
It basically takes inspiration from Draculius and the Japanese have alot more vns to compare it to.

https://vndb.org/v453
https://vndb.org/v17825

>>14614778

The only winning move is not to play

>>14614785
A lot more than inspiration, it was originally planned to be a remake. There's still staff overlap, still being produced by the same company and all.

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>>14614713
I would if I could, but so far I'm with >>14614778
I would've been banned* from /pol/ for [s]racism[/s] speciesism if vampires were real, so paying for the game where I want to kill off the main cast with fire the moment I see them and then promptly end myself doesn't sound appealing.

Too bad about RD, but I'm 100% sure we will get it in English, officially or not. Moreover, I will be able to get it with a regional discount if/when it comes to Steam.

* not that visit that cesspool or crossboard in general

The Vampire Princess Army is only ~7k away from their base goal.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/01/13/2015-in-review/
>For our first-party titles, the 2015 ranking looks like this (excluding Steam and bundle sales):
1. Princess Evangile
2. eden*
3. No, Thank You!!!
4. Imouto Paradise
5. Eroge! Sex and Games Make Sexy Games
6. Demon Master Chris
7. euphoria
8. Sweet Sweat in Summer
9. Ultimate Boob Wars!
10. Higurashi Hou Ch. 1 Onikakushi

>For the third-party titles the top five are:
1. HuniePop
2. Beach Bounce
3. The Menagerie
4. Divine Slice of Life
5. Sakura Santa

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/01/13/2015-in-review/

Princess Evangile was the number one seller of 2015. That amazes me.

>>14615727
It makes it all the stranger how they've put such a low priority of getting out its fandisc.

>>14615725
>>14615727
It's great that Gahkthun didn't even make the list.

So much for week one sales/preorders.

>>14615794
Wow, shocking that a game that released a few weeks before the end of 2015 didn't make it.

>>14615794

Keep in mind that Gahkthun had barely been out for a week by the end of the year

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>>14615794
>yfw the only reason people voted for it on the poll was because they wanted a free copy

>>14615798

The question is, will it make the 2016 list without pre-order numbers and 1st weeks sales to boost the figures?

>>14615798
>>14615801
>hi i wurk for mungergmur an i cnt red

>>14615794
KnS2 didn't either. Both bombed hard if they were beat by possibly every shitty little nukige MG released.

>>14615805
Probably not. Story eroge is dead for profit, bring on more moege and nukige.

>>14615806
I fully understood what you said, but it's still stupid of you. I'd say these kinds of games have sales trickle in slowly. They've even said something like Kara no Shoujo was a topseller but it took steady sales to reach that point.

And a mindless moege took first spot...

>>14615805

Maybe, you never know. The end-of-year releases do get kind of shafted in the year-end rankings.

Both Gahkthun and KnS2 rank much higher when you do it on revenue instead of copies though.

I wish they had sorted the chart by revenue, that would have been far more interesting.

>>14615823
Why don't you guys rank on revenue? That's what everyone does.

>>14615725
Kara no Shoujo 2 didn't make the list, while games released a year or 2 ago did. The sales MG had also likely had a strong effect.

>>14615817
It was a solid moege. I typically don't even like moege, but still found Evangile to be a decent read.

Too bad it preached forgiveness, because the Headmistress was a bitch.

>>14615725
> Fun fact: nearly everything in the top 10 would have outranked 2014’s first-place ranking title!
No shit, considering MG made several times more sales this year than in their entire past history together.
So, Maggot Baits when?
> 1. Princess Evangile
Just. Why?
Its mediocre boring moege, and at high price. Why does this shit sell?

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>>14615870
LOST
PAUSE

the savior of Mangagamer

>>14615870
Ask the people backing the Libra kickstarter.

>>14615870
Moe.

>>14615877
He regularly gets 1000+ viewers whenever he streams the game on Twitch too. I'd say that's some good free advertising when most of MG's games aren't really ever talked about outside the visual novel community.

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>>14613588

I'd rather not spell it out for, uh, reasons, but it's a fan Touhou eroge. Nothing even close in terms of quality to what I work on for pay, but I have a stupid sentimental attachment to the series because it's what gave me my first "formal" experience in editing VNs.

>>14615894
You must be the guy who talked about editing one of the Touhou fan eroge on /vg/ a few months back. Too bad that kind of game is easily completely forgotten. So your fan project is the third entry in that series or a different Touhou thing?

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>>14614746
Its 10k$ now.
MG should make their own KS instead wasting their accumulated goodwill on 3rd party mediocres.

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>>14615908

Yep, third in series. I'm flattered that people remembered that much.

I'm not really worried about "easily completely forgotten" as the kinds of people to learn about and play such a game in the first place will have a decently long memory anyways.

With its sales, looks like an eden* hardcopy is all but certain for 2016.

>>14615823
I'm calling bullshit on that. They're not priced that much higher than all those nukige yet needed multiple times the effort and time to translate. You'd have to be getting a ridiculously generous deal from IG/Liar-Soft and ridiculously terrible deals from those nukige companies for it to turn out like that.

>>14616129
>They're not priced that much higher
Mikan $14.95
Gakhthun: $44.95　
3x times is "much higher".

>>14616129
Revenue, not profit.

>>14616159
Profit is what I'm most interested in.

>>14616147
Imouto Paradise: $45
Eroge: $45
Euphoria; $45
Boob Wars: $45

So I guess I was wrong. It's not priced much higher than most of the nukige. It's priced the same as them. So it's still going to have performed dismally even if you're talking revenue.

>>14616171
Eroge was half off for the XXXmas sale.

>>14616179
And Kara no Shoujo 2 is $40, so it has even less revenue for lower sales.

>>14616171
Please go learn to comprehend English.
GH didn't say they would be above ALL of of them, she said they would rank higher and there are at least 4 10$-tier vns even in top 10 list alone, so clearly its true and you are being retard.

>>14616183
Once a game is on sale its sales are bound to dramatically increase. Ultimate Boob Wars was in the Christmas sale too. Meanwhile, Imouto Paradise has been one of MG's best selling titles ever.

>>14616185
Awww, did the little bitch have his ass handed to him using his own argument? Poor little bitch. Go find a donut to sit on and take some of the sting away.

Less than 5k left until Libra hits its base goal.

>>14616322
And they said it wouldn't get funded. Hell, the original goal would have been easily hit. Hope it means their translators can be paid a bit more and the end result good.

>>14616340
It will start going toward stretch goals, not translation improvements.

>>14616355

Too bad one of those stretch goals couldn't have been "greater translator wages".

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>>14616392
$62,500 is going toward the translation of the game.

>>14610872
I've seen the first episode of Aokana and the whole thing seems pretty meh.

>>14616340
That's because the previous posts were based on old knowledge. Nobody would've known that MG would be shilling for them out of nowhere.

>>14616596
>judging visual novel off anime
see: umineko, fate/stay night, majikoi, demonbane and infinitely many more.

anime is all shit

>>14616657
I don't think one cross-promo in an email is that much shilling.