Visual Novel translation status Amagami - 1st day patch Released

Sekai/Denpa
>Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title Steam released, uncut 35% done, 3rd 50% translated
2236 A.D. - 100% translated
Maitetsu - 15.27% translated
Nenokami - 99.79% translated, Indiegogo finished
Koi to, Guitar to, Aoi Sora. - 100% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
WEE 3 - 100% translated
>Chrono Clock - 26.31% translated
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
>Narcissu 0 - in QC
Tenshin Ranman - 30.04%
Darekoi - 100% translated
>Wagamama High Spec -Demo is 100% translated, overall 15.23% translated
Hoshizora no Memoria - 18.38% translated
>Memory's Dogma - 100% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Ley Line - picked up
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
SakuSaku - Picked up
Koikuma - Picked up


Frontwing
>Grisaia no Zankou - Released
>Corona Blossom - Vol 1 7/29 release, demo released
>Sharin no Kuni - Kickstarter halted, will be restarted
Island - Picked up
Grisaia no Senritsu - Picked up


Visual Arts
Little Busters - Picked up
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
Muv Luv - Released, uncut patch still to come
Muv Luv Alternative - Winter release
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Collar x Malice - Picked up
Period Cube - Picked up
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up
Bad Apple Wars - Picked up


Other
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness - 9/13 release
Steins;Gate 0 - 2016 release
Root Letter - 2016 release
ChuSingura46+1 - Trial released ch 2+3 end of July
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - 100% translated + edited, in QC
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Common + Mari route translated
Taisho Alice - Picked up
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
SubaHibi - Official release planned
Sora wo Aogite Kumo Takaku - Through Greenlight
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
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

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https://twitter.com/BlackDragonHunt/status/756341853432246272
Visual Novels are dead in the west. Thanks Akabei.

>>15580268
if all they do is try to release already translated games, then let them be

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

so himawari when

>>15580361
Order Number - 205236
Order Date - 2016-07-24

Seems like haro's adding a new announcement each week. otakon is three weeks away, so that presumably means two more additions for five announcements total. New one is an existing partner, so I'd guess no more new partners? I wonder if we'll still end up getting more hints or if we already know too much.

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Thanks for the correction, dude.

>>15580268

Visual Novels are dead in Japan.

>>15580435
Are they still counting hard copies as announcements?

>>15581232
Regardless of being a hard-copy or not, they are announcements.
Anyway, if you're thinking that MG will announce hard-copies at Otakon you better give up on that thought before you publicly embarass yourself.

>>15581232
Depends on the convention. Small ones get hard copies as announcements to pad out the list. Big ones are all games.

>>15581232
I would doubt that, since the whole reason they announced all those hard copies was to sell them at Anime Expo and Otakon. Kinda pointless to announce more when there isn't a con to sell them at till next year.

>Wagamama High Spec
>Spring 2016 release
>15% Translated
Not even surprising at this point.
No idea why they keep on picking up games, nor why VN producers keep on working with them, when they aren't capable of actually releasing jack shit.

>>15580268
Good, let this be a lesson to stop wasting their time releasing already translated games.

>>15581506
SP is clearly running on JAST time for anything that isn't already translated.

With Conjueror on our side, how could we ever lose?

http://discuss.jastusa.com/discussion/255150/steam-like-store-for-visual-novels

I talked about this in one of the previous threads so if you think that it is a good idea write something supportive.

I personally would rather support JAST and MangaGamer in this then Nutaku, someone else or in worst case Sekai.

>>15581568
>With Conjueror on our side, how could we ever lose?
http://ask.fm/Conjueror/answers/137469376987
>I'm normally very against censorship, but sometimes it's a choice between censoring a game and not bringing it at all. :(
Conjueror thinks that we should get trash when the japanese company for whatever reason doesn't want to localize the version with uncut content.

>If 18+ sold a little bit better... but in case of most games you have to get those steam sales to even break even. Ideally everyone would release two versions, but a mere presence of a 18+ kinda disqualifies you from mainstream media.
Oh wait, look at Root Double that was barely funded and didn't even gather interest from mainstream sites. Look too at fucking Tokyo Babel and Fata Morgana. Mainstream media literally doesn't have an interest on any VN unless they come to know something that will get lots of clicks. Yurirei demonstrated just that. If you take this into account, releasing only a censored version shows how much of a idiot both the localization company and japanese company really are. Also, it's the localization company responsability to show the japanese company that there is interest on a uncut version and they literally have nothing to lose by localizing it.

> Instead of boycotting censored releases you should cause a sexual revolution to make the west less prudish.
Of course, until then we should give our money to companies that don't want to give us a uncut version.

Pathetic.

To all the Mangagamer employees that shadow this thread, is there any chance of doing some of the Da Capo alternate versions, fandiscs, or side stories after Da Capo III? It's really unfortunate that Da Capo has such a wealth of supporting material but the only non-main game that's translated is Kotori Love ExP, and she's not my favourite character.

Also, is there any chance of DCII Plus Communication getting translated? So many good girls get actual stories in it.

Reminder that Conjueror unironically thinks that TB is very good game.

>>15581726
>Conjueror thinks that we should get trash when the japanese company for whatever reason doesn't want to localize the version with uncut content.
I was talking about him being pro-Yuuki, dumbass.

>>15581742
Probably depends on how well DCIII sells, especially on Steam. If the crowd eats it up, I can see it being profitable enough for DCPC and DCPCII, seeing how they both have PS editions that can be used for Steam.

Personally, I think the PC games are very worth a second do-over due to the fact that they contain so much contain for releases, doubling the initial game.

>>15581744
I wouldn't say very good but I actually think it's good.
It has good characters, humor, atmosphere, setting and writing. I found some battles somewhat boring but that aside it was a good read.

>>15581754
>I was talking about him being pro-Yuuki, dumbass.
Sorry for not seeing through your anonymity senpai.

>>15581726
Might as well go for the "Conjueror doesn't even know that the western VN industry was a thing 2 years ago".

http://ask.fm/Conjueror/answers/137579204059

>>15581760
I hope so. I'd be happy with anything more in the series, even those really short side stories. I didn't buy DC1 because I didn't start buying VNs until a couple of years ago, but I'll definitely buy DC3 to support more titles.

>>15581754
You clearly said "we". Your fault not his.

>>15581742

As with most things from established partners: maybe. Kinda depends on a lot of things. DC3's sales might be an indicator, but with the previous DC games the TL quality is a bit of a concern (at least with the first one, I forget how 2 is) so there might be a bit of reticence to work on material directly related to them.

D.S. is something of a spiritual successor to the D.C. series too so there's that.

Anyway, certainly not impossible but no plans at this time/etc.

>>15581796
2 was Kouryuu's project, so I don't think it was bad.

>>15581796
DC1 had some problems
There's nothing overtly wrong with DC2's, although like any translation people had some nitpicks

>>15581806

I probably should have remembered that. Sorry, it's been a while since the topic of the older DC games came up.

>>15581796
Like the other poster said though, both DCI and DCII have DCPCI and DCPCII releases which add a lot of content. If working on supporting material was suspect due to the original translations, perhaps starting with those two would work.

Just finished the Sumika route on Extra.

I feel depressed as shit a scenario like this never happened to me in High School.

Suicide next year seems a lot more tempting now.

Do all VN's hurt this much?

>>15581824
The good ones do

>>15581824
a VN that doesn't make you react in some way is a bad VN

Why is the west so dead in discussion of vns? If if read chinese forums there are countless threads about vns.

>>15581820
Will MG release DCIII this year?

>>15581928

Well, it's out of TL and edit now and Doddler is making progress on the port, so probably?

>>15581924
Because reading is unamerican.

Is Tokyo Necro already dead?

>>15581924
They get new translations all the time so discussion is kept fresh. We are lucky to get a few a month and most older stuff people care about has been discussed to death.

>>15581822
Those would be big undertakings and I'm not sure the Da Capo series is popular enough in the west to justify the time/price of localizing them. Casual customers might not see the point in buying them when they already played DC 1 and 2 as well.

>>15581941
It was never really alive.

>>15582004
It's been a long time since DC1 and DC2 were translated. If the marketing strategy focused on the new content, I don't think it would be unsuccessful. Plus I'm sure you'll get a lot of people like me who didn't buy it the first time around, but are willing to now especially if the DC1's original game route translations were improved.

>>15580133
>>15580136
Frontwing might really kill the chance at Supipara Chapter 2 coming anytime soon, since it plans to release the first volume of Corona Blossom the same day that Supipara Chapter 1 launches.

>>15582015
>I'm sure you'll get a lot of people like me who didn't buy it the first time around, but are willing to now especially if the DC1's original game route translations were improved.
The ef translation that MG released was much better than the fan TL and it sold like shit, which was why MG was so hesitant to try picking up projects with existing fan TLs until recently.

Again, I think you're greatly overestimating Da Capo's popularity in the west.

>>15582027
>which was why MG was so hesitant to try picking up projects with existing fan TLs until recently.
Although that isn't a bijection to this situation because the PC1/PC2 content is not translated in any form.

>Again, I think you're greatly overestimating Da Capo's popularity in the west.
Probably

>>15581985
Aren't their translations actually fuwa-level?

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>>15580268
I wonder how Akabei feels now about the cash dream they were sold by Frontwing.

>>15582084
What will Frontwing do when they realize that the west isn't the easy money they thought it was?

>>15582104
Retreat back onto the Japanese market, stop bothering with translations.

>>15582104
Probably release even more cheap garbage for Steam hoping for meme status for a couple of them.

>>15581936
What happens after the port is finished? If I remember right, there's just beta testing and scripting. What would have to happen for Himawari and DCIII to not come out this year.

Is Tokyo Necro dropped? Can't see it in OP anymore.

How can there be three translations Mahou Tsukai no Yoru and yet no progress on any of them? Is it THAT boring of a story?

>>15582143
Porting was done instead of scripting. There's still beta testing and applying the beta fixes after that.

>>15582144
Looks dead. It hasn't updated in months.

https://substanceconcept.wordpress.com/progress/

>>15582150
It's type moon trash. TM hasn't done anything good since FHA.

>>15582150
Despite its popularity, it's pretty rare for TM works to be translated. Even >>15582177 took forever and I'm pretty sure it was JP -> CN -> EN and crowdsourced so that project was a big mess.
If you have any interest in TM stuff you should just learn Japanese. If Tsukihime remake ever comes out you can bet it'll never get translated unless Dovac gets his grubby paws on it somehow.

>>15581716
I prefer something like GOG galaxy where the usage is optional but is handy if you want to update your games. Fuck Steam.

>>15582143

Just testing/applying fixes. The port would be part of scripting in DC3's case. The general procedure is TL -> edit (usually these are somewhat concurrent) -> "scripting" (basically a catch-all for text insertion and related technical work, ports are, as you might imagine, more involved than simple text insertion, sometimes this starts earlier while TL is in progress) -> beta -> applying beta reports (another round of "scripting") -> release.

As far as delays go, for DC3 issues with the port or unforseen problems during beta could cause a delay. For Himawari, scripting is being done in-house by Frontwing, so it's kind of out of our hands after beta concludes. JP-side scripting always seems to be a crapshoot no matter the partner, sometimes we'll get stuff back in a couple hours, sometimes it's months.

Dal Segno is just too cute (from what I've seen of the OP). Which is cuter, that or the Da Capo series?

>>15582016
Frontwing had that date first, MG chose to launch at the same time.

>>15581716
Well, I will never support Steam. I don't like the store, I don't like the cheapskate userbase, I don't like forced DRM, and I guess I just don't like the general environment of it. So a "Steam-like" store would receive the same treatment from me.

Online stores where you simply pay and download your drm-free installer have always been the way to go for me.

>>15582192
You should write that in the thread and also I agree, that would be better.

>>15582269
It's not gonna happen anyway.

>>15582209
You would like something in the middle. Like while MangaGamer store lets me download things, their purchase list to navigate when you own a lot is terrible.

There should be a library kind of database that is easy to navigate and let you download your games and install them. And of course, cross-company so I don't have to have one per publisher.

>>15582381
If you think MangaGamer is terrible, you should see JAST. I guess not that many people bought VNs in the old days so reordering the game list wasn't a priority.

>>15581760

More likely if DC3 sells well you'll get one of the fandisks.

DC2 stuff is basically impossible.

If they cant make a Steam/GOG like store they should at last try to merge their stores. Not only would that make things easer for their customers but also bring them more sales. I'm pretty sure that many of the people who buy on MGs store don't know about JAST and many of JAST costumers probably also dont know of MG. With merging their stores they would bring those people together which would then probably result in more sales for both of them.

>>15582529
The problem is that their IT teams suck monkey balls because they're located in Japan. They can barely manage their own respective stores. MG can't even change the layout of their current store due to cost.

>>15582542
Since J-list is doing well couldn't Peter Payne use some of those resources for this new store ? I think he would approve of creating a store like that since he doesn't seem to like where the market is going with the whole Steam thing.

>>15582580
Peter doesn't even have enough resources to release his own VNs.

JayGamer store in 2030!

>>15581744
uh, he might not be the most impartial to discuss that

>Himawari All ages only
>Baldr sky Steam all ages only
>Sharin no Kuni even with promised free 18+ only reaches 40%

Who keeps saying there's an 18+ market again?????

>>15582641
The first 2 aren't out yet to discuss their sales figures. Sharin's kickstarter was poorly thought out from the start and had many issues apart from 18+ content.

>>15582641
>Himawari All ages only
It's shitty
>Baldr sky Steam all ages only
Not known yet
>Sharin no Kuni even with promised free 18+ only reaches 40%
Was originally announced to cost extra before they caved to make it free to backers. Lots of other problems with the kickstarter.

18+ games that get 18+ localizations almost always do better than 18+ games that only get all-ages releases

>>15582641
>Who keeps saying there's an 18+ market again?????
How exactly do your examples demonstrate there is no market for +18 VNs? Not to mention that you saying this shows that you have no knowledge of other VNs that were a major success in their uncut versions. You're not qualified to discuss this.

>>15582641
Hi dovac.

>>15582691
>Not known yet

You mean not officially known yet as everyone already knows.

Where exactly are nukige titles being discussed so they continue selling well? Right now MG top 5 is:
Funbag Fantasy
Beat Blades Haruka
Imouto Paradise!
Supipara - Alice the magical conductor. Chapter #01 - Spring Has Come!
EROGE! Sex and Games Make Sexy Games

I understand Supipara, Funbag Fantasy and Haruka (2 games with recently announced pre-order and one in the constant Alice Soft general on /vg/) but I can't figure out where attention for ImoPara and Eroge comes from. Is it just from their adaptations? Is there some other place where people are constantly talking about them?

By sorting by popularity on MG site I also see (without a anime adaptation) Ultimate Boob Wars and Sorrow of the Siblings on the second page.

I'm having trouble understanding why people keep finding these titles but when it comes to story oriented stuff it's so much more difficult. I know that porn sells but people have to do something to find these specific games. That's what I'm more curious about.

>>15582847
They just buys what looks interesting to them. Imoutos and an eroge about eroge will sell really well. Huniepop even sold really well even after MG quit offering Steam keys.

It's not harder to find story titles, it's just not as obvious if they'll be work the time investment for their intended purpose. While browsing /vn/ not too long ago, it was established that many people who play story vns are snobs about stories and it has to be kamige tier for them to be interested in it. They'll pass on story vns for even the slightest reasons.

>>15582873
>/vn/

Nobody in /vn/ even likes visual novels.

>>15582873

People who shell out for nukige seem to be more casual players who just want their porn fix. Many are not as well acquainted with game piracy and probably watch the related H-OVAs on illegal streaming sites rather than using torrents. On the other hand, most story game players are familiar with the medium primarily through piracy and have a higher hurdle for buying.

>>15582641
Isn't the all-ages version of Himawari the most comprehensive one? And also, it's a mangagamer release, so they clearly have no problem with sexual content considering they just picked up Maggot Baits.

>>15583031
Every version of Himawari is all ages other than the original doujin release. Only autists complain about it.

>>15583031
>the most comprehensive one
explain?

>>15582691
For Baldr Sky, during their Q&A they acknowledged that there were "questions about the release" but also emphasized for now the Steam release is their main focus. Granted the Q&A wasn't by Dovac but rather other Sekai Project staff and they have since taken down the video. It's also worth noting the only info we have from Aroduc is the situation "could be better", but that isn't necessarily about how it will be released but could be from any other issue that crops up in an official release.

>>15582641
Himawari is likely out of anyone hands now that Frontwing has control of the franchise, but at least in this case the remade versions are significantly better in all other regards. The Sharin Kickstarter was a trainwreck from the beginning, but between kickstarter fatigue and Sharin being an old, mildly liked game that anyone interested in played and stopped caring about years ago, it probably never had much of a chance to begin with, uncut or not. Dovac also said G-Senjou all ages failed to make a profit, and that title is more appealing in the West then Sharin (4100 vs 6200 votes on vndb for example).



With regards to an 18+ market, even if the absolute sales of the 18+ release are dwarfed by the sales on Steam, it likely makes finical sense to include it if the Japanese companies are willing to play ball. They allow you to sell a product at a premium off of Steam, and excluding an 18+ version can induce a drag on how a title is received. Take Baldr Sky for example, it is a truly incredible title, but its success will depend on being able to convince the market that it is an incredible title. While it is impossible to say how successful it would be at this task uncut or otherwise, being censored isn't going to help. Three weeks ago Sekai announced it, one of the single largest pickups ever for a visual novel, but since then its press coverage has been mediocre as the press has no idea it is anything special, and you can't find a community on the internet talking about how great it is that this amazing title was picked up because it is believed to be all ages only. The people who would lead the way in convincing others how impressive it is have no interest in doing so because they are also the same people who care that it is censored. Additionally, unlike Nekopara which sells because it is a cheap meme title, or Clannad which sold because everyone already knows it is a good title, the potential audience needs to be convinced Baldr Sky is a good title like they were for Muv Luv if it is going to have any chance of success in the West.

>>15583111
>responding earnestly to bait

>>15581726
Wow that Conjueror guy is an idiot, is he working for MG or just a freelance ?

>>15581726
> Instead of boycotting censored releases you should cause a sexual revolution to make the west less prudish.

Didn't he get the memo? That is exactly what uncensored games do. I certainly couldn't care less about censorship in games if it didn't make people more prude as they can say "See, nipples are illegal and rape grandmothers. I have proof, they censored the nipple"

>>15582150
The kanjis in Mahoyo are just too hard for our fan "translators"and the type-moon hate is strong.

If only Takajun was still alive.

>>15582847
Plotge fans are more vocal than the fans of other stuff MG sells, but they dont put their money where their mouth is. The sooner companies stop pandering to these survey stuffing pirates, the better.

>>15582641
>Himawari All ages only
New title.
>Baldr sky Steam all ages only
New title and a fucking meme hype.
>Sharin no Kuni even with promised free 18+ only reaches 40%
Already read years ago by 90% of the vn community, we don't give a shit and their kickstarter is a cancer. Fuck them.

>>15582873
Eroge! is a success because of his popular anime adaptation which is "baby first hentai" for some young people. I think it's the same case for Euphoria and i hope it'll be for Kuroinu and Kyonyuu.

>>15583245
He's a freelancer. His first and second official projects were with MG (Himawari and Tokyo Babel). He apparently has 2 more. For one he said he was directly contacted by a japanese company. As for the other, I'm unsure if it's with MG.

http://www.strawpoll.me/10788491

Will you back the upcoming Baldr Sky Kickstarter?

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>>15583474
Everything has a captcha now. Fuck that and I voted no of course

>>15583500
Is that really Dovac?

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>>15583510
I was in that thread and yeah, he was there. After some backslash, he delete it.

>>15583510
Yup. He threw a tantrum and stopped browsing /jp/ shortly after though

>>15583474
I wouldn't back it even if it wasn't all-ages. Not even Western devs can trick me into giving the money, I'm sure as hell not going to give SP any money to translate something I can already read, fan translation or no.

>>15583320

If the sorcery jokers rumors turn out to be true, I'd say he's probably the one doing it.

Do you think Fata will get a hardcopy? If so I'll hold off on buying it until it's announced.

>>15582847

Porn has always sold well. Just because people aren't discussing it doesn't mean people don't want to fuck their little sister.

In fact, think about it for a moment. Who the hell CAN you discuss you enjoyment of a chinese porn game about fucking your little sister with? That shit's frowned upon.

Therein you will realize why you don't see people talking about such games while they continue to sell.

Meanwhile people begging for "real deal" shit are basically an exceedingly vocal minority.

>>15583474
Holy shit, those votes, what's with the SP hate? it's because of the kickstarters?

>>15583293
I don't think it's necessarily a case of them not putting their money where their mouth is, but more like that their numbers are too small. As you say, they are a vocal minority, but in some cases, like Muv-luv, you can clearly see that they have the potential to make money.

Something like Morgana will most certainly be profitable in the long-run though as word-of-mouth increases. Especially since virtually everything discussed about it has been fairly positive. Also I can't imagine that the license for such a title was that expensive in the first place considering the studio is fairly small.

>>15583319
Euphoria also had a case of being memed for literally years due to its content.

Also it's a fact that fetish content sells fairly well.

>>15583609
Oh dude you got me interested in that game and I will eternally blame you if based MG doesn't announce it...

>>15583689
Would've been a fan patch but now it's going to come out censored. It sure looks to me that SP deserves the hate.

>>15583763
>Would've been a fan patch
"no"

>>15583763
I still think araduc should give them an all-ages script and release adult version for free. I mean, there are no profit in adult version so there is no loss either. Unless Giga and SP are wrong, but then it would be their own fault, right? We can't help that they didn't learn how to run a VN company.

>>15583528
He claimed to stop browsing, but if you look at his twitter, its obvious he reads VNTS every day, and most likely posts too.

>>15583774
>doubting based Aroduc

>>15583774
Yes. Aroduc was translating it for some years now, before dovac got his greedy hands upon it, and was planning to release it as fantl.

>>15583777
>I still think araduc should give them an all-ages script and release adult version for free.
What you're really trying to say is "Aroduc should get himself sued."

>>15583652
I don't think it sold quite well enough, but just buy it either way. The game's more than good enough to pay for twice.

>>15583783
Of course he does. Nobody ever leaves this place for good. Especially when he is the topic of conversation most of the time.

>>15583799
Get rid of your translator for part 2? Why not. I'm sure everyone will die to get half of baldr in all-ages.

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>>15583809
I would out of embarrassment

>>15583474
https://www.strawpoll.me/10825585

Fuck your captcha.

>>15583957
That tl never existed; supposedly Fun Translations translated that game +3 more and
sold these patchs for $9.95 each but only Words Worth was released (lacked) and was pretty bad.

Does anyone still have that English patch for Juusou Koujo Metal Princess ?

>>15584006
*leacked

>>15584006
I see, well shame since the game looked interesting.

MG updated their Twitter to list their 3 popular titles as Koihime, Kindred Spirits and euphoria.

Koihime Musou was on the list before, so it looks like Da Capo and Shuffle got replaced.

If they have the character allotment left they should add in the word Musou, otherwise people could mistake it for an adaption of the Koihime hentai anime.

>>15584026
Deleted it to correct a grammar mistake, but was too slow I guess.

>>15584030
Nice. I brought this up some weeks ago, I wonder if I'm to blame for this change, that would make my day.
They should probably change it every so often to remind people of recent-ish titles that might have gone unnoticed and whatnot

>>15584055
It made sense to remove Shuffle, since they don't even sell it anymore. Koihime Musou was one of their best selling titles ever, so it makes sense to keep that one for now. Da Capo could be added back closer to when Da Capo 3 comes out.

I hope the MG panel is on a Sunday.

>SukiSuki - 63% translated

Pretty fast desu.

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Apparently Umineko sold like shit. What the fuck.
Isn't it a extremely well known series? Is the lack of content from the PS3 version affecting sales this much?

>>15584113
Oh don't mention that title here. You're going to trigger a certain anon...

>>15584116
Steam spy jumps around with its numbers all the time, not really reliable

>>15584121
So we can't mention a title that /jp/ helped bring over (sure, 99% of that effort was bamboo) because of some sperg? Pity that our crowning achievement got overshadowed like that.

>>15584113
Arunaru is pretty fast

The autist complaining about the Funbag Fantasy title has invaded their blog post about its release date.

The title was announced as Funbag Fantasy and received media coverage and such under said title. They would also need to pay to change said title logos etc. It was also close to done and would likely be delayed to get Waffle's approval. Funbag(s) is recognizable slang word for boobs whether or not you think it is. And no, it's not at all associated with rape like you make it out to be. Most of the people who complained were anons who are known to complain about anything, so MG was under no obligation to listen. It's impossible to tell how many people were even bothered by it.

>>15584116
The numbers that low are unreliable, but it didn't stay a top seller on Steam long (or even rank that high when it released), I don't think it charted on MG's site, either, but I don't really keep track of that.
In my case, I'm hoping for a physical release before I buy it, but if one isn't announced I'll probably just grab it off MG's site if I ever finish Tokyo Babel.
To put it in perspective, the (inaccurate) tracking of Muv-Luv is just over double that, while the Kickstarter obviously made bank. But it doesn't seem like the sales of Umineko were too hot anyway.

>>15584141
It's pretty uncommon as slang but not unheard of. I don't know where the fuck he got raep from though.

>>15584136
>>15584141
It's extra funny because Arunaru was the unfortunate one to trigger those guys

>>15584142
>it didn't stay a top seller on Steam long (or even rank that high when it released)

What are you smoking? It hit #10 in the global ranking

>>15584113
More like 62%, the 1% for find-replace name-change.

>>15584113
Apparently he thinks he'll be done by early October baring any big nonsense happening.

Which kinda bothers me. Sukisuki is going to be released before W Happiness. The game announced a full year before is taking longer to finish.

>>15584181
It lost that place very fast which demonstrates that sales weren't that hot. I don't think it even sold 5000 units.

>>15584191
yeah what's up with that? W happiness did just get an update so someones working on it

>>15584191
>Which kinda bothers me. Sukisuki is going to be released before W Happiness. The game announced a full year before is taking longer to finish.
It bothers me more how you know that and don't know that W Happiness is being translated by someone else. Obviously, different translators have different availability to work on their projects.

>>15584181
It didn't stay high for long and 10 on release isn't much to brag about. Most games rank pretty high on release simply because that's when everyone buys them, compared to older games which won't see significant sales boosts day-to-day without a price cut.

>>15584215
It was ranked for 3 days or so I believe. Only top 10 day one, though.

Honestly that's more than I expected. Even though Umineko is popular, it's a huge time investment. I imagine most people who have wanted to read it have already done so and I doubt they would re-read it unless something significant changed (like how the ps3 patch prompted a lot of re-reads).

>>15584215
>I don't think it even sold 5000 units.

I imagine that's probably not a very big deal since they'd be happy with half of that.

>>15584363
Maybe for on site but you need to factor in Gaben's cut for Steam sales.

>>15584116
Wasn't Umineko's translation already out for years?

>>15584407
Yeah

>>15584367

Gaben's cut is 30% and I was factoring it in. 2.5k would be 43k which would be probably be somewhere in the realm of double what they spent.

Also I think your expectations of the kind of sales they achieve on their site might be a bit inflated by the handful of more successful titles.

Wasn't Umineko an overrated piece of shit?

>>15584423
The last chapter sure was.

>>15584423
It killed R07's career.

>>15583799
it doesnt have to be aroduc. it could be someone called cudora

>>15584116
>Is the lack of content from the PS3 version affecting sales this much?
voice acting is a big deal for a "sound novel"

>>15584423
Another reason why the sales figures are decent all things considering. For a lot of people the latter half of Umineko is super polarizin. For me personally it ruined the series and I have no intent on purchasing it. I'm sure there are others in a similar situation.

>>15584451
The original version never had voice acting.

Fata is now the best VN in terms of OST

>>15584477
Wow, this surprise box.

>>15583835
Someone tweet this at Dovac

>>15584577
He just started tweeting again. Don't start bullying him already.

>>15584425
I don't think anyone likes Chiru as a whole, let alone episode 8. I've never personally seen anyone praise it, at least.

>>15584612
It's for his own good, he should stay off social media

How is Mahoyo STILL not translated? Its like 8 hours long.

>>15584658
It is strange. But you can be sure Commie's project ain't getting released ever

>>15584427
Mugidrones should learn what "killed career" actaully looks like.
It certainly doesn't involve being contracted by biggest eroge dealer out there with "write whatever you want" deal.

>>15584771
Umineko made people not care about Ryukishi at least, nobody gave a shit about Hibangana, RGD who also sold like shit, and the same happened with Hiwaihime, or worse, it has a really low number of votes on EGS too, and I never saw anyone talk about the game.

>>15584847
> people on eroge database not voting on non-eroge
No shit, man.

>>15584869
Then why are Ever17 and Steins;Gate two of the highest ranking VNs on EGS?

>>15584910
stema and shit taste

>>15584910
Because they're good.

>>15584914
>shit taste

Must be because those chicken sandwiches weren't from Chick-Fil-A.

>>15584910
I love how you jumped from "low NUMBER of votes" to "ranking".

>>15584946
You'd still be wrong, good "all ages" have a high ammount of votes and rank, Clannad, SG, Symphonic Rain, Chaos Child, Utawarerumono 2, Ever 17, Higurashi.
Iwaihime
http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/game.php?game=22189
only has fucking 69 votes, so literally hardcore fans and Ryukishi's friends or something are voting the game.
It also sold like crap.

>>15585022
>Iwaihime

Can't read moon so why was it so unpopular? From the CGs, it actually looks quite interesting. I might pick it up if MG decides to localize it.

>>15585048
>Can't read moon so why was it so unpopular?
Because it's Ryukishi. Not only does all he write is trash (except Higurashi), he hasn't had any fans in Japan ever since he insulted them all with Umineko.

Was laughing my ass off when mugi was completely BTFOd by CTom regarding Umineko on reddit.

>>15585106
got a link?

>>15585127
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4pov9s/list_23_vns_you_have_decided_against_reading_and/d4n2opa

>>15581726
>Higashide is the biggest thing in action VNs after Kinoko Nasu
Is this true /jp/?

>>15585144
I fucking hate Moogy, but this guy isn't really offering any good counter arguments. The only valid point he has is that Moogy is retarded for expecting everyone to conform to his opinions. Hardly a BTFO.

Umineko is pretty bad in the latter half, and I wouldn't blame anyone for feeling spurned by the entire series. Especially after the trainwreck that was Eps. 7-8.

I'm interested in reading r07's new VN, though. He brought the Rewrite team on board with him.

>>15585144
>Honestly, I shouldn't have even posted in here. The way I approach the medium as a whole and what I look for out of eroge/VNs are simply too far removed from the western fanbase's to have any sort of meaningful discourse with people using translations, and I accept that. But at the same time, as someone who helped build the community as it is today, I guess I'm unable to fully suppress my irritation at the way it hasn't developed into the ideal I imagined for it over the years.

You guys should be more thankful to moogy

>>15585166
While I agree with Moogy, he offered no arguments himself. Moogy seems to be of the impression that reading Japanese VNs in Japanese makes him a devourer or some high form of literature. In reality, it makes him a devourer of (mostly) crappy stories written badly targeted at a small group of people that care about (mostly) crappy things.

His 'it's good because I say it's good' would carry more weight if he actually had good taste.

>>15585194
Yes. Neither of them really argued anything. I rarely see Moogy actually go into concrete details as to why things are good or bad. He usually just leaves things at his word, which is another reason why I am often completely irritated with him.

>>15585144
>>15585166
>>15585194
Umineko sucks, but Moogy is a faggot that can't appreciate Fata Morgana while at the same time consuming trash like Cross+Channel or Gahkthun, so they're both shit.

That "discussion" is pretty much exactly what you'd see when two people with massive egos who think their taste is great despite the fact they both like shit, just different flavours of it, bitching about how fantastic they themselves are with barely any discussion of the VN itself. It reminds me of the time I was having issues installing Dra+KoI so I went into the readme for the English patch for technical help and common problems only to discover the entire thing was just moogy monologue about how wonderful he was for translating it.

tl;dr fuck reddit and fuck all non-anonymous communities.

>>15585221
>Moogy is a faggot that can't appreciate Fata Morgana

Why is that? It's a great VN. Surprisingly so given my initial distaste for it. I know that fag doesn't know Japanese but surely, he must know English.

>>15585233
It didn't have kanji puns, denpa or jokes of a sexual nature about underage girls in a high school setting, which is what moogy looks for in a """"good"""" VN (that's why he likes Romeo).

No but really, his actual complaint was the first three stories had nothing to do with each other so he lost interest by the time it was revealed how they were intimately linked, narratively and thematically.

>>15585233
He doesn't read anything in English, and if it gets translated it's garbage. Unless it gets translated and it's poorly received, then it's still good.
Basically if anyone other than Moogy likes it, it's probably trash.

>>15584224
It's being worked on by Kou, who quit MG when she found a better paying job. Kouryuu must've talked her into translating it for consistency sake, but I doubt it's high on her list of priorities.

>>15584631
I'm betting the sales for Chiru will be shit. Most people will tell you to only read the first 4 chapters then stop, because you don't really get your questions answered anyway.

>>15585048
Good news for you, I heard it's going to be one of their Otakon announcements.

>>15585221
There's literally nothing wrong with Gahkthun, kill yourself.

>>15585288
>There's literally nothing wrong with Gahkthun
There's nothing really right about it either.

>>15585288
I liked it, but it had some serious flaws.

Mac got introduced at the end and his role in the story was never really explored.

The student council kept being hypnotized, which started getting really repetitive, except Jo and her sister who did stupid shit all on their own that made no sense.
>Wahh, my older sister is so amazing that she's scary so I want to kill her.

>>15585294
Not to mention the big bad out of nowhere right at the end.

I feel like having read the other titles in the series would've made it a lot less nonsensical.

>>15585271
Do you even put on your resume that you've worked on eroge?

>>15585286
Iwaihime instead of WA 2. It's going to be another disappointing Otakon, isn't it?

>>15585330
Let my list of likely guesses be your hype level.
Sona-Nyl - purple hint
A Kiss for the Petals: Maidens of Michael - yuri title already confirmed
A Rance title - teased at
Sorcery Jokers or Iwaihime - HD title, "no joke"
A NTR or loli title - confirmed
Supipara Chapter 2 - TBD based on Chapter 1's launch sales

>>15585330
Sekai Project gets WA2, Eustia and Dies Irae. All ages steam releases, no word on actual releases.

>>15585326
Kou worked on things like Chou Dengeki Stryker, Da Capo 2, and Koihime Musou, so at least the titles could be said to be more plot and character based. Japanese fantasy novels would be one way to put it.

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>>15585338
Ah well, at least half is something I'm interested in.

>>15585344
Me on the left.

Otakon to save MG from a year of shit announcements.

>>15585430
I think there have already been some decent ones so far depending on your interests.

-Kindred Spirits drama CDs
-Fata Morgana Fandisc
-Funbag Fantasy
-Maggot Baits
-maybe Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome
-maybe Hadaka Shitsuji

>>15585430
Maybe for you, anon, but it has been a good year so far in my opinion. Still, Rance will make it even better.

>>15585271

Since it's all contract work, quitting seems an odd choice of word. More likely she just stopped taking on big projects due to the time investment, I'd imagine. She, for example, also did GGN's update sometime after evangile.

Given the current rate of translation seems to be about half as fast as the original adjusted for length, perhaps she just got offered more lenient milestones?

>>15585243
What an utterly ridiculous complaint.

>>15585144
Thanks for the link, plebbitor.

>>15585338
>A NTR or loli title - confirmed

Isn't that supposed to be the crossdressing yaoi game? Which is technically NTR because you rape the boyfriend of a girl.

>>15586015
Netori is boring shit.
Netorare is the thinking man's fetish.

Are there any yaoi games that are actually good if you ignore the gay shit?

>>15586158

Yeah, but why would you want to ignore the gay shit

>>15586165
insecure about my sexuality

>>15586178

If you're EOP, probably Lamento or NTY.

Otherwise, Shingakkou, maybe Sweet Pool?

>>15586187
Thanks. I tried Togainu no Chi but couldn't get it working

>>15586042
Yea, because it's totally not based on feelings of jealousy and inferioirity.

>>15586191
And that's exactly what makes you think about what are you doing with your life.

>>15586165

It's the thinking man's fetish when the thinking man is thinking with his penis.

>>15585430
Comparing with last year where the only non-dogshit-tier game they anounced was Himawary, this year was very good for MG.
Lets hope they wouldn't fuck it up with another Tokyo Babel-level dogshit at Otakon.

>>15585541
She was the other full time translator back in the day. MG even published a blog post about her leaving the company.

>>15584684
And that's a good thing, the Commie subs/translations are like the cancer of the scene with their "localizations" and stupid memes.

>>15586015
Probably not, since it's not even out yet. I doubt most NTR fans would be satisfied by it either. Plus Good Hero's already busy with Hadaka.

>>15586158
The dev Karin Chatnoir Omega is probably what you're looking for.

Their title https://vndb.org/v5243 has a PSP port, so you can even play it without the gay sex.

https://www.lewdgamer.com/2016/07/22/nutaku-with-kimochi-steam-for-adult-games/

Why the fuck can Nutaku's eroge store use paypal but MG and the others can't?

>>15586604

You don't buy directly on Nutaku. You buy their currency which you then use to buy games. Since you're only buying the currency it's not "adult content".

>>15586613
I wonder if MG's coupon codes could use the same loophole.

>>15586587
Looks pretty cool. Sucks to be EOP

>>15586613
>>15586604
Mikandi is setting up their own store as well. From the latest Kickstarter update:
>Stripe Enabled (MasterCard & Visa Processing)
>PayPal Enabled
>New, Exclusive ecchi Items!
>Lower Shipping
>Free Shipping (under certain conditions)

>>15586640

They could be using some kind of workaround or they could be flying under the radar. Denpa was doing that until they got found out and only had bitcoin processing for over a month.

>>15586640
>The Pre-order store will showcase more than just Libra goods, the main aspect of it will be a place for Producer MOKA / XERO to talk about Visual Novel Industry news. Specifics on XERO’s direct involvement will be further described on in our Newsletter!

Sounds interesting, but it really depends if they can get anyone else on board with it, and right now it seems it will only be focused on Libra.

>>15586613
That is incorrect, you can't use paypal for Nutaku gold and probably never will. No escape from the probiller menace.

>>15586648

Then how can you buy anything with paypal on nutaku? I didn't think they offered direct purchase on anything. It's all priced in their currency.

>>15586652
They're moving games to the kimochi application

>>15585351
Don't you also have to put what company you've worked for? I wonder if HR looked up MangaGamer and got a surprise. Would be funny. Unless she wrote down MangaGeemu.

Is Baldr Sky going to have a kickstarter? I've been seeing people say that.

>>15586851
Not confirmed but likely. Root Double's kickstarter was announced at a later date as well and Sekai has says that the details behind the Baldr release haven't been worked out yet. Given its length and costs a kickstarter for Baldr Sky seems very plausible.

>>15586514

I think you're thinking of their old editor.

>>15586908
Him too, but Kou was mentioned as having moved on to a different job.

>>15586851
Yeah, open your wallet bitch

>>15586918

Anonymous, fun as it may be, you need to stop confusing /jp/ rumors with stuff that's actually fact. That was never "said" anywhere other than doddler saying in an ask.fm q/a couple years ago that she was busy these days. Hence she probably just stopped taking serious time investments.

>>15586851
how naked does the cash grab have to be before people wake up

>>15586993
>So even though my circumstances now are much less desperate (and much more busy), I plan to be here for a little while longer.
This is from 2013 though, so obviously outdated.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2013/12/31/a-short-look-back-part-5/

>>15587050

That kind of goes against your claims of "she quit the company, never to take a contract again" claims in every possible way though. Especially when you consider that that was the end of 2013, and that up till mid 2014 she did evangile, and then in early 2015 she did the new GGN content and the evangile fandisk started late 2015.

The most obvious solution to me seems to be that she just got a real job and doesn't have the time to work on mutl-mb titles as quickly(hence the slowed pace).

>>15587085
I never said she stopped entirely, just that she's no longer a full time translator. She seems to rarely take on projects and when she does they've been continuations of her previous projects, like the Go Go Nippon DLC and the Evangile fandisc, which is progressing at a snails pace.

>>15587108

I don't where you're getting the idea that she was full time when kouryuu said he was was the only full-time person back then quite a few times(due to him also being the "marketing manager").

>>15587139
Maybe he got that idea from the post that said Kou was one of the "main translators" at that time.

>>15583653

I discussed Real Imouto with my sisters and I told them that I thought that it was hilarious.

>>15587322
Do you regularly discuss games where you fuck sisters, with your sisters?

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4te0e4/yoake_brighter_than_the_dawning_blue_100/d5pcbrl

>boo hoo hoo woe is me, how dare you all be ungrateful for my work on a project I completely abandoned and instead praise the guy who actually gave you something.

>>15587455
Leave.

>>15587455
The patch was kind of a fuck up with not being the latest repo dump. If they couldn't make the patch then just give it to someone else to make.
Though erengy is a complete faggot who has lost everyone's faith (and doesn't deserve it after sitting doing nothing with it for two years) so I don't blame the reaction people had to people saying he will complete it. The sad thing is we probably won't get a good edit and QC job on it as someone on fuwa will probably pick it up and say they will do it.

>>15587463
Hello erengy.

>>15587491
What gets me is that instead of giving out the latest repo dump himself, he just gives empty promises that he'll give us something when he finishes it. Eventually.

>>15587580
Gotta keep that internet fame going somehow.

>>15587580
I think it is just down to spite after it got leaked without being told about it. If he still gave any kind of fucks he would have just gave out what was done and said either he got bored of it or give some lame excuse about real life getting in the way and can't continue with it.
There probably isn't even a days worth of work left for it. Was said that most editing and QC was done in the latest repo, just it needed testing. So give it to a few trusted people to play though over a weekend and then fix anything from that and create the patch.

>>15587455
>all ages moege
For what purpose?

>>15587801
New routes and expanded story?

>>15588012
>New routes
And? Still meaningless without ero.
>expanded story
>story
>moege
Nigga wut?

>>15588174
Is all of you people's fiction consumption porn?

Do you watch TV and go "This sucks! Where are all the titties?"

Do you read books and get frustrated when there isn't a chapter long sex scene jammed in the middle?

>>15588395
That anon is pretty much saying that it's uncommon to see moeges without sexual content. He's not talking about story-oriented VNs.

>>15588395
Best fiction so far is the lewd one. Negima is a good example of blowing the clothes of all characters constantly while delivering a regular fighting story.

Shame nobody makes these in English because Steam is afraid of Lewd and adult stores are afraid of no porn.

>>15588395
>Do you watch TV and go "This sucks! Where are all the titties?"

Yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rk6QrRVYN0

When are mangagamer going to pick this up?

>>15588851
Only Victor Ireland could properly localize it.

>>15588851
Never. They only localize vns for PC.

>>15588840
Same. That's why HBO, Starz etc exist

Funbag Fantasy doesn't have an opening?

>>15587050
>Of course, as is so often the case with stories of desperation, I started at the bottom of the ladder. By “bottom of the ladder” I mean “TL checker for some of the worst translations you’ve ever seen.” And by “worst translations you’ve ever seen” I mean “porn scripts that translate ‘hentai’ as ‘metamorphosis.'”

Made me laugh.

>>15587565
No, leave with your retarded link spam. Be it twitter or reddit, this place has become nothing but grounds for discussion of other places.

>>15589964

/VNTS/ sure has fallen

>>15589964
It's almost like no translation announcements or projects actually happen in /jp/, and nobody working on translation projects posts here.

>>15590120

You seem to be implying there's anything wrong with that instead of it being the optimal situation. These threads have been burning to the ground by thursday their stupid arguments these last few weeks. Last thing we need is more drama so they die even faster.

>>15587400

I talked about Oreimo and Hoshimemo with them

>>15590242
I wish I could talk to my sisters the same way

What do they think about incest

>>15589964
>>15590198
So we can only talk about things that happen here? If something is released or has an update posted else where we also can't talk about it? What a retarded concept for a thread that is meant to give status updates on visual novels being translated. May as well just ask mods to sticky and lock the thread for the week after the initial posts.

>>15580136
>Corona Blossom - Vol 1 7/29 release, demo released
Apparently, it releases tomorrow.

Big news for all our backers!
本プロジェクトの支援者の皆様！

Corona Blossom Vol.1 releases on Steam this Wednesday, July 27, at 8:00PM PST!
It's thanks to all of your generous contributions and support that we were able to make this project a reality.
Corona Blossom Vol.1が7月27日20時（PST）頃にsteamにて配信を開始します！
皆様からたくさんのご支援を頂いたおかげです。ありがとうございます。

You also have Just Deserts from Sekai released. Should sell like hot cakes at 10 dollars, unless of course people aren't that interested in Sekai all-ages.

>>15590799
>Just Deserts
>OELVN
>>trash

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>>15590715
Maybe they are afraid of the selling monster that will be Supipara.

>>15590868
Lol. More like they want to beat it to the punch so that impatient people will blow their monthly vn budget on Corona Blossom instead.

>>15590715
This shit is going to be like 5 hours long, isn't it?

>>15590868
I'm not sure episodic non-hentai VNs on Steam will sell much. Those will mainly pick up when the entire season is finished.

>>15590922
That's what I'm doing after being burned by Umineko.

>>15590928
Don't you mean Higurashi?

>>15590700
Basically, plebbitors should get permabanned.

>>15590917
KARAPARA was like 2 hours long and got released at the same price.

>>15590922
Well, we know the Japanese companies are trying to sell episodic stuff because Steam users won't pay full price for VNs, but they're stupid enough to get tricked into buying them as episodes/seasons/"DLC."

>>15591243
Higurashi's chapters have really started selling alot less, either people lost interest in the series or they're waiting on it to be complete and plan to purchase it at a discount.

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>>15583694
>I don't think it's necessarily a case of them not putting their money where their mouth is, but more like that their numbers are too small.

And this is just Sukebei. We can safely say that Gahkthun has been pirated at least 20 times as much as it has been bought.

>>15591439
I generally buy plotge but if I knew how disappointing this was going to be I probably would have pirated it instead too desu.

>>15591439
I think MG and other publishers have started to see that what fans say they want and what sells don't always match up. They'll probably still do story vns in small numbers like they used to, but I wouldn't expect them to go after any high budget ones now.

>>15591439
I thought it was known already that Moege and Nukige are were people actually buy shit. What was the last plot focused game that actually sold well?

>>15591439
Bad sample, garbage VN not worth a cent

>>15591439
>pirated Gahkthun
>played a few hours before dropping it
What a piece of shit, so glad I didn't buy it. I buy VNs I'm sure I'll like, but I was worried about that.

>>15591472
Kara no Shoujo 2 now with the hardcopies.

>>15591482
This happens with every game that isn't a nukige, anon.

>>15591482
>what? people have different opinions than me?!?
>they must just be memeing there's no way someone can hold an opinion I disagree with
Stop

>>15591476
Honestly, Evolimit and Bullet Butlers would've appealed more to their core audience and are generally Propeller's more popular vns. Bullet Butlers also had a good chance at attracting female readers. And Bullet Butlers has an all-ages version that they could've put on Steam.

It's like they went with Tokyo Babel purely because they thought all-ages only, HD graphics, and being newer were major selling points. Even Steam buyers want porn and they saw Tokyo Babel as a generic story that looked like a Persona ripoff. Not to mention that the last MG poll revealed that people only had a slight preference for HD graphics. HD doesn't mean much if people don't like the story or the art.

>>15591494
It only sold after Doddler revealed that it sold so badly that there was no way it was getting a hardcopy. Then people must've bought enough copies of it out of desperation that it ending up getting a hard copy after all. I wonder if people will hold out again for KnS3?

Man, Tokyo Babel has some good VAs I'm sure that wasn't a cheap license for MG.

>>15591518
Having KanaHana as one of the main heroines is something worth buy, tbqrh.

>>15591470
>Many people just download things for archival purposes.

That is so me. I wish I hadn't stopped 5 years ago, but at 10 TB Japanese VNs and never playing any it was time to take a break.

Still worry that the few best lolige out there may become unavailable while I am on a break.

>>15591538
What does the r in tbqrh stand for?

>>15591544
real.

>>15591439
It seems logical. I mean who can actually buy these things? Adult singles. If you are a child, nope. If you are married, mostly nope.

Torrenting them in secret though, children and parents probably can get away with. Which increases the amount of players by a lot.

>>15591538
Her heroine's route is so shit it not even worth read, not to mention buy.

>>15591966
That's Sawashiro's route, though. Such a good character and then she's everything wrong with her own route. KanaHana's is just boring.

>>15591980
> That's Sawashiro's route, though.
Didn't read it. Dropped game after HanaKana's route. The only good thing about TB is prologe. Wish whole game was from Sorami's POV, fuck Setsuna his is boring retard.

Is translation of Fortissimo EXA//Akkord:Bsusvier on Youtube any good ?

>>15592299
For someone who puts space before punctuation, it's just fine.

>>15592308
so mean. why do you have to be hidoi

>>15592308
It is correct to put space there in my language. That said, after brief look at internet, it does seem incorrect in English language. Well, I am learning new things everyday.

>>15592339
>It is correct to put space there in my language
Hi frogeater.

Conjueror is translating Chaos;Child.

MG removed the DRM on most of their library. Now the only titles that have it are minori's, d2b vs Deardrops, Kara no Shoujo 2, and euphoria.

>>15592635
I hope not, I don't want to see another VN with japanese setting where no one use honorifics because "it's a localization".

>>15592666
> no one use honorifics because "it's a localization"
That's pretty funny since weebs, people who actually buy shit on steam, love honorifics.
Why localization companies thinks it's normalfags who buy their shit is beyond me.

>>15592685
That's a lame excuse commented by one of the Jast employees who don't know that most of the potential costumers that want to buy these games are into anime and in these days companies (with a market way bigger than the VN industry) for "normalfaqs" like Crunchyroll stream anime keeping all the honorifics and with japanese name order.

In the videogame industry Atlus use them (but they're pro-dub and I hate that) but Jast and SP can't because Steam have a different "normalfaqs" that the one that are watching anime? WTF?

>>15590521

They think it's gross, understandably
I said to them when discussing it that I'll read anything if it's interesting/amusing, regardless of the content, and incest plotge/charage has that forbidden love thing which I like

>>15593032
How unfortunate

>>15592835
A lot of it is just translator preference. For example if you have something from Aroduc, it won't have honorifics regardless as to who releases it. For a lot of projects, it's not really viable for them to choose a translator over something like localization choices if they want a good translator on it, especially if one of the good freelance translators is willing to work on it.

It's funny though the Lemnisca guys sited complaints about Princess Evangile as to why they were removed from Root Double, when Root Double ended up doing well worse then Princess Evangile (granted it didn't fail because of any localization choices, but still).

>>15593244
>Lemnisca

Those guys should make a 2.0 of their translation and add in honorifics. If they do so, I'll think about buying it even though it hurts my heart to give Sekai money.

>>15592650

Euphoria's will probably go after awhile. It seems like all the clockup stuff is on a timer or something.

>>15593257
agreed. as it is i kinda regret buying RD at launch

>>15580136
>>Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title Steam released, uncut 35% done, 3rd 50% translated
Why would the uncut version have so much more work to be done if the cut version is already done?

>>15593513
It was mentioned by Koestl that the 35% figure is how much of the extra content in the uncut release is translated. It still is a good deal of work though because the all ages release is a Vita port on a different engine.

>>15593598
Not doing any of the work in parallel with the all-ages release is bad planning and something that deserves to get shit on.

>>15593598
I almost find it fascinating how Sekai Project themselves can't even manage to assure their audience that things will be fine by just talking straight like this. But then again, if they are so biased against ero then I guess that's no wonder.

>>15593244
Battle Moon Wars, Daibanchou and Minna Daisuki Kozukuri Banchou had honorifics.

>>15591518
I enjoyed Tokyo Babel though.

>>15593268
It might be when the current contract for it runs out and has to be renewed, it's at that point that MG can try to renegotiate terms.

>>15592650
d2b vs Deardrops now appears to be DRM free too based on its store page. So minori haven't let it be removed from any of their titles. Kara no Shojo 2 and euphoria will probably be removed a year or 2 from their launch dates.

Some of MG's new acquisitions could still have DRM too if the company can't be convinced not to have it for launch.

Its pretty laughable that already translated vns like clannad,grisaia,muv luv sold more than any other plotge/moege

Thats why no one can take the west seriously when they keep praising keyshit,ryukishit7 and grisaia

>>15594302
Well, everyone loves those VN because:
a) They have anime
b) For the most part, those VNs are praised for something (Everyone in the community knows Muv Luv because is entry tier. Grisaia was the best translation ever made in a VN at the time and Keyfags shill every Key work)
C) People who liked the VN now have the chance to pay for it. Sounds stupid, but people (like myself) want to pay for something that was well made but its hard to do if we talk about another languaje.

Still, I have hope for some titles in the future.

>>15594396
True. C is interesting because I feel guilty about not paying for something I read with fan translation for free before it got localized officially, but I'm hesitant to pay full price for a 'new' plotge that got brought over before knowing if its any good.

Don't tell haro, but nr.1 on Steam popular sales right now is an otome game.

>>15594918
Neat.

>>15594302
> keep praising,ryukishit7
Umineko sold like shit though.

>>15594918
I'm more interested in that Montaro. Also that shit is 89¢.

>>15594918
Is is the one that looks like a Hakuouki ripoff? Considering how popular Hakuouki it's not really surprising.

>>15595169
Steamspy numbers in the less than 30k range can't be used, because the lack of data makes the numbers wildly inaccurate. The numbers can jump around in the thousands whenever Steamspy updates its totals.

Culture Select has another project in the works.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=728993422

It was created and written by the creator of the Cherry Tree High series.

>>15595470
I am usually not that into wild west stuff. But that looked kind of neat.

>>15596113
It looked more like Fata Morgana to me, so it will either be a money maker or sell nothing.

>>15596435
It's youthful heroines should attract a crowd.

>>15585164
He's pretty good. I believe he's indeed on of the best.

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>>15595470
Nice font.

>>15595470
Sheet. This will be out before Django.

>>15597538
People are trying to convince them to change the font.

Corona Blossom Volume 1 is now available. You're banned from Streaming the game, but feel free to stream the demo to help promote it.

>>15598533
>to help promote it

Why would anybody try to promote a cheap Frontwing cash grab?

>>15598533
Is it worth promoting to begin with? Purino Party was so half-assed that I'd call it quarter-assed at best, I'm kinda sceptical about their next attempt.

https://twitter.com/shinhoroko/status/758518397831446528 who's this and why is there so many retweets

They put the 18+ patch up on dlsite. They use the same auto built in restrictions on Streaming/screenshots as recent Sekai stuff.

>>15598802
Dunno. Hopefully he's faster than the last guy though. 30% progress in a fucking year is god-damn pathetic. Sekai really needs to get their shit together.

>>15598635
They are selling Corona Blossom in Japan as well, unlike Purino Party.

>>15598533
so is it a kusoge?

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>>15595470
It's nice that they have an American editor, but it would've been even nicer if the demo didn't require Japanese locale just to start properly.

>>15594396
>at the time

What surpassed it? Tokyo Babel? Gahkthun?

Corona Blossom is actually quite fun to read, although it looks really short. 2.5 hours later, I already finished half of it.

Also, uncensored boobs, for some reason. That's nice.

>>15599134
I like how they accidentally sent 18+ keys to every backer and then sent another email lying about how the mistaken keys don't work even when they do.