Visual Novel translation status Amagami - 1st day patch Released

Sekai/Denpa
Nekopara Vol 3 - April 28th release
>Grisaia no Rakuen - Steam version 90% translated, release planned for March, uncut release early Summer
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
>Maitetsu - 88.45% translated
Nenokami - Part 2 2017 release
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
>Chrono Clock - 93.29% translated, beta version within a few weeks
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
Tenshin Ranman - 99.25% translated
Darekoi - 100% translated Engine/QA work ongoing
Wagamama High Spec - 100% translated, early 2017 release. Editing/Engine work ongoing
>Koikuma - 28.07% translated, 2017 release
>Hoshizora no Memoria - 100% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Ley Line - Engine/QA work ongoing
SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing, Spring 2017 release
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
Fatal Twelve - Picked up
Project Lux - Picked up
Her and Her and My 7 Days - 11% translated
Girls in Glasses - Picked up
The Bell Chimes For Gold - Picked up
>Unannounced Project 1 - 37% translated
>Unannounced Project 2 - 73% translated
Unannounced Project 4 - 63% translated
Unannounced Project 5 - 100% translated, editing/engine work ongoing
>Unannounced Project 6 - 24% translated



Frontwing
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - April 28th release for Volumes 1 and 2
Sharin no Kuni - 2nd Kickstarter finished, goal reached, August 2017 release
Island - Translation in progress, release expected around when the anime airs


Visual Arts
Little Busters - Being worked on by Prototype, "we hope we can deliver more info this spring."
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
Muv Luv Alternative - Winter release
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Translation started
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - To follow Photonflowers
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Period Cube - 4/25 release
Collar x Malice - 2017 release
Bad Apple Wars - 2017 release
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up


Fruitbat
Hakoniwa no Gakuen - March 2nd release
Seven Days - Late 2017 release


Other
Taisho Alice - March 2017 release
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Translation and main game editing complete, 2 mini episodes both 50% edited, March 2017 release
Dies irae - Kickstarter succeeded, May 2017 release planned
Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen - 5/31 release
Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro - 11/30 release
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Hyakka Hyakurou - Picked up
SubaHibi - Official release planned
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Short Whirlpool title scheduled for Spring
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>16519822
>School Idol QT Cool - Released

Out of all things to be updated, I can't believe this shit is the one.

>>16519822
>Django - Waiting on translation.

Peter translating the characters doing the nasty when?

>Maji Koi A-3 - Starting up
So there is a god after all.

>>16519910
it was already translated aside from ero scenes.

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Top Seller (Male)

>>16519822
me on the right

>>16519986
Huh, Da Capo was knocked down by traps. Not too surprising considering how few trap titles there are, officially localized or otherwise.

Rance staying second is a bit surprising though since it's been 2 months since it was up for sale, if you include the preorder period. I think the trap game will have a decent tail because it represents a mostly untapped genre, but Rance rising to first again so soon seems plausible enough.

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Doddler hacking prism ark for Aroduc huh?

Any news on Kurukuru Fanatic since the translator ducked out? I know a couple people were working on getting the files uploaded into a playable patch but haven't heard anything since.

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>Maji Koi A-3 - Starting up
Deus vult.

>>16520096
Does MG release sales numbers? It'd be nice to know how well Rance did

>>16519974
Yes, I know...

>>16519986
May the Lord forgive me for fapping to traps.

>>16520585
They do not release sale numbers. The best we have are estimations based on order number (not particularly useful for Rance because of a bundle shortly after release), and the annual charts (Rance was the 4th best seller on the main MG website last year, excluding bundles).

>>16520123
He already had part of it translated so I can see why he would want to go back to it.

>>16520126
Yes, I was working on a patch. It will be out in 30 minutes.

>>16520585
Sales numbers are these days given by hard copies. If it sold well, hard copies appear.

>>16520585
Being 4th last year when preorders only started in December means that it did fantastic. It almost certainly reached to quota for a hardcopy, the only question is when they'll announce it.

About a couple of weeks ago, Kouryuu mentioned that he was surprised Da Capo (if you included Steam sales) was almost the level of Rance sales. It's hard to guess because Steam Spy is inaccurate, and the bundle makes preorder numbers unhelpful, but I would guess Rance sold at least 2k by now.

>>16521771
>it did fantastic
It's great game so I glad it sold so well.

Is there a visual novels discord that isn't LITERALLY fucking reddit?

>>16522728
Isn't Discord Reddit - the VOIP client.

>>16522786
It doesn't have to be

Kimi no eien?

>>16522728
>>16522907
What do you expect when you start attaching identifiable names to people? Even IRC had the same kind of problems.

>>16520126
The guy who made the patch is finishing the editing. Don't know if he is going to find someone to finish the translation of

>>16519822
It's been a while since I played any visual novels. I'm looking for Lamune, which I understand has at least a partial patch for Nanami's route. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Can't seem to find it anywhere.

>>16524171
https://www.mediafire.com/?nuqvomaoybyw9k7

>>16519822
>>Sansha Mendan - 14,914/35,409 lines translated
holy shit

>>16522907
Its IRC for complete retards, of course it has to be full of reddit and fuwanovel.

>>16524417
What about it?

>>16524439
top tier nukige, EOPs are blessed

>>16522728
I am in a chill part of discord that sometimes talks about vns. Your best bet is to be in chats that are not VN based.

>>16524521
I'm so mad I'm not even mad

>>16524521
>Shaaaaooo-CHWAAAN

lol did this guy watch One Piece and decide all anime is like that?

>>16524417
quof-san himself is translating it apparently

A week or so out, it is hard to get much of a feel for how Seinarukana is doing on Steam. At the very least it doesn't seem to be some runaway success and it doesn't seem to be doing as well as Aselia did on Steam, but it also doesn't look like it complete disaster either.

Of course though, any Steam sales should complement respectable off Steam sales considering the reach of J-List's advertising and the long delay between the two releases.

>>16524465
our guy quof only delivers the best

>>16524366
Thank you.

http://www.strawpoll.me/12287112

Help.

>>16525432
is this quof-sama legit and not a fuwatard? I actually listed that game in the mangagamers survey since the cg looked so good. speaking of the survey did they release any comments on it like in previous years?

>>16529935
I'm pretty sure he's good at Japanese, and people seem to have a good impression of him in general. Whether he'll end up being a proficient translator is another question of course. I'm not sure, has he translated anything before?

>>16530016
>I'm not sure, has he translated anything before?
no

>>16529935
I don't even know who the fuck is this quof dude. Is he working for MG? Post some of his work.

>>16530034
https://vndb.org/p5834
?

>>16530144
I don't think he translated these, but I can be wrong.

>>16530119
He's pretty active on /r/visualnovels
>>16530189
Looking at the homepage for the group, it looks like it's only one guy behind it. I.e, quof.

So he translated teaching feeling, huh

>>16529503
What happened to your tripcode, editor from certain company?

>>16531133
Couldn't type it out with the cucumber in the hand and mouth.

>Hoshizora no Memoria - 100% translated

no shit it's been translated for five years

>>16533409
"translated" maybe

>>16533503
Dolphin hater detected.

>>16529503
Looks like it is a coin toss between choices one or two, sir.

>Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi
I didn't know this was still alive.

>>16521771
I'm glad DCIII is doing well, kouryuu deserves it.

>>16533747
It may seem that way to an amateur, but let me present the results in a different way:
45 people don't want it changed
44 people want it slighly changed
13 people want it greatly changed

That means 57 people want it changed - a majority. Thus option number 2 wins.

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never

https://youtu.be/7-fOF1n15g8

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/08/princess-maker-refine-february-release/

Looks like Princess Maker 1 is going to be revamped and released in February. It also includes Japanese voice acting. They also did mention on Facebook extra content will be added on Steam.

>>16534634
PM2 on steam still has translation issues that haven't been fixed

>>16533503
>defending Sekai of all people for picking up yet another fanTL and slapping a price tag on it

>>16534839
To be honest, they probably could get away with it. It's not like Staircase subs is around to DCMA Sekai if they did steal it

I doubt they'll go that low, but it is Sekai.

>>16534634
I'll probably buy it, even if it happens to be the same price as 2 Refine.

>>16534634
Nice I'm excited about this

>>16535170
Pretty sure they confirmed it would be retranslated shortly after announcing the game.

>>16535170
>To be honest, they probably could get away with it. It's not like Staircase subs is around to DCMA Sekai if they did steal it
Not even Sekai is dumb enough to get taken to court for stealing someone's work.

Another one of those podcast talk show deals with kouryuu. Mostly just an ad for DC3 with things people already know, but to roll off the list of items of interest at the end

1: Kuroinu Chapter 1 and Higurashi Chapter 5 "in March"
2: Following that "One title we haven't announced" (Aka, Secret Project 6, one of likely AB announcements)
3: Imopara 2 later this year
4: PE Fandisk "more of a summer release"
5: There'll be a sale near the end of this week (Aka probably the yearly valentines sale)

Also during the DC3 ad there was a bit about how that drama with aaeru hundreds of years ago actually forced mangagamer to license DC3 earlier than planned. Just a mild item of interest

>>16537468
>Higurashi Chapter 5 "in March"
YES

>>16537492

I wouldn't get too hyped. This is the first mention uptil now of them not being released in a bundle together, so they could still be debating it themselves. There's also this https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/829436235508756482

>>16534634
Wouldn't they cut the content for Steam?

>>16537468
Huh, I was expecting Bokuten to be next, if not the April title at latest but looks like that's not going to be the case.

>>16537929
I believe Princess Maker 2 at least was released on Steam unchanged from the most recent Japanese PC release (although there was censorship for the Korean version). At the very least the nudity was not cut for the Steam release. The main thing to note about the Japanese release is the debug room from the DOS release was omitted in later releases.

I am guessing they will do the same here, with the release being based on the PC version of Princess Maker 1 Refine, and Steam shouldn't require them to censor that version.

>>16539014
Bokuten is in the porting process still, which is always a wildcard about how long it takes.

Fruitbat is teasing a "big" VN announcement. Although it is hard to guess what a big announcement from them might mean, as they have worked on some big titles (Eiyuu*Senki, Key translations), but much of their lineup is indie/doujin stuff.

https://twitter.com/FruitbatFactory/status/829682628504625152

>>16539075
Thanks for WA 2, Fruitbat!

>>16539075
I'm betting on Senmomo. It'll make waves while still not giving Eustia.

>>16539075
Harukuru

Pretty much any full length title and some short titles could be considered a big announcement, so not much to go on for now on the Fruitbat announcement other than big titles and titles from companies that have been eyeing the Western market.

With how it is worded, it doesn't even need to be a new announcement. Since they are also a console publisher, they could have grabbed a Steam title to put on Vita. They have a relationship with both Jast and MG, and both have titles that could benefit from a Vita release.

>>16539075
> I'd be surprised if someone can guess it
That probably rules out every untranslated VN that's frequently demanded on the internet.

>>16539050
The longest porting process i've ever seen, Bokuten speed is JAST-tier. It's like MG don't give a single fuck about it, i don't know why because the art is good and a lot of people like drama in VN. We don't care if the nips hated it.
I mean i'm more hyped for something like Bokuten then Pygmalion.

>>16539075
Pretty sure it'll be something like Hakoniwa no Gakuen. A noname futur flop.

>>16539075
Seabed.

>>16540401
>We don't care if the nips hated it.
We don't care care about Bokuten regardless of Nips opinion. Never see any hype about it anywhere.

>>16540458
>Never see any hype about it anywhere.
That's because PR never talked about it, even on twitter. Like i said MG don't give a single fuck about it but i don't understand why they are shooting themselves in the foot with Bokuten.

>>16540401
I doubt they have high expectations for Bokuten, even in the VN community it hasn't driven much discussion and it doesn't seem like a title that will do exceptional on Steam. Even the one selling point they managed to find, "look at the content we will get away with on Steam" is rendered moot by the large amount of uncut R18 patches competitors and that explicit OELVN that will likely have content more explict than "barely censored Bokuten" ends up being.

>>16540456
There was that Twitter exchange last year in which the license person from Sekai approached the Seabed developer with an interest in the license, so unless Fruitbat approached first Sekai seems more likely to end up with it.

>>16540475
That's just standard MG though. They don't hype something up until they have an official release date for it.

Works better than hyping something up and having it die down in the long wait for it.

>>16540475
>That's because PR never talked about it
That's because except how this game fucked Overdrive there is nothing remarcable to talk about.

>>16540515
At least the girls are cute, especially the angel one.

Atlach-Nacha translation when

>>16540651
After release of MinDeaD Blood translation, stay tuned.

>>16540503
I wish some company, not Sekai specially, licensed most of doujin titles Hadler talks about, most of them sounds interesting

>>16539075
A followup tweet said the announcement "should be coming within 24 hours."

>>16540475
They had a PR plan for Bokuten, to take advantage of everything selling on Steam during the Steam craze and to aim for the press Kindred Spirits got for having sexual content on Steam.

Fast forward a year and while Steam will help it, it no longer will be enough to make it a success as the days of anything selling on Steam are long gone. It also has pretty much no chance of getting press unless MG somehow convinces Steam to carry it uncensored, which is very unlikely. Even if they did, the amount of press it could get would be less than Kindred Spirits, after other recent developments.

That leaves them to try to sell the title on the merits, which is made harder because the Steam audience won't notice at all. The title is also not an easy sell even to the audience that follows MG closely off of Steam.

MG's Valentines sale is on

>>16542909
Thank you for the info, person who is most definitely not a mangagamer employee.

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>>16543016

Worry not anonymous, I'm no paid shill. I do it for free! There's even free valentines cards too!

Dies Irae got an update

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1986219362/dies-irae-english-localization-project-commences/posts/1804059

>Starting off the updates is a quick note on the translation. The all-ages version has been completed, and now the translation for the patch is currently underway.

Also seems they are going to be testing shortly and still intend to release it in May.

>>16544064
That's actually kind of surprising. I assumed it would be delayed like most Kickstarter projects

>>16544327
It would have been surprising if there was anything to delay the schedule yet, as the translation pace should have remained on target considering the team.

It's when things don't work as the deadline approaches that you would expect delays.

>>16519984
Order Number - 266053
Order Date - 2017-02-11 00:13:50

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Fruitbat announcing Seabed in an hour apparently. Wasn't SP after this license or did I imagine it?

>>16540456
Found the leaker.

>>16544807
>>16544739
lol

>>16544739
Actually they spoke to the creator in really bad Japanese pleading with them to Sekai the license. Please tell me someone has the tweet here to link it.

>>16544739
If it's already announced, then why are they announcing it?

>>16544739

I don't remember anything about sekai going after it, but I remember a few months back there was some talk about an 英語版 so I searched https://twitter.com/seabed_cm/followers to see if I could guess who might be doing it. Sure enough @fruitbatfactory is on there, the one account I didn't think to ctr+f for at the time.

>>16544739
What is Seabed about?

>>16544871
You're an idiot.

>>16544867
>>16544911
https://twitter.com/seabed_cm/status/762126733495537665

>>16544911

Oh, and they're following conjueror now too, so while it's a little early to say, I wouldn't be surprised if he's translating since he's done so much stuff for fruitbat.

>>16544941

Oh so they did. I did some digging through the tweets from back then and it was early september when an english version started getting talked about and fruitbat followed the account on september 3rd, so sekai project was probably literally a few weeks too slow lol

>>16544064
Look forward to 18+ patch in a year. (Unless they for some reason are much better at translating ero than Sekai)

>>16544934
https://ask.fm/moogy0/answers/138656500180

>>16544934

It's a doujin yuri game. I didn't play it, but from what I remember moogy&co were jacking themselves off about how it was the best game of 2016.

>>16544941
I am laughing so much at the response Seabed more than likely wanted more money in order to toss their license to Sekai. But knowing Fruitbat they secured the deal in some roundabout way.

Also Chris is bad at Japanese lol.

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>>16545023
>>16544934
Don't bother, it's a kusoge.

https://blog.fruitbatfactory.com/2017/02/10/seabed-coming-to-western-shores/

They have it scheduled for a late 2017 release.

>>16545036

Even if it had it, I still wouldn't bother. I only play charage so my cold lonely heart can feel simulated warmth for a short time. I've no desire for other experiences.

>>16544948

https://twitter.com/_garejei/status/830102547255943169

Confirmed

>>16545077
Conjueror's translating all the kamige, we need to stop him.

>>16545036
Are you the anti-chunni guy as well?

>>16545106
No, I like chuunige as long as there's H-scenes.

>>16545013
What a fucking pretentious faggot holy shit

>>16545086
The only good game he trasnlated so far is Himawari.

>>16545174
No, he translated the shit version of Himawari. So even that doesn't count.

Newfag question, why do people do unnanounced/secret projects? You'd think they'd want to announce something early to let hype and word of mouth market the vn for them, if only a little.

>>16545208
Official companies announce shit at cons.
Fans announce shit when there's actually something done. Plus there's always threat of C&D.

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>>16545208
As for fantranslations, because they're doing it for free and could be dropped anytime they wanted. Also, C&D could happen.
As for company, becuase is stupid to announce something that isn't going to release in 1 or 2 years, Shit like Sekai's Baldr Sky announcement is some of the fucking worst because they didn't even knew about the limits of the partnership and how/when they're going to release it. To me, is better announce the project when is at least at 50% completion.

>>16545208
1. The major VN companies are either bound to or like announcing releases during conventions, especially important ones.

2. Too much time between the announcement and the release will either cause people to be resentful or let the game be forgotten outright.

>>16545208
The big question is why they announce unannounced games. That makes no sense as they are just saying "We are working". (Though for JAST that would be a good thing to mention now and then as nothing happens)

>>16545262
It has been some time since AX/Otakon, and if the companies limited their updates to only announced titles, their updates would look less and less impressive as more announced projects finish up the translation portion of development.

>>16545208

I can't speak for other people or companies, but on my end, I just added some secret projects to the MG status thing because updates were getting kind of short/boring with so many games out of TL/edit and in scripting which generally has nothing of note to report until it's done.

>>16545262

What's life if you can't get hyped for announcements of announcements?

>>16545208
Then you have a ton of people whining W Happiness when?

>>16545250
Let the record show though that 2 years ago including the whole Baldr Sky thing Sekai announced projects that would be out a year later and only 2 of them made it and a lot are still untranslated or are vaporware at this point.

>>16545405
Oh, I'm an expert at that. I'm hyped at announcements of announcements of games that will be sold digitally before they are sold in hard copies before they are on sale digitally and then ultimately on sale hard copies.

Man, those sale hard copies are the best. And you can sit and suck on that awesome wait for years!

Does anyone have any ideas on what the unannounced projects could possibly be?

Seabed is on Steam. Better put it on your wishlist guys.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/583090/?snr=1_5_1100__1100

Huh, looks like all the ajtilley titles are gone from mangagamer. And nothing of value was lost.

>>16545620

Not much point guessing until haro gets around to putting up the hints. It ain't easy these days since people don't blab on twitter as much as they used to.

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>>16545639
>Available: Winter 2017
Well then...

>>16519984
See pic.

>>16545644
Must have moved to Nutaku then. I guess they paid them to move, as they are really determined to buy their way into the 1st choice.

>>16545639
>buying VNs on Steam

Fortunately, FB have their own store.

>>16545644
I agree. At best, they were occasionally Umesoft tier.

It's less money for MG (in the short run at least) though since those titles always seemed to sell half-decently.

>>16545872
Come to think of it, I don't think Nutaku has gotten any new games recently, at least the ones you would expect.

Winged Cloud leaving Sekai seems to have also prevented Nutaku from getting any new Sakura games, and the new Umesoft game isn't there either for one reason or another.

>>16546200
Well unless its Euphoria or some really worth it porn and violence stuff. I dont really make purchases outside of Steam.

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>>16546253
>Winged Cloud leaving Sekai
Mfw when it happened.

>>16546253
Umesoft titles at least have taken time to show up on Nutaku previously (probably whatever deal they have with MG includes an exclusive launch). I am guessing it will show up eventually.

Denpasoft added Love, Guitars and the Nashville Skyline recently (within the last couple weeks)

>>16544739
>>16545023
>Dykeshit

nope.

>>16522728
Erogedownload discord, they hate Reddit, Sekai and Fuwa so you will fit right in.

>>16545006
There are rocks that are better at translating ero than Sekai

>>16546426
Nice, thank you

>>16546312
nigga you gay

>>16544739
Conjurer's secret project was a fucking yuri game by some literally who doujin group? What a disappointment.

>>16547040
*all ages yuri game

>>16547050
>guys I'm translating a kamige
>turns out to be all-ages cuckge
>guys I'm translating another kamige
>turns out to be all-ages gayge

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>>16547123
porn is holding back the medium m8

>>16545620
Project 5 had the biggest jump, so it's the most likely to be a short nukige, but that's making a lot of assumptions.

Probably have to wait until early March for hints. Sooner would be nice, but they still have to analyze the data on their free time.

>>16547123
That just summarized Sekai's entire history in a nutshell. Wait 3 years for it to be translated.

Valve is replacing Steam Greenlight
http://nichegamer.com/2017/02/10/valve-kills-steam-greenlight-steam-direct-replacement/

>>16547824
Poor sekai what are they going to do now that they have no easy avenue to push their subpar translations.

This is a poc patch for kimiaru. You need to use the latest linux onscripter 1byte for it to work.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/21spbndiok5yyss/nscript.dat?dl=0

I really thought sekai would do better. After struggling with playing chrono clock with its poor translation, buggy engine, and lack of honorifics, they really need to be runned out of the market.

>>16545013
>The writing style of Seabed is extremely flat, telling events as they are and rarely offering any insight into the emotional state of the various narrators through tone
>It's also filled with long digressions about whatever subjects the characters happen to take an interest in
Wow kamige confirmed, sign me the fuck up!

>>16547880
Chrono Clock is out?

Still sad to think that if Amatsutsumi is going to be localized, it will probably be Sekai, because Chrono Clock is going to be more financially successful than Hapymaher.

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>>16547880
Nothing easier than telling them directly.

>>16547880
>poor translation
Proof or didn't happen.
I've checked CC translation, its quite accurate.

Any news on Sumeragi Ryoko? I'm still waiting from spring last year. Too bad Kiriyama Taichi doesn't do any new game.

>>16547123
Himawari is a great game, and I'm sure you never played Seabed or know anything about it.

Where does that "Himawari is a cuckge xD" shit comes from? is it vn's shit leaking again?

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/5tcoe8/sekai_project_unfortunately_current_market/

kek, they're probably right.

>>16548796
They deleted the tweet those assholes. Next time they do that please screencap next time. That is just gold.

>>16548796
So, first they declared that there's no market for porn and "normal" people want story.
Now they declared that there's no market for story either.
What are they going to sell? Nekopara clones? But KARAKARA already failed.

>>16549909
Kickstarters.

>>16549909
Lolicon. It is the huge untapped market that only Sekai would dare to enter.

>>16545722
>https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/828552525632593920
>NewGen 1.1 Updates include compression to smaller file size, voice playback & Climax Timer bug fix, and a few typo & graphical error!
In case you haven't played it already consider yourself lucky.

>>16547841
Steam greenlight stopped being free advertising when every game was bound to go through one way or another. I don't think this changes much.

>>16548796
Every VN company knows this, which is why they tend to focus more on nukige and moege for profit and simply do story games for the art more than for profit. Even moege didn't start becoming that profitable until recently.

>>16547841
>Once set up, developers will pay a recoupable application fee for each new title they wish to distribute, which is intended to decrease the noise in the submission pipeline.
All they have to do is raise their Kickstarter goal by a few thousand and they can just pay their way in with any old shit that get backed.

>>16549909
I doubt they are including moege as "story heavy", as they clearly have been investing a lot into that, seeing that it makes of the vast majority of their upcoming line up of full length titles. The only full length titles selling primarly on their story that that they grabbed recently have been Root Double and Baldr Sky, and the latter is a particularly high profile title that has gameplay. It's not like Gahkthun, Fata Morgana, Himawari, or Root Double have been huge successes, and no one has high expectations for Bokuten or Pygmalion. The main exceptions have been titles that are well known already, but it is hard to convince someone some unknown title has a good story that they should buy.

>>16550188
Due to a successful Kickstarter Root Double should have at least broke even or even made a small profit for them. That is if they planned it right, but they did fuck up with things like the shirts so who knows what other things went wrong.

>>16547841
It's not much of a lost since the publicity value of Steam Greenlight has been on the decline. Additionally, a higher barrier of entry onto Steam benefits Sekai, as it makes their role of a middleman more secured (since they will still be able to get their own titles onto Steam, and it makes it easier to get third parties to let Sekai be a publisher, especially with the doujin/indie titles Sekai targets), and it may reduce competition if the price barrier deters some of the cheap garbage that has been working its way onto Steam.

>>16550217
Even if Root Double made a profit (and if it hasn't, the Vita release should push them over the line), it still would have been a lot of money up front without a significant return.

Additionally if Root Double, a well received, somewhat high profile title with a genre that has seen success in the West happened to struggle, it doesn't reflect well for other more unknown lower profile plot titles.

>>16550188
Maitetsu is planned to be sold for the excellent train story. Unless they realize it is better to sell porn.

>>16550780
They will still be primarily trying to sell it on Steam based on the art and characters the same way they would try to sell any of their other moege, regardless of if there is a patch or not. Additionally, something like Princess Evangile sold far more on Steam than on MG despite no patch being available.

Whether Maitetsu is successful at that or not is another question, but Sekai Project licensed it and much of of their moege lineup when they were giving Denpasoft the least attention.

Hatsukoi 1/1 Update:

>Common: 100.0%
>Midori: 55.05%
>Total: 25.01%

We've also decided to release a partial patch when we're done with Midori's route.

More info can be found on the blog , which is https://tsurezurescans.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/hatsukoi-11-progress-update-5-announcement/

>>16550143
They are already having difficulties getting funding in the first place.

>>16551470
I will read the prologue and publicly QC the fuck out of you.

>>16548342
Hi Dovac

>>16551892
Please do

>>16551892
Feedback like that is exactly what we need right now, so by all means

Rumor has it that sekai is working on rewrite

MG survey results when.

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>>16553272
Well, Its been a while since Key announced Rewrite+ and they haven't released LB yet, but I'd not find it weird, because of Planetarian/Clannad.

>>16553272
nooooooooooooooooooo

>>16553328
What are you bitching about, it's already translated and already shit. They can't ruin it any further.

>>16553331
I don't want sekai project to get any more big titles

>>16553331
Rewrite+ isn't translated, dumbass.

>>16553338
He wasn't talking about Rewrite+, dumbass.

>>16553343
Key already announced a localization of Rewrite+. It'd be pretty fucking pointless to work on the old Rewrite.

>>16553350
It wouldn't be the first time Sekai had sold a free translation to retards.

>>16553353
Point taken.

>>16553310
I'm pretty sure it got posted 3 weeks after the end of the survey last year. So far it's only been 2 weeks. I'd give it at least another week.

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Huh, so that's why it started moving so quickly

>>16551083
I think Kouryuu implied that the MG version of Da Capo III sold a bit more than the Steam version, but that may just be because Da Capo is one of MG's oldest franchises.

>>16553310
Probably a couple of weeks. It's hard to be hype for the secret projects when there's barely any clues as to what they are.

>>16553272
Where did you get that rumor from? Ixrec quitting and Key deciding to commision Sekai wouldn't be too surprising, but I think it'll just be a one time translation fee and Key Visual Arts will get most of the profit. I suspect the same will happen with Fruitbat Factory and Little Busters.

>>16553310

Sooner than you might think.

>>16553343
He was. Rewrite+ is the only version being localized.

>>16553534
Kou was taking much too long. It's nice that MG tried for consistency, but not when the translator is very little time to translate for them and it's a very in-demand title.

>>16553547
Tomorrow?

>>16553590
I would assume within 7 days.

>>16553587
Most people wouldn't notice minor consistency issues in a moege series. Even in a story heavy franchise, the average reader won't cause a fuss unless it's something as severe as inconsistent terminology.

>>16553690
>>16553587
Yeah, and I've read VNs which had multiple writers up to like 6 for 6 individual routes, one each, and they made no effort to match tone/style/etc. Even if two translator styles are noticeably different, it's not a big deal, that kind of thing happens all over in VNs.

>>16553537
>I think Kouryuu implied that the MG version of Da Capo III sold a bit more than the Steam version, but that may just be because Da Capo is one of MG's oldest franchises.

I think he only implied that the combined sales were rivaling that of Rance. Although regardless of the exact percent, I'm guessing Da Capo probably had among their highest ratio going through the main site of any of their decent sellers.

>>16553808
https://curiouscat.me/Kouryuu/post/97800008?t=1486523028

He says there is a preference for the onsite version, which I would assume means its selling better then on Steam.

>>16553808
>I think he only implied that the combined sales were rivaling that of Rance.

I wouldn't be so sure of that anymore either, since he said that back when it was rank 1, and since then it's fallen a lot lower. In comparison, rance seems to have basically made rank 2 it's permanent home.

>>16553849
Should be a close to even ratio, but a bit in favor of the R18 version with how it is worded there.

>>16553866
Rance seems like it will have a stronger tail especially through the main website, but Da Capo 3 probably hasn't fallen back a ton yet just because it also is still going to be getting Steam sales as well which means it will be doing a bit better with weekly sales than the MG chart suggests.

i remember when like 5 years ago the 'when is sumaga' meme was big.

its 2017 now and i have no clue they didnt release it years ago
why do you give these companies your money

>>16554347
That's just Jast.

>>16548796
>all these SP shills
I want to puke.

>>16548755
doesn't matter moogy said it's shit

>>16554649
Tfw not sure if someone is trolling or been trolled.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2017/02/13/2017-licensing-survey-results-and-some-hints-too/

>>16534607
I wish some company would localize the Vita version already, fuck.

>>16554347
Jast is dead.

>>16564304
damn none of the stuff I listed made top 20. is no one really interested in eushully stuff? nukige interest went down too.

>>16574601
Eushully stuff is nice, but it suffers the same fate as other gameplay-before-story things: You don't need a full translation to grok the mechanics. The people interested in it for the gameplay already have their fix, so a chunk of the potential fanbase is already sated.

>>16574795
evenicle and daiteikoku made the list though, and baldr sky and underwaterrayromano already got picked up so you would think the other gameplay eroge company would get noticed too.

>>16574601 >>16575586
> other gameplay eroge company would get noticed too
Everyone knows about Eushully. MG and other localizers talked to them, Eushully said to fuck off and they aren't interested in western market.
MG also talked with SofthouseChara, another gameplay eroge dev, results aren't clear as there was rumor of some titles getting licensed but nothing came out of it so far.

>>16576761
I thought it was supposedly giga that had no interest in localization, up until baldr sky was announced.

>>16576823
Didn't they nearly get a deal with JAST or something? Just it fell though when it came to negotiating about uncensoring the CGs.
Was what I saw posted around a while back, but how true that is I don't know.

>>16529503
I'd prefer reading somethings good.

Why did cafe get fired?

>>16595876
He didn't get fired.

>>16595876
He became a furfag.