RusAnon

I remember someone on #tlwiki mentioned that he encountered once a VN with nameable protag and voice bank of common japanese names. I forgot title name tho, and cannot find it in logs. EDIT: actually, found it. Moogy: btw one of the gimmicks in the -cation series is that they had the seiyuu record hundreds/thousands of clips of themselves saying various common japanese male names so that the player can enter his own name and hear it So it was about http://vndb.org/v6682 http://vndb.org/v10288 http://vndb.org/v14005

https://twitter.com/nekopara_pr/status/509350778197127168 "investigating" means "doing research", it doesn't mean they made up their minds and signed deals, at least from whatever info we have publicly. SP doesn't have infrastructure to sell 18+ games right now. Dovac complained in the past, that cc processing complanies he poked around either refused to deal with porn or demanded insane commissions. Then they would need to set up web shop from scratch, which isn't trivial task either. And then he'd need to hire support, anti-fraud and so on, which is really too much of a hurdle for single doujin game.

First of all, your numbers are not very correct. ImoPara alone sold more than 3k copies so far.Second, you completely ignored price. 45 USD per digital copy without distributor and 5 USD per copy with 30% cut going to distributor are entirely different things. Within 1.5 years since announcement. What this has to do with anything? Its not "MG takes far longer", its "translation time is linearly related to the length of text", no amount of investment would drastically improve translation speed without affecting quality.License fees are paid, translators and other staff are contracted and receiving their wages, so yes, all of them are in MG's portfolio. And I still don't understand how you inferred that MG is doing "not good" from fact that they rapidly increased amount of partners, licenses and translator teams. Each game brings them profit and they are growing fast, so how performs Christine, who is backed by whole gaming news industry, is irrelevant. Right now, MG is most stable of the trio, with SP being least (dovac admitted several times that he took tons of loans and burning through cash very fast).

Yeah, MangaGamer with their dozens of partners and huge portfolio doesn't exist, rite? Every year we see steady increase in amount of eroge devs interested in western market, and unlike SP, they bring new, not yet translated games. If GnK fails, it will be solely dovac's fault, because he managed to piss off huge part of VN market with his terrible management and PR, and it will not affect anything except his retirement plans.

Are you seriously calling that trash "darkest desires of mankind"?Both games you claim to be dark are vanilla as fuck, and both are even more consensual than euphoria. There's no scat, gore, guro, cannibalism or extreme torture, there's no real mental breakdown, no real descriptions of suffering and anguish. Go play some real dark nukige, then we will talk. Considering you played only 14 vns total and all of them are english-translated, you don't have qualifications to judge quality of average nukige — you didn't read even single mid-tier or top-tier nukige after all.

Apparently you didn't play the game. Pattern you are speaking about takes less than half of scenes. Rest are genuine gang-rape, torture and sexual slavery. These two games are lowest-tier nukige. Complete trash in terms of everything. I'm quite astonished that someone would use them as reference for anything but "what cheapest no-effort-from-creators games look like".

Oh c'mon, Dustmania beats euphoria off by a digit.

I'd say Takahiro x Jackson is far more unusual than Romeo working on minatosoft title alone.

Yeah. Not even slightest idea how that going to work tho. Maybe, considering episodic structure, there will be Takahiro episodes and Jackson episodes.

Umm, everything is on their official site, what do you mean "limited to Japan"? Episodic romcom about older brocon girls, typical Takahiro stuff for which they somehow also recruited Jackson.