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Despite listing it as a possibility in the OP, I never really thought that this was an outright scam. I do think that the dev has run off with the money, but I don't think that was the plan from the start.

Think he’s in jail or something? Dead, even?

This EVN: https://vndb.org/v25179 was funded on Kickstarter in 2016. I wasn't a backer but I've been somewhat interested in the project since it was announced. The dev seems to have disappeared though. There have been no kickstarter updates since 2016. I checked their kickstarter profile and it turns out that they haven't actually logged into their account since 2016 either. And last but not least their domain name has expired: http://www.novellagaming.com I can't tell if this was a scam or an actual project that just ran out of steam. Either way, it kinda looks like the dev doesn't plan on delivering the VN anymore.

Legal issues with fuwa or no? Either way that sounds scary.

You've been gone so long that I low-key thought you were planning to ghost fuwanovel and let the domain name expire.

Pretty sure the fan-tl project was dropped well before the official release because they underestimated the difficulty of the VN.

Well, torrenting has a $125,000 price tag on my school network so I'll stick to DLsite for now lol

There was a time that I would sit on VNDB for a bit just pressing random visual novel looking for stuff that seemed interesting. I still do that a little bit but not as often. Some of them appeared several times during those safaris and stuck in my memory. They’ve basically become my to-read list for the foreseeable future. Due to my limited budget I’ve been reading in a cheapest to most expensive order.

Oh. Then there is yet hope.

Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior? https://github.com/morkt/GARbro/releases

iirc Lune has already expressed interest in getting that game licensed, but the schedules of all the English companies are booked solid for the next year or so.

There were definitely some trolls there. They got up over $86K there for a moment and ended only $300 in the green.

2 minutes to get $2K. At that point if I worked at Sol Press I’d just put in like $4K to make sure I got the rest of the money.

Jeez they're not even close. I wonder if this means the VN bubble is starting to pop.

Voted for Riddle Garden, Orfleurs, and Demonion. Not sure how viable any of those picks are but oh well. I also said I'd like to see more titles from Caramel Box while hoping for the rest of the Otoboku games but I gather the first one isn't exactly a money maker so maybe that won't happen.