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On 6/24/2017 at 4:42 PM, littleshogun said:
Frontwing
Well, I wouldn't expect any new announcements from them (It's still nice though if we get one). But it would be nice though if they announce when the exact date for the release of either Subahibi or Island (Both was better though), instead of announced additional volume for Phantom Trigger (Granted, it was necessary though). Then again, maybe there'll be more people who like Phantom Trigger announcement more so there's that. As for their panel I think it's more like at the TV or something like that (It was called Frontwing TV) so I wouldn't be so sure here, although I knew their panel time for sure though (It was at Monday 9:00 PM PDT -10:00 PM PDT). Oh, and the panel would be had 18+ content apparently.
Oh, we have plenty of new announcement planned, fear not! "Frontwing TV Live" is a reference to our periodic "Frontwing TV" live streams, specifically the fact that the panel will essentially be like a live version of that.
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I'm looking into this currently, but I will say that our company Steam account is this one, so anything from any other account isn't something we've done ourselves.
Also, keep in mind that this was posted during Golden Week, when pretty much the entire country of Japan was not at work.
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The source is this Reddit AMA answer; as you can gather from reading it, it is planned to happen eventually, but not for a good while. 2018 would be optimistic.
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I'll just mention here as well that I may have spoken too soon on the DRM issue, I'm currently looking into it.
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On 3/11/2017 at 8:45 PM, Nier said:
It's obvious that even people who weren't even into VN back in 2014 or 2015 heard that there was a Grisaia, Clannad or Muv-Luv Campaign going on on Kickstarter because otaku-related news sites reported on it, while here with Grisaia Phantom Trigger the only reason I knew it was launching is because I visited Frontwing twitter by chance a few days before the launch of the campaign which had a message on it that gave the date and time during which the campaign will launch.
For what it's worth, we sent out press releases about the campaign to a large number of site, as we always do, and only 2-3 smaller sites picked up the story at all.
It seems a Kickstarter campaign for a visual novel series just isn't "news" anymore in 2017.
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I think I've clarified this elsewhere before, but the situation was that Corona Blossom was selling less than expected, not that it wasn't selling at all (and, to be blunt, the expectations that the higher-ups had were just a little bit overly optimistic).
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13 hours ago, Mr Poltroon said:
Disregarding the typo
Crap, sorry about that and thanks for the heads-up! Got it fixed now.
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You can now purchase this directly from J-List: https://jlist.com/pcg0799
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While we don't have any extra stretch goals planned, I'm sure the team will come up with something nice to do with the extra funds raised.
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Just a little reminder that we're doing an AMA on /r/visualnovels about 45 minutes from now!
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5 minutes ago, Dergonu said:
That's great.
Restrictions for what is supposed to be an unrated version does sound a bit unappealing. (On that note, this is actually one of the reasons why I don't particularly like patches + steam, as it usually comes with some annoying restrictions and such, like not being able to take screenshots in game of the 18+ scenes etc. Rather small stuff, but it really irks me.
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I realize this might not be something you have the answer to at the moment, but in case you do, do you know whether or not this version will be released at the same time as the steam version? Or will additional work make this particular version take longer?
It may take a little longer yes, I don't know anything more specific than that at this point, but I doubt it would be more than a couple weeks, maybe a month at absolute worst.
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2 minutes ago, Dergonu said:
I'm curious about the standalone 18+ version. Apperantly we will be able to switch our steam key for that version through backerkit. Wonder where they will sell it, and whether there is any catch to it. (They seemed to hint to that being a possibility on twitter.)
Either way though, I'm glad they are making it a thing. I am not a fan of using steam unless I have to, and always prefer DL versions.
No catch, there was a slight possibility we might have had to restrict it somehow but we we able to confirm that there's no caveats for the standalone 18+. It'll be a simple matter of choosing which you want on BackerKit and then receiving your key(s).
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6 hours ago, Nier said:
That's not quite accurate, a small amount of Visual Novels Kickstarter campaigns have gotten adult physical versions (there is about 7 of them that I know of, 6 of which are OELVNs though), really it's fine as long as you don't talk about it too much. Don't talk about it especially not on the Kickstarter page itself, don't show anything sexy directly on the Kickstarter such as Dakimakuras (it's fine in Backerkit, just as long as it's heavily censored to make it SFW enough) and so on.
It's clearly stated in Kickstarter's TOS that pornographic material is not allowed to be sold. Yes, some companies have gotten away with it by being coy with their wording, but the last thing we want is someone reporting the campaign and getting it shut down. And that's not to mention the other reasons we listed, which would still be applicable even if adult items were allowed on Kickstarter.
We have gotten the a-okay for a standalone 18+ digital version though, and we'll be updating the Tumblr post with that information soon (when I get a free moment from all this launch hullabaloo).
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13 hours ago, Nier said:
Is the physical PS Vita version of Sharin going to be compatible with PlayStation TV?
I can't say for 100% certain, as it isn't in development yet, but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be! (And I'll make personally sure that the need for Vita TV compatibility is properly communicated to the developer handling the port.)
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What I can say is this: it's not a matter of not releasing mosaic-free because we don't feel like it, or because we're too cheap, or because we don't think it's important. If it was feasible for us to be offering the game mosaic-free, we would be.
I don't have the most up-to-the-minute info on every single factor that made it not possible, and I'll see what I can do about further explanations (no promises, though), but if it were something we could change we absolutely would have done so before relaunching the campaign.
- Zenophilious, Dergonu and Polycentric
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It was actually more on our side, not really Sekai's fault. It's not exactly inaccurate info, just poor timing since we haven't announced any details about the game yet.
We'll have a full announcement later tonight (Japan time), when more people in the west are likely to be awake!
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Okay so there seems to have been a breakdown of communication at some point, because this was not supposed to be announced yet.
It's not Time Leap Paradise the VN, it's a different thing, and I'm assuming we'll make a detailed announcement in the next few hours since we kind of have to, so I guess "more details soon!" until I can get confirmation on how to handle this.
- XReaper, Yuuko and Zenophilious
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I don't really want to bump that other thread, so I'll just post it here: our Indiegogo for Corona Blossom Vol.2 has launched, check it out if you're interested!
- Dergonu, XReaper, Fred the Barber and 1 other
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Spoiler
Anyway, we are indeed launching the Indiegogo next week, the main purpose is to make physical copies and other goods available (not "to fund the release") but there'll be more information on that in the campaign itself.
- Fred the Barber and akaritan
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(after five minutes of sighing and furrowed brows)
Hi!
So, we have a completely different release and marketing schedule for Japan and overseas.
The reason Vol.2 has been announced and preorders opened in Japan is that the physical release of Vol.1 was last Friday, and the promotion for Vol.2 was prepared in light of that.
We haven't started promoting Vol.2 overseas yet for a number of reasons; for example, we're still reviewing all the feedback we got about Vol.1 and figuring out how to approach Vol.2's release in light of that, also, we're going to be utilizing Indiegogo again essentially as a pre-order platform for the game (more on our reasoning for this will come when the campaign is announced), but not all of the goods, etc. have been completely prepared yet so we've held off on an opening date announcement for that (but it's coming soon!). It has nothing to do with our relationship with or standing in the Western VN community, nor with the sales of Vol.1.As far as the tapestry is concerned, our contract with Sofmap prevented us from being able to offer it overseas. I'm glad you like the design, and it's unfortunate we couldn't make it more easily available, but there's literally nothing we could do about that.
I've mentioned it before, but we're certainly not affiliated in any way with anyone trying to guilt people into buying our products or anything remotely like that. At this point the only person speaking for Frontwing outside of official social media accounts is me. To be perfectly honest, it's a bit disheartening to me that people still think of us like the OP does, but in a way, that just means I'm not doing my job well enough, so I do apologize for that.
Lastly, (criticism of the pricing model and format of the H-scenes aside) while Corona Blossom may not be a genre-changing masterpiece, I think the reviews for Vol.1 on Steam and other sites show that at the very least the game doesn't "suck"!
- Dergonu, kyrt, littleshogun and 12 others
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Yeah my bad, edited my post!
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Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear (and I hope this doesn't sound rude), but nobody from Frontwing posted anything on 4chan. I have no idea who made the /v/ thread (the OP of which was a screencap of a tweet from someone else who did an article about us asking on Facebook and Reddit), but it absolutely wasn't anyone here. We didn't even make the thread on Reddit, I just posted in the weekly questions thread and then sanahtlig was kind enough to create a dedicated thread for us (on their own recognizance). Just want to set the facts straight, mostly because I don't want it to look like we're being overly aggressive in promotion or anything like that.
Frontwing will localize Subahibi this year
in Visual Novel Talk
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The game itself is not being delayed.