[Anime Boston Mangagamer Speculation and Announcements Thread]

it was mehh announcement for me. only thing which i might get is "Amatarasu Riddle Star"  (and 60% of the reason just to support MG) 

[[EDIT: Polls added!] Fureraba ~Friend To Lover~ released on Nutaku! (notable feature: Uncensored adult CGs)]

cannot say much yet (downloading now). but by looks of it, everything went well 

[Moenovel expanding outside of Pulltop, are all the Willplus imprints in danger?]

35 minutes ago, tymmur said:

History tells otherwise. Back in the early 80s, video games started to earn a lot of money. Some rich investors in New York figured it would be easy money. They bought some game companies and started some new ones. They didn't understand why people would buy and assumed people would just buy anything. Atari got bought and profits increased. The programmers/game developers asked for a pay rise, but was denied because "they were people working in a production line and were no more important than the people putting the games into boxes". The elite/veteran from the development department quit and formed Activision, the first company to produce games for hardware produced by somebody else (Atari 2600). Next the investors came up with the idea that since quality in games wasn't something they understood, the way to earn more was to produce more. This meant they started releasing one game each week, which meant games coded in two days. The market got flooded with unplayable games and it lead to the great video game crash of 1983. All of the "once a week" companies died, but sales of the already produced games continued at lower and lower prices. With the flooding of really cheap junk games, the quality games at $50 or whatever became so hard to sell that quality companies started to die as well. While many sources states this to be a worldwide event, it was actually an American thing as only NTSC games were affected. Europe was protected due to PAL only hardware.

 

In short: don't underestimate the foolishness and destructive power of corporate ignorance. It may have happened a long time ago, but investors with cash and no insights appears over and over to cause chaos as many times as possible.

I believe Moenovels damage in containable due share fact that VN market is still niche market (growing but not that big yet). main base already knows how bad Moenovel is.  

[MoeNovel's next title - Cross Channel]

well as expected, it is total trainwrack 

[Anime Boston Mangagamer Speculation and Announcements Thread]

Hope they will announce something interesting (Plotge would be great)

[Moenovel expanding outside of Pulltop, are all the Willplus imprints in danger?]

I believe their days in Industry are numberd. Their sales tank (even low price won't save them. never underestimate power of word of mouth). I would give them 2-3 releases max