Acucore Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Grisaia just reached it goal of completing translation, localisation, development, etc... using kickstarter. I'm sure there are many people willing to help fund the translation progress through kickstarter and any other things needed for majikoi. All of majikoi would be able to finish. Finally. Anyway what do you all think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosebleed Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 The Grisaia kickstarter is merely for raising money to pay for licensing fees which were previously agreed upon between the company that made the game (Frontwig) and the company that wants to localize it (Sekai Project) as well as pay for other costs necessary for localization. It's not just random money someone decided to raise so they can translate the game. You can't just throw money at a translation group and that automatically makes everything work out. First you need somebody to approach Minato Soft and have them allow you to localize Majikoi. Then you can crowdfund the licensing fees (if you want to go with Sekai Project's method) Then you can start the process to localize the game. You can't use kickstarter to raise funds for a fan translation. (it's also illegal) CLuBLioN, Helvetica Standard and Silvz 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RinXD Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Give sekai time and I imagine they will probably start picking up the more of the popular stuff to localize Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decay Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Notably, Aroduc, the translator behind Kamidori and some other stuff launched an unofficial kickstarter for Romanesque but pretty quickly got slammed with cease and desist orders and Kickstarter shut his project down. You can't just kickstart whatever. You need to have a legal right to produce and profit off of what you're offering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RinXD Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 in all actuallity its illegal to be doing what fan translations do but they dont profit off it so the companies generally dont waste the legal effort or money to stop it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I'd love to kickstart some of the eushully games if they'd agree to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satsuki Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I'd love to kickstart some of the eushully games if they'd agree to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RinXD Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 no you can fund it you just cant have sexually explicit images on the kickstart page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenophilious Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Remember the "no sexual content" rule on Kickstarter? And no, transforming Eushully games into all-age is totally a mission impossible~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decay Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 The supreme court decision on obscenity has zero relevance here. Kickstarter makes their own rules and has the right to deny projects on any grounds, as long as it's not discriminatory to race, gender, or religion. They can label anything that shows too much cleavage as porn and ban all projects based on that. Of course, they don't, and are indeed pretty lax. They have allowed eroge before. Coming Out On Top is a yaoi oelvn with no all-ages version that went through kickstarter. I want to say there have been other cases where 18+ content has been funded but I don't want to spend forever digging it up. Anyways, this is all moot. You have to convince a license holder ahead of time. And that's not going to happen unless you already have a highly skilled team assembled with a proven track record. And even that's exceedingly unlikely unless you already have connections in Japan or are a proven businessman. Sorry to dash all of your hopes and dreams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Façade Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Who knows? Maybe one day, in the near future...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RinXD Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Highly unlikely as decay said you need connections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Façade Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 We will host the Majikoi kickstarter in the third quarter of 2015, so please stay tuned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalRen Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 We will host the Majikoi kickstarter in the third quarter of 2015, so please stay tuned If your intention was to make me cry tears and fall backwards out of my chair, this did it. Best of luck! Ceris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Façade Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 That was precisely my intention! Thank you for the encouragement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CryingWestern Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 We will host the Majikoi kickstarter in the third quarter of 2015... Facade... you are already released our plans... well your plans anyway. :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RinXD Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Can this get locked please this is heading into spam terrirtory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Façade Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 We--CryingWestern and I--speak the truth. For you to believe or not believe is out of my power, I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decay Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 We--CryingWestern and I--speak the truth. For you to believe or not believe is out of my power, I'm afraid. Uhh, well, go ahead with that, I guess. I presume you already made contact with MinatoSoft and got their approval? If not, then your planned kickstarter is literally a copyright crime and kickstarter will remove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satsuki Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Uhh, well, go ahead with that, I guess. I presume you already made contact with MinatoSoft and got their approval? If not, then your planned kickstarter is literally a copyright crime and kickstarter will remove it. I doubt they will give their approval to some random strangers that came out of nowhere. (no offence) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidbatman Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 These aren't random strangers. These are the saviors of Fuwanovel. They will lead us to a new, prosperous eroge land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosebleed Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Until the Eroge Utopia is created, I shall be locking this thread, may you find your bright path, young padawan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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