/vn/ -Grade A Asshole edition

Visual Novel General #1249

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>-Grade A Asshole edition
You can hate MG for all I care. But you just had to make it nigh impossible to actually discuss VNs in the thread huh?

jopfriends are welcome

Last thread was "vile asshole edition"
and people will post about the drama anyway.

>Hi user,

>We do have a policy that asks all of our staff to write in their social media profiles to write "opinions are my own;" or something along the lines of opinions do not reflect their employers. Is there a specific instance you can refer to for us?

>We certainly agree that, especially when discussing localization, these highly-sensitive issues being discussed by our staff could reflect poorly on our company and we want to avoid that misrepresentation. We will talk with the parties you mentioned.

>Do you have any other recommendations for us or anything else you would like to see us do? We always want to work with the community in their concerns.

Muh stock reply for 10 angry emails

This general just wants to spend time slurping all the shit drama from Good Haro's asshole for all time. Dovac sure spoiled us when he was around.

>the current state of Mangagamer
What went wrong bros? They were supposed to be our greatest ally.

>Actually sending out emails like any of this matters

Embarrassing desu

Though it's even worse that they took the time to reply to obvious retarded trolls

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>Nothing in months
I'm going to literally blow my brains out if you don't translate something

Subahibi never. Just end it already.

Well, yeah, that's what they get paid for. Never wageslaved in your life?

Haro, pls

B-b-bu-t E-e-eni-ni-nig-ma is out t-t-t-tomorrow!!!!!!!!!

Considering that nothing has changed in terms of how they actually operate, they technically still are.
If you liked their products before you still should now.

>No sexual content
>VN
Pick one

But it has implied rape

this mangagamer shit reminds me moebuta on suicide watch after some moege heroine turns out to be a non-virgin

>tfw to intelligent too discuss dumb twitter drama

No competition, too much worshipping from jp and vg. They got too spoiled and conceited.

>Reading MG VN
>Knowing in the back of your head a cuck translated this
>Knowing in the back of your head the cuck probably changed dozens of words, phrases, and the overall meaning.
I can never read another VN again

Go ahead and stick to fuwalation style machine translations and Sekai Project's staff of ero hating translator rejects from other companies then.
Or just pray that JAST will finally get their shit together.

Though I suppose you could also learn Japanese.

Why do VNs sell so fucking terribly?

Is it really because they're too trash for normies?

>No competition
And they still have none.

Uh, don't tell me what to do. K?

lel this mangashilling

Hey, MG or the dev (probably at MG's command) censored Steam users telling the dev to go with Sekai Project instead.

>Steam users are advising devs to publish under Sekai/Denpa so they can get 18+ patches for their games.

>Next time go through Denpasoft. Not only could you sell your product here. You could sell the uncensored version on Denpasoft and sell the patch that would uncensor this version there.

>steamcommunity.com/app/445670/discussions/0/282992646983034615/

They still have that stigma of poorly written anime porn games and bringing nothing but sakura garden tier moege to steam doesnt help.

>reposting after failing to get the (you)s last time

I'll just repeat this from the last thread since you did the same and since I still don't understand it at all.
Why would anyone ever go to Sekai Project for 18+ content? Their track record in terms of 18+ content is the worst in the entire business.

So Fraternite looks to be an over the top edgefest and incredibly unsatisfying for utsuge standards. Now I understand why we're getting Maggot Baits instead.

Hi Harovac. It was the end of the thread, so it made sense to repost.

Sekai does 18+ patches when possible, mostly for OELVN stuff though. MG doesn't do patches for anything.

Salt from the election clouded everyone's judgement big time.

>bringing nothing but sakura garden tier moege to steam doesnt help
Thing is that is actually what sells. People just aren't buying anything plot or even slightly sophisticated related and will just keep buying cheap rubbish.

>everyone who dissagrees is Harovac
Just give it up. MG is trash, SP is trash and you are trash.

SP still has chance to get their shit together, reconcile with Aroduc and release 18+ Baldr Sky on new Nutaku Steam. MG would be blown the fuck out.

>SP still has chance to get their shit together, reconcile with Aroduc and release 18+ Baldr Sky on new Nutaku Steam.
And then we wake up.

MG having better translations is just silly meme forced by MG staff.
Everyone who tried out Funbag Fantasy knows that MG translations are still same crap as Edelweiss era, its literally 40$ game with ZERO QA and very shallow editing.

I like lolis.

I didn't see anything wrong with the editing.

>MG doesn't do patches for anything
Why do they need to when they do a full release instead? Not for everything mind, but same can be said for patches and SP.

Please Bang My Wife was buggy at launch too. It still has some word wrap issues the last time I checked.

Funbag Fantasy was also broken at launch where you couldn't progress beyond the common route until the patch was released.

Sekai and Nutaku still can't release stuff like Clock Up or Rance though, because North American payment processors.

People are mad about the localisation of the units.

>Sekai does 18+ patches when possible
No they fucking do not. Fuck off. And I fucking hate Sekai Project for how they absolutely do not do exactly this thing that you claim that they do. Because that is absolutely not what they're doing.
What Sekai Project do is take content that had 18+ content, strip it of the 18+ content and may very well tone down the very language of the text to make it more tame. And then they do NOT release 18+ patches for it. They just ignore it forever.
"Fans of eroge aren't our audience.". "They're all pirates anyway". "We never wanted to do eroge in the first place".
And no. Nutaku are unlikely to have changed a single damn thing. Nutaku may have erotic content in their titles at the very least, but the majority of their erotic content is censored. Which goes just in line with Sekai Project's attitude and approach erotic content.

Don't you fucking dare and claim that they do 18+ patches when possible. Fuck. Sekai Project will even go as far as promise "mature uncut" releases, and then completely deny ever having done so and edit all web pages ever having stated the fact as if they've never ever even alluded to the fact. When they actually did. Outright lying. And they've done this multiple times already.
And that's not even touching on all the other shit that they cut from their releases. Just fuck off. Hate on MG if you so wish, but fuck you forever for lying about Sekai Project in this way.

Steam users want all their games on Steam, so Sekai in certain cases is giving them a service that MG isn't. So Steam users have come to prefer Sekai Project over MG.

The what

I said mostly for OELVNs you idiot. The Sakura games get patches, Highway Blossoms had a patch, other vns they did got patches.

>Everyone who tried out Funbag Fantasy knows that MG translations are still same crap as Edelweiss era
Why must you lie? Or are you just a newfag who doesn't even know what he is talking about?

I think he's talking about metric being replaced with... Whatever that fucking retarded american measurement system is called.

>So Steam users have come to prefer Sekai Project over MG
And how well did that work out for them? Wasn't that long ago that Dovac was saying their games where not selling on Steam either and whining about pirates. The only games that really sell are the Sakura and Nekopara games. Steam was never a silver bullet and was over stated as being the savoir of VNs as it never was. Same goes with MG and even JAST trying to capitalise on steam.

>Mangagamer getting fucking exposed
pretty entertaining tbqh lads

It could be simply be the dev being mad at those people. He posted in his twitter that he didn't want 18+ patches for his games because Steam technically didn't allow them even though they were apathetic about the issue.

You have to dig past all of the "Murrica is fucked because of Trump" post. The election brings out the salt in people.

Fuck off anyway. You're clearly just a shitposter whose mad at MG and however justified as that may be you're just taking the opportunity to shitpost relentlessly while praising the pure fucking cancer that is Sekai Project even while they deserve no damn praise at all.

And you know, even when it comes to these OELVNs, Sekai Project are fucking trash. The only reason Winged Cloud ever even came crawling back to Sekai Project, after they left Sekai Project for being fucking trash mind you, is literally because Sekai Project would agree to publish their titles without any proof reading or editing whatsoever. It's truly a union of shit and shit.

that's a pretty fucking autistic thing to be mad over what the fuck lmao

MG is still going for dual all ages releases where ever they can, because putting vns on Steam is just more money for them.

I wasn't praising Sekai, just pointing out that in certain cases they offered a service to Steam users that MG didn't. Meanwhile you called me a liar, misread my post, and sperged out when I showed you that you were wrong. If anything you're the shitposter.

It is extra money for only s small bit of extra work, but at the same time people kept praising steam as the second coming. In a way it now works against them as people use SteamSpy to just show how bad shit is selling.
If only they bundled keys with the full release again then it would solve a lot of the problems, but the fake key shit killed all of that. I think even Sekai got hit with key fraud at some point as well.

>I think even Sekai got hit with key fraud at some point as well.
Yes, after saying MG didn't have good enough security on their site. It was quite ironic and funny.

Becuase most translators are SJW shits.

You still outright claimed that they offer 18+ patches when possible. Even if you halfassedly attached "mostly for OELVN stuff though" at the end.
That still makes your statement outright false since they most certainly do not offer 18+ patches when possible. And if that was not what you meant to claim then you should have written your post better.

I used to think MG were a lot better than they are, but honestly their editing is pretty bad, not as bad as SP at least. But what can you expect from people who associate with herkz.

If you think it's just one person angry at mg you are fucking delusional.

>I can't read and am an ESL

We are stuck with that we can get sadly, so it makes MG look good in a sea of shit.

People only flocked to MG because sekai and jast were so slow. I'm glad the sheeple woke up.

Isn't Herkz still mad that MG rejected him as an editor though.

I know what they can expect from me :^)
Literally not our guys anymore

They can't afford good translators or editors because VNs don't sell well. I mean these guys barely make over minimum wage for very tedious work..

You wrote
>Sekai does 18+ patches when possible, mostly for OELVN stuff though.
which outright contradicts itself. Including "mostly" in the sentence at all contradicts "Sekai does 18+ patches when possible".
If you wanted to write "Sekai does 18+ patches for OELVN stuff though." then you should have just done so, but you didn't.

And now I'll just end this by irretirating that Sekai Project are fucking awful be it in regards to localized stuff or OELVN stuff. Because mentioning Sekai Project without shitting on them makes me feel ill.

They should outsource to China instead of paying fair wage to these SJW chucklefucks.

I completely agree. Either treat it like a business or like a fan project, we're at like a disgusting hybrid between the two right now.

You can always learn Japanese :^)

I still can't believe she privated her account because of one tweet calling her out on her hypocrisy.

when did she write this?

This whole debacle is harowing

In protest of MG I'm going to set fire to my copy of KiraKira.

No. But I think it's one person spamming positive posts about Sekai Project. Though I guess there could be a few more.
Either way Sekai Project are true trash and the shitposters lying about Sekai Project to make it seem otherwise are just as bad.

t. grammaer Nazi

Enigma confirmed fujo b8

After conj apologized, she deleted all her post and privated her account when she got called out for shitting on conj yet having a vn that has the rape and murder of women as her pinned post on her twitter.

If you were teleported to an island with a cursed laptop that can only play 1 piece of visual novel of your choosing and you'd have to spend the next 3 years there what visual novel would you take with you?

Muvluv Alternative here

Well that saves me from buying it. I appreciate Conj's honesty.

>shitposters lying about Sekai Project
That's not lying, that's you being a grammer Nazi.

These people have mental issues if they can't see thier own hypocrisy.

umineko so i could solve it myself lol

The parts are all different exes so you could only play a single part though.
I'd rather take something that's longer.

Because it's unfinished kusoge and maggot baits is still new.

Maggot baits is a great chuuni title with gore, futa, and tentacles.

It's better than Dies Irae.

Is it better than muramasa though, the true kamige?

No. It's really grimdark and edgy though.

Who cares when Cross Channel is already translated

Wait is Dies Irae being translated or was that only shitters sky?

anything is better than dies irae, probably the second most overhyped title by JOPs the first being subahibi

What a fucking retard

>ixrec """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""translation""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
lol

Light is having a kickstarter for Dies Irae. They're late announcing news on it, since they were supposed to before the end of October.

Did that guy here ever do that side by side comparison of the translation yet?

How come vndb lists Himawari as 18+ but MG has it as All-Ages?