Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4723:AA99:65B4:C59E:DCF1:4D2B-20200101134504

Oh well, seems like Alicesoft's official shop closed down. What a joke. More than half a year of doing nothing and then they decide to just screw it and close everything. *sigh* Companies which had physical stock there will certainly be happy... http://www.hobibox.co.jp/news/20191223ec-order/information/

Yeah, Paradox has some decent mods and luckily, they branched out, releasing their new titles on GOG as well as their website. Not sure whether the cross-multiplayer works properly or not but at least it's a step in the right direction. That should also help with the availability of player-created mods I hope. Hehe, to be fair, wargames were pretty big back in the day in general. The US also had tons of them but nowadays, they are mostly forgotten. There are still being some developed but they cost quite a pretty penny. Most definitely. Tons of small projects until game development just became too expensive...or even just porting. With more complexity, only bigger companies were able to survive, until internet distribution became more of a thing. Of course, you still had hobby (non-commercial) projects all throughout but early 00s, they were still somewhat difficult to distribute. Being the kind of handhelds wasn't difficult when you had no competition. And the Japanese always had small homes, so anything mobile worked (not to mention it's perfect for their public transportation system). Definitely. The right time to step down and make place for someone else is really hard to find. And, after all, most of the time, those people really crave the power, especially at their old age. Hm, they might just ban it anyway. It probably always just depends on who is looking at it...or whether it gathers the wrong public attention. I personally don't want VNs on Steam, as I dislike the Steam crowd (would rather have them on DLSite, Mangagamer etc) but on the other hand, I'm happy that it makes Alicesoft some money. There is always a slippery slope in catering to this kinda thing, as seen with something like castrated version on Steam + having to pay extra for the original 18+ content.

I have patience, so no worries there, hehe. Possibly. I guess it also depends on the type of VN they are starring in. Key's works are probably highly regarded. Yep, same here. Played I-X and then dropped X-2 because of all the fanservice for girls. Maybe I will continue it some day...maybe. After that, I will play XII and that's all for Final Fantasy. Not interested in XIII or anything beyond. But at least until IX and even somewhat X, the series was decently interesting, in my opinion. They changed enough for it to stay fresh, though, of course, the early titles were rather simplistic which is ok.

Well, they went to customs and from there to the "local" customs office. They gave me a week (with Christmas in between) which is a joke. Additionally, why would I pay 8€ for transportation + 4-5 hours to get there and back for items I don't have to pay anything for? They saw it's below the 22€ but wrote "missing documentation" or something like that. Maybe they mean the invoices...which are of course not there since I didn't buy the item from the forwarding service *sigh* So yeah, the two items will be sent back (or are already on their way back) which means wasted money on shipping. Oh well, at least I got one Alicesoft game for rather cheap (770 Yen on YA) on Sunday while it costs 6400 Yen on Amazon.jp (retail price is 2800 Yen though). So I'm happy with that. Let's hope it works out with that forwarding service...

Oh, also, Alicesoft announced the official name of the Dohna Dohna game. https://www.alicesoft.com/information/2020/entry002537.html ドーナドーナ いっしょにわるいことをしよう aka Dohna Dohna Let's do bad things together - release 2020, nothing more concrete there unfortunately.