Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20191223000207

Guess the various dlsites and getchus are serving their digital sales just fine, no releases either so they'll probably wait it out. If it was pressing they'd have changed over to a different webshop manager.

I used to get mods using a website which would DL it for you, however they changed how downloading mods works to counter that. Not sure if it ever got updated, but I remember mods for games with an older api still worked. Either way most mods I grab are for paradox titles and they had a short period where it was forumgated (which was also account gated with 1 purchase). Would be better if they'd make it openly downloadable, I assume most people who can barely buy games will buy it for mods. Daisenryaku falls squarely in the strategy/simulation genre though, probably the most autistic players and developers so you can assume some competency or complexity. It helps that the games have a tendency to just be formulas and calculations. I haven't really checked out the Japanese demo scene, mainly because it seems non-existent. Most I got was a bunch of doujin games and PC-88 music disks. Admittedly more "fun" than the endless C64/Amiga/Spectrum demos. Sure, most genre archetypes came from North America to begin with. I'd say they had more of a tendency to see it as a commercial product though. Also they "professionalised" far more quickly, in Europe we still had small teams heading up quite a few ports of games, VD-dev as an example (their 3D work on GBA is pretty impressive). Ultimately they all fizzled out around the early 2000s though. Big style companies took it's toll on both sides of the pond. It probably helps that arcades were popular, those types of games fit consoles quite well. Makes sense for the focus on that, they were also the king of handhelds. I did remember reading about that when I was looking up an Ys fantranslation, scummy shit but not too surprising in such a relatively niche sector. Who else are they going to buy it from? Luckily companies seem a lot more reluctant to do that now, maybe legal changes (or actually having lawyers). Seems that the top of companies have a tendency to lead till they die (or are nearly dead), can't take long with the ageing population. Bit grim, but otherwise it won't change because of their "respect your elders above all else" mentality. Steam is just Walmart (only does things when they need to) and GOG tries to be more "moral", so I guess it doesn't surprise me that they are even more censor happy. Steam is far too wishy-washy with that. Heard they'd allow Taimanin Asagi on steam now. Might as well give Rance a change again then.

You'd have to start hoping the non-rance related games get translations, but that's not looking likely. Maybe better machine tools soon. I don't know, maybe it's similar for high profile VNs, but I'm pretty sure VAs see it as a stepping stone to (hopefully) better things. Most of them use pseudonyms, so it's not like you could even advertise with their name. I'd probably have to look more into it, but I doubt you'd fine much for the earlier years. You'd have to change it up and some point, unless your Nintendo I guess. But they are actually quite conservative with mainline releases, it helps that they have an entire universe of spin-offs. I think RPGs suffer the worst when it comes to series rot. You have to get creative or not release as much, playing most JRPGs in a row will illustrate that quite well. Maybe DRPGs have it worse, but most people play that for it's core gameplay anyways. With FF I kind of stopped enjoying it after IX (and VIII was a bit weird). Still stuck at X-2, maybe one day I'll try to get through it. Just have to get through that intro scene again.

Yeah, mostly bangs though. I remember I generally had 1000s of leftovers, had to spend my 1st day of the year standing out in the cold lighting shitty fireworks which barely made a pop. A few lesson were learned. Long distance shipping, so who knows. Maybe it got stuck for a while and now it was stuck because of the christmas rush. I'm waiting for 2 doujin CDs, mainly to confirm two articles and they were cheap. Took pretty long for it to get shipped. I might get lucky due to the poor sods working overtime, but I assume it'll be here after christmas. Got free EMS shipping though.