Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4723:AAC9:65D6:786F:47F7:6DAA-20191207104417

Maybe, possibly. Or one just has a lot of other issues going on. Best thing one can do is develop a rhythm when it comes to these kinda things that get repeated. Depends on if the fall guy can take them down with him, hence he dying. Of course, everything comes down to risk management in the end. Yep, unfortunately. Really hard to convince the "top" to increase measures taken against the corrupt "top". It's like how politicians can change aka increase their own salaries... Well, the point is to have harsher punishments. Somehow, there must be a way for those kind of people.

Absolutely. It's why I would never want to work in anything close to it. Heck, I'm not a fan of dealing with customers in general, even though I'm pretty good with it (endless patience, always calm etc).

Yep, just need to entice people to give up their rights and freedom via some meh client, some fancy cards and whatever else they have. Convenience trumps all after all. And with the youth become more tech-illiterate, it plays right into their hands. Not to mention the funneling into everything either via games in magazines that require Steam. Hehe, yeah. Most Japanese aren't competent at all when it comes to the PC. Sure, you had a decent number dealing with Japanese PCs back in the day but that is long gone and the environment has totally changed. Still, people gobble it up, so it's some quickly-earned bucks. The only PC ports I would buy are probably on Sega games if they ever released on GOG...not that I can buy on GOG ever since they changed some PayPal stuff and their website has become worse and worse. At this point, I might also be done with GOG and will just buy physical Japanese DRM-free games. As for XSEED, I'm not a fan of them due to their Ys dealings. No idea. Don't think Ebay is that popular anymore. At least the mindshare back in the earlier 00s was a lot bigger. Nowadays everyone knows it exists but that's all. Not everyone's mother and father is trying to sell stuff there anymore. But yeah, they should have the leg up over those traditional auctioning websites unless it comes to some more expensive goods.

Uh oh, sounds bad. And well, they did close their Tokyo studio somewhat afterwards after all. Kinda scary to think that even Alicesoft could go down the drain that easily. The eroge market is a pretty fragile one, after all. One can just look at what happened to Elf. I would really like to know what the most costly parts are these days. As I said before, personally, I don't care about voices, so they likely could save a lot of money on that. And in general, the voices are often just super generic and fit the generic character. I'm really surprised how people can deal with those over so many years, even if they are otaku. As for the reviews...some points seem fine but some could be just due to incompetency/bad play. I guess one would really have to see for himself to judge it. Technically, even the territory control games weren't new, just new in the eroge genre. But yep, as development costs, the Japanese became really risk-averse, even worse than Western developers. So it's the same formula over and over and over again. Really makes me wonder where all the creativity has gone to be honest. Maybe it's also due to a general change in culture where people read less proper books and consume low-quality goods which stifles their creativity/thinking.

He he, I'm basically just an old man in some rocking chair yelling at the kids outside when it comes to holidays. I really prefer to have my peace. Getting together with everyone would just seem too stressful (not that it's even a possibility here anyway). Sure you can, hope dies last after all. Hm, leaking will just screw everything up. Remember when someone shared games from someone's private collection who only gave it to a group of people? He certainly wasn't happy about that at all.