Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20191028220440

The lobby is probably bigger, but I'm sure the american newscycle plays a role. The news gets distracted easily over there and apart from that shootings are "common", not a good thing but I guess it softens the impact and the need to change things. Nowadays they seem to focus on gun ownership more than games (they're probably too commonplace), that barely seems to change either. I guess, the few times I've seen it happen it felt pretty quick. It probably builds up and they play with it because it's what they usually do I guess. Diversifying seems easier said then done. If they have the personality I'm sure they can, but most people don't and are essentially tolerable in their niche. I guess it's similar to very short-lived bands. Or a re-release, I can't recall what it was but they were probably pretty budget. Played quite a few games which were filled to the brim with FMVs and/or redbook audio. Even Alicesoft did that, most of their earlier CD titles still are tiny games which use FM-synth but it includes CD quality audio arranges on a different track. Pretty sure they did game CD audio atleast around Rance IV. Guess even smaller studios happily used the space.

I guess Unused is similar to our "as good as new", similarly misleading. Either way, the company still decides. Probably have to stick to shops which sell new items if you were to ever use it. I'm sure the mindset is similar here, luckily our managers seem to leave quite early ;) I guess the 9-5 mentality would seem pretty foreign to the Japanese, might be good for them to try though.

Yeah, buyee used to be the former and for unsupported stores (very few times) I used one which did the latter. The plug-in is pretty much the latter which adds all those shops, probably still limited in that other webshops (Alicesoft's as an example) are not included and probably won't work. I'd have to see if they have a manual option. Yeah, That's why I like it. Loads of doujin stuff too, kind of liked to grab a few fully Alicesoft doujin music albums that I couldn't find so it'll make my life easier. I don't have the info in front of me, but the PC98 version is fine as well. Both are undumped and have some extras on it, other releases of Rance II essentially merged the hint disk features with Rance II so they didn't release them for those. It pretty much sells everything. Ofcourse actually rare things will still be rare, but plenty of not so valuable "rare" items like magazines/manual/guides are flying around there. They tend to have some concept or unique art of whatever it is they're for as well.