Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:474B:590B:157:D038:D200:F243-20200112085004

I think Alicesoft wrote something along that line in October/November but that was already several months in. And yeah, apparently they tried to fix the issue but they are not competent enough for it. It's just a total mess. As for Alicesoft, I would have expected them to get a new official partner sooner.

Yep, desyncing is definitely a thing...though, has also something to do with the client apparently. I have no idea in that regard but I applaud Paradox that they are moving away from the Steam walled garden. But they are also a European publisher and those seem to be more on board in general with DRM-free/GOG. Now if their DLC-policy was better and they wouldn't invest that money in acquiring new studios instead of using it for their own games... Hm, I'm too young to know much about the 90s conventions here. There probably were some smaller ones but something like the Games Convention (now basically Gamescom) only started in 2002. And in the 80s, the country was still divided too. Hehe, right, just yesterday I saw some old disk magazine actually being sold, with floppies of some eroge inside (appropriately called "Disk" (or maybe PP Disk)). Most definitely. Too many titles, too much of the same. With the push of "retro-style" here, I would have expected them to cater to an older style over in Japan as well...because honestly, the PC-98 games just look too good more often than not. That working hours thing is bs in my opinion. They just need to learn to be more efficient and actually do work the hours they are at work and then go home. A lot of the time, they just sit there, being tired and basically wasting time. So while it would cut in the time people are slacking off, it would also cut into the time of the people actually doing work and potentially dying of overwork. Didn't Evenicle sell really well though? At least I remember reading that somewhere (probably on VNDB). I would probably prefer Japanese physical + paid patch since the Japanese physical versions easily beat the Mangagamer ones. But yeah, something along those lines would definitely be an option. And it's also not like Japanese eroge companies can't band together to create something worthwhile...or they use websites like DLSite more. The possibilities are definitely there.

I know it was in the works as I had talked about it with RottenBlock before (like half a year ago?). Though, not really a fan of the localization choices. Definitely will play it at some point since I ideally want to play through everything chronologically but currently, I have not much desire to do so and am preoccupied with a few other things. Well, XIII had many issues, including the narrow hallways you basically have to slog through, compared to the sprawling world you had access to in the previous games. The characters got a lot of flak as well. I'm surprised anyway that it went till XIII-3 but I guess the sequels were super easy to produce and there was some weird niche who bought those titles?

Same here. I basically go always below 22€ whenever I can. I got some "used" stuff on Mercari for a change and it's currently with a proxy service. Separated it in four packages, so that each is below 22€ and will send one per week. There are some interesting goodies in it, hehe. Like early official mail order boni or some booklets/books. Will say more once I actually get them...eventually. Well, one forwarding service basically filed the customs papers where the price and such is written. Of course, there is no invoice with it since I didn't buy it from that shop and I think they throw the invoices (in my case from Amazon.jp) away? So it likely went back to Japan and I told them to give me a message when it arrives there again -_- It's only around ten years old though and the Alicesoft stuff in the 00s and beyond is often relatively cheap, with some exceptions.

Yeah, the style is definitely weird but I would have to see more pictures (or videos) before I can say something more judgemental about it.