Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20200108231751

Has Alicesoft even bothered to try and get a different company during that time? You'd assume the company would atleast tell it's clients way earlier that they'd shut down.

I'd assume so, not that I ever tried. I assume it's p2p online as you could desync from other players if I remember right (well atleast in EU4/ck2). I doubt steam would actively fuck after the game's confirmed to be "legit". Would be nice for GOG owners to actually get access to mods, though I assume you can link GOG to your paradox account and they'd just move the mods for GOG there. I guess, I've seen quite a few of the "easy" hex-based wargames (cheaper to develop as well). Though that's more akin to virtual tabletop I guess. Grabbed a cheap one, but still haven't really played it for long. Atleast Japan had their conventions even back in the day, far less common for us over here. I know we had an MSX convention during those years atleast. I guess diskmags might've spread the noteworthy doujin titles around and it's not like the internet didn't exist. Now I feel like there's too much of it at times. One Japanese person described the culture as "not masochistic, but sadistic". In the way that you take a beating all your working life and when you finally get that power you do the same. What comes around, goes around. I'd have to see for myself, but atleast they dare to trial new working week setups these days. Evenicle was an unknown and still is over here. Rance has a certain reputation even for people who are barely into porn games. Better would be for the companies to work with localizers and release either a paid patch (for JP physicals) or be able to order a localized copy from their JP webstore.

Which reminds me, have you tried the English patch for Little Vampire yet? The game itself is an old adventure/vn deal, so I guess more like Rance I without battles. It something new. Also they managed to fan translate Evenicle Rance II over at /haniho/, still have to actually try that one though. Not too much in a rush for it. Atleast among fans, endless doujin music albums and very early as well. Better than DQ in that regard, yeah. That only changed things up since VIII. Most people kind of stop around that point as I believe XIII has some scripting autobattle system? Bit weird for an RPG, as the battle system is most of it's gameplay and I didn't hear high praise for it's story or characters.

Customs suck. It's why I'd rather get below €22 and pay double shipping. Especially with the terrible prices we get for "dealing with customs". Never had that problem though, I guess I get "invoices" with "CD" or "Book" written on them. Always have some papers taped to it and I guess they're fine with those. I assume the forwarders do the same or do they literally just forward the package? That deal is some better news, pretty rare to find those prices even for non-mint stuff.

So far I'm not too enthused, from what I've seen (which is not much) it looks a bit gacha combat like. Bit simple. Also I find the style a bit too much, but who knows maybe it grows on you.