Rewrite Harvest Festa - 22583/30040 (75.18%) lines translated
SakuSaku - 100% translated, 31858/49257 (65%) lines finalized
Starry Sky In Summer - All scripts translated and edited, 114/177 scripts through TLC
SubaHibi - 100% translated, 2nd editing pass and QC remain
>Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - 4,566 / 30,513 Lines (15.0%) translated, partial patch released
Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen - 100% translated and edited, QC and technical work remains
>White Album 2 - 11948/35275 (33.87%) lines of closing chapter translated
>Witch's Garden - 41179/67201 (61.28%) lines translated, 2221/67201 (3.31%) edited, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 78.42%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited


Official work

MangaGamer
Euphoria - demo released, 11/27 release
Free Friends 2 - 100% translated and edited
>Higurashi Hou -Watanagashi released
Bokuten - 66.5% translated, 30.05% edited
Da Capo 3 - 63.2% translated, 40.4% edited
Gahkthun - In scripting
OZMAFIA - 89% translated
House in Fata Morgana - 87.62% translated
Myth - 65% translated, 45.8% edited
My Boss Wife is My Ex - 100% translated and edited
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, 18.13% TL 18.13% edited
Supipara - Ch 1 100% translated and edited
Yurirei - 79% translated, 70% edited
Himawari - TL and editing finished
>Beat Blades Haruka - 90.0% Translated
Umineko - Picked up
Tokyo Babel - 71.57% translated
Negai no Kakera - Picked up
Princess Evangile W Happiness - Picked up

JAST
Sonicomi - Fully translated, building launcher
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
>Trample on Schatten- Translation 83%
Flowers - 100% translated, in editing, preparing to port
Seinarukana- Waiting on LE materials. QA checking.
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sumeragi Ryoko - 100% translated, waiting on test build
Sweet Home - 10% translated


Sekai/Denpa
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title in TL through end of Nov
>Clannad - Nov 23 release
WAS - Kickstarter finished, delayed
Atom Grrrl - 100% translated
>Narcissu 3rd - 88.38% translated
>Narcissu 0 - 30.94% translated
WEE 3 - 7.39% translated
Nenokami - 37.79% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - picked up
Shizuku no Oto - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
Chrono Clock - Picked up
Root Double - Picked up
Tenshin Ranman - Picked up
Witch Boy - Kickstarter failed
Darekoi - Picked up
Wagamama High Spec - 2016 release
Mayoi Hitsuji no Kajuen - Picked up


Other
>Eiyuu Senki - Released
Harmonia - On Steam GL
Little Busters - Picked up
Tomoyo After - Picked up
Muv Luv Trilogy - Kickstarter succeeded
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - 2731/10293 (26.53%) lines translated
Harvest December - 3DS ports being released
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Kickstarter preview up
Magical Eyes - Winter release planned
>Zero Time Dilemma - 2016 release

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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

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Gahkthun's gone on sale for December, so I suppose supipara'll be January. Mangagamer's releases certainly have been fast and furious as of late though.

As always, post order numbers if you got em'.

>>14354173
Order Number - 102249
Order Date - 2015-11-15

>>14354173
Order Number - 101979
Order Date - 2015-11-13 (Right after Gahkthun's preorders went live)

Order Number - 100373
Order Date - 2015-10-30

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>>14354173
Serious question: what is the point of doing this?

>SakuSaku
>100% TL, 84% edited, 65% QC

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I can't believe IG's CEO is also their artist. That's some serious talent.

https://silentsummertl.wordpress.com/harukuru/

>>14354281

I believe he does it out of curiosity.

The promo site for Gahkthun is really nice.
So why does the main mangagamer website still look like shit?

Can they get someone to revamp the site now since they seem to be expanding a lot more now, and that their website is the first impression that potential customers will see.

The current site would have been fine in 2006~2008ish but now it just looks fake and sketchy.

>The pink is so undesirable to look at.
>The tags in the ovals are extremely ugly and some of them are cut off at the tops and bottoms. The words are pixellated.
>All the buttons on the page look very outdated in general.
>The image previews of the products are in a like 50x30 pixel box where you can barely make out the cover.
>The Anime section has literally nothing.
>There's no clear navigation that makes sense. All the "popular categories" are just random things on a list, that has to be expanded.
>The companies/partners are just haphazardly listed under the categories.
>Can't find a button to see entire catalog or any catalog to browse through titles.
>Hot News in a very tiny box that has to be scrolled
>The slideshow advertisements is very crude/sharp because its just standalone in the pink background with no frame or anything.

That's what I see by just glancing at the site.
This is unrelatedish but their phrase "Your onestop moe download store" doesn't really make clear what mangagamer really is.
wtf is downloading moe. Also, mangagamer doesn't even focus on moe stuff anymore. Saying that MG is just for moe stuff is misadvertising their other products.

If you wanted to sell something like ef: a fairy tale of the two or something like Gahkthun, you wouldn't design a website that was pink and looked like this. It doesn't match at all.
Even Sekai Project has a nicer website.
MangaGamer please step up your MangaGame.

>>14354386
Chances it'll last?

>>14354424
about 2 insems

>>14354386
Never heard of this group.
Never heard of this VN
Never heard of the VN's producers.
Never heard about their mahoyo translations.

Am I just a newfag?

>>14354436
Yes, because HaruKuru is pretty well known.

The translation group seems to have just went public a couple days ago. The partial Mahoyo translation is an aborted attempt that they made before going public, I don't know why the think posting it is a good idea.

Interview with Kouryuu
http://gameramble.com/10-Questions-John-Pickett-MangaGamer

Probably the best part is
>we’re proud of the fact that we’re the only major publisher that still pushes to release titles fully uncensored and uncut on our platform when so many others have begun to choose the path of censorship and cutting content.

>>14354408
Dude, you aren't the first person to tell them it sucks. Even their workers are saying the same thing. As I recall, their boss' excuse was that it costs too much money. I also don't know why the main site doesn't have links to the promo site on the game page. That's damn weird.

>>14354465
I guess that Flowers-based rivalry is still real.

>>14354479
> As I recall, their boss' excuse was that it costs too much money
Even if it cost them $5000 a new site would pay for itself within a year.

>>14354495
Prove it. And "common sense" isn't good enough.

>>14354173

Order Number - 010099 (Cho Dengeki Stryker)
Order Date - 2014-03-29

Order Number - 019900 (Eden)
Order Date - 2014-12-29

Order Number - 025655 (Princess Evangile)
Order Date - 2015-02-15

Order Number - 025656 (Edelweiss)
Order Date - 2015-02-15

Order Number - 102154 (Gahkthun)
Order Date - 2015-11-14

>>14354581

I don't think he needs order numbers from last year （´・ω・｀）

>>14354465

He has such a messy desk ugh.

>>14354495
>Even if it cost them $5000

Try 10x that, and that's a low-end estimate (yes e-commerce sites are fucking expensive).

>>14354594

How on earth could it cost $50k to re-design a website?

>>14354587

Figured he'd want more points on his graph as I haven't given them before. *shrugs*

>>14354632
You have to reiterate at least three times because ``web developers'' are failures at live and will not deliver what you expect from them at any price.

>>14354653
All data points are interesting, thanks for posting.

>>14354661
That's why you put some thought into contracts and don't do any advance payments.

>>14354632
Website is maintained from japan, and japan IT both sucks and costs much more than usa/eu.

>>14354408
I'm sure that particularly Good Haro is aware of this. She designed Gahkthun site as well as pretty much all others. I'm not even sure if the issue right now is money. I mean, look at the licenses MG got this last year.

>>14354465
>http://gameramble.com/10-Questions-John-Pickett-MangaGamer
>The biggest reason we have to turn down some titles is simple human resources. Despite doubling the size of our staff in this past year, we still don’t have enough talented hands to cover every potential title we’d like to release.
Although this is sad, I hope these developers MG had to turn down don't get salty.
It's also nice to see in the interview Kouryuu making it clear that MG has no intentions of censoring the games they localize.

>>14354173
Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning
Order Number - 102066
Order Date - 2015-11-14 03:55:23

Reminder that Gahkthun will be DRM free. Also, it's fantastic to see it already on the 2nd place of MG top sellers of the week.

On another note, please sage your posts guys. The last few threads have been hitting the bump limit too fast.

>>14354778
Lack or presence of sage doesn't affect bump limit, you noob.

>>14354778
>>14354778
saged posts still get counted towards the bump limit you fuckwit
All sage does is not bump the thread with that particular post

>>14354778
I think its great that nowadays its jap devs who line up and beg to license their games.

>>14354778
>On another note, please sage your posts guys. The last few threads have been hitting the bump limit too fast.
Unless stuff changed while I wasn't looking, the 'bump limit' is at 300 posts regardless of how many are sage.

>>14354778
>>The biggest reason we have to turn down some titles is simple human resources. Despite doubling the size of our staff in this past year, we still don’t have enough talented hands to cover every potential title we’d like to release.

so Rancefags were right. Good job Maria

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137 days left.

>>14354462
To give commie a kick up the arse perhaps?

>>14354152
>>Eiyuu Senki - Released
Any chance someone will port the patch to the PC version and TL ero?
Why am I even asking? Of course not.

>>14354859
Maybe Fuwa will get to it like they did KonoSora. Enjoy.

>>14354790
nobody wants Rance anyway

>>14354880
I want Rance.

>>14354884
well you'll never get Rance. So suck shit

>>14354889
But I want it. I want it bad.

>>14354152
>Shizuku no Oto
Has already been released. It's English release is called Sound of Drop -fall into poison-.
https://vndb.org/v15940

>>14354922
>It's
Its*

>>14354147
According to Conjurer's twitter, Tokyo Babel is at ~81% translated.

>>14354594
Maybe if they needed an entire database and purchasing system to be made but they already have that. The only thing they need is the interface on top of that to be redesigned. $5000 is a high estimate.

>>14354147
Himawari is in scripting. And according to Cafe's twitter, Myth is 70% translated.

>>14354893
so bad that you will learn moonrunes for it?

>>14354408
>The image previews of the products are in a like 50x30 pixel box
Click on them to enlarge

>"popular categories"
Should just be "categories", since it lists all of them.

>Can't find a button to see entire catalog or any catalog to browse through titles.
Click on "Games", below the MG logo at the top. Once you do that, you can sort them by: release date, price, rating, or popularity (at the current time).

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>>14354893

>>14354960
Not that bad.

>>14354786
For all you know it's some crappy nukige. Just because something is offered doesn't mean it's good. Look at all the garbage Sekai gets its hands on.

>>14354581
>>14354587

The more data the better. Old numbers are fine too.

>>14354281

One part curiosity, one part being able to guestimate how well certain titles are doing/do. Although for the latter accuracy's taken a hit lately due to the intensely crowded release schedule creating too much noise.

I've also been taking snapshots of the mangagamer weekly top five each week which I figured I'd start posting for those curious when I have some solid information. Right now I've only got a few months of solid mikan tracking before the bundles basically made the top 5 useless up till this month.

>>14354146
The Amagami translation is dead, right?

>>14355011
Rather than the top 5, sort by popularity. Demon Master Chris doing so well at the moment might be due to lingering bundle keys. Or it could be because it's nice-looking and cheap.
http://www.mangagamer.com/product_list.php?goods_type=1&page=1&keyword=&cmbSort=1

>>14355018

The problem with doing by popularity is that it segregates preorders("coming soon") and actual titles.

>>14355013

Doesn't it go up a few points of a % every month or two? Not quite dead.

>>14355027
True, it's best use is to check how long-term sales are doing. There's still static at the moment though, since the bundle games are so high on the list.

>>14355011

More data points:

Order Number - 015386
Order Date - 2014-09-20

Order Number - 044492
Order Date - 2015-08-25

Order Number - 049945
Order Date - 2015-08-27

Order Number - 098036
Order Date - 2015-10-16

Order Number - 101897
Order Date - 2015-11-12

>>14355056
Guess I'll chime in too if we're doing this, numbers are fudged slightly (+/-15)

Order Number - 007680
Order Date - 2014-01-01

Order Number - 008770
Order Date - 2014-02-15

Order Number - 009827
Order Date - 2014-03-19

Order Number - 010524
Order Date - 2014-04-22

Order Number - 011629
Order Date - 2014-06-06

Order Number - 012084
Order Date - 2014-06-20

Order Number - 013010
Order Date - 2014-07-16

Order Number - 014198
Order Date - 2014-08-19

Order Number - 016156
Order Date - 2014-10-11

Order Number - 016164
Order Date - 2014-10-11

Order Number - 017920
Order Date - 2014-11-28

Won't bother with this year as the data already looks pretty good. The above averages out to 2 games per order for what it's worth. And yes, I have shit taste.

>>14354173
102022, 2015-11-13

>>14355092
>numbers are fudged slightly

Might I ask why? If it's just to protect privacy I'll include them with a note, but if those are extrapolations I'm trying to only track real data.

>>14355150
Yes, the only reason was privacy (paranoid I know).

>>14354147
Gahkthun comes out on Decemeber 23.

>>14354632
Freelancer here, also have worked for a web dev firm before.
You can charge out the ass for the simplest web design, something with dynamic pages (news and adding new content) plus a shopping system can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars. If they want the purchase system to be remade or fit the new design better, that can run 15-20k just by itself. This is one field where it's extremely easy to overcharge people. If they were to contact a cheaper freelancer then it wouldn't cost as much, but if somebody redesigns the entire website you need to consider graphics, the design itself, then all of the background systems that need to be run. It's fairly time-consuming and ecommerce websites take the longest dev time and cost the most. From personal experience. You also have to break things down like the account system, the content system, and the purchasing system. A user account system itself can easily run for 10-15k depending on how robust it is, and when you consider security you can increase the cost even more.

>>14355214
This does sound expensive. Couldn't MG just make cosmetic changes to their existing site for little to nothing? Changing its color scheme and such.

>>14354326
Sugina Miki ? He is a god.

Is MG going to make some hard-copy for their next titles or the others titles of 2015 ? I want really want euphoria and KnS2 H-C.

>>14355265
It all depends on how they sell. There's a minimum hard copy run requirement, so if its digital sales are below it, like Cartagra, then they won't get one.

>>14355244
Kid. That ain't how business works.

>>14355280
But they sold a lot of bundle of Cartagra during the fall sales. I think it's still possible for this title to have a hardcopy.

>>14355244
That's what I was thinking as well. Surely, you change the colors and the layout somewhat. Nobody is asking for things from scratch like JAST where everything went to shit.

$54,195 of $75,000
10 days left
They were making 400-1500$ per day for last few weeks.
Significant chance Narcissu KS is going to fail.

>>14355316
Well, at least it was a less embarrassing fail than at $150k.

>>14355316
They said they're going to do the 100k stretch goal regardless of KS outcome. And even if it fails entirely, they'll come up with alternate funding methods to do the games anyway. Their kickstarters are preorders at this point.

>>14355322
They said complete WEE would be released year ago with mac/linux/vita version. They say many things and most of time don't follow on them.

>>14354146
Is Eiyuu Senki on PSN?

>>14355214
How long does it take to make a website like that? Those sums look like something one would have to work for a year or so to get.

>>14355337
it should be.

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>>14354152
Just over a week until Clannad is out.

>>14355316
You moron. If another ks failed we never see ks for Root Double or another Sekai's game.

>>14355368
> we never see ks for Root Double or another Sekai's game
That's something I would celebrate for 3 days.
>You moron
I am "moron" for stating obvious facts that anybody can confirm on their own? Dovac hires low-quality shills as always.

>>14355376
> That's something I would celebrate for 3 days.
Why you hate vns so much?

>>14355368
An untranslated game that would actually need a KS to come out might fair differently. Plus, Witch Boy and Narcissu are more niche compared to Root Double. Sekai's also been trying to get more rewards fulfilled in order to decrease peoples reluctance to donate to new projects.

>>14355379
I hate people like you and your owner dovac, who rape and turn VNs into casual-pandering garbage.

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>>14354979
I'm still mad.

Seinarukana, release in the fall.

>>14355408
>release in the fall.
2017?

>>14355408
Subahibi, release in fall.

Flowers release : never.

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>Do not eat

I still believe in Subahibi.

>>14355018
What the fuck is the appeal of Divine Slice of Life? Why does that keep making the weekly rankings?

>>14355452
It comes with a free Steam key and it has trading cards. It might be the next Huniepop for MG.

>>14354173
I wonder if Doddler is happy with KNS2's sales?

>>14355337
In EU, NA gets it on the 24th.

>>14355478
http://ask.fm/The_Doddler/answer/132270886129

>>14355316
It'll still make the base goal with the surge it'll get on the last few days. Almost no Kickstarter fails when it gets this close 10 days out.

>>14355478
>>14355493
>It's still not great but... it's not that bad. More than Cartagra at any rate.

That's not exactly encouraging.

>>14354976
Personally I knew all that. But you are free to also explain JAST site. I usually just give up and search, because that place is a black hole that eats everything and lets nothing reach the customer's eyes.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/366780

Winter seems to be the season for nice, happy VNs.

>>14355518
No ero = no happy

>>14355452
Hard to say why it is listed high at mangagamer. It is on Steam (so it gets exposure) and it has a patch (appealing to people who think Steam are assholes), so it should sell like butter on Steam. Do mangagamer just share the sale total with Steam?

>>14355362
What a shitty fonts.

>>14355554
Ｔｈｅｙ　ｎｅｅｄ　ｔｏ　ｍａｔｃｈ　ｔｈｅ　ｗｉｄｅ　ｆａｃｅｓ．

>>14355362
Who's going to compare it to the existing Fan TL and finally confirm that it's just a re-edit of that?

>>14355316
You don't know anything about Kickstarter, do you? It's going to make more money per day in these last ten days than before and at least 10-20k in the last day alone. That's what always happens. I give it a very low chance of failure.

>>14355608

It really depends on how much of their potential audience they haven't convinced to contribute yet or how much they can milk out of their existing backers. They have to find more than 300 people to contribute the average or more to meet the goal, or convince every one of their current backers to increase their pledge by ~$25.

It's not exactly dire, but it's not a sure thing either.

>>14355608
I've actually made my calculations before posting. End rush is rarely more than 30-40% of start rush, and by extrapolating current rate + end rush we get 70-80k range. That's why I said "significant" (i.e. p>=0.3) chance, not "certain".

>>14355624
Dovac will just pull some shady shit like 'pledging' $10k of his own money if that happens, to collect on the rest of it.

>>14355508
That's the expected result, no? It's a sequel and sequels usually don't do as well as previous entries unless the stories are unconnected. And KnS1 didn't exactly set the charts on fire.

>>14355624
I think the odds of it failing are much lower than 30%. There's also a mentality for kickstarters that we haven't really seen with VNs yet when a project is really close to the goal but not quite there yet. People start feeling an obligation to push the project past the finish line. Projects have failed after reaching 90%+ funding, but this is exceptionally rare.

>>14355640
Would be funny if he does it, gets caught by KS staff (that shit is forbidden by ToS explicitly) and banned from it forever.

>>14355655
The first KnS game is in MG's top 10 bestsellers list. Compared to that the other 2 games have had disappointing results.

>>14355694
It had to accumulate sales for very long time, initial rush was worse than cartagra/kns2.

>>14355596
Nobody. People on here are already convinced that's true, and why waste time confirming it and run the risk of actually disproving the current consensus? No, people are just going to refrain from doing that and call anyone actually doing it and posting about it a Sekai shill who is lying about the scripts being different.

>>14355699
Lack of initial rush was entirely MG's fault for Kara no Shoujo 1. For most of the initial 24 hours, and some time after that, the game was unavailable for purchase. Those "lucky" enough to get it before it went offline got treated to a beta build with major spoilers. (Meanwhile, pirates were playing a fixed version as people who purchased the game were kept waiting.)

Yes, I'm still mad.

>>14355733
I'd attribute the lack of initial rush more to the lack of voices. And it took them over two years to reach the meager goal established for releasing a voiced version.

>>14355733
You underestimate how easy it is to run a diff.

https://twitter.com/Tyrosyn/status/663531192587853825

Someone here posted that cracking Soft Denchi DRM is trivial. Does it apply to games on DMM as well? Can you crack the game even if you don't own a license?

Why are all modern Nitroplus N2System VNs still stuck at 1024x576? Is it just a limitation in the engine or what? Every single product they've released since 2008 has had 2k 2D assets bundled, but remain unused other than for zooming and scrolling.

Has anyone ever tried messing with the engine to see if it can actually go above that fixed resolution?

https://vndb.org/t7126

You cannot be serious.

>>14356137
It's not a bad idea, if at least to stop giving Nekohen's bullshit an air of legitimacy when they claim things like this are "real translations."

>「あたしのケツとは違うっつの！　ウッヒーッ！」
>[Their defense is full of holes and there are only a few chocking points they can use.]

But the people judging this shit are the same ones who are fine with calling the Koiken Otome and Shin Koihime machine TLs as valid translations.

>>14356349
> Koiken Otome
> machine TLs
Stop lying.

>>14356366
Bitch, it was 'translated' by 10 different Fuwanovel 'translators', all doing random parts, the main one of which was an admitted machine translator who they didn't even kick off until people pulled posts from him off the internet archive saying he couldn't read Japanese at all, and then, somehow, all 100% of his work was supposedly redone and verified correct a week later, and every single patch and sample of their work has been literally full of bizarre errors. It's the same as KoiRizo, machine translated, and then a poor attempt to cover it up by editing it over and over again.

What more evidence do you want? A video of them using Google Translate?

>>14356379
If it's the same as the KoiRizo translation, then it will be pretty good since that one was fine.

>>14356381
Aside from being half made up and wrong.

>>14356381
You bore me.

>>14356384
That's not true and you know it.

>>14356407
Every time someone has posted a section of it saying that it was correct, it has been full of errors.

There's also the matter of the translator literally posting that he thinks it's faster and more accurate to read machine translation than to learn kanji.

But feel free to post the scripts so we can show off your failures for something like the sixth time, Mdz.

>>14356418
The mistakes were also grammatically fucked up, like "the waves have calmed" translated as "The sound of the waves is relaxing," that really shows he was not looking at the original Japanese at all.

>>14355699
The first game was also released voiceless at first, which negatively impacted its launch sales.

>Rewrite done in less than a year
>Harvest Festa still at 75% when it's been past a year.
>Harvest Festa's script size less than 1/3rd of Rewrite's.

Kotori Never.

rip amaterasu translations.
Now that Ixrec is (probably) being paid by Degica to work with them for MuvLuv, I wonder if he'll ever return to doing tranlations for free after Harvest Festa is done.

>>14354326
The eroge industry has some freaklishly multitalented people.

Scaji is the CEO of two brands plus their holding company, along with being the producer of all their games, a writer, and an artist. Takaya Aya (Otoboku series, among many other things) is a writer, artist, programmer, and producer, and he does music on the side.

>>14356526
It takes very little talent to be a producer or CEO, and basically all VN studios are horribly managed, so they don't even have that. It'd be like Herkz bragging about being team leader for Commie AND also editor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnvL3G_iamk
Hell yeah! I've always wanted to experience a japanese school life with high school girls in spring 2016.

Why does he pronounce sekai as suckai? Is he acknowledging their incompetence?

I thought their video would actually announce like interesting or good new titles, but it's stuff they already announced???

>>14356547
So his shirt has a giant phallic statue at the waist, thrusting up towards an open mouth.

Subtle.

>>14356531
That Scaji has managed, basically on his own, to keep Keromakura afloat this long, during a time when other eroge companies are folding left and right, means he must be doing something right on the business side.

Even if you ignore that, the fact remains that he has his fingers in basically every aspect of the creation of his games, which is impressive enough.

>>14356526
Otoboku had abominable art so maybe "multitalented" isn't the right word if half of what they do is shit.

>>14356557
Correlation is not causation. Something succeeding, or in this case, treads water, doesn't mean that it was well run or well managed. I'd think that'd be especially obvious in the Japanese media industry.

Is it OK to stop reading Demonbane after Al Azif's route?

>>14356557
>when other eroge companies are folding left and right
The main ones folding are the ones that got bloated and huge in the boom. There are hundreds of shitty ones with nobody of any note or repute at all riding out this 'storm' without note, but nobody would say that companies like Palette or Debonosu are full of multitalented business/management geniuses.

>>14356566
Yeah.

>>14356547
That progress report was hilariously bad. Why release a video late and give an update on things you aren't sure about?

>>14356525
Ixrec got a girlfriend and a job while working on Comyu.

>>14356631
Comyu was slow. Harvest Festa has been glacial.

I'd imagine at this point though that he's simply biding his time so he can get paid for it.

>>14356638
At least Baldr Sky is translated.

>>14356525
>Harvest Festa has gameplay elements
>Rewrite didn't
who'da thunk

>>14356526
It's just a small industry with a low bar. You don't require a lot of management with a small number of staff, art demands are lower than anime or manga, and programming is simpler than most software. It's a genre that's pretty much founded on one person being able to do everything if necessary and minimal separation from doujin development, or else they would have to do much less niche content.

>>14355337
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-ie/games/eiyuu-senki-the-world-conquest/cid=EP4951-NPEB02102_00-EIYUUSENKIDL0010

>>14354859
Well, there's no link to that ^ .pkg on Google and major warez sites to begin with, so it's hard to estimate the difficulty of backporting the assets to PC and/or inserting PC stuff into PS3 version. It's most definitely far beyond what Fuwatards are capable of though.

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>>14354146
>Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1410/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (61.1%)"
>Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1495/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (64.8%)"

3.7% in I don't even remember how many months. I believe in you, Amagamibros.

>>14357031
http://descargandofull.org/index.php?/topic/19084-eiyuu-senki-the-world-conquest-ps3psneur355421mg-ul/
Not sure how legit it is, but I'd like to have a look at that MEGA link of theirs.

looks like gsen sold 1500 copies or less, nice fat failure sp.

>>14357107
>20grand for doing nothing
>a failure

SP lives off those constant "failures"

>>14357107
Steamspy is pretty useless for sales numbers that low, you can't really say much more than it sold poorly.

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>>14357031
>there's no link to that ^ .pkg on Google and major warez sites
There's a (very underseeded) torrent though.

Eiyuu Senki - The World Conquest (NPEB02102)
http://unionpeer.org/topic/1238193-eiyuu-senki-the-world-conquest.html
Use a magnet link from that page or download a .torrent file from BELOW the green button, pic related.

Who is this chris huelsbeck person that was added to sekai's narcissu project, never heard of him

>>14355342
Really depends on exactly what needs to be done. It can actually be done relatively quickly (a few weeks), but with how often people actually work at firms compared to how much they should, it'll probably balloon project into a couple of months. Usually when you contract a website more than one person will work on it so the cost has to be split amongst the workers, at least in theory. In actuality the boss gets all the cash and you'll get a nice bonus if you bring in enough revenue yourself. Another place I worked it which was normal desktop development, I was paid about $40 an hour but we charged clients $175 an hour for work. So I was making well over my paygrade, if I had 10 hours if billables a week that was basically more than my salary for that same week.

Nobody actually works 8 hours a day, though, you'll probably put about half that time at best into a specific project. So while making a database and the systems to interact with that could take a few days or weeks itself depending on size, and the actual visual design of the website is the longest part (coupled with testing it for other browsers, assuming you don't go with a generic web 2.0 look) it can take quite a while. This is, of course, taking into account how people actually work in the workforce compared to what they do on their own.

>>14355244
Like >>14355281 said, this is business. You can charge people just to look at the website then charge them for minor changes pretty arbitrarily. You can get away with a lot of shit, especially for people who are unfamiliar with web design, it's all a huge joke. I used to charge people thousands of dollars for search engine optimization, which 90% of the time was just using Google webmaster tools, since small businesses don't need much more than that.
And the clients would always come back for more. I should feel a little bad but with the way my bosses have treated me I can't say I really care.

>>14357130
It depends on what it cost to license and what they paid the translation team.

>>14357130
>>14357481
And Steam gets 30% of the profits.

>>14357472

Man, if I knew web design was such a rort I would have payed more attention in school.

Someone actually backed at the $1,800 tier for Narcissu. Think this is for real, or someone planning to pull out at the last minute and cause the KS to fail?

>>14357548
Maybe SP got one of their friends to back them as a favor that they would repay back or something.
Who knows what shady things go behind the scenes at Sekai Project.

Even though I want Sekai Project to fail, I want the KS to succeed because it'll result in a net positive outcome on the visual novel expansion in the west.

Why is MangaGamer called MangaGamer?
They don't have any relation to manga.
Imagine if they're talking to a potential partner and they call themselves MangaGamer. The potential partner will be like, "MangaGamer? You guys work on publishing manga in the west? What makes you want to work on visual novels?"
MangaGamer will have to say that they don't work on manga or is related to manga at all and the potential partner will start questioning MangaGamer's knowledge of japanese and their company title.

I hope they actually aren't updating their site because they are going to REBRAND soon tm to a name that makes sense for their work with a complete website overhaul.

KnS2
MG-100395
10/29/15

>>14357585

At this point they've held onto the name for so longer that it'd be kind of hard to pull of something like that. I think at best they could shift to something similar like "erogamer' or something.

>>14357585
The name MangaGamer does make sense, since some people consider visual novels to be like a mix between playing a game and reading a manga.

>>14357598
>similar like "erogamer'
With them trying to get a foothold on Steam, I doubt they'd choose such a name. Maybe VNGamer.

>>14357130
30% to Steam, 50+% to ABS, some more to translators. SP's share is just few thousands.

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>>14357585
It's fine.

>>14356349
>But the people judging this shit are the same ones who are fine with calling the Koiken Otome and Shin Koihime machine TLs as valid translations
What? I think none of vndb users who post on translations quality ever said anything about two projects you mention, either positive or negative. I know I didn't, because I don't even have these games downloaded and unless someone else provides extracted and matched jp/en script, can't be arsed to go through it.

>>14357677
>unless someone else provides extracted and matched jp/en script, can't be arsed to go through it.
How about just providing the 'translator' saying that they can't read Japanese, so they're machine translating it?

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>>14357684

>>14357684
>>14357677
Koiken Otome was also being primarily done by a confessed machine translator who deleted his post saying he used machine translation. When it was revealed, they said that he was only allowed to translate 'unimportant' scenes. When people made fun of them for that, he was supposedly kicked off entirely, but they somehow found a half dozen people on Fuwanovel to TLC what he did and declared it now accurate.

It doesn't take a genius to connect the dots.

>>14357724
And yet we have this same discussion every week. The 12 year olds on Fuwanovel are craftier than the mouth breathers here.

Hey, I just linked /qa/ here because we were talking about Dovac stealing fan translations and stuff. You guys mind giving the 411?

>>14357918

Sure can.

The guy who linked you here is retarded. That's the 411, I do hope it was worth coming over for.

Is it true that Sekai Project literally stole G-senjou no Maou's translation for the Steam release? Or is it just a rumor?

>>14357934
>>14357918

Some more 411. These two guys are in fact the same mental midget. Please stick around for more exciting facts as they come in.

>>14357932
>>14357939
Oh, damn. This is SP's very own shill, Herkz. What poor timing to arrive in the thread while he's hanging around.

>>14357945
This could explain why he shitposted instead of giving an actual reply to the question.

>>14357945

411 galore: When this guy runs out of things to say (which doesn't take long,) he starts talking about shills. At this point people start to wish he get a diary and cry into that like every other normal little girl. Hold on to your seats because from here on out he'll throw out indecipherable and irrational garbage. He'll also reply multiple times to make it sound as though more than one person is replying. He's honed this down to an artform. Feel free to tune off now, everybody else does.

>>14357948
Indeed, it's basically a habit for him. It's okay, this is just a slow board so only shitposters like him have time to hang around it 24/7. The helpful users will show up later on.

>>14357958
It's kind of annoying as I was also coming from /qa/ as I was interested in knowing if this was true or not. I tried googling for infos, but can't find any infos about them supposedly stealing the translation.

>>14357918
It's true, he threatened tlwiki with a lawsuit. He needs to be stopped.

>>14357960

>I tried googling for infos, but can't find any infos about them supposedly stealing the translation.

This usually implies something, although this would require 'thinking' and 'reasoning' on the part of the inferrer...

>>14357970
Just give up, nobody's going to fall for your posts.

>>14357934
He has agreement with translation team, and team was paid for their stuff.

>>14357984
Thanks for the reply.

>>14357960
>>14357918
wtf is /qa/

>>14357984

You shouldn't handfeed them. If they're stupid enough to believe unsubstantiated claims for retarded folk, that's their problem.

>>14357964
This IS true.

>>14357991
>>>/qa/346300

>>14357991
Secret furry board, don't tell anyone.

>>14357995
Go to bed, herkz. You have memesubbing to do in the morning.

>>14358014
>implying Herkz wouldn't be spearheading retarded spoonfeeding

>>14358014

I'm a good deal more handsome than Herkz.

>>14358020
Herkz is King Shitposter. He will accuse people of doing exactly what he does himself, because that's how he rolls.

>>14358024
Only Moogy could be this egocentric.

>>14358000
I never knew that board existed. Just looked through catalog. All I see are requests for and stuff that look like /b/ posts.

Never going there ever again.

This is unrelated blogshit but one time I heard about /vn/ and didn't know what that was so i went to /vg/ and /v/ (didn't know which one it was in) and found the /v/ thread. Scrolled through like 50 posts and decided "Nope never coming here ever again".
/jp/ and /a/ are all I need.

When Clannad comes out, there'll be more evidence to see if SP is just a copypasta company or not.
I think they might have like 1 or 2 real translators. I hope those are the ones that work on Root Double.

>>14357997
Is that Ti9 having field day or what?

>>14358040
>When Clannad comes out, there'll be more evidence to see if SP is just a copypasta company or not.
Didn't you read interview with Clannad "tl" staff? They basically don't even have any real translator on team, and their editor is fucktard who was fired from MG for utter incompetence.
SP is just bunch of rejects from other companies.

>>14358040
That's because it's unlisted and largely unmoderated. Hiro listens to requests though.

>>14358049
Who's their editor? Maybe I know him?

That's a good question though. How come Teaching Feeling isn't listed in the project list?

>>14357964
>>14357996
Wait, what? Was this G-Senjou?

>>14358053
http://kazamatsuri.org/kazamatsuri-community-interviews-sekai-projects-clannad-team/

>>14358040
Did you know we have a board called /trash/? You, anon, may like that one more.

>>14358063
Never heard of him, but then again I only know people off their pseudonyms.

>>14358060
Isn't the first time Dovac bullied them. Look at grisaia forcing koestl to work on the games for free and with unrealistic deadlines

>>14358076

Unrealistic deadlines? For Grisaia?

How believable...

>>14358087
Is this supposed to be some sort of retarded attempt at sarcasm?

>>14358092

If it is, then it perfectly matches your retarded assertion. Call me a fan of connecting similar things.

>>14358096
I'll just call you a retard instead. Retard.

Can't stop laughing when people try to portrait this wimpy drama-whore as someone who could "abuse" or "bully" anyone. I bet even mosquito could drive dovac in a corner.
His usual response to everything is to play victim, bullied by evil haterz.
On contrary, koestl can be very rude and violent when you rub him the wrong way and have some guts. Its dead obvious that its koestl who is seme in their partnership.

>>14358108

And that's not taking into consideration the length of time it took to edit the fan-translation that's already out. And again, not taking into consideration that he's currently translating a VN for Mangagamer, which isn't the sort of leisurely behavior someone expects from a person who's been 'bullied into accepting unrealistic deadlines.'

Dovac's a lot of things, but only a salty retard would try to portray him as a hard-assed, intimidating criminal.

>>14358114
He is a criminal though, no denying that.

>>14358142

Eh, almost everybody's a criminal in some way or another. Not sure where you're going with this...

>>14358145
Not everybody is a criminal who runs a company.

>>14358146

Heh, you're more likely to be a criminal if you run a company. Everybody know businessmen are synonymous with narcissism and shady backroom deals.

But I'm sure plenty of company owners out there have unpaid parking tickets, downloaded a song or two, or stepped over noise allowance laws, and these technically makes them criminals. Basically if you meet someone who says they're not a criminal, they're more often than not a big fat liar.

>>14354173
Order Number - 102020
Order Date - 2015-11-13

>>14358152
I'm glad you agree that Dovac is a big fat liar.

>>14358248

Congratulations for missing the point of the post, but that was only to be expected.

>>14354152
>Eiyuu Senki - Released
I need perry on my pc.. they will port a steam release, they will.

my ps3 is way over the globe.

>>14358295
Confirmed not coming sadly due to licensing issues apparently.

>>14358295
Just pray daily for some autist to put the effort into extracting and then reinserting all that data.

Order Number - 102355
Order Date - 2015-11-16

KnS 2.

Apparently the second Higurashi chapter isn't selling nearly as well as the first. I find it kind of odd given the huge success of the first chapter.

Is the DVD release of Phantom of Inferno the worst localization of all time?
>only 10% of the dialog is translated
>engrish
>completely broken password system
>pixelated, unfiltered text
Hoping JAST will pick up the license for the remake: At least then non-JP speakers can enjoy it in a readable state by 2040.

>>14358114
>he's currently translating a VN for Mangagamer
Gahkthun's translation has been done for months now. And its status was stuck for long periods of time due to koestl's work on TL checking Grisaia.

>>14358626
And with 10 more chapters of Hou left, I wonder if the retranslation is really worth it if it can't maintain a certain sales threshold. Maybe people realized how expensive the entire series will be, and are waiting for more chapters come out to get them in a bundle or something

>>14358702
Maybe it was just a bad idea, as re-releasing something for a third time obviously was.

>>14358702
6 months between releases is a long time. You expect people to wait 5 years for this?

>>14358743
For Umineko, they'd be better off waiting for the entire thing to be TL checked and edited, so that they can release it all at once, or at fixed intervals.

>>14358743
That's Key's plan for Angel Beats.

And they're already years behind.

>>14358702
>and are waiting for more chapters come out to get them in a bundle or something
Well the first was already part of some indie bundle, so it wouldn't surprise me people are waiting for the second to be placed in one to get it on the cheap.
Not like waiting is going to hurt since it is going to take ages for it all to be released.

>>14358740
>re-releasing something for a third time obviously was
This is only MG's second version of Higurashi that I'm aware of, unless you're counting the French version that used to be on their site.

I am waiting for the entire series to be finished first. I know that sucks for MangaGamer, but since I already have a backlog of 20 VNs, I'm in no hurry to extend it with additional ones that I won't see the end of for years.

>>14358626
I hope you're not basing this off of one day of sampling from Steamspy.

>>14359072
Forum activity (on Steam) and number of reviews are significantly lower than when the first chapter was released. I also think the sales aren't particularly high.

>>14359072
Its on page 9 of top sellers now. Definitely not doing good.

>>14358049

It's not the editor it's the translator. The supposed main translator for Clannad is the same guy that translated ImoPara for MG and was fired because of it.

>>14359239
Trantez or YukkuriS? Or are they the same guy? I can't remember.

>>14359243

YukkuriS is the guy who was fired from MG and is supposedly the main translator for Clannad from what he said on Kickstarter. No clue who Trantez is.

>>14359239
>It's not the editor it's the translator
No, its editor.
>supposed main translator for Clannad is the same guy that translated ImoPara for MG
Stop doing drugs, or at least stay away from 4chan when you have trips.

>>14359259
The project lead is just listed as Yui, no clue if that's YukkuriS or what, but I could've sworn there was an update by him.

>>14359273
I was talking about Kara Dennison, former MG "editor". There's a reason why she's not willing to list MG on her resume, she was fired for incompetence and lack of any actual work done on projects she was assigned to.

>>14359253
Trantez is Batman, the guy they had help clean up the ImoPara translation. He jobbed on the Higurashi retranslation though and he was replaced with Gary.

>>14359253
Clannad being translated by a guy that MG didn't think translated nukige good enough. This should be good.

>>14359282
Is she the one who messed up the No, Thank You TL that GoodHaro had to go back and fix?

any subahibi news?

>>14359347
It'll be out at the same time as Seinarukana is.

>>14359347
Licensed by jast. Expect to come out 2020