So, will the Humble "Sekai bonepick last cash grab" rebundle be ready by tomorrow or are we going to have to wait a week?
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I'm torn. I despise sekai and am glad to see them lose workforce, but on the other hand, those are people :(
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Those "games" are trash and shouldn't be on steam, make gamers look like pervs, etc
EDIT : Wow.... so many butthurt weebs
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No, since the individual in question is generalizing all visual novels, it'd be more equivalent to "romance movies make TV owners look like pervs". Not every film based around romantic encounters is going to have a sex scene, and not every one of those sex scenes is going to be explicit. Of course, being able to properly distinguish details outside of abstract generalizations is a key foundation of higher intelligence, so logical sensibility isn't necessarily something you're going to be able to hold onto when forgoing the more nuanced considerations of complex matters. To rephrase that, overstated generalizations are typically a sign that things haven't been considered well in the first place.
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Well, that sucks. Besides them who do we really have... That SakuraGames hack that just runs games through Google Translate?
Seems lots of people are cheering this on Twitter, but it'll be a serious blow to the VN scene and I can't see much good coming from it aside far poorer translations :(
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Seems JAST is very small-scale (handful titles)... none even wishlisted by me 0_o
Fair enough on Mangagamer... I generally associate them more with their own site though, but it seems a fair number of Games on Steam are also by them (damn those useless pos game publisher pages Steam made though, lists of old where so much better)
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Oh yeah those publisher pages are just bad..it's a pain to go through all releases - especially because you can't sort games there like you were able to before....
I'm just for once glad that there are lazy publishers who didn't make their pages so far...those are still in these neat lists and without the crap around them.
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Honestly, that's what they get for licensing every damn VN on the planet and just releasing less than half of them, and the ones that they do release have either a shit translation, a ton of programming errors or typos, not to mention the endless kickstarters that, as far as I know, haven't delivered on their promises either.
But those poor employers didn't deserve that, it's not their fault and I hope they get another job soon, be that in the VN industry or elsewhere, I wish them the best.
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So that's why they manage money terribly, huh? The name is the key here!! They just want to show-off!
Now in all seriousness, thanks, you made me laught with that. I appreciate it.
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I hope that doesn't mean bad things for "fault - SILENCE THE PEDANT" or they can get another publisher
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Hm, on one hand, they do all that Sakura stuff, that looks really bad (do correct me if I am wrong, never played any of them).
That said.... hold on... they did publish Root Double, right? That was a great game, with possibly the best presented...
(very very light spoiler)
plot twist
...I have ever seen, in any media whatsoever.... ;)
So, not just weeb trash stuff, I think. Maybe. Don't know. I would miss them, I guess.
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Apparently, Winged Cloud (the devs for the Sakura series) has had an on again-off again relationship with Sekai Project over the years. Winged Cloud currently self-publishes their works.
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That sucks for the staff, hopefully they find jobs soon.
So he basically got rid of his direct staff and kept anyone that was developing games for the company.
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Options > Skip all text > wait some seconds > 100% game...
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Welp, most vn shouldn't be called "games" since there is no interaction, so those are just picture books. But making another category on steam would make no sense, since some vn have gameplay. So how much gameplay would be needed to consider vn as a game and not as a picture book?
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Well a decent VN normally has different story paths and endings at least..
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It's a sad day for people who love
weeb trashvisual novels, as Sekai Project laid off everyone at their main office today.This seems like a savage cost cutting move, of the type doesn't ususally happen unless there's a real cirisis going on.
Edit: As per official press release, the main office apaprently was mostly marketing folk. i guess they're banking on these games selling themselves or something ?
Curious to see how this plays out further, hope those affected can find new jobs quickly.
Edit:
Better official statement here:
https://sekaiproject.com/2018/08/13/official-statement/
First Official statement here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/tokyo-chronos-a-new-vr-mystery-visual-novel-game/posts/2262566
Twitter posts from those affected paint a slightly different story:
https://twitter.com/DancingQueen_DQ/status/1029094072168853504
https://twitter.com/search?q=sekai%20project&src=typd
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