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[Kureha]

Like I said, someone will rip the japanese game voices and release a patch.

[Yossarian762]

Well there were tons of characters in it, at least 20 I'd guess. So kind of understandable that Nexton might want to save on the royalities for the vocal studios, but releasing the game with absolutly no voiced characters is really pretty bold ...

2000 sold copies, hard to imagine they'll manage in my opinion.

Somebody posted a link in the blog post discussion basically saying voice acting is a huge expense for eroge. Which makes some sense since considering the content of most eroge, how many dudes can it take to write some stuff, and put some art work and music along with it in a probably pre-existing vn engine?

Also I wonder how many of those people going "wow 2000 copies they'll never manage" are planning on pirating it? I ain't gonna say "omg piracy is teh ebil" since I admittedly do it too, but if people can't at least shell out for games they like or are really looking forward to it won't be long before we're stuck with a bunch of no-name sex romps and a couple major fan translated vns a year. It's kinda fucked up for Mangagamer to essentially hold the voices hostage for sales but they wouldn't have to in the first place if piracy wasn't so rampant since, as small as the VN market is, 2,000 sales shouldn't be that hard to swing for a fairly anticipated title like this.

[sazabi]

2000 sales probably wouldn't be too hard to achieve, despite market size if all those who end up playing it bought it, but highly unlikely that will going to happen

[Kureha]

You know? I actually went and got a Visa Debit card, and then found out that it doesn't work for international payments. Only local ones.

[sazabi]

thats.... weird

[Emiya]

Well, I'll buy it if I can, no matter if it it's futile or not, in hopes they'll release the voice patch and get Shin Koihime Musou translated.

Also, Kureha, I do realise that a voice patch by an anon wouldn't take too long, but still, are people really that unwilling to support the game they like or look forward to play? Heck, I mean even the shittiest western games are selling over 2000 copies, and they're more expensive than this.

[Kureha]

That's what happens when you're in a niche market. Your average FPS playing teenagers won't be asking their moms and dads to buy Koihime for them like they do with those rehashed shootem ups or other games.

[mahou]

You know? I actually went and got a Visa Debit card, and then found out that it doesn't work for international payments. Only local ones.

That sucks. The only reason I have a credit card is for online international payments.

My credit card just expired, but just got my new one that will be valid next month. Assuming Koihime comes out next month that's pretty nice timing.

[laplacian]

You're also all somehow overlooking that it's mangagamers we're talking about, *wink* *wink* digital copies. And 2000 copies seems even more unlikely now~

[sazabi]

i think it was a tough number to achieve already to begin with, thats why nexton set it as the target

[Yossarian762]

That's what happens when you're in a niche market. Your average FPS playing teenagers won't be asking their moms and dads to buy Koihime for them like they do with those rehashed shootem ups or other games.

"Mom, dad, there's an anime porn game I really wanna get..."

[STARSBarry]

i just call them visual novels there none the wiser.... I hope.... did i mention im 23

[Mana]

So, I heard that MangaGamer is going out of business...

[sazabi]

RIP mangagamer 

it was short but you translated some great games

[STARSBarry]

and this folks is why you use % of profit instead of a flat sum..... if a bunch of voice actors dont agree you politely exsplain that they get some profit rather than NO profit this way...

honestely "tallent" these days are stupid