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>>19246997
And I'd be glad for it, because after the TW version died, it got reopened on DMM with much better management. I don't know if EN FKG will be worth salvaging, but there's a possibility that it'll also be revived after being pried off Nutaku's dirty hands.

>>19247005
Nah. It was once, and it even got off to a decent start, but they slowly bled it to death with a thousand retarded decisions. One of the best things about DMM FKG is that they constantly try to innovate, they fuck up frequently in the process (which is good because apology stones, and not the measly 5-10 of Nutaku either, you get them by the hundreds after major downtimes) but you always know that sub-par mechanics will get a touch-up. There are dozens of examples for this: Several event types (star trials and level-up bosses being phased out, emergency maintenances to fix the difficulty in Edelweiss event and remove unit locking in Calla event), nation maps (with several hundred flower stones gifted to compensate people who didn't clear their batches), fairy maps, elixir maps, dailies, storage updates, stamina nectar, free rainbow schemes (rainbow medals/rarity growth), constant buff waves for most golds and virtually all rainbows to date, so on and so forth. I say this often, but you probably can't name a single system in FKG that wasn't changed for the better.

So once FKG got its "major DMM title" status and the kind of funds that come with that, they kicked this kind of behavior into overdrive and produced an absurd amount of content for their characters, including character quests for everyone, blooms for everyone, Christmas/Valentine's/White Day cards and seasonal voice lines for everyone, SD updates for nearly everyone (only some 3* girls remain), and currently bloomed art, second H-scenes and rarity promotions that are advancing at a good pace. In addition, they introduced a bunch of new mechanics and lore to keep players invested, including challenge maps that ask you to make specific team compositions, and major plotlines like Lotus Lake (+aqua shadows/Sleeping Princess), the seven heroes and ancient megapests (we've only seen Nidhoggr, but Hraesvelgr and Midgardsormr are hinted at). Now, Nutaku is basically a pile of shit of a company that thinks its players as morons and its games as easy ways to print money (and who can blame them, they're mostly right), so they didn't hire any new translators or programmers to handle all this new stuff. As a result, they're basically months behind where they should have been, and the game slowly stagnates. Add to this the standard Nutaku practices like censorship (and terrible excuses about censorship), bad translation quality, and paid deals for the kind of stuff that is given out for free on DMM, and it's kind of a surprise that they survived this long to begin with.

I still kind of want EN FKG to succeed, but I no longer have any hopes or illusions about its fate. I'm also pissed enough at Nutaku to write this wall of text, sorry about that.

>>18755047
Nice catch, it's good to know that the anon who wanted bloom art for Helenium is right on his money. This isn't a first for them though, they also spoiled Allium before we had any idea about her release (I think she wasn't even teased in NND broadcasts and the like, her H-scene on Nutaku's banners was literally the first time she appeared anywhere).

But my "favorite" Nutaku banner is the one they cribbed from this Pixiv artist, most likely without his consent. I mean, outright stealing art is bad enough, but they couldn't even put all the main characters together. What are Maple and Black Baccara doing here?

So looks like whomever makes the banners on Nutaku had the idea to just stick Pixiv fanart on them. Sure, it's good fanart, and the banner is definitely better than the inexplicable vaginal whack-a-mole ad for Osawari, but between this and Allium being shown ahead of time you'd think 500+ character portraits and individual SD sprites for nearly every girl isn't enough official art to draw from.

I hope they at least asked the guy who drew it first.