/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Silly cute 2D girl doesn't know anything about anatomy

Just pirate it

It's not released yet. September 10th is the release date.

They're selling this on steam now? Why would you buy it there when they claim to sell a DRM free version anyways?

What are your two favorite organs?

What sort of game is it?

I'm going to pay since I'm very thankful to the amateur translator team for translating such nice doujin game.

Non-DRM Final English version is out at 10th September, but you can get the English trial now. http://www.carpefulgur.com/recettear

>>6051879
where do I get that from? I don't mind paying for it but I hate steam

>>6051938
Huh... this sounds pretty interesting. I'll take a look at it later.

>>6051916
Microeconomics.

>>6051938
so is the gamersgate one the best? does that have an account like steam or will it just let you download a binary or something?

Is the Steam version DRM free? If not, I'll just buy the Steam version and pirate the DRM free version.
...Could we haggle for a lower price?

shitty thread i see.

>>6051981
steam is drm so no. I think impulse is basically the same and I don't know about the other one.

>>6051981
If needing to open Steam before launching the game is considered DRM, then yes, it does have DRM.

Both Gamers Gate and Impulse allow you to play the game freely independent of any client.

>>6052050
how does downloading the game work? do you download an installer? there's no game manager or any shit like that?

>>6052003
steam's DRM doesn't really cause problems at all

its the standard all DRM should be at

>>6052050
Pretty cool. I'll buy it from them then.

does anyone know how this gamersgate thing works? impulse wanted me to download some extra shit so fuck that.

>>6052321
no it's retarded and I hate it

>>6052022
If needing a user account anti-feature in order to run, and depending on Valve to maintain the service is considered DRM, well actually that IS DRM! If you're going to but proprietary software at least make sure it doesn't have external dependencies like that. eg: Touhou.

>>6051836
Yes you should. It's a really fun game.

Sadly as a NEET I have no money to buy even cheap goon translated games. I'll just pirate it.

Best of luck to you goon viral marketers though, it's a laudable effort you're making here. I can only hope enough people buy the game that you have an ample source of money to pay the 10bux each time you get pedobanned.

>>6052379
You should really pay for it if you never played it.

It's worth every penny for $20.

I pirated the moonrune version and finish the hell out of it ages ago so...

>>6052363
Cool old as fuck error there bro.

>>6052379
>You should really pay for it
>NEET

Are you offering to pay for me, because it's hard to buy something when you don't have income.

I'm getting too unhealthy and pathetic to just go down to the temporary labor agency when I need money.

Meegodz, this game is on Steam?! I'm so getting this next time I have money, and till then, there's the demo to mess with, I am a happy man!

also: yes I know, I'm a tad slow to come to find this out.

>>6052387
>You should really pay for it
>NEET

Are you offering to pay for me, because it's hard to buy something when you don't have income.

I'm getting too unhealthy and pathetic to just go down to the temporary labor agency when I need money.

Loving the demo, these kind of management games are my weakness.

And Recette dialogues are funny.

I would but it but, I am also a poor neet.

Sorry indie goons ;_; it's a great game and you did a good translation

how do i save my game?

I'm going to buy this on Steam, just to support the initiative and hope more of this genre will come.

>>6052363
When was the last time you used Steam? It's probably the best thing that happened to PC games since ever. Cheap prices and GABEN is a bro.

This game's doing really well in sales.. #4 on Steam charts, holy shit. Currently outselling Civilization V.

Help it do better by buying it, if you can. The better this does, the more likely that we'll get other doujin games translated without the constant bitching bitching about inaccuracies / those fucking long waits.

>>6052629

And hopefully they'll get a bigger budget to get English voices.

>>6052646
>English voices
how about no

>>6052562
even if it's cheap and has convenient friend lists and shit I still hate it because of the DRM. if I'm going to buy a game I don't need some shitty program "managing" it for me.

>search for Recettear on archive
>"A full translation of Recettear will probably never happen"
ｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ

>>6052667

I don't really care about Steam's friend networking shit, but seriously it's pretty nice having it auto-update, have all your shit together, gives stats on what you've been doing etc.

And the program itself is free, it's just the games aren't. Normally I'd pirate any game that I can because usually they're made by some company that I don't feel deserves my money, but in this case Steam is an extremely useful platform for indie developers to, even if only for a few days/weeks once in a while, sales-wise show up fucking faggots like EA on how to make good games people actually will gladly pay for.

>>6052675
(typo)
*too

>>6052675
The friend networking shit is nice for multiplayer games. I've been using it mostly to get a game up and running quickly with some people. Doesn't always work flawlessly though, but most of the time it's pretty nice.

I never played it in moonrunes, so I'll have a look. I'll buy it if it appeals to me and doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Civ 5 is coming out real soon, and I don't think I'll be playing a lot of other games once that's out.

>>6052363
Hello from 2010.

>>6052695

Could you imagine Soku over Steam? Endless play, and with a lot more people paying attention/complaining, maybe Tasofro would actually patch up the game more / alter the fucking weather.

Hisoutensoku on steam would be pretty darn awesome, that's all I can say.

>>6052652

Problem? It's gonna happen anyway.

>>6052562 Cheap prices
>50 Euro

>>6052675
There are lots of free quality games in Steam and if you buy a single Source game you get access to a lot of mods. Recently Valve gave away Alien Swarm which was a fun little co-op game.

Groups allow to keep people connected and get games running nice and easy. Keeps your games up to date and if the servers go offline you can still play your games offline anyway.

>>6052717
>Euro

There's your problem. Also there's steam sales every Wednesday and weekend. Plus big sales on Christmas and Summer.

>>6052733 Also there's steam sales every Wednesday and weekend.
Oh, you mean those sales that almost bring the price to what I'd pay in a regular store?
Thanks a lot, Gabe!

if steam only handled buying and downloading it wouldn't be that bad. requiring it to actually play the games is fucking retarded though. if I buy a game from best buy I don't have to phone in every time I want to start the game.

>>6052794
Well, you can just play it in offline mode...

>>6053055
you still have to enable offline mode online, and it still requires you to launch through the steam client

Full version has been leaked. It's up at the usual place.

>>6053427
I assumed K1, but it seems to be down. Hong only shows jp version. Any hints?

>>6052562

>When was the last time you used Steam? It's probably the best thing that happened to PC games since ever. Cheap prices and GABEN is a bro.

Time for you to get the fuck back to /v/.

So, who should I buy from for the least amount of bullshit?

>>6053598
If you don't use Steam, Gamers Gate seems like the best. Personally I preordered it on Steam since it's really simple and fast.

Buy it from Impulse, not Steam. It's wrong for one game distribution game to have too much of a monopoly.

>>6052646
But the original game doesn't even have JP voices. Well, except for the occasional sound-bytes.

So this game is fully translated and available?

So has the game been uploaded somewhere, either DRM free or cracked?

I hate steam, but I don't want to bother with Gamer's Gate or anything like that simply because I haven't done so previously and I don't like to bother with it for such a small thing as this.

If it were to be available on Playstation Network available for my PS3, then I probably would buy it, but I hate steam.

>>6053614

Get out steamclone devs. Steam is the most popular because it is the best.

>>6053630
So what you're saying is you don't want to buy the game because you don't want to spend 5 minutes figuring out a new distribution service?

Best for invasive DRM!

>>6053637

Please don't bring your corporate fanboyism into /jp/, retards like you are the reason /v/ is complete shit.

This topic has gone off topic now

Surely we care more about the game itself rather than some game service, otherwise we may as well become /v/.

Personally I'll probably pirate it, Steam thinks €1 = £1.

>>6053639
>because you don't want to spend 5 minutes figuring out a new distribution service?
Partially it, yes. It's just a doujin game no? Is it even any good? How many hours can I expect the game to last?

But yeah, that's just mostly due to me not having enough interest to go out of my ways to get it.
But then there's also the thing about registering new accounts and fiddling with my bank accounts to match their demands.

>>6053682
I've been told a first playthrough of the story is usually around 120 hours, more if you do all the sidequests. Also, it has an unlimited sandbox mode that doesn't end.

Steam hasn't been shitty in years

the fuck is wrong wit chu

So, where is the full version?

I choose Tacos.

>>6053710
Didn't they say the release date was the 5th?

I choose Tacos.

>steam sells moe now
>ZUN and Gabe will make a contract soon
>Touhou on Steam and every possible tohoe hat in TF2

>>6053738
Now with 83 achievments!

Well that sucks, date's actually 10th of September.

>>6053661
Steam has nothing to do with the pricing scheme, it's all the publishers, as evidenced by the fact that the game costs 20$/15€/13£ (before the 10% discount).

Well I just bought this, only 14 euros

Will /jp/ hate doujin games too now that they're going mainstream?

>>6054146
I literally just threw out my BattleMoonWars discs.

>>6054146
But we like Fate/Stay Night.

Ahahahahaha.

I'd rather buy the original and pirate the translation.

>>6052705
CAVE shmups and every other good arcade shmup on Steam.

That is all I have to say.

>>6054153
Why would you do that? Those are sacred.

YES RECETTE

DONATE YOUR ORGANS

ESPECIALLY THE REUSABLE ONES

bump

>>6054484
It's doubtful that CAVE would support PC emulation.

>>6054484
I'm buying an ipod touch JUST for the cave games. Bullet hell is like crack to me.

How do you beat the rat boss on floor 10 of jade way

generic dungeon crawler with haggle mechanics

no thanks, buying that for 15 dollars would be just as mindless as japanese otaku buying 80 dollar doujinware games. I hope we will never get a similar culture in the west.

Oh wait. Atlus.

>>6055381
Wait for him to start eating a mushroom, then whack him like crazy while he's eating it, so you can knock him down and do some actual damage.

>>6055390
You're grossly oversimplifying it.

It's a fair price that will likely give a boost to more official translations of doujin games at accessible prices.

Go back to pirating everything and then complain why the game marketplace is filled with sequels and uninspired games that don't dare to step out of the no-risk zone.

>>6055396
Done.

Purple mushrooms knock him out, red ones refill his health.

>>6055390
>generic dungeon crawler
You just described every RPG in existence.

>>6055381
Kill all the red mushrooms so he eats the purple ones. They make him fall down and take extra damage instead of healing red ones do.

Gamersgate still requires you to have an internet connection anyway to install the game, even if you copy the files to another computer or directory you still need to log online.

bump

>>6055492
You just need to download the files, it's been my experience that you can then install through setup.exe in the download dir though you can always log in that one time to install. Otherwise there's no client or other softwre you need.

If I do buy this then would any of my money go directly to the original creator?

from the newsletter:

>Before I finish this, however, there is one important matter. Carpe Fulgur has avoided putting any form of DRM in Recettear; however, in order to sell on Steam, we did have to attach the bare-minimum Steam DRM for sales via that platform. This will not be present on purchases from GamersGate or Impulse.

>We agreed to this because felt that gamers who wished to purchase via Steam were already aware and would not be concerned with the presence of the Steam DRM, and many people wanted it on Steam. For anyone who doesn't want to deal with Steam or their DRM, Impulse and GamersGate still offer DRM-free versions of Recettear, so everyone can have what they prefer.

Steam: shit sucks. I'll be going with Impulse.

>>6055846

Yeah, they get a cut.

>>6055846
I remember them saying they had to agree that they wouldn't sell the translation or try to make money off of it, so, presumably, yes.

>>6055870
At least they're honest enough to acknowledge the situation, and not venture an opinion on whether or not it's a good thing.

>>6055870

What's wrong? No friends?

>>6051902
Gall-bladder and lungs.

Hmm...
Save 2 dollars and get the Steam version, or get the DRM free from two digital distributors I've never heard of?

>>6055927
What does using Steam have to do with having friends? This is somebody who uses it asking. Thought it was just a distributor.

>>6055940
I've been using Impulse for years. It's good.

>>6055961
I've heard nothing but bad things about them.

>>6055946

They shove "community" crap in your face. You get your own friends list/messenger, can join different groups, are allowed to set up your own customized kawaii avatar, etc. Basically, they hope you interact with other people thinking that you'll buy more games and play them together.

And maybe I would if PC gamers (especially those paying for DRM-infested digital files) weren't the dumbest motherfuckers in the universe.

>>6055940

Always support the underdog in a competition unless the leader is significantly better in every conceivable way.

I got it from Steam specifically so I can save $2. Every little bit helps when you are a income-less NEET.

>>6053738
>steam sells moe now
>ZUN and Gabe will make a contract soon
>Touhou on Steam and every possible Touhou hat in TF2

>>6055976
I don't know, "people have interest obscure game from unknown online distributor" doesn't have as much effect as "Recettear is the #1 selling game on Steam."

>>6055998
Well that'd make me play it again at least.

>>6055998
imokwiththis.tiff

>>6055998

ZUN already said anyone who's not Japanese will not be able to "play" this game. No amount of beer guzzling will change that.

>>6056008
It slipped from #3 to #4.

KEEP THOSE PREORDERS COMING FOLKS. WE GOTTA HIT FIRST PLACE

>>6056054
Well at least the top seller is Team17. Screw Mafia and Magic, though.

People buy games?

People appreciate good translation effort.

>>6056079
But, how do you know until you throw your money down?

>>6056087
Precisely, but your money where your mouth is.

>>6056093
>put

Played demo, like it, and pre-ordered it. There's just something about Steam that I don't mind paying for games on it. If it wasn't released on Steam though, I'd pirate it

>>6056087
By playing the demo. That's what demos are for.

>>6056097
>There's just something about Steam that I don't mind paying for games on it
Steam, or digital distribution in general, has made purchasing games legally more convenient than pirating them. It's pretty much saved PC gaming, too.

Protip:

Carpe Fulgur, the translators of Recettear, are made up of Somethingawful members.

IOTW, where is our company borne out of /jp/?

This game is amazing.

>>6056129
4 Leaf Studios?

>>6056129

fyi, Carpe Fulgur is made up of only three people. What the fuck /jp/? Get your asses off and make a company.

so how long is this game gonna be?
I had fun with the demo but its easier to pirate it if its only gonna be like 10 hours

>>6056129

Is there anything goons dont't do?

They're like internet freemasons or something.

>>6056129

I thought they hated anything resembling anime, especially things that involve little girls?

>>6056150
Type-Moon was originally only two people and Team Shanghai Alice is only one!

There's literally no reason for us to not be making mad bank.

It's on steam? I can't believe it's on steam.
Maybe one day we'll wake up and see Raidy 2 or Family Project or something on steam too.
Yayifications.

>>because it's hard to buy something when you don't have income.

Mow someone's yard. Once. Jesus $20 ain't that much bro. And from what I've seen in the demo it seems worth it.

>>6056192
They only pretend to hate lolis to avoid getting banned.

>>6056150
>Get your asses off and make a company.
I actually tried to make some shitty VN with a friend, it's harder than you think when you have no artistic skill. You try finding someone that's willing to do loli porn in the Midwest for free and can do it well without begging random people I don't know on the internet.

;_;

No!

>>6054175

Dear OP:

YES.

>Memes everywhere

Yep, they can go suck a cock.

in b4 TORRENT WHERE?

>>6056323
What memes?

>>6056323
>Stop putting my obscure memes in your obscure game. I don't like it.

>>6056335
Torrent/crack WHERE?

I don't know where you guys are looking, but it seems like its $18 on all three sites. There's no real reason to buy it off Steam.

It's not out yet.

>>6056339
Stupid shit like
>What is this I don't even...

>>6056415
Steam was the first to offer it 10% off. Then everyone followed suit.

Will this game have achievements?
>achievements

achievement unlocked: become the little girl

>>6056415
Here's a couple of good reasons:

1. Rub it in everyone else's faces
2. MOAR doujin games appearing if this keeps up.

I recall there was this thread asking /jp/ers about what they do these days, and someone tried to convince everyone to form a company from the folks in the thread.

There's a couple of engineers, accountants, and other folks that posted. We basically have MORE THAN ENOUGH MANPOWER to form our own company.

We should make one, because we can't let 4 Leaf Studios be the only one on the block.

>>6056323
That's a meme?

What?

>>6056323
Post a screenshot of every meme.
Oh wait, you can't. Because there aren't any.

>>6056598
>>6056315

>>6056604
How is that a meme?

That's the same level of stupidity as people saying that Kirby's Epic Yarn was an internet meme.

I hate that this game is becoming somewhat popular amongst normalfags due to its success on the Steam sales chart.

>>6056612

It's a pathetic attempt to pander at the internet crowd in order to generate screencaps and perhaps further interest. And it's extremely unprofessional.

I'd say "you get what you pay for," but $18 for a fucking 4chan-quality fan translation is ridiculous.

>>6056635
>I'd say "you get what you pay for," but $18 for a fucking 4chan-quality fan translation is ridiculous.

You're a retard. It's NOT a Fan translation you moron. It's LICENSED. As in, the JAPANESE DEVELOPERS were contacted, and a contract was made. The game was translated with their input and help.

Not only that, but the dialog itself is very quality. There aren't any retarded memes, at all.

Damnit, on the last day of the demo. This shit's pretty awesome.

>>6056635
I'd say that Phoenix wright had just as much "internet references" as this game

Fucking /jp/, this is awesome. You know how everyone bitched about the Japanese game publishers sending out takedowns over fear of another rapelay incident? This is how we counter that -- by having successful releases of Japanese doujin games in the US.

>>6056654

Whoopdy doo. The point still stands that it was done by three amateurs from a 4chan-esque community. If I wanted to be bombarded with silly internet memes, I'd just go to /b/ and save myself $18.

>>6056694
How about you play the demo and see the translation quality for yourself? For free?

>>6056694
>Whoopdy doo. The point still stands that it was done by three amateurs from a 4chan-esque community. If I wanted to be bombarded with silly internet memes, I'd just go to /b/ and save myself $18.

BAWWW there's a single string i don't like throughout an entire translation. I'm going to disregard the entire game and bitch about this one line, seeing as it is pivitol to the plot and has caused deep and intrict plot points to be game to be scuered.

Cry some fucking more, this isn't a visual novel, we arn't arguing over the falsehood of witchery here. if you don't want put yourself through the torment of such an "amateur" translation, noone is stopping you from fucking off back to /b/ or whichever shithole you crawled out of. Faggot

>>6056654
>translation is very QUALITY

>>6056752

Nice reaction image BRO, it is extremely humorous and not a complete waste of moot's bandwidth, check out my dubs.

>>6056766
it

begins

>>6056766

>>6056766
Nice reaction image BRO, it is extremely humorous and not a complete waste of moot's bandwidth, check out my dubs.

>Bitches about memes
>Bitches about reaction images
>Argument is so full of shit he changes the subject
>Check ma dubs XDDDDDDDDD
>Write Greentext reply

Deal with it

Also it possible to unlock and use that rogue chick i saw in the other thread? or is she locked in the demo?

>>6056793
The demo only covers the first week before your first debt payment, so I'm 99% sure it only includes the first character.

How many weeks does the full game have?

>>6056806
∞

>>6056793
If you beat the second dungeon you unlock her.

>>6056694
>If I wanted to be bombarded with silly internet memes, I'd just go to /b/ and save myself $18.

Except you're NOT "bombarded with silly internet memes" you retard.

Sure I'll buy it.

Also

>look at steam
>front mission game is coming
>looks like a terrible clunky armored core

SQUEENIX THIS IS ON PAR FOR YOU

What was crazy about them releasing it, was that they openly admitted that they didn't care to put in much DRM because they knew that it would be pirated anyways beyond all their attempts. That adult attitude towards video games made me buy it. Fuck you SecuROM devs.

I'm tempted to get this on steam just to raise it on the charts for the top-sellers. I can always pirate the good version if I really need a drm free copy of it.

>>6052562
>When was the last time you used Steam? It's probably the best thing that happened to PC games since ever. Cheap prices and GABEN is a bro.

I'm only mildly conflicted in my opinion of Steam due to the fact that it's terrible DRM just like all DRM (and I could go into a long rant about it, but I won't), but the sales are sometimes pretty nice.

Of course, the biggest problem is how games you buy as a digital download are priced at retail on release, except that you don't have the game on a disc along with other physical contents that come in a retail box, making it utterly stupid to buy it anywhere but retail if you can get it at retail (add to the fact that you also then depend utterly on Steam's servers AND having Valve not go under, which it fucking will sooner or later, to ever install your game, whereas you can always install from your disc that you bought even if Troika Games goes under, which they did).

The point is that Steam still sucks, and I still hate it.


>>6052733
>There's your problem. Also there's steam sales every Wednesday and weekend. Plus big sales on Christmas and Summer.

Oooh, sales for games that should already be priced much cheaper because they don't even have the EXCUSE of claiming that the disc and box and manual and whatever else comes in the box requires cost and investment ahead of sales (and even then the price is inflated quite a bit, as production has improved in efficiency while cost of materials is also down unless you're still dealing in cartridges), whereas digital distribution requires absolutely none of that, but enjoy buying a fat wad of air for the same price as buying the game. I'm sure you don't FEEL like an idiot for it, even though you should.

And yes, that wasn't even me ranting about it.

>>6056983
>that you also then depend utterly on Steam's servers AND having Valve not go under, which it fucking will sooner or later, to ever install your game

This isn't true. You can play Steam games offline. AND Valve has said that if they ever go under they'll patch Steam so it isn't needed anymore period

Who cares about Steam sales? PC games are free.

>>6056983
>buying a fat wad of air
Oh, so you're one of those idiots who doesn't understand that a physical copy and digital copy are identical legally. You fail at basic economics as badly as any developer railing against used games.

>>6056997

>Trusting corporations

We've got a full blown retard here. Let me guess, you think GABEN is an epic cool bro?

>>6056983

YOU CAN BUY THE GAME OFF STEAM WITH NO DRM.
YOU CAN BUY THE GAME OFF STEAM WITH NO DRM.
YOU CAN BUY THE GAME OFF STEAM WITH NO DRM.
YOU CAN BUY THE GAME OFF STEAM WITH NO DRM.
YOU CAN BUY THE GAME OFF STEAM WITH NO DRM.

>>6057031

Try selling your digital copy to someone else.

>You fail at basic economics as badly as any developer railing against used games.

From Gabe himself:

"My thoughts as a dev:

There is another point to make besides the fact that buying used games does not send money to the developer. Unlike the movies, we do not have a theatre release. That boxed copy on the shelf (or digital download) is our only means of revenue generation. This is why we love digital delivery. There are no used games on Steam.

I know you guys catch a ton of shit for talking about topics like this, but if even a small percentage of your readers walk away a little more educated on the subject then it is a big win for everyone (except gamestop)"

>>6056997
>This isn't true. You can play Steam games offline. AND Valve has said that if they ever go under they'll patch Steam so it isn't needed anymore period

You fail at reading comprehension. Even in the part you quoted it shows that I was talking about installing it. If you don't have the data, you can't install it. They need servers to give you that data to install. Think for a minute before you post. I never said anything about playing offline, yes, I know what they said in response to what you THOUGHT I said.

>>6057031
Oh, so you're one of those idiots who doesn't understand that a physical copy and digital copy are identical legally. You fail at basic economics as badly as any developer railing against used games.

You fail at thinking. The reference to a fat wad of air is that you bought the data alone only as can be downloaded from the exact company you bought. You can't buy at Steam and ask some other company to give you the download. It's a licensing issue among other bullshit (and I'm not arguing against that, it makes sense).

The difference is that you don't depend on the company being alive and having servers available to install with your physical copy.

Now, your comment on legality might indicate that because you bought it, you have the rights to the data, and can then download from any source (i.e. piracy) without legal repercussions, but that is utterly beside my point, and merely shows that you either are unable to think, or choose to attack a strawman because you can't deal with the point I actually made.

>>6057032
Why shouldn't one trust Valve? Valve is literally a millionare geek's pet project to make games he wants to make. That's all

>>6056983

YOU CAN BUY THE GAME OFF PLACES OTHER THAN STEAM WITH NO DRM.
YOU CAN BUY THE GAME OFF PLACES OTHER THAN STEAM WITH NO DRM.
YOU CAN BUY THE GAME OFF PLACES OTHER THAN STEAM WITH NO DRM.
YOU CAN BUY THE GAME OFF PLACES OTHER THAN STEAM WITH NO DRM.

>>6057055
You know, you could always back up your steamapps folder/burn it to a DVD or two and get the game data from that...

>>6057055
Also, I forgot to quote the line that follows the link to the second post to which I responded. Just so you guys know in case it's confusing, but I think it should be obvious.

Why are people whining so much about Steam DRM? It's not like it cripples the game. If you want to play it on another computer just log into your steam account there and play it.

Fuck physical copies, I loose disks and manuals and shit ALL THE TIME, and it's something I never have to worry about with steam.

As nobody else has mentioned it, it must be only me, but the demo runs at a snail's pace. Are there settings to tweak, or is my shitty computer beyond help?

This game came out in 2007 (C73) and now its finally getting defiled.

>>6057089

...defiled?

>>6057088
Your computer's terrible.

>>6057071
>You know, you could always back up your steamapps folder/burn it to a DVD or two and get the game data from that...

I'd rather pirate it than use some retarded and roundabout method. Also, many people who have kept using Steam for quite a while have a massive amount of games there that are not backed up, and if Steam is down, they can't install from the servers, and if Valve goes under, fat chance getting them if you haven't already backed them up.

>>6057089
>defiled
More like 'given the attention it deserves'

>>6057059

And kill traditional retail distribution with digital downloads, effectively taking power away from the end consumers and giving complete control to DD services.

But nope Gabe is such a bro we should give him all our money and show Sony, Microsoft, EA, ActiBlizz, etc. that we as consumers are complete and utter retards willing to pay full retail price for a digital file that we can't trade back in if we're disappointed. Oh hey what do you know, StarCraft 2 requires online activation just to play single player, can only have one account active per CD key, and has no LAN support for local play or tournaments! I can't wait to see what they get away with in Diablo 3!

I LOVE DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT

>>6057102

>But nope Gabe is such a bro we should give him all our money and show Sony, Microsoft, EA, ActiBlizz, etc. that we as consumers are complete and utter retards willing to pay full retail price for a digital file that we can't trade back in if we're disappointed.

You couldn't do this with disks either.

>>6057097
Valve has stated that in the event steam dies, they'll give you time to back up all your games and they'll remove the DLC so you won't lose your shit.

I have nothing else to contribute to the conversation, polite sage.

So this was released on C73.
Help it sell -> Other doujin studios spot a potential gold vein -> Tons of comiket stuff gets translated and distributed via steam.

Wishful thinking.

>>6056997
I've heard of this as well, it's written in their TOS I believe.

>ButtRanged

what does this even mean? is it something like the firing range of a butt, where if you're in its range you can get hit by a high velocity turd?

>>6057194
You got it.
You have to put 15 talents in the 'Archery' tree first though and be of the 'Filth gorger' class.

>>6057088

Run custom.exe and cap your fps.

>>6057283
Tried each option, even the lowest (6fps) is noticeably laggy. I'd hate to remove special effects and such, but I may have to.

>>6057021
Fuck you, pirate.

>>6057088
You're possibly irrevocably fucked if you have intel graphics. But try capping FPS low and disabling everything you can in custom.exe.

Any hentae of those lolis?

>>6057078
Because some people will whine about Steam DRM given the slightest, or even no, provocation. You can get it from gamersgate and it'll just use their usual throwaway downloader, or from impulse, which I assume is DRMless because it usually is (day-0 patch shenanigans on Stardock's own stuff aside) unless publishers require otherwise. gamersgate won't auto-patch, though, and I'd expect this ideally to need patching at least once.

>>6054175
Because how dare someone try to get a cut for putting it in English and making it more easily available? Do you object to localization in general, or only when it's being done by a couple of goons as a pet project?

>>6057159
How much comiket stuff is neither porn nor riddled with someone else's IP? Not supposed to be rhetorical, I don't know - rarely pay much attention to doujin stuff unless it involves shooting things, and a bit tenuously even then.

Just finished the trial. NEED. FULL GAME. NOW.

>>6057442

There's quite a lot of original stuff at each Comiket.

And of the non-original stuff, quite a lot of it is doujin anyways (Touhou).

I just bought this game off steam

Feels good, man. Ordinarily, I'm definitely more prone to pirating than purchasing, but.. this game is different. It's cute, the script is good, they left the japanese voices in, and this is the very first japanese indie game (to my knowledge, at least) that has been made available through steam

As faggy as it sounds, I want to send a message to the industry by buying this. The fact that I can now mentally picture Recette happy over another successful sale is just another layer of hnnng to my decision

Holy shit.
That was awesome, my only complaint was that by the last day I lined up my store completely with 2000g+ stuff and couldn't make any sells because all the faggots suddenly forgot their wallets, or called me an asshole when I try to sell some stupid 4500g statue I got in some dungeon for 2000g-ish.

Especially Louie, or Louis, whatever his name; I had to reload over and over just so I can lose like 800g selling him the best sword available, which I was planning on giving him to him anyways, that ungrateful fuck.


Besides, a physical copy of something would need me to go to the store in which they sell it in. It's petty, but I really like not having to do that.

>>6057563
>this is the very first japanese indie game (to my knowledge, at least) that has been made available through steam
Not even close.

>The fact that I can now mentally picture Recette happy over another successful sale is just another layer of hnnng to my decision

I will sleep happily and dreamful tonight from this thought.

>>6057629
I love when she says "Doushio ka na?"

>>6057629
>That was awesome, my only complaint was that by the last day I lined up my store completely with 2000g+ stuff and couldn't make any sells because all the faggots suddenly forgot their wallets, or called me an asshole when I try to sell some stupid 4500g statue I got in some dungeon for 2000g-ish.

It's important to know the budgets of your clients! If you get those goddamned little girls, you're not going to be able to sell them anything over 300-400g. The merchant guild leader, on the other hand, almost invariably is capable of buying high priced goods

Make sure you don't just try to pawn off expensive goods all the time, because a lot of people won't be able to afford it. It's important to think of the whole picture: will you have items that poorer folk will be able to buy? If not, then you're not going to sell much if only poor people come into your shop!

>>6057641
What else is there?

>>6057641

Feel free to educate me then, Anon. What else is there?

Can't wait to pirate this

>>6057662
>those goddamned little girls
I'd hate them if they weren't so cute.
"My allowance isn't that much..." Oh god, I died when I read that.

But yeah, since it was the Payment day, I needed to make 5k as a minimum to pay up, so I found the most appropriate thing to do was make sure I have no items that cost less than 1000 around. Can't wait for the full version.

/v/irgin here, I've actually played the demo and I really enjoyed, but I'm still not too keen about the the price. Care to haggle, Gabe?

The "I don't even" bit happens at the very end of the demo, and was tacked on by the localization team. It's just Recette and Tear talking about downloading the full version of the game. Other than that, I saw no other memes.

In game, your main goal is make enough money every week/month or so to pay off your missing father's debt, or your house and everything you own is seized and you end up living in a cardboard box. You have enough money to start an item shop, which you'll run by the rules, "You have to spend money to make money," and "Buy low and sell high." Capitalism, ho!

Outside of managing the shop and scouring the markets for goods to re-sell, you can hire adventurers to go find items for you in dungeons, for a price. This part of the game plays kind of Ys, but maybe more watered down. The demo only has a poor, rookie swordsmen who's not opposed to eating grass for sustenance, Louie. You'll collect a lot of items from monsters and chests, and since Louie works for scraps, and there's no charge and almost no limit to the items you get, so you'll be turning a 100% profit from most dungeon crawling.

It's action, micromanagement and moe~ all blended together in the finest way possible.

This is a bit off topic and /v/ terriotry but why do people have a problem with DRM's? I'm not trolling, I just don't know.

>>6057816
Weird collectors who think that in 50 years someone will want to shell out a small fortune so they can read the manual to Klonoa.

Or people who can't afford broadband.

>>6057816
i seriously dont know. But what would you rather have? A hard copy of a doujin or a doujin that you can only see that you have bought on steam?

>>6057816
It's intrusive.

>>6057830

Steam is barely intrusive at all.

>>6057684
>>6057672
Not Steam, but doujin games have been released on just about every single other digital distribution network. PSN has Gundemonium among others, Direct2Drive has Suguri, etc.

>>6057837
I don't use steam so I wouldn't know. I'm just talking in general. It's annoying to be limited just because a company wants money. They've got nothing to do with me.

>>6057840
Could you be any more retarded?

>>6057840
That doesn't change the fact that it would be a first for Steam though.

>>6057837
I've never had any of the problems that I've heard people talk about when dealing with Steam. At most, Steam requires you to be online when dealing with most, if not all, your games. It's mostly to prevent hacking, pirating, and the like, and there is the occasional horror story where someone gets framed and has their account locked, but Valve is usually pretty good about sorting that stuff out.

For me, Steam is just an online store with discounts popping out every orifice.

>>6057816
I don't like companies trying to tell me what I can or can not do with MY copy of the game.

>>6057816
DRM is intrusive, and the only people it affects are the people who buy it legitimately. Pirates will just crack it and it won't do shit to them.

Can we talk less about DRM and more about how moe Reccete is?

>>6057890

>>6057816

>Why is it so bad to have my rights limited?

Video game publishers have a disgusting sense of entitlement. They think it's perfectly OK to install a rootkit or constantly request internet access just to make sure your copy of the game is legit.

With services like Steam and many modern games like StarCraft II and Assassin's Creed II (PC), you don't own the game. You are basically letting the DD providers put a leash around you and playing on their terms.

If you don't understand the importance of freedom, I don't know how to explain it. It must be just an American thing.

>>6057890
Okai

>>6057915

ITS LIKE IT REALLY COMIKET 73 AGAIN.
WELCOME TO 2007 NEETBROS

>>6057915
wut how did you do that?

>>6057934
>If you don't understand the importance of freedom, I don't know how to explain it.

Maybe because it's an indefensible position?

>>6058064

Dey see me trollan
Dey hatean

Look dude, seriously. The video game industry is the only industry that thinks that it has any right to lay claim to your property after you've paid money for it. Is it any of Toyota's business what I do with my car after I buy it from them? Do you see Touchstone Pictures demanding that you don't sell your old movies?

The video game industry have the biggest entitlement complex in the entire entertainment market. I don't mind Steam so much because it's about the closest we'll ever get to a happy medium, but you're just a retard if you don't understand the invasion of privacy and the unreasonable expectations placed on customers by DRM schemes

>>6057102

You forgot to mention how SC2 is being released in thirds, with each third of the game at the price of a regular game.

>>6057132
>Valve has stated that in the event steam dies, they'll give you time to back up all your games and they'll remove the DLC so you won't lose your shit.

A likely story. Servers need money, and if Steam is dead, I doubt they'll be able to keep service for such a high load for a year (or even a month, and don't give me some ridiculously stupid shit about how a week should be enough time). Unless they've locked away part of their profits in an account that can only be opened when Steam goes under and can only be used to pay for servers for this purpose, and only if they can provide legal proof of that will I ever cede this point.

>>6057423

There are legitimate complaints about Steam, so stop blaming it on reactionary bullshit. You know that's not true, or you're deliberately being a dishonest idiot and a prick.

>>6057816

People have had a problem with DRM for a LONG time. It's nothing new, and the problems are many, mostly varying on which DRM scheme is being implemented. Some install rootkits, which can be considered illegal when it is not mentioned or removable by option of the consumer (and that is a greater legal issue among software as a whole, not even just DRM). Some demand unnecessary conditions to even let you run the program, which is murky water (and as an example, Ubisoft's new implementation of DRM that requires you to be online to even play single player games as well as to save or load your game, which is again murky water when it's forced without choice).

I don't want to write more about DRM.

>>6058104
>hurr I work at Blzrd and I know that every expansion will be sold for 60$ durr
>Implying that WoL campaign isn't longer than SC's and Brood War's
Alright, fed you.

Now on the more serious note, it'll be a little more tricky than that as I see it. Blizz stated that WoL is a fully-functioning game and you won't need expansions to continue playing multiplayer. But of course each expansion will bring an additional unit or two and will you be able to play with those who purchased it? Yeah, right. Buy it or play against other 'stone age' people.

>>6058159
>Implying that WoL campaign isn't longer than SC's and Brood War's

...wat...
You obviously never played original SC.

Bumping a good thread

>>6058167
Not combined but it is. Go replay each of the three if you feel like doing so and checking it.
And yes, I did play them all. I almost cried when they made it clear that Kerrigan is going to be redeemed. Duke, Fenix... Bitch needs to pay for it.

>>6058159

Nowhere did I say that I work for Blizzard, but the pricing of the following two thirds of SC2 is sketchy at best. They say they'll be priced as expansions, but they're also standalone expansions/games, meaning you don't need to buy the Terran game that's out now, you can buy one of the other two at a later point. This is somewhat conflicting, and I highly doubt that they'll hold to their claim that you're touting.

>Implying that WoL campaign isn't longer than SC's and Brood War's

It isn't. Fact.

>Alright, fed you.

No, you're the one trolling, if anyone is, you idiot.

>But of course each expansion will bring an additional unit or two and will you be able to play with those who purchased it? Yeah, right. Buy it or play against other 'stone age' people.

That's the other issue. I'd hope that Blizzard would at least provide the 'expansion' benefits of extra units for free to anyone who has even one of the three games, instead of breaking it up into three tiers that make no sense for this game's distribution, but were fine for some of Blizzard's earlier games.

>>6058104
>Servers need money
It goes, or, more accurately, it should go without saying that if Valve goes under, you won't be able to play TF2. Not to the full extent anyways. But with offline mode and what-not, there is literally nothing stopping steam from being able to run Singleplayer games without online, short of closing steam, and even then most of them still work.


It's like saying don't buy an MMO because if company X goes under, you won't be able to enjoy it.

Barring that, what is it with saying Don't Trust Valve? What, are they evil now? In the past, they've done a pretty good job of listening to their fanbase and indulging them, and Valve have worked pretty hard to put up this whole indie "We are a company you can relate with" front, I don't really understand where people are getting this dastardly image of Valve forever deleting everyone's Steam account and somehow erasing every game installed on my hard drive for the sole reason of having an excuse to twirl their comical mustache around. It's ridiculous paranoia.

And no, I'm not defending DRM scams or video game companies desire to superglue their fingers to every single bit of property they can; because I agree with you on that, it's just that Valve thing that seems a little off.

I still can't understand why people can even support any kind of DRM.

>>6058181

I'm not even going to read the rest of your post when you start off with a strawman about MMOs and other multiplayer-only games. You're clearly fucking retarded, and I'm just surprised that an idiot like you can even type.

>>6058191
Oh man, look at that. Getting all defensive all of sudden and lashing out random insults. What, did I hit a nerve? Or did trying to come up with an actual intelligent resort that can't be summarized with, "They be watchin' me games" send you into a frenzy? Regardless. There isn't any threat to offline-mode and indeed non-multilayer based games with or without Steam servers up. To test this, simply unplug your internet connection and run a steam game, any steam game.

And then, for the purpose of marginally improving this board and the internet as a whole, don't plug it back in again.

>>6058203
you're fucking retarded

IS SC2 Terran campaign worth it?

Holy crap this thread got derailed.

>>6058209
just pirate it
bnet 2.0 is so fucking bad you shouldnt support such cancer

>>6058203
0/10

>>6058220
"He disagrees with me, it must be a troll".

If you can't think of an adequate, or indeed, ANY sort of counter-debate, don't say anything at all.

>>6058224

You mean a counter-argument.
There is no counter-argument to a troll post. A troll post isn't even an argument.

That's why I responded the way that I did. The fact is that you clearly couldn't respond to what I had posted in the first place, relying on some strawman wholly unrelated to anything I had said. While you had a chance to post another response, this time actually dealing with what I said, you instead decided to troll. I guess it hit a nerve on your end that I saw through your idiocy.

The only reason I'm posting this in response instead of ignoring you is that it may be of some benefit to you in the future; that you might decide to either not say anything if it's just going to be pure idiocy or to not troll when you realize that your post was in fact idiotic and someone else recognized that as well.

If you want to be a troll, go back to /b/.

So, is this game hard in any way? I have to admit I'm so used to the fighting aspect of RPGs, I don't know how I'll fare with managing the shop.

>>6058243

It's pretty easy. Buy low, sell high. It even tells you around how much to buy/sell at.

>>6058235
Speaking of straw-man arguments: "Herp derp, ur a trol" is about as straw you can get, in case you couldn't grasp your own hypocrisy.

Secondly, since you seem to lack basic reading comprehension, I'll go head and point out which parts were aimed at what argument with the incredible power of greentext.

>>Valve has stated that in the event steam dies, they'll give you time to back up all your games and they'll remove the DLC so you won't lose your shit.

>A likely story. Servers need money, and if Steam is dead, I doubt they'll be able to keep service for such a high load for a year (or even a month, and don't give me some ridiculously stupid shit about how a week should be enough time). Unless they've locked away part of their profits in an account that can only be opened when Steam goes under and can only be used to pay for servers for this purpose, and only if they can provide legal proof of that will I ever cede this point.

This is the ridiculous claim I set forth to correct. Now, the only reason Valve would have to maintain such servers isn't to upkeep what is indeed already installed on your computer, but rather to upkeep the extras that the thing installed on your computer gives you access to: Multilayer, DLCs, unlockables, derpy derpy doo. None of this would be particularly challenging to fix, and indeed, has already been fixed.

>>6058268
You cant even sell your games you _bought_.

>>6058268
Cont.

>A likely story
This and another previous post which went something like
>Don't trust corporations.
Is what lead to this part

>Barring that, what is it with saying Don't Trust Valve? What, are they evil now? In the past, they've done a pretty good job of listening to their fanbase and indulging them, and Valve have worked pretty hard to put up this whole indie "We are a company you can relate with" front, I don't really understand where people are getting this dastardly image of Valve forever deleting everyone's Steam account and somehow erasing every game installed on my hard drive for the sole reason of having an excuse to twirl their comical mustache around. It's ridiculous paranoia.

But let's go with the obvious: Valve typed up a false ToS, set out to constantly tell it's consumers how safe Steam is, and went out to fix all the bugs related to offline-mode in order to make their evil backstab, no pun intended, even more delicious. Yes. How obvious. I can't believe I missed that. Now excuse me, I obviously must go wrap tin foil around my scalp so the government don't hear about how badly I wanna itch my balls.

I hope I don't totally suck at this game. I just pre-purchased on my Steam account. I usually play stuff like NWN. I don't have never played this type of game before.

>>6058300

>I don't have never played

>>6058300
I trotted through the demo last night. Like you I'm usually more of a NWN-sort-of-thing person, but I didn't find it too challenging.

The hacking and slashing seemed to me to be mostly about learning movement and timing. I coped.

The marketeering seems fairly easy, there's a fair bit of built-in help. At least it seemed easy enough to make profits, keep my head above water and pay off the loan . . . doing really impressively might take more thought. But it doesn't seem anything like as mind-bending as, say, manipulating a regional market in Eve Online.

>>6058329
So not overly complicated button mashing required to "fight". That's good because I don't do that well.

I'm going to get indebted IRL, open a shop and pretend I'm a little girl!

>>6058344
the battle is actually more challenging than most games this generation.

fucking casuals

>>6058348
Choke on your "girlfriend's" dick.

>>6058268
>Speaking of straw-man arguments: "Herp derp, ur a trol" is about as straw you can get, in case you couldn't grasp your own hypocrisy.

You clearly don't even know what I mean when I say it's a strawman argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Educate yourself, you ignorant twat.

>This is the ridiculous claim I set forth to correct.

And you did absolutely nothing of the sort, not to mention that it's not even ridiculous what I had said.

>Now, the only reason Valve would have to maintain such servers isn't to upkeep what is indeed already installed on your computer, but rather to upkeep the extras that the thing installed on your computer gives you access to: Multilayer, DLCs, unlockables, derpy derpy doo.

Again, this clearly shows that you didn't understand anything of what I had said, and you're arguing against some fictional and non-existent person. I was talking about them having to maintain servers after their company goes under to allow people who had bought the games to archive them when Steam is no longer going to be running and providing them with access to what they purchased (which was mentioned by the Anonymous person to whom I was replying), and NOTHING else. You either didn't understand my post, or you're intentionally trolling.

>>6058280

>>A likely story
>This and another previous post which went something like
>>Don't trust corporations.
>Is what lead to this part
>...

I did not post either of those statements, so yet again, as I said, you are misrepresenting me and arguing against some fictional entity, or at least someone who isn't me. You're absolutely daft.

Now, for the sake of everyone who bothered to read your trolling idiocy, just fucking kill yourself. Or at least get the fuck out of here, troll.

>>6058352

Well, I misspoke. I did post "A likely story", but you're taking it out of context, and I never said "Don't trust corporations". The rest of the post still stands. Sorry for that error.

>>6058344
If anything, the character available in the demo erred on the side of overly-simple -- pretty much all the time I was just moving him around and using the basic attack. No sequences of buttons to hammer in, or anything -- most of what I was working on was how best to move so as to hit without being hit, how to handle multiple enemies and so on.

From reading the character list on the site, it looks like some of the other adventurers play a bit differently.

I also found that some of the entertainment and challenge of the dungeon-crawling was weighing up my health, how much stuff I had left to heal myself with, how far away I was from levelling up (you heal when you level up), how much space was left to carry stuff.

Okay, serious question guys.
DRM and internet tough guy fights aside, is this game with my $18? As in, am I going to get 20 or so hours of game play out of this thing?

Not the same guy above, but if I don't have a Stream account nor a GamesGate account, which site would be easier or better to get the game from?

>>6058378
>Steam*

I need to go to bed already...

>>6058369
The robot girl is fucking awesome to play as.

You don't get her for ages though.

>>6058378
Steam takes less than a minute to set up, I don't know about GamesGate.

Personally I love Steam, so that's what I would go with, but if you're one of those who hates their "DRM" then go with GamesGate.

>>6058372

>am I going to get 20 or so hours of game play

You're about 100 hours off, but yeah.

>>6058181

Companies change over time. Gabe and the other executives could sell it. They could step down. They could charge a monthly fee. You can't say for certain that they're always going to keep it up. And they're a private company besides. Nobody knows how they're doing financially.

Activision was the superhero of the industry 25-30 years ago.

>>6058393
And sold. Thank you.

>>6058393
Huh, is it really so long?

>>6058504

IIRC, the main story is about 15-20 hours long, but there's an unlimited mode where you can play for as long as you want.

>>6058504
All I know is that the initial debt quest is 20 hours.

game is fun but is it really worth 20 bucks? sure you can dungeon crawl for 120 hours but you can grind Disgaea for 300 hours too if you wanted to (but probably don't).

doujin game shows up on steam so now everyone is HERP DERP SUPPORT CUZ U HAF TO. fps players getting their first taste of japanese software are overreacting greatly, omg goty and whatnot. don't know why this game is getting so much press, if it was Touhou on Steam i would understand.

>>6058607
I'd say it's worth it if it's your type of game, 20 hours for $20 is more than most modern games offer.

And by showing support we'll get more of these types of games showing that there's a market for it.

ENOUGH OF THIS FAGGOTRY.

Now get your asses off and pitch this game to everyone you know, dammit.

>>6058607

I'll tell you what's so special about it. The fact that a couple of SA goons got together and translated a doujin game is not particularly impressive in itself, but the game being the third best-selling game on Steam at the moment, with nearly zero advertising, while keeping in mind the niche crowd it's supposed to appeal to, is nearly mind-blowing. It just goes to show what a unique service steam is (I'm not defending DRM or anything, but no other similar service has come close to steam in terms of popularity, at least) and what unexplored opportunities for doujin game localization exist. If this keeps selling as well as it has been, it will do wonders for the localization of various titles simply because it's clearly showing how much Western interest there is for such games. Once most Japanese companies get their heads out their asses, we can well look forward to a future of fresh Japanese VNs and doujin games being translated and available nearly instantly. Or so I hope.

>>6058627
It's down to 4th place now, though.

I'm surprised no one quoted their FAQ yet.

>Wait, this is an indie game from Japan, right? Are there... naughty bits in this game?
Absolutely not. Although there are currently no plans to have the game rated officially by the ESRB, we would anticipate getting an "E-10" rating in any event; the only "violence" in the game is of the bloodless kind, the "hottest" any character gets is showing a little stomach (as Tear and Charme do), and there is hardly any swearing. The single most objectionable topic in the game might be various references to alcohol

>>6058607
I played the demo back when it came out to see what the fuss was about.
I finished it all without moving from the window.

>>6058630

I'm thinking it will pick up once the TF2 HAT worms offer is over. They should have made a deal with Valve about giving everyone who buys Reccetear a TF2 loli hat or something, that would have boosted sales.

>>6058634
>the "hottest" any character gets is showing a little stomach (as Tear and Charme do)

And yet you know that the doujin circle will have rule 34 of these two out within the month

>and there is hardly any swearing

Tear actually has a bit of a potty mouth, even if it is all in French

Not that I care, but I do think it's funny that Tear swears quite frequently in French

A day later and here we are, still fucking arguing over steam.

GABE IS THE MOST EPICEST BRO OF ALL TIME IF YOU DON'T LIKE STEAM YOU AREN'T A BRO!!

>>6058634
The fact they need to put that in a FAQ makes me feel kinda... annoyed.

>>6058858
It's because everyone on the internet is an idiot.

>>6058858

Honestly, Japan is perceived as a pretty weird and pervy nation to most normalfags. I can understand why they put that in there, especially since every normalfag and his mom will be exposed to it via steam

I didn't really like the game when it came out a few years back but I just bought it on steam because the guys that localized it are awesome.

From the interview with CF:
>Can you talk about how you share income with the original devs? I’m not looking for super-secret private financial details, just a good sense of how the partnership works.

>As for our deal with EGS… well, as you said, I can’t give any details. EGS will be getting a lion’s share of the profits, however, which we feel is perfectly fair (it’s their game after all!) We’re not in this business to make bales of money – we’re in it to do something we love (and hopefully end up with enough change to buy some bread afterward).

So this is a partnership, not a licence. People saying "buy the original, pirate the translation" can just shut up and go back to pirating JAST games.

>>6058911
I suppose but... come on. You can usually tell if a japan games has "pervy bits".

Of course, this means you need to have a bit of intelligence and knowledge of japanese games which... a lot of people don't.

>>6058634
So you can buy games on Steam in which you kill thousand of people, with blood and homo-erotic themes everywhere, but they are afraid of showing "naughty bits" ? Lol.

>>6059048
Violence? Sure.
Naughty bits? Oh no!
Murder? Why not?
Rape? IMPOSSIBLE!!

Then of course, this is no new thing.

>>6059048
I think they're just saying that this particular game has no naughtiness in it. Because it doesn't. Steam doesn't seem to have a problem with games containing nudity or sex, at least in the case of The Witcher, although I guess there isn't a huge focus on them in that game.

>>6059048
I don't think Carpe Vulgar is willing to do violent games, either.

I kind of want this but the price is the one thing that's stopping me. Anyone know how much this went for in japan? If the price hasn't been too jacked up, or even jacked down I might buy it.

>>6059535
Never mind, I found it. For anyone that's curious, it's 2,100 yen.

>>6052388
Press "Start in Offline Mode"

receive "Failed to connect to Steam"
Forced exit.

This was a week ago.

So wait, so how does Steam work exactly? I've never used or installed it before. Would it be better to get it at GamersGate?