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Hi & welcome to the forums! Reading VN is great Japanese practice~~

Hi, welcome to Fuwa~~!

Hi & welcome to the forums! Aww you didn't like Saya no Uta? I love horror and gore and all that stuff XD Well, everyone has their own tastes, and what's great about VN is that there's something for everyone~

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Hi Marc! Welcome to the forums~~

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My phone is Japanese so I can buy from the JP market~ No idea how I would get them off my phone to share with people though... *is a complete idiot at tech stuff*

I am soooooo happy that this got greenlit Getting VN onto Steam is a major step towards increasing their popularity and exposure in the West.

Emi's route was the first I got (even though I was aiming for Hanako) and I loved it sooo much. I definitely shed a few tears ^_~

You will love it, I'm sure!! Let me know what you think, what your favourite route is, etc

Hello there! Welcome to the forums! We're a friendly bunch here and always happy to help

I wanna help spread the word too! ...but my facebook page is very RL-oriented and I'm not sure how comfortable I am with bringing my two 'lives' together :/ I have liked the page though

Yes yes! I'm also in favour!

Hi & welcome to the forums! I always seem to have multiple games and books on the go cos I get distracted easily ^^;

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bash MG. I love what they're doing and I buy from them as often as possible. I also sincerely believe visual novels can become popular in the West, and as such I'm thinking of the longterm. I'm also trying to look at things from a customer perspective. Not every customer cares that a company doesn't have the resources to provide a top-notch experience, and I can see those customers who aren't already diehard vn fans needing a bit more to really hook them. (As an aside, I can't even comprehend how a mainly digital-based sales operation doesn't have a dedicated web designer. I don't know much about how MG is run, what staff they have etc, but I'd like to learn more about it.) And yes ideally they will be able to sell through other platforms in the future, but I have no idea how those kinds of negotiations work.

I know that they technically have that feature, but it still feels very much like looking at an order list rather than a collection. I'm talking more about the look and feel of it.. the experience for the customer is so important when dealing with digital products. Just look how well Steam's doing - they've created a whole community, even a sense of conpetition when it comes to buying games and showing off your list. At the moment MG doesn't offer much except a way to purchase things that could easily be (illegally) downloaded elsewhere.

The problem is that from the company's POV they shouldn't need to offer an incentive - downloading their games for free is illegal and people shouldn't need to be persuaded to not do it. This kind of thinking is (imo) outdated, and they need to realize that trying to hammer home the idea that illegal downloading is stealing is just not gonna work for those of us who have grown up doing it. I can't say I actually have a business plan for them, but for a start I'd like to see websites like Mangagamer looking more like GOG or something, where you have an account and a virtual library to look at all your purchases.

No I haven't played it yet either, but I definitely want to! I'll probably start it after I get the Enzai review up on my blog~ Don't know whether to buy it or dl it though.. I thought the translation of Enzai was really bad and I don't wanna pay money for another sub-quality work.

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At the bottom of the page there's an option to see the mobile version of the site. I'm using it right now since I'm on my phone at work hehe.

It was in my early teens so it might just have been that the guys were still at that 'eww girls are icky!' stage or something ^^;

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Welcome to the forums~~!