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What exactly does Continue+ do?

Just popping in to say thanks... but now I have to stop saying "Yeah that'll happen when Majikoi get's a finished translation patch" The 85% meme is ruined!

That's not what I meant by using 7 as an average. That's just only playing through and rating games that you finish a 7+ because you're dropping anything that isn't what you consider "above average" and worth finishing, That's you having an average vote of 7 not you voting 7 as average. You would still be voting a 7 because you feel the game is above average instead of "boringly average" as you put it. What I'm talking about is playing through an entire game, feeling that that game is of average over all quality as a whole and still rating it a 7 because you've arbitrarily decided 7=average instead 5. Doing so completely defeats the point of a 1-10 rating system. If you found something average it should be rated around a 5 because that is how a 1-10 system works. When people start using it differently than 1= bad 5= average and 10 = masterpiece and start making up their own rules as to what score signifies what the whole thing becomes completely pointless. Go look at, say, MAL's rating system. A lot of people there think a rating of 7-8 means it's an 'average" quality show and anything under a 7 means it's horrible crap. That's not how a 1-10 scale works and because you have some people using it properly and some not the whole thing is skewed and inconstant. That also isn't even including those people who do things like spam/troll vote things up/down just because they are popular or vote anything and everything they enjoyed a 10 and everything else a 1 which again isn't how a 1-10 system is supposed to work. Most/a lot of people do complete games that are only "average" because by it's very definition the majority of them are average as that's what the term means. Like I said the scoring systems are almost all pointless since they are constantly used improperly and even if they weren't there is still the fact they are mostly unreliable because there is no context to it. At least with written reviews even if they are short, biased and stupid there is context there for you to notice that and then decide which to pay attention to and which to ignore. There is none with the number rating system on most sites Honestly tho I don't see why a score would have an effect on someone's enjoyment. Even if all the systems were being used correctly and consistently they are still just a collection of other random people's opinions. No matter how much other people loved/hated something it really shouldn't change how you felt about it. Tho I do understand why someone might get mad or upset when something they love is rated poorly or the opposite but that's an entirely separate matter. If you loved say. FS/N and a bunch of people told you it was shit (rated it low) it might bother you but it shouldn't actually make you enjoy it less.

if you consider banging a chick who's confined to a wheelchair or having a threesome with loli twins as it "getting better" than yes it does, but if you don't than no it doesn't

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/922097-duel-savior/faqs/32980 that's the one I used, I didn't really have a problem clearing everything

I find it odd people even bother with the rating systems on most sites anymore... even if you didn't have those people who troll vote, give everything a 1 or 10 or simply refuse to use the system right (like using 7 or 8 as "average" on a 1-10 system) it's still just a collection of completely random opinions with no context to them... rolling a 10 sided dice would give you an answer just as valid... lol

meh seems like a perfectly sensible response when you consider it's coming a company who's trade is selling English translations of VNs, of course a business doesn't want other people giving away the same or similar products to their's for free... even if the fan translation is of a title they aren't going to release it's still giving the customer a choice of a VN that doesn't include giving them money thus they don't like it... it's just a business being a business... not that it matters what they say anyway because they have no real authority and even if they did no one would listen to them... this will fail on deaf ears the same as when they tell people to stop pirating stuff... there will be a bunch of discussions about the validity and whatnot of this but at the end of the day everyone will just continue doing the same thing as if the statement was never made... it's not like a fan translator is gonna read that and then go "Oh shit! I had no idea let me delete all my work RIGHT NOW!" it is kind of funny tho since MangaGamer just put this out http://blog.mangagamer.org/2015/03/10/2015-licensing-survey-results/ and a bunch of the titles in the "top 10 request list" have fan translations already out including the number one requested title... lol

depending on what type of game you are making you have to be careful with kickstarter... they can be pretty touchy if it's something with sexual content like an eroge

for making something with more gameplay elements one of the RPGmaker programs is a good place to start... very easy to use and good enough that plenty of games made with it are sold on sites (well in Japan) as actual eroge titles along side the big name AAA company ones Lot's of English eroge HRPG and VN/RPG hybrids are around made with it as well... a few have pretty sizeable backing with Patreon and whatnot...

the Rance games... it's a pretty significant change in your attitude and life when you can suddenly see humor in rape