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As I said, You should stop talking based on only western people. Go and try this conversation in some japanese eroge platform, then you'll see the majority. Man are you seriously saying that 5-10 people here are the majority, while thousands people are buying their eroges depend on the h-scenes? I'm giving you sale numbers, evidences etc and you are rejecting all of them while saying "but 5 people agreed with me in last thread, majority think as me".

First of all being "popular" and "selling more" are pretty different things, and all of your talk are based on western people. Let me ask you in a different way then, how many of those "random anime fans" did buy the Fsn anime's blurays? 1 of 1000? Maybe even less. The reason why they wouldn't know that it was adapted from a visual novel is because of the popularity of Vns at western, with your logic Light Novels should sell only 10-15 copies because they are not popular here at all. Also if you are going to count all movies etc, then you have to count Realta nua, PSV / PS2 versions of Fate, Fate/Stay Night + Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Set etc's sales as well. Fsn is one of the best seller games of eroge history, you are too underestimating it.

So you are saying that they have to stop adding h-scenes which sells greatly, just for a small possibility of selling a little more? With the risk of going bankrupt if that doesnt work (which is pretty likely from my examples at the upper post). How logical is it? Also I really cant understand the anime example, Are you forgeting that non-h animes are featuring on TVs and they are making way more advertisements, spend way more money on their products, more episodes, hires more expensive VAs etc? If you want to compare Hentai animes With non-hentai ones, You have to go for OVA type non-hentai animes with the same number episodes of hentai ones, then you'll see that even they are not selling as much as them. Sorry for telling you but this anime adaptation thing is not making any sense. Also The examples you give (Fate stay night / Kanon) animes sold way more less than their visual novels. You can check the point thing from google with エロゲ・ギャルゲ売上ランキング.

Dunno about West, but for sales at the japan H-scenes are definitely a must without a doubt. For example you can check Island's sales, Its only 1/8 of eushully's game and 14th at the April* sales, even https://vndb.org/v18694 this has doubled the Island's sales. I think this explain pretty much everything; We have a game which definitely has a great story, Currently highest score of the year and almost everyone is praising it, but when you look into sales its not even near to some random nukiges. If its not enough, you can check Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya o Mezasu as well. Its written by Tanaka Romeo & Takahiro, Everyone was looking forward for it and how many did it sell? Only 75 points. No seirously, I'm not joking it sold less than 1/2 of a nukige like https://vndb.org/v18766. Even https://vndb.org/v18795 sold like 120 points. In short it doesn't really matter what you/me/we want as long as h-scenes are influencing sales that much and there is no contradiction at all. Let me give you another example; go and check the Chrono Clock's japanese reviews, you could see how hard they complain about h-scenes and how will they affect their sales. Hell even the company got scared of it and apologised, I'm pretty sure their next game Amatsutsumi will have way more h-scenes than their other games.

And why would they have to risk themselves? I'd definitely stop as well, putting myself in such a risk even if its a pretty small one so people can play one visual novel and fap to it seems kind of idiotic.

I'm sure they want to use denuvo as well, but there are a couple "big" problems with it. First of all most of vns are 32bit while Denuvo only supports 64bit, which means they have to change to 64 as well. Then there is the "cost" problem, Yeah denuvo is currently uncrackable and most of AAA games use it, but they are selling millions per game, so they definitely don't care about its cost. But eroge sales are going rapidly down, seems like currently an average eroge sells only 3000-4000 copies according to Akabesoft manager, which makes it very hard to afford. I'm sure everyone can see the difference between those. Also the DRM they used wasnt "shoddy", its a pretty hard to crack one, normally it'd take at least one or two months until it get cracked (Hell actually I dont think any visual novel crackers would be able to crack it). The problem isn't DRM, its the "Trials". As long as they release trials their game will get cracked no matter what they use, even denuvo. There are only two ways of this; They have to make some completely new engine instead of using KiriKiri or They have to stop releasing Trials. + This is not the end of the problems; Denuvo is not a DRM, its a security system which "protects" DRM. This is the reason why he wants to release their games at steam; without a good DRM there is no point of denuvo, and the "Buddy" one which everyone uses is certainly not that strong. So you'll have to pay for a DRM as well even if you somehow can solve all those problems. In short the road of the uncrackable visual novels are hard as fuck, it is not impossible but doesn't seem like will happen anytime soon either. The key point is "Kirikiri", if they can somehow upgrade it well enough or make some new strong engine system for themselves they can make this happen, but most likely it'll take a very long time and denuvo will be cracked by then.

I forgot where did I see that, but he is always posting those kind of tweets / talking about those kind of things so its not a big secret anyway. For example when 働くオトナの恋愛事情 got cracked he said something like " I wish all those people who download our games would just die" / "If foreigner countries just let us to arrest those people, eroge industry would be so much cleaner and better, they are killing this industry" etc. He is famous about those things. They are blocking all of foreigner ips at their web sites for 7-8 years as well, but some other companies do it as well and there is a different reason for that. About the all ages thing, there might be some different reasons too but probably he just wanted to release their games at steam. He is trying to sell all of their eroges (18+ and japanese ones) at steam because of denuvo + steam DRM security but couldn't get accepted so far for obvious reasons. To be honest I think even himself doesn't know what is he doing, for example he announced offically that Purely Cation will use Denuvo which caused a big shit storm in all platforms, but there wasn't any sign of it at the game itself and it got cracked at the first day of the release (it was using some other strong security though), this was their second "uncrackable" game which got cracked at the first day btw. After the big Juukishi scandal he is definitely losing his customers' trust with those kind of lies, but seems like his hatred about pirates / foreigners is more important than it. He is not posting anything about this topic for a month though, I guess someone finally make his mouth shut before things go even worse. Its because akabesoft's manager is reporting those people to police and get them arrested, If I'm not misremembering they got 10-15 people from twitter when 働くオトナの恋愛事情 got cracked. Those people were sharing the crack's link though, I'm not sure if playing the cracked version is enough to get arrasted but probably he just wanted to be safe than sorry.

Well "entering western market" doesn't really matter anything since the manager himself has said that they are bringing those to western because western people will just pirate them anyway, so they'd like to get any money from it at least. Hell he even follows the download counts of their games' torrents. IF those sell "very well" they might translate some of their untranslated games as well, but for now he definitely doesn't seem very willing, with or without MG. Also they are too busy with the denuvo fiasco lately so I dont think they had any time for making a new deal.

Akabesoft's manager is pretty famous with his hate of foreigners, so its pretty unlikely imo. Just check his tweets about the 働くオトナの恋愛事情's crack, he pretty much blamed everything to foreigners and used some very unkind words.