Satsuki

At least they realized that the $5k and $7k tiers were just plain dumb

Well, I have to admit, I can't spend 5 hours reading charage. It's usually 8-12 hours. As for why, I play eroge for a different purpose. I don't need some depressing stories, bullet arrow flying everywhere, or blood filled the dialog. I just want some nice comedy, romance to read, to laugh, to enjoy. That's why I choose charage. So, yeah, I guess it aims at those kind of people like me. Or people that just want a change of pace after reading Higurashi.

At least go and play Dracu-Riot, yo

Fun fact: In some titles, you would go straight into bad end if you chose "outside" too many times So, for the sake of staying away from the potential bad end, inside ftw.

all i know is that you hate Steam, which leads people to not trust anything about you. its sad to see how much hate you have on Steam for something so simple, maybe you can call this peer pressure. if you stop the hate you lose credit on the forum. its very sad how things when for you, we all but you dont hate Steam on this forum but continue to do so will just end on a bad taste. unlike you i dont care about credit i'm too old for that, everything and everything you youngster try to do will not work.

What, can't argue so now trying to talk in a way no one can understand?

Same for me? I gave you a clear evidence with those statistics, which you just desperately bashed them aside for no reason. Unless you can prove that my data is wrong, or else, it remains true, and you are still talking nonsense. And I don't give a damn about how WoT doesn't have millions players or what, one is wrong doesn't mean everything else is wrong too. You want Steam's sales report? Hell, even if someone managed to drag Gaben in here and blackmailed him to show you the sales report, you will just say that "it's fake" or "it's unreliable" anyway.

Again, unless you have something to back your argument up, or else, it has no value, and you simply are just talking nonsense.

Like I said, if you want to know, just make a poll and see how well known Steam is. On the other hand, you have absolutely nothing to prove the opposite. And when did I even say that Steam is not a website? Yes, it's a website, a store like all others, but the different being the amount of people using it, and that's the most important thing. P/S: A little bit of statistics: On Alexa, Steam Store ranked 194, Itch.io ranked 14799, Humblebundle ranked 1549, Gamejolt ranked 10574 (global ranking).

Yup, a whole essay, still can't prove anything. Why should anyone care about "how" Steam became popular? Propaganda, bribing, threatening Obama's family, who cares? The fact remain that Steam is still most well known game platform with the largest amount of user (I won't count Uplay or Origin here, because they are store specialize for that company's game, not for others), and no, just because you can't find it on Google doesn't mean it's not true. Let me suggest you something extremely simple: how about just make a poll on New York Times (lol) and see how many people know/use Steam, and how many people know/use the other random sites that you posted? And if it's popular, if it can provide developers with lots of potential customers, then the developers will choose it, that's all.

What, they have an English twitter but no one goes riot on them yet? Yeah, seeing their twitter with only 44 followers, it's pretty obvious that they left all of the customer interacting job to SP.

Actually FrontWing is pretty active too. They even made a main site/Twitter/Facebook for Western customers. I don't think Regista even have a Twitter?

That's not what I mean lol. Miyasu Risa is the main artist for Libra, so if they see me talk sh*t like this, then I'm so dead

Well, I guess Mikeou > Miyasu Risa, so the "signature fee" is also a hell lot more higher Gosh, I hope Mikandi's staff won't look at this thread.

I'm actually a little bit confused. They started translating the game half a year before the KS, but would only release if the KS ended in success. So if the KS fails, they will just throw all of their work into the trash bin or something?

Well, it's true that they are having like thousand PJ on their hands but only very few of them were released

Don't ask me, I haven't done with the game yet, so I have no idea if there is a route or not. I stalled it half-way because of...reason. I can't judge the overall quality, of course, but from what I have read, it seems to be a good game, that's it. I rated a lot of other games base on the trial too.

Nah, I played about, 1/3, or 1/2, I don't know, of the common route (Japanese ver), so I can kind of tell how good the game is. Don't know about heroine routes though.

Don't get me wrong, I do think this is a good vn (not "best" in my list, but should be somewhere around 8/10), but imo, I just think that they are doing a pretty bad job with KS and reward tiers on this one. That may be one of the reason why this KS is struggling so much, even though it should have been funded, like, in the first two weeks, optimistically speaking. That's why I don't really want to back it. There is also another reason, since I just backed Libra, and I will be moving to another city soon, and the shipping fees for my mountain of anime goods are killing me, so I have to restrain myself from using money recklessly

Have it ever crossed your mind that it may be "best" for you but "worst" for some other people? (not me though)

What do you think about "made in china" stuff? I'm kinda a collector, so for me, official or nothing. Most bootleg stuff have horrible quality, and the few good ones are only slightly cheaper than official ones, so why bother?

Welp, I will sit this one out. Don't really feel like backing, even though I'm pretty interested in this game.

This is just my honest opinion, so don't take it personal. I suggest that you take a look at other successful KS first before making one yourself. Info about the project and the team is too lacking. There is pretty much no sample artwork from the VN, which I guess due to the lack of member, which make me wondering why did you even try to start a KS even though you haven't filled an important slot in the team - the artist. I don't think many people will want to back a project which the completion is so uncertain like this. To make things worse, your physical rewards can only be shipped within the US, which will limit even more the number of backer. There is no digital version of the game, which will "scare" away people with limited budget. The pledge tiers also seem pretty, should I say, unreasonable, without knowing the length and quality of the VN. $10 as the lowest tier for a "thank you" is just plain bad. I do have some other complains, but I will just leave it like this for now.

I'm still trying to figure out how come a shikishi would cost me $4000-6000.... And almost $800 for a signed copy of the game...(the fanbook stretch goal seems pretty hopeless, so I won't count it in here).

Do I even need to say it?