New announcements from Sekai Project from AWA

[Decay]

Err, well, for reference, the blog people were singling out as needing improvement was specifically the Fuwazette, not the forums blog feature. http://blog.fuwanovel.net/ (which also shows up on the front page http://fuwanovel.net/)

[Chuee]

 

Sales = people who actually bought the game

Views (read: page clicks and not unique visitors) = people who stumbled upon your site probably because you keep spamming your blog links everywhere in an attempt to shamelessly self-advertise. 

 

It's not rocket science. Winged Cloud made sex scenes for their game because, surprise surprise, their fanbase has an interest in it. Which is also why they released a patch and posted it on Steam. I wouldn't be surprised if a good number of the people who bought Sakura Swim Club played through the adult version. 

[sanahtlig]

It's not rocket science. Winged Cloud made sex scenes for their game because, surprise surprise, their fanbase has an interest in it. Which is also why they released a patch and posted it on Steam. I wouldn't be surprised if a good number of the people who bought Sakura Swim Club played through the adult version. 

Winged Cloud didn't actually post the patch on Steam (as far as I know).  I and other community members did, and eventually people made installation guides that walked users through how to actually install it.  Winged Cloud didn't even include installation instructions with the patch, which was a pretty hilarious oversight given it was made for Steam users (where everything is auto-patched).

 

The patch was a publicity stunt.  And well, it worked as expected.  As with Sakura Clicker, they're always looking for new ways to get people to notice and talk about their games, especially since sales have been flagging with every subsequent entry in the series.  They may or may not continue making adult content, but at the very least they got a burst of attention from including it once.

[Chuee]

sanahtlig's statement about the series' rapidly decreasing popularity actually disproves your statement. The main reason it was popular at first is because it was a meme, but like all good jokes, they die down when overused. Of course their new 18+ lineup is doing decent, but if players actually gave a shit about sex then why aren't the sales for it topping their first game? This is what I mean by "please read the conversation before jumping in" because many of you keep derailing and contradicting yourselves more times than I can count. Also, the patch wasn't posted on Steam. You guys are now going from logical arguments to "saying things just for the sake of saying it" without anything to even back it up, which really isn't bringing anything to the conversation. Good debate, guys, good debate.

 

You literally answered yourself. Sakura Spirit has a high amount of sales because it's popular for being tit CGs slapped on a 2 hour bland story. People buy it to troll gift their friends, or whatever, because it's literally only like 5 dollars. Naturally, none of these people are going to keep buying these games because the joke dies down over time. By their 'fanbase' I'm referring to the people who keep coming back and buying the Sakura games, not everyone who owns Sakura Spirit, because many of those owners aren't really fans. For the sales of Sakura Swim whatever to top the sales of Sakura Spirit would require them to bring in sales from outside their core fanbase.

[astro]

By their 'fanbase' I'm referring to the people who keep coming back and buying the Sakura games, not everyone who owns Sakura Spirit, because many of those owners aren't really fans. For the sales of Sakura Swim whatever to top the sales of Sakura Spirit would require them to bring in sales from outside their core fanbase.

Yes, and we've now established that that is a very small number due to the drastic difference in sales. Can we move on now?