Fred the Barber Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 Huh? No, it's not funded yet. They're at $100k with a target of $125k. I believe they'll get there in the remaining time, but they're definitely not there yet. Quote
Clephas Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 Well, if I win the lottery tomorrow, I'd gladly fund a full Iris route... lol Quote
Basileus777 Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 8 minutes ago, Fred the Barber said: Huh? No, it's not funded yet. They're at $100k with a target of $125k. I believe they'll get there in the remaining time, but they're definitely not there yet.  It is essentially funded with the way Kickstarters work. If they didn't gain another penny until the last few days the end of project surge would still put them over. The real question is if it will reach the stretch goal. Quote
CeruleanGamer Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Clephas said: Well, if I win the lottery tomorrow, I'd gladly fund a full Iris route... lol No please, no lottery winners yet. I want the prize the hit 1 billion, just for the lulz. Quote
Clephas Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 I want to win so I can buy the rights to all my favorite VNs and hire people to localize them... BookwormOtaku, Suzu Fanatic, CeruleanGamer and 1 other 4 Quote
Silver95280 Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 1 Billion, that's a lot of Sakura games. 8 minutes ago, Clephas said: I want to win so I can buy the rights to all my favorite VNs and hire people to localize them... Since you'll have all of that money, you can give the games away for free, right? Quote
CeruleanGamer Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 You should just donate all that lottery money to Fuwanovel so the forums won't crash ever again. Quote
MiKandi Japan Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 4 minutes ago, Zenophilious said: Gettin' a little bit off topic here, guys. I've arrived with some with some Adderal! Sanahtlig, The mini episode involves Iris's mysterious past. I'm in the process of confirming the gameplay time, so I don't want to misspeak. Thanks! sanahtlig 1 Quote
Clephas Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 ? I thought they revealed her past pretty completely (or at least what was relevant) in Mary's path?  Edit: Someone else who has actually played the game is going to say this at some point... but digging into Iri's past doesn't really sound all that interesting, Spoiler because the whole point was she basically had a crush on a lolicon who happened to be the protagonist's ancestor and changed herself into a loli so that she could seduce him once she'd forced him to return through one of his descendants... it was hilarious, and the resulting h-scene and the way the story ended was great. However, I don't really have much of an interest in an 11eyes fandisc-style dip into the past with her, lol.  Satsuki 1 Quote
Suzu Fanatic Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 21 hours ago, Basileus777 said:  It is essentially funded with the way Kickstarters work. If they didn't gain another penny until the last few days the end of project surge would still put them over. The real question is if it will reach the stretch goal. Hope your right, 'cuase $1500 (roughly) a day isn't gonna cut it - if it needs to hit 125k. Quote
Decay Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 Yeah, there's pretty close to a zero percent chance of this one failing at this point. They were probably already on track for reaching the goal, but the surge from the cross promotion with Root Double was pretty crazy. I'm sure at least MiKandi Japan is happy with how that went. Sekai Project, on the other hand... Quote
Clephas Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 Mmm... to be honest, Sekai project might have made a serious mistake choosing something nobody knew about (except for a few mystery fanatics) before they announced it. I know about it, but it doesn't really interest me. In fact, I only know about it because fun2novel is such a mystery fanatic and he kept bugging me to try it... I haven't seen anything about it from any of the bloggers over here who have an interest in the untranslated, and there is a limit to how much money people will give over without some kind of advertising. I do compliment them for choosing something non-moe, but there are a lot of other things they could have chosen in the same general area (genre-wise) that would have been more likely to be funded faster. I would have suggested Furuiro Meikyuu Rondo for mystery, because it would be more likely to have wider community appeal. However, it isn't like anyone asks me on things like this, though I've been surprised to see things I wrote on that got announced for localization or fantranslation in the past. sanahtlig 1 Quote
Deep Blue Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 why are we talking about sekai project in this thread, it seems that SP has the power to slip through in every single thread   Quote
Decay Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 16 minutes ago, Clephas said: Mmm... to be honest, Sekai project might have made a serious mistake choosing something nobody knew about (except for a few mystery fanatics) before they announced it. I know about it, but it doesn't really interest me. In fact, I only know about it because fun2novel is such a mystery fanatic and he kept bugging me to try it... I haven't seen anything about it from any of the bloggers over here who have an interest in the untranslated, and there is a limit to how much money people will give over without some kind of advertising. I do compliment them for choosing something non-moe, but there are a lot of other things they could have chosen in the same general area (genre-wise) that would have been more likely to be funded faster. I would have suggested Furuiro Meikyuu Rondo for mystery, because it would be more likely to have wider community appeal. However, it isn't like anyone asks me on things like this, though I've been surprised to see things I wrote on that got announced for localization or fantranslation in the past. People in the west love games like Root Double, though. The infinity series was very popular, and the Zero Escape series became one of the very few VNs to achieve actual mainstream success in the west. If they get the word out that Root Double is something similar to ZE, they could possibly garner a lot more interest. And it has around the same number of votes on VNDB as the game you mentioned, which I've never heard of until now, so I wonder what your metric for popularity is. But really, this all comes down to what the translators themselves want to translate. That seems to take top priority most of the time. But, this is the Libra thread, so let's try to stay a little bit on topic here. I'm actually curious as to how MiKandi Japan entered into a relationship with XERO and why they chose Libra as their first VN to translate. Have they talked about this anywhere? Quote
sanahtlig Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 2 minutes ago, Decay said: Â I'm actually curious as to how MiKandi Japan entered into a relationship with XUSE and why they chose Libra as their first VN to translate. Have they talked about this anywhere? XUSE? Quote
Clephas Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 Moe does make it easier... but there are almost no titles now that don't have at least some moe in them. So, I honestly don't see the point in pushing VNs that are all-moe.  Edit: To elaborate, there are hundreds of titles out there with moe in them, even if they aren't straight-out moe-focused. In fact, straight-out moe-focused moege are almost universally kusoge. Charage can be awesome at times, but normal straight-out moege are so artificial feeling (even by otaku standards) that they can make even charage fans fall asleep. If you want to utilize moe as a primary advertising tool, there nonetheless needs to be something 'more' in there to make it worth backing... unless you want to earn a reputation for asking people to back kusoge. Suzu Fanatic 1 Quote
Deep Blue Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 there was an interview where they answered that and a few other things... me thinks... but i cant remember the page right now. Quote
sanahtlig Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 XERO picked Libra because it was a new release and had chuuni elements, which they thought would appeal to a Western audience. Quote
Basileus777 Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 21 hours ago, Suzu Fanatic said: Hope your right, 'cuase $1500 (roughly) a day isn't gonna cut it - if it needs to hit 125k. It's still doing over 2k a day. With 20k to go and 10 days left and Kickstarters almost always get a big push at the end that resembles the opening days. There's no chance of this failing anymore. Quote
Clephas Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 That's a jinx, Basileus. You should never say never with this kind of thing... especially when you are talking about money.  XReaper and Suzu Fanatic 2 Quote
Deep Blue Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 there are no jinx in kickstarter just pure statistics, it's always the same thing. I predicted how this campaign was going to end by the second week not because i'm a genius (im far from it  ) but because after a few years you kinda understand how people behave in kickstarter, it doesnt matter the project itself it is always the same thing, just analyze a few campaign with kicktraq Quote
Suzu Fanatic Posted January 11, 2016 Posted January 11, 2016 I dunno, the backer ratio versus cash ratio seems a bit sketchy, but time will tell... Just concerned about people making large fake pledges is all. Quote
Basileus777 Posted January 11, 2016 Posted January 11, 2016 3 hours ago, Suzu Fanatic said: I dunno, the backer ratio versus cash ratio seems a bit sketchy, but time will tell... Just concerned about people making large fake pledges is all. $88 per backer isn't as high as some other VN Kickstarters. It's not something to be concerned about. Suzu Fanatic 1 Quote
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