SakuSaku Info and Discussion

[Tamaki Sakura]

1 hour ago, Kiriririri said:

Ask Japan how they delay a game 4 times (18 months) w

Now that sounds similar to JAST.

[willzyx9]

37 minutes ago, Tamaki Sakura said:

Now that sounds similar to JAST.

Let's just hope this delay doesn't last a month or months.

[Freestyle80]

4 hours ago, Kiriririri said:

Ask Japan how they delay a game 4 times (18 months) w

 

Serious answer: New assets broke the game and no one expected it. Also even if it was fixed they couldn't release it because Steam doesn't allow them to do weekend release.

but u know this isnt Japan, i dont see Mangagamer delaying every game they release 

 

I guess shit happens, as long as they release it properly its fine 

[DharmaFreedom]

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Edited September 3, 2017 by DharmaFreedom

[kiabee21]

4 hours ago, Freestyle80 said:

but u know this isnt Japan, i dont see Mangagamer delaying every game they release 

 

I guess shit happens, as long as they release it properly its fine 

i dont remember Mangagamer having to delay their released, although there's this one game where they uploaded the all ages one. Mangagamer is awesome, they love their customers so much. Even Dies Irae patch is delayed now its Saku Saku, Ive been watching the game since its fan translation now i have to wait, again. The looks interesting so , is it anygood? for those of you who played it?

[Yuuko]

6 hours ago, Freestyle80 said:

but u know this isnt Japan

It's Japan doing most of the engine related stuff

[Freestyle80]

3 hours ago, Kiriririri said:

It's Japan doing most of the engine related stuff

i see fair enough

 

hope we get a date soon 

[littleshogun]

I got more info in regard of Saku Saku delay, and apparently other than want to make it perfect it was because they still need to handle the engine which is apparently buggy - caused by updated assets or something like that. Still didn't change the fact that they had the bad release planning though, in which Sekai should take care all of the engine and permission problem for Saku Saku first before announced the release date - not to mention that they did that mistake twice in span of one week.

Edited September 8, 2017 by littleshogun

[Freestyle80]

so no release date huh, who thought it'd be a good idea to announce a date when they werent ready lol

[Nandemonai]

3 hours ago, littleshogun said:

I got more info in regard of Saku Saku delay, and apparently other than want to make it perfect it was because they still need to handle the engine which is apparently buggy - caused by updated assets or something like that. Still didn't change the fact that they had the bad release planning though, in which Sekai should take care all of the engine and permission problem for Saku Saku first before announced the release date - not to mention that they did that mistake twice in span of one week.

I program computers for a living.  There are a couple different reasons this could happen.  They're all basically variants on reasons why changes would be being made right up until the release date.  Given what I've seen Doddler say on Twitter about making changes to games a week before they're supposed to release, this doesn't seem to be that uncommon.

Perhaps the uncensored assets took a long time, long enough to threaten to delay the schedule.  Sekai Project would probably do most of the testing before the new assets arrived, and plan on testing the bare minimum with the new assets before rushing the game out the door.  If they didn't get that new build with those assets until (say) late Tuesday, when it was supposed to release on Thursday, well, that's not a lot of time.  If something's broken, it's going to delay the release.

Or perhaps the issue was introduced by a fix for a different issue.  Again, if testing is running late, fixes are going to be made running up real close to the intended release date.  If one of them breaks something, bad things happen to your schedule.

[okok]

As if 14 months for a game that was already through tl and editing wasn't long enough to wait

[littleshogun]

Apparently I miss Kiriririri's info in regard of Steam didn't allow weekend release, but I think from what I understand in regard of his post and Nandemonai's as well was strengthening my opinion that Sekai did really had a case of bad planning for this. Yeah, maybe like Nandemonai said it's possible that Saku Saku might had sudden engine break before the release, but still in my opinion they could just delay the release date back at August 25th to TBA until they're certainly sure that they took care all of the requirement for Steam launching, instead of announced the release date at August 31st there because I'm sure that Sekai was already experienced enough to not make a basic mistake like this in regard of release - but apparently I was wrong here. Sorry, just want to write it out here.

14 hours ago, okok said:

As if 14 months for a game that was already through tl and editing wasn't long enough to wait

If anything, at least it wasn't as long as Yoake in which it's been already fully translated for about more than four years and yet we apparently got a halfway edited release in which they could just do that earlier instead of waiting until 2016, and it's leaked as well.

[Freestyle80]

16 days later and they have no info

 

this is a new level of delay

[okok]

5 hours ago, littleshogun said:

If anything, at least it wasn't as long as Yoake in which it's been already fully translated for about more than four years and yet we apparently got a halfway edited release in which they could just do that earlier instead of waiting until 2016, and it's leaked as well.

That was a fantl. Not a meaningful comparsion

[littleshogun]

23 minutes ago, okok said:

That was a fantl. Not a meaningful comparsion

Well, my bad. In that case then perhaps Sumaga was more appropriate comparison when it's been four years that they already finished translated, and yet there's still no single clue in regard of release date since the announcement by JAST - granted that there's editing work, but I think four years was too much and that's not to mention JAST policy in which they'll prepare physical version first which would likely took long time. Oh, and Sumaga did also started as fan translation as well just like Saku Saku.

[novurdim]

2 hours ago, littleshogun said:

In that case then perhaps Sumaga was more appropriate comparison

They were suddenly retranslating huge chunks of it so not really. Though at this point I'm not even sure if Sumaga exists at all.

[Tamaki Sakura]

9 hours ago, Freestyle80 said:

16 days later and they have no info

 

this is a new level of delay

Nah, JAST has gone waaay longer in the past.

[Nandemonai]

19 hours ago, novurdim said:

They were suddenly retranslating huge chunks of it so not really. Though at this point I'm not even sure if Sumaga exists at all.

Where did that info come from?  But I guess in that case it's better to wait, than to have another Libra Vampire Princess incident.

[Freestyle80]

On 9/17/2017 at 2:32 AM, Tamaki Sakura said:

Nah, JAST has gone waaay longer in the past.

tbh i never cared for JAST titles much so....yeah lol

 

granted only realy reading VNs on and off for only 6 years or so

[Tamaki Sakura]

9 hours ago, Freestyle80 said:

tbh i never cared for JAST titles much so....yeah lol

 

granted only realy reading VNs on and off for only 6 years or so

I've been around about twice that long.

[Nandemonai]

5 hours ago, Tamaki Sakura said:

I've been around about twice that long.

I converted to a paying customer in 2001, but was a fan about 2 years before that.  Now get off my lawn! ... Damn whupper-snappers -- If that ball comes over my fence one more time, so help me...

[Ningen]

2 hours ago, Nandemonai said:

I converted to a paying customer in 2001, but was a fan about 2 years before that.  Now get off my lawn! ... Damn whupper-snappers -- If that ball comes over my fence one more time, so help me...

I try not to talk about it too much, but...

I am actually a direct descendant of Kaiser Franz Visual Ferdinand Novel the First.

[Freestyle80]

well while i like VNs i like playing other online games (mmos or shooter etc) a lot more 

 

then there's seasonal anime too

[novurdim]

I am Groot since 1990.

On 9/17/2017 at 10:34 AM, Nandemonai said:

Where did that info come from? 

The usual: shady and unconfirmed rumors from the "close sources" (i. e. Moogy and other "hey I know Makoto/Payne!"). I believe I saw some even here last year. They are obviously not that trustworthy but would at least partly explain the jinxed release. 

[Decay]

It's very believable that they had to translate large parts (or maybe even all) of Sumaga, since the fan project they picked up was of rather low quality.

The same doesn't seem to be what's happening with SakuSaku. Who knows what's up with that.