Mangagamer Survey

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I hope Dracu riot finishes the fan translation instead. The thing about translations by mangagamer is that they aren't free. I don't begrudge them for running a business but I've been spoiled by community projects. They make good money making nukige. Leave the quality stuff to free translations

The only "free games" are freeware like Katawa Shoujo.  You can probably count on one hand the number of free games that have been translated from Japanese to English.  In general, Mangagamer's sells its story titles cheaper than they retail for in Japan.  That's one of the reasons why Japanese companies are often reluctant to work with them--they typically end up undercutting themselves.

 

 

 

I personally like the anime community model of self policing what is ok to fan translate and distribute. Once it gets licensed in the west it becomes hands off and most places take down the material. Sometimes it can be a race to watch something before it gets licensed.

What you're describing is simply rationalized selfishness.  You've set arbitrary boundaries, a "safe zone", in which you can feel good about getting free stuff.  In the context of works that will never get brought over, these boundaries make some amount of moral sense.  But as soon as you say "it's a race to watch something before it leaves my self-prescribed safe zone", you've admitted that your facade of morality is simply a pretense for serving your own interests.  It's intellectual dishonesty.