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This is not a content problem, it's a Valve platform problem and it's been happening to smaller VN publishers for years. It's only going to get attention now because they shot down something from a larger publisher like Spike Chunsoft, but I doubt it'll get fixed.
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Either someone specific at Valve has an axe to grind with games that have a certain kind of aesthetic, or there's an informal company policy leading to consistent rejection of most VNs with a school setting. Chaos;Head is far less explicit than many games on the Steam platform.
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As expected. The C;H sitch was a one-off to lose some heat from gaming news sites, now Steam is back to business as usual. Their regular policy for VN submissions is "one try, no resubmissions" btw. twitter.com/jastusa/status…
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When you say "this art is a spoiler" or "the OP is full of spoilers" to someone who is going into something completely blind, it is you who is turning contextless information into a spoiler for that person. Just don't say shit, it's better that way.
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I'm feeling very optimistic about one of the biggest corporate entities in the weeb media industry purchasing the biggest outlet that reports on said weeb media industry. I'm sure this is fine, actually. twitter.com/AnimeNewsNet/s…
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Thinking again how Chaos;Head would still be banned from Steam had there not been a stir in the gaming press about it. Also thinking about how many VNs are still routinely rejected from Steam without explanation. For no real reason. Just thinking about it.
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Bit of a stir with the new Sonic game on Japanese social media. Apparently a lot of the character dialogue, especially Sonic and Amy's, feels like it's been machine translated with very unnatural Japanese. Disappointing if true. Knuckles's dialogue is apparently fine though.
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Thinking about that one old Did You Know Gaming video about Live A Live where it opens with "there is no known confirmation on how the game's name is pronounced" (the ライブ・ア・ライブ logo is on screen during this section).
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Love it when credit card processors necessary to a globalized economy can impose arbitrary puritan values on the cultural outputs of other countries in the form of service rejection. Mm, mm. I love that market.
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We boutta see a new wave of webnovels come out of Japan posted 1 chapter per tweet. twitter.com/PopCrave/statu…
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MAGES. announces massive losses for this fiscal year. Coupled with their current outstanding debts this means the company is entering insolvency. twitter.com/gamebiznews/st…
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Rance series creator TADA is retired, but he consulted with Alicesoft and today released a balance patch for Rance IV (published in 1993).
The patch enables Win 10/11 support, includes BGM support, increases EXP gain, and other miscellaneous fixes.
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