>>530162768
This is the post Maria made. She stated Rance VI and 5D and Quest were off the table and instead you were going to get Haruka. And if you wanted any chance of the games you actually want, you would just need to BUY HARUKA.

The community was, as you may expect, incredibly fucking pissed off. Not only that, but Maria clarified that she indeed never ever intended for Quest to be available as a fantranslation. Those years of weekly updates? Meaningless. Buy this other fucking game instead.

The pushback was enormous. Shortly afterwards, Maria and Aru stopped posting openly in /haniho/. Steiner had not been seen for quite some time at that point.

If you weren't there, nor with the knowledge that VI and 5D DID eventually get translated a year later, the absolute gutpunch this was is indescribable. It felt like you were betrayed by your closest ally. Steiner was unable to get anything done, Aru was a contrarian asshole, but Maria was always beloved. And yet she never even considered just bringing up the idea to the community. It would have certainly been accepted.

Continued in the next post.