There is now a permanent chilling effect on Japanese studios that make games like these. Even IF platform holders eased up a little bit, how are they even supposed to go back to making the games they used to?
It needs to be illegal to reject a release to games that have all been approved by ratings boards.

Visual novels are not games

Aquaplus is getting sold off and probably sent to their grave soon after.
Compile Heart/Idea Factory games are barely peaking at 20 Steam CCUs anymore and often not charting in the Famitsu top 30s
Gal Guardians Servants of the Dark was one of the most rushed games Inti's ever released and its possible this was an emergency to help with their finances sooner rather than later

This can't keep going on and all these studios are going to die.

Just make characters at least 18 years old and these issues vanish instantly.

>>714050980 (OP)
Even if stores accept all these Japanese games, they will still have to answer to payment processors who could just decide to stop any card transaction from going to these stores because they hate these type of games.

>>714051136
>Gal Guardians Servants of the Dark was one of the most rushed games Inti's ever released and its possible this was an emergency to help with their finances sooner rather than later
IIRC for every game that's not Gunvolt they just decide on a release date and the game has to be out by that point even if it means cutting things off. A lot of their games are underbaked and/or have post launch updates because of that.

>>714051483
It's not credit card companies as far as these massive platform holders go. Credit card companies would want all the 2010s ecchi games pulled from Steam, PS4, Switch as well. There also wouldn't be a few loli h games here and there sneaking through on Steam.

>>714050980 (OP)
This will actually fix it self. We just need to kill western studio by not buying live service slop. It's too late to change course so the only outcome is death. Then platform holders will be forced to accept the japanese game studios. Which will take over. This just sounds like the NES, but games instead of consoles.

>>714051604
Wasn't Gunvolt 3 delayed multiple times?

>>714051678
I'm retarded

>>714051604
>A lot of their games are underbaked and/or have post launch updates because of that.
Also, these games are not immune to issues of increased competition that is hurting the industry as whole. It feels like a lot of these studios still act like it is 2010 or so and their games were not in hyper competitive space where consumers have access to too many good games for these niche titles to prosper just by existing as themselves.

>>714050980 (OP)
Sell physical copies, like shareware devs used to. Gone are the worries with Steam, and credit card companies.

>>714051628
This is assuming the enforcement is consistent. To my knowledge the brand protection shit is no different than a terms of service. Meaning super vague and enforced haphazardly. So no wonder random shit gets through and then sometimes doesn't.

>All this censor shit started when i was 30
>Almost 40 now, no sign of it reversing
>Probably going to be 50 with a limp dick and no businesses being around games/anime by the time the pendulum swings back

We lost so fucking bad

>>714051760
agreed
i read this >>714051136 and struggled to connect where platform holders are involved.
compile heart games aren't selling because people have access to better things than vita-ware

>>714051678
And even that had an entire playable character and campaign added after release.

>>714050980 (OP)
>moege
could not care less

>>714051891
this isn't about games not selling, it's about devs and publishers being told that their game isn't allowed on the store at all.

>>714051267
But it's really really important to the plot and themes that the girl is 11 years old!

>>714051939
Total plotcuck death

>>714052067
This but unironically.

>>714052067
>Character is a Junior high student
Just make them 18 no dissonance with the setting.

>>714051667
>We just need to kill western studio by not buying live service slop
Will not work because addicts will just buy the micro transactions 1000x more compared to 1 lost sale. Voting with your wallet doesn't work when the rich can legally rigging the vote by spending more money than the masses.

>>714051835
I'm just glad MGQP3 came out unscathed.

>>714050980 (OP)
It is unfair, but I don't really care. GalGun sucked. And I think we should be buying more games on other platforms. If Steam stopped selling anime games you could just migrate to buying them on ITCHIO or GOG.

>>714050980 (OP)
But you fags told me gatekeeping was le based?

>muh platforms!
Amazing, it's like every single dev out there has forgotten how to sell stuff without Steam or some other storefront maintained and operated by someone else. It's even more incredible in this day, where every single person out there has internet access and online shopping is #1. Can no one figure out how to sell shit through their own website? Here's a wild and crazy idea, take the money you would give to Valve and instead invest in a website. It's worked for nearly every single Hollywood studio who decided to break out of the Netflix monopoly.
>b-b-b-but they own the market!
So did Netflix.

>>714051835
It started when I was 20 in 2018. So for essentially my entire adult life this stuff has been ongoing. I'm really grateful for those years in my teens when I was able to blissfully enjoy Neptunia and Senran whenever they'd get Steam releases.

>>714052304
The advertisement is the biggest part you retard

>>714051267
That doesn't matter to Mary, things get banned with over 18s all the time if it triggers her.

>>714052304
You retarded gorrilla nigger, steam is the biggest PC marketplace available and the only easy way to sell to China where the big bucks are. Hgames that sold 5 digits over their lifetime in dlsite sold 7 digits in steam in a few months.

>>714050980 (OP)
steamies really got quiet over this post

>>714051136
>Compile Heart/Idea Factory games
I've played my fair share of CH/IF games, i wouldn't care one bit if they ceased to exist. The only series people remotely gave a fuck was Neptunia and they haven't released a mainline entry in years. The rest is the definition of JRPG sloppa with big boob anime girls, even the good ones are shit (like Death End's Request).

>>714050980 (OP)
Why does Nintendo get a pass anyway? Who allowed ESRB to outweigh everything else? ESRB has been scummy for twenty years, and now that Netflix, Steam, and Facebook have their own rating boards, these independent devs all cried bloody murder at the exact moment they realized the FCC, ESRB and social media boards didn't have their backs. Been a thing since 2014, they ALWAYS do this.

>>714050980 (OP)
This does just show that Steam needs to get it's act together regarding what games can be sold on their platform. That could help to alleviate the dogma surrounding VNs, and Japanese games, as a whole.

>>714052009
sure, but all those devs still need to massively pivot somehow to make up for how much of their demographic has been lost to vtubers and gacha. i really doubt another compile heart vita tier rpg would sell much now even without censorship

>>714051667
>We just need to kill western studio by not buying live service slop
That won't happen. Vote with your wallet is a noble idea but there are billions of wallets. The average consumer just buys the latest stuff. Big companies hire psychologists to make their games as addictive as possible and they spend huge amounts on marketing to fuel people's FOMO.

My poor wife Nekone
Also, Nekone impregnating mating press

Access to steam would revitalize the entire jrpg/visual novel genre, there are over 1 billion chinks thirsty for weebshit.

>>714052619
>i really doubt another compile heart vita tier rpg would sell much now even without censorship
Gachas are eating the market purely because they are the only mainstream distribution channel fanservice can still flow through. Mary is blocking blue archive from steam but it is on google play and iOS.

>>714051483
VISA and Mastercard should be subject to the same restrictions, and it should be much easier to get people on board with cuffing them because they've gone WAY off the handle. They nearly killed a manga preservation site, hit an otaku dating site of all things and are now targeting furniggers as well.

Talking in circles on the 'chon hasn't done anything to help in the last 8 years.
We literally need an otaku version of Stop Killing Games.

>>714050980 (OP)
The only way to fix this is for the Japanese to create their own steam-like platform and ONLY distribute on there. Turning a cold shoulder to westoid Valve will cause players to slowly realize that the Japanese games they love are only available elsewhere because Steam would rather approve westoid lgbt propaganda where all the characters are ugly.

>>714051891
Show me a single gacha on the market that can compete with Castle Panzers or Bullet Girls Phantasia.

>>714050980 (OP)
>american platform has american creative culture
Commies will say this is bad somehow

>>714052770
VISA and Mastercard are owned by the people causing this shitstorm.

>>714052770
I think the current leadership in the US is not interested in going after them because they are supporting the same things they support, look at Texas.

>>714050980 (OP)
Why is Valve so inconsistent when it comes to this kind of stuff? There's tons of flat-out porn games on Steam, why are these games suddenly an issue?

>>714050980 (OP)
Just sell the games on your own site!

>>714051483
ACH payments.

>>714053025
There's not a single party in the USA, and probably worldwide, interested in stopping this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77JIuRFbqKo
The first victims of cancellation by credit card companies were conservatives, now that they got away with it, they continued to increase the amount of acceptable targets.

>>714052270
Nah itchio is leftist garbage and would instantly begin persecuting Japanese games if they caught wind of their platform being known as the place to get that stuff. GOG maybe.

>>714053043
No oversight. The one time a decision was revered was because it went all the way to Gabe, and that was only because the game in question had a decently large publisher behind it

>>714052747
Good luck in competing with gacha and vtubers. JRPG and visual novel devs should also step up their game and actually make their new games superior to that competition and most importantly stellar right at the launch.

>>714052990
That's basically DLSite, and look what happened to it.
>>714053025
They've been known to cut service for political reasons as well.

>>714052304
Most people proudly declare that they will refuse to buy a game if it’s not on Steam. Like it or not, Valve has a practical monopoly so you have to play ball with them.

>>714050980 (OP)
>platform holders
You go and fight credit card companies yourself.

>>714052760
>Mary
You’re afraid of saying something bad about Valve who you worship, so you come up with an excuse that allows you to blame someone other than Valve. Sad.

>>714052342
Blame the Olympics.

The 2010 are the "lost media decade" censorship, stagnation and creative bankruptcy, all that came from that decade, the censorship didn't start in 2018, started in like 2011~2013.

>>714053167
>GOG maybe.
There's no maybe there, they're already doing it. This game already got banned by Steam and censored + western release banned by Nintendo.

>>714052770
>>714053015
Reminder that the jews hate the moderate influence that Japan has in pop culture worldwide because the country is not pro-israel like their western lapdogs, that's why they are being targeted.

>>714050980 (OP)
Did WA2 ever get a STEAM version?

>>714053392
No, but it was never officially translated too

>>714053334
Yup, just look at anime releases for example, the level of fun, fanservice, incest, etc. in 2008 compared to even 2015 is a huge drop, almost as noticeable as the drop from 2015 to today. Unless something changes, by 2035 Japanese media will just be photocopies of american trash.

>>714051267
Doesn't help, they will literally ban your game if your character looks too cute and petite, actual age notwithstanding.

>>714052760
>Gachas are eating the market purely because they are the only mainstream distribution channel fanservice can still flow through
Gachas are eating the market mostly because they are free to play and it is perfectly enough for huge amount of the demographic to get their cute anime girl fix.
You genuinely can't compete against that with a premium product that has smaller production values, as grim as it is. I am doubtful that free Steam access could save these games in post-freemium mobileshit world.

>>714053194
Anon, weebshit in steam is selling more to chinks today, in its twilight years, than its peak in Japan. There is no competition, China can save vns and games if Steam allows it.

>>714053342
Heh, it’s weird seeing these publishers go to these lengths to sell their games on other sites. If you’re going to put in this much effort to get your game on GOG because Steam won’t allow it, then why not go the extra mile and sell it on your own site? At this point customers already know you’re being blacklisted by Valve and that they’re going to have to go to an alternative if they want to support you, so why point them to another platform that’s going to censor you or make it more difficult? At this point if they trust you as a publisher and want your game, you should sell it on your site.

This obviously applies to established publishers with sizable existing customer bases, and not indie guys. But then again who know, ZUN could probably get away with it. He sure as heck doesn’t need Steam.

>>714053223
Other options have shit like "sorry you can't download your purchases anymore"
Or are platforms like Epic or Microsoft Store that have never supported otaku games at any point

GOG is the only even remotely viable other option, but >>714053342

>>714053068
self hosting will still get you targeted

>>714050980 (OP)
I'm salty that there isn't a Switch version of ToHeart on west, I had to resign to the STEAM version.

>>714053645
It seems slavery themes are a big victim which is a shame because it's my #1 fetish

>>714053594
>This obviously applies to established publishers with sizable existing customer bases, and not indie guys.
Ubisoft, and EA tried, and failed, hard. Reason why they came back.

>>714053068
this literally doesn't work
steamies only buy games on steam because it's on steam

>>714050980 (OP)
>The easiest platform in the world to self-publish on is too hard

>>714053782
You don't understand. The characters being 14 is essential and we can't change it

I hate Steam so fucking much and it blows that this gay platform is the de facto platform for PC gaming that tards worship and defend so much. I want to smack the idiots who say “not a monopoly.” For all intents and purposes it IS a monopoly. Screw them. I’m a big fan of trust busting.

>>714053757
Microsoft also tried, and they're the biggest publisher in the world, and owners of the most popular operating system for personal computers.

>>714050980 (OP)
>>714051136
Maybe they should start making good games again?

>>714053852
How do you even plan to trust bust them?
PC is an open platform, you don't inherently need Steam to sell games for Windows, Linux, and especially macOS.

>>714053469
I can't even watch anime anymore, because the Hobby is filled with so many secondaries that if you point out the huge drop on quality gets you flagged.

Also a huge component on the decline of quality is the digitalization, Streaming platforms are the graveyard of media, and all the (((people))) who jumped onto that bandwagon are regretting it now, that includes Japan too

Eh. I would buy games directly from publishers sites if I could. I don’t use any of the social media features that come with Steam. As far as I’m concerned Steam is just bloatware that gets in the way of me playing games.

>>714051136
>Compile Heart/Idea Factory games are barely peaking at 20 Steam CCUs anymore and often not charting in the Famitsu top 30s
Good, they are race traitors that deserve worse after trying to use culture war shit to shill their slop on the PiS5 and when that failed they bent over and shadowdropped it on the switch anyway despite EAS claiming even nintendo japan banned them.

>>714050980 (OP)
all im hearing is steam and other westoid platforms are dead because westoids don't buy games and anyone that survives this generation will do so due to pandering to japanese tastes exclusively

>>714051483
>>714052770
You can buy bitcash codes from asian resellers like seagm using crypto and then use the code to buy shit from dlsite fantia etc. It's pretty easy to bypass those bozos and for being faggot I completely stopped using credit altogether to boycott them, I'd sooner die than to play the game of these kikes.

>>714053935
Pass legislation or amend existing antitrust legislation to acknowledge the network effect as a barrier to competition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

>>714050980 (OP)
They should try making something other than copy-pasted gachaslop

>>714054060
No, steam BANS them globally

>>714054060
That’s why these westoid platforms are doing this to jap games btw. They believe that narrative and are afraid

>>714052613
Nah I would rather have steam triple down on their antijapan shit so even the most stubborn westaboo JP devs bend the knee and accept if they want money they need to pander to japan and japan only and ignore steam.

>>714054008
This thread's not about Nintendo. Back to Welcome Tour with you.

>>714052770
>and are now targeting furniggers as well.
first time i hear of this
unironically this may be what caves their skulls in

>>714054096
Okay, and what is that supposed to do? Are you dividing the Steam accounts between, let's say, six successor companies?

>>714050980 (OP)
Who could've thought making a single company the gatekeeper of all PC games could have negative consequences. It seemed obvious they'd just be good guys forever and never abuse their power.

>>714053342
>EAS
they flat out fucking lied about the game not being censored on gog and STILL have not released an off-site patch
until a second game gets censored by gog i will still believe EAS fucking lied

>>714054275
Especially an American company. A west coast company! Totally trustworthy people that you would want to give total control of the PC market to. Nothing bad ever happens on the west coast and only good things come out of there.

>>714053847
>>714053520

Oh nooo not the low quality ideafactory slop with underage anime girls

>>714053712
They really need to drop shiravune and find a new publisher.

>>714054248
If you have past a certain percentage of market share, you become bound by similar rules to public platforms, which includes enforced neutrality in approval. No more banning Japanese games because they give you the ick, you must provide explicit evidence that you are under credible and imminent legal threat to ban them, and only in territories where that law applies.

>>714050980 (OP)
There is now a permanent woke target to eliminate

>>714053712
You should be buying from the JP source directly, it's far cheaper too even for first party games, bananza is 50 bucks if you buy it on the jp eshop.

So are they straight up banning games with cute girls regardless of content or only the porn stuff?

>>714054275
Steam's competition have only themselves to blame, should not have declared PC gaming "dead" during the seventh console gen and abandoned the entire market to Valve.

>>714051483
Payment processors do not have the right to play moral police. The fact that they do is absurd.

>>714053847
...which is why I said *SELF* publish

>>714054275
Gaben doesn't care, it's leftytroons who inflitrated the screening process. There are loli porn games on steam.

>>714054490
steam has been doing that since at least the chaos head shit, likely from even before that plenty of VN devs got fucked but that was the first big ban

>>714054498
If VIsa & MC refusing to service Russian citizens didn't wake you up nothing will

>>714052264
Is the full translation done?

>>714052408
>her

>>714054473
>you have to sell this game because... because you have to ok?
>but why? You don't need Steam to sell PC games

>>714054557
While allowing actual cp trafficking through onlyfans no less.

>>714054559
>blobMTL in game title
yeah

>>714054557
Normgroids don’t even know about this.

Reminder that CDs and DVDs are completely free of patents, and the same will happen with Blu-ray withing the next three to five years.

Reminder, its nothing complex.
They just dont want japs.

>>714054239
And no I doubt furries will help, they're too busy trying to "course correct" the censor wave to "just the lolis" because they think credit card companies are willing to listen to their wholesomeness lefty dreck.

>>714050980 (OP)
>games with bishoujo girls illustrations face scrutiny
What does this mean? I remember like 5+ years back there being gay furry WEGs with incest being recommended to people on steam, but now simply games with bishoujo are restricted? Have things changed over the years? Asking because I generally don't use steam.

>>714050980 (OP)
So things changed cuz of all that 10 year woke garbage I'll get the remaining decent games and hope all the industry dies off.

>>714050980 (OP)
Back in the day before Steam allowed porn games developers usually had a guide on how to download a patch that restored the content.

Why can't they do the same?

>>714054646
Blue archive was also blocked and that's a big title by Koreans.
It's clearly lolis anon.

>>714054525
>There are loli porn games on steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3755860/BLACK_SOULS/
I still can't believe this happened.

>>714054652
If characters put in any sexual scenarios look like they may be under 18, it gets rejected. If characters look like they are clearly over 18, any degeneracy is fine.

>>714054652
For the most part, Steam is actually okay with the gay furry stuff (American company, not surprising). It’s the anime stuff that it hates.

>>714054746
It's clearly some retard faggot with a dress

>>714054580
You effectively do need Steam 99% of the time to sell PC games because otherwise your game will flop because almost no one buys outside of Steam.

>>714054776
>happened
Having a store page doesn't mean it passed the review

>>714054779
Okay, so eating shit and pissing in people's mouths is acceptable as long as the people doing it are 18+. Makes sense.

>>714054008
Can't they make a fucking Neptunia 5? Goddamn.
How many years has it been since V-II?

>>714054812
You're right, Minecraft became the best-selling game on history due to being on Steam since day 1. Only 14,88% of the copies it sold were sold outside Steam.

>>714054812
This. Players will bitch and moan about censorship but still play the fanboy and won’t buy the game if it’s not on their favorite launcher. So dumb.

>>714054746
They just unbanned Nekopara After (loli incest), it's releasing in 12 hours.

>>714054867
>How many years has it been since V-II?
9?

>>714054776
There is zero percent (0%) chance this passes without Mary having a meltdown

>>714054850
Hope it doesn't pass. The idea of BS becoming popular is genuinely something I've dreaded.

>>714053654
>>714053127

>>714054683
Because sometimes even removing content for an offsite patch doesn't save you. Tokyo Clanpool got hard-banned from Steam even with the rubbing minigame removed and CGs censored.

>>714054867
They’re not counting Sisters vs. Sisters or Gamemaker as mainline titles? They feel like mainline titles to me

I don’t have a steam account.

>>714054746
gooks have also been desperately pretending to be japanese with shit like BA
they likely just thought it was actually japanese, westoids are not that smart

if valve would just say, it is in fact "expression restrictions because of superior authority X/Y/Z", everyone would be on the same side to resolve it
they're just self-policing and damaging their hypocritical "optics" till further notice

>Selling niche weeb in foreign wokeniggershit-ridden storefronts

They should really stop chasing the overseas market.

>>714054938
Both are spin-offs, the last real entry was V-II.

>>714054779
>look like they may be under 18
kinda subjective no?

>>714054867
They're announcing it this summer.
I don't have high expectations, I think it'll be a sisters vs sisters asset flip including the crap action gameplay

>>714054909
Magical Girl Konoha passed, so I guess never say never

>>714054876
Minecraft is in that 1%. It also released before Steam really blew up.

>>714054974
>>714052414
They really want that sweet Chinese money.

Everyone seems to be a moralfag nowadays

>>714054938
sisters vs sisters would technically be a reboot if counted as mainline, but it's a spinoff
gamemaker is just a spinoff

>>714054854
>so eating shit and pissing in people's mouths is acceptable as long as the people doing it are 18+
Yes? You can display or do whatever the fuck you want if they're clearly adults

>>714054979
Just have an adult woman fetish like normal people.

>>714054746
>Blue archive was also blocked
Good. Death to gacha.

>>714055031
>>714053520

>>714055031
normal people just pretend to have that fetish tho

>>714054963
All Japs that have tried to stop this get told "umm it's not us and we don't know what else to tell you tee hee" when they approach these companies.

>>714054987
By the time The Orange Box came out (which required Steam on PC) in 2007, Steam was already massively popular.

>>714054979
Subjective or not, the standard has been set. If the characters look any younger or more attractive than the man-faced women from BG3, then they’re too young.

Look I don't like this but all of these games are just VNs and text heavy rpgs. I don't care about VNs. I don't care about neptunia. I don't wanna do that "and then I didn't care till they came for me" thing but man I can't get worked up over "panty quest: the novel" getting refused service. You have VN websites that don't care much about the content to sell these on.

>>714054979
Just draw really deep nasolabial folds or else we’ll reject your game

>>714051136
Inti should stop wasting money on english dubs first.
Aquaplus died when they announced that utawarerumono gacha game.
I dont even remember the last time compile heart made a fun game.

>>714054961
You have any proof of that anon?
>>714054792
Considering the amount of retards I have seen on twitter. If one of them managed to get a job at Valve that IS possible.
>>714055038
Valve just hates getting a fuck ton of money
>>714054896
Did they change anything about the game?
Could it be the Steam review team just fucked up?

>>714054979
Very. Look at how Nintendo is handling it. They even banned REDNEG ALL STARS, a 12+-rated shoot-em-up where all the characters have giant tits over shit like this.
>>714054646

>>714055101
>You have VN websites
had*
which is kind of the issue

>>714050980 (OP)
why are americans so japanophobes

>>714055107
>Inti should stop wasting money on english dubs first.
pretty sure they effectively did, gal guardians is only dubbed for the generic battle grunts

>>714055101
Yeah I don’t wanna play most of these games either. I think the only reason I’m mad is the thought that some gay california tards are telling me that I’m not allowed to play those games that I wasn’t going to play anyways. I wonder if I would play them just to spite those guys hah

>>714053194
>they need to step up in quality
>frame of reference is gacha games
nigga please

>>714055101
I don't play video games I just buy them and complain about them

>>714055119
>Very. Look at how Nintendo is handling it.
*NoA
and now we have confirmation thanks to CH lol

>>714051267
This literally doesn't help at all. They don't even have to look young, the steam reviewer can just make shit up, even in a game with no nudity

>>714055187
Their media can’t compete, so their only option is to restrict Japan’s ability to compete.

>>714055031
I do. Aside from lolis and hebes, I also like hags.

>>714055101
>You have VN websites that don't care much about the content to sell these on.
That have barely a fraction of a fraction of Steam's base and are nothing more than where those games go to die because they can't be on Steam. Steam's market dominance has given them a de facto monopoly to the point they've become synonymous with PC gaming to 90% of people. Anything they ban is effectively banned from PC because almost no one buys outside of Steam. That is a problem that must be acknowledged.

>>714055005
proper moralfags would be all for entirely fictional outlets
this is some deep orwellian shit

>>714055272
This is the problem I have with the Steam review process, that there is no recourse for an angry employee just having a bad day and taking it out on you.
>your game has elements that IN OUR OPINION are inappropriate, no we won’t elaborate further or respond to any further inquiries or attempts to fix the imagined issues

>>714051267
That's the funny thing. They don't care. Anything that has "anime" in it will be labeled as "underage". Like a xitterfag when anything not-shonen is mentioned.

>>714055101
>I don't wanna do that "and then I didn't care till they came for me" thing
>does it anyways
what did anon mean by this? being self-aware that youre doing [thing] doesnt make it any better

>>714054498
want to know the worst part of it? visa and mastercard will actively deny they are doing any content policy and will blame their "partners", which are still owned by them

Steam is the holy grail of pc gaming. If you can’t get on Steam then your game doesn’t deserve to sell

>>714055101
Hey, I don't want to see coomer games on Steam period, but if they're gonna do it, then it makes no sense that they should be prudish about it. Imagine allowing porn games on your store, and then taking issue with people's fetishes. Absolute retardation.

>the only solution to censorship is to censor your games
brilliant thinking, retards

>>714051835
We went from the censorship of the 90's to the censorship of the 2020's, we barely had less than 15 years of slightly laxing up before it picked up again in a worse way

I hate gay american standards so much

>>714054652
there is a steam reviewer that does not actually review games.
they see japanese game + school outfit = instant ban. regardless of the actual content, its rating on other platforms, or anything.

>>714053594
>If you’re going to put in this much effort to get your game on GOG because Steam won’t allow it, then why not go the extra mile and sell it on your own site?
Because payment processors won't allow them to do that.
We're going back to the times of either having to import or pirate japanese content

>>714052995
This is like Ipad slop for molested children

>>714051835
I blame the proliferation of normalfag social media. This wouldn’t be happening if women and other hysteric people didn’t have platforms to band together against non-normalfag stuff.

>>714055605
Progressive censorship is infinitely worse than conservative.

>>714055334
>they've become synonymous with PC gaming to 90% of people
more like 99% if you go by sales metrics of basically everyone

Steam not wanting the games is fine. The problem is that all the other storefronts are being closed off by CC companies.

Funny that chuds and grifters still don't realize this is simply the consequence of unfettered capitalism and private ownership.

>>714055845
You dumb nigger, "progressives" and "conservatives" are both part of the same beast. Stop falling for blatantly false dialectic games, while the elite herds you like fucking cattle into doing exactly what they want. Trump was never shot at.

>>714050980 (OP)
This would't be an issue if Japs actually bought these games. That's the problem and it's what the Aquaplus CEO correctly points out. Japs literally only care about gacha games and Nitendo slop these days. These VN rereleases like ToHeart are only being bought by nostalgic boomers in Japan, that's why they NEED steam. They need the surplus of western players in order to survive

>>714055958
One censors more than the other though.

>>714055743
The Greeks warned us about this.
>Assemblywomen (Ancient Greek: Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι Ekklesiazousai; also translated as, Congresswomen, Women in Parliament, Women in Power, A Parliament of Women, Assembly-Women, and Women in the Assembly) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristophanes in 391 BCE. The play invents a scenario where the women of Athens assume control of the government and institute reforms that ban private wealth and enforce sexual equity for the old and unattractive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblywomen

>>714055490
My thing isn't stuff they can come for, or is already unpopular, so I'm set.
>>714055524
Yeah I'd accept it as a trade to get rid of all the weg and furry hitler stuff.

>>714055647
they started to just ban jp games regardless of age or not having school outfits anon

>>714055698
>We're going back to the times of either having to import or pirate japanese content
Which ironically enough will inevitably cause another golden age just like the 90s because this time despite technically having less sales from overseas, a far higher percent of the money from those sales will actually go to them.
Middlemen like crunchyroll and NoA pocketing the money to fund antijapan slop are a cancer that needs to be cut off.

>>714055961
I don't see how this contradicts the topic? The point is that these platforms are blocking them from the western market (and sometimes the market in general) at a time when they need it the most. So they are still the problem.

>>714055942
>>714055958
nah it's a problem due to kikes, not an inherent problem with capitalism or leftoid/rightoid shit

>>714051267
Thank you Satan.

>>714055979
This is illegal in Texas

>>714055993
That statement is complete nonsense when one considers the fact that both are controlled by the same group of people.
>that left hand beats me more than the right hand
Both hands are stuck to the same person dipshit.

unironically, they should just start their own platform. These kinds of games that have a very strong, enthusiastic core audience would be an extremely good fit for a niche platform competitor. They'll never beat steam but they don't have to.

The reason epic, ubisoft, etc failed is because they're trying to be exactly like Steam but worse in every way. This is a good opportunity to fill the gap that steam is ignoring.

>>714056215
Huh, I didn't notice the head edit

>>714056236
You forgot to ask random payment processors for their consent.

>>714050980 (OP)
>China allows lolis
>West and gigacorp Japan doesn't
And that's how you lose the culture war

>>714056219
Lol

>>714053391
I blame that on the current PM, he's a globalist stooge planted by the last PM who was a Biden plant.

>>714056201
>it's a problem due to kikes
As well as the Roman Catholic Church.

>>714055942
Eh I think it can only get gayer with leftoid big government. Look at the UK. Needs a more balanced approach. Free market but bust monopolies when they become harmful.

>>714056236
>>714053645

>>714056236
They can't. Credit Card companies are burning all of them down.
I've personally dealt with that myself while doing lewd commissions.
No payment provider wants you. Paypal, Visa/MS etc. They all hate this shit.

>>714055961
These games do sell in japan anon, the problem is aquaplus refused to sell on the switch at all despite being the only existing mainstream platform in the country for almost 7 years straight.
>Steam is a literal who there and only became somewhat relevant as a niche due to apex and vtubers.
>Xbone has always been a literal who.
>PiS5 has been a dead platform for the entirety of it's lifetime in japan because snoys don't buy games.
Only last december IIRC aquaplus actually started porting shit to the switch, and ironically enough that's when they started to sell again, which is why they are doing the remakes at all.

>>714056279
Don't most Japanese sites just use a generic point system where you buy points and then use those points to buy things that cuckit card companies would otherwise ban?

>>714051267
>Just make characters at least 18 years old
How do I do that?

>>714056215
Lol what. She doesn’t look like a child at all. What is wrong with american brains? Do their females look like ogres by the time they turn 18?

>>714056295
That's just kikes with a different name.

>>714056219
The only things that come from Texas are queers and steers.

>>714051835
https://youtu.be/Msxsu448JmE

>>714056342
Gee if only there was some kind of digital money we could all use, maybe we'd mine it or something I dunno just an idea
The year is 2025 and luddite faggots are still bowing down to credit card companies, when will you people wake the fuck up

>>714056236
A "Japanese Steam" would have utterly cursed DRM (buy again after activating on 2 machines) and would ban you for modding games.

>>714056363
yes, they also started geoblocking certain tags from westoids, and as of recently some started just blocking westoids altogether iirc

>>714056417
Ironically enough JP sites are adopting stablecoin crypto solutions faster than anyone else.

>>714054525
Why won't Valve fire them? This feels like Nintendo of America which Nintendo Co., LTD. won't do anything about for some reason.

>>714056215
Just so you know, the top game is a different one than what's discussed on the bottom part. It's there as evidence of what's being talked about there in action. Funnily enough, sugar star complained when a big-ish Xitter account posted this image.

>>714054346
What do you think a "content adjusted version" is?

>>714056431
>and would ban you for modding games.
mods are dead either way, unironically doesn't matter
>A "Japanese Steam" would have utterly cursed DRM (buy again after activating on 2 machines)
the only real issue
on the flipside it would be comically easy to crack so you could just buy it legit and crack it

>>714056431
>>714056236
To be honest I wouldn’t even want a Japanese steam. Just a Japanese platform where you can get the games without any BS. What’s wrong with dlsite anyways? Why can’t they distribute via that?

>>714056474
unfortunately stablecoins are also directly controlled by gigacorps who can freeze funds whenever they feel like it, happened many times now
has to be bitcoin or something else that's not controlled by 1 company

>>714056417
Bro, me and people like this have to use the money to pay bills. I've used shit like B and monero before for commissions, but it's rather cumbersome to ultimately it use for fiat purposes.
Companies being paid in crypto for games though? That level of scale is just not feasible whatsoever, that's some fantasy shit.

>>714056385
The developer tweet and the game screenshot are two completely different things (the dev's game is called Menhera Farm while the screenshotted game is Kamikaze Lassplanes, it's a Western game btw)
I don't know why the person who made that image smashed two unrelated things together

>>714056508
In the case of nintendo it's likely giving up on the west entirely and just keeping them up as a formality.

>>714056536
Okay, maybe that guy actually SHOULD be put on a watchlist.

>>714056417
A steady stream of crypto rugs pulls are being used to legitimize the market. Two-pronged attack of stealing money from the everyman while making them afraid of decoupling from card companies.

>>714056601
For drawings?

>>714056585
>I don't know why the person who made that image smashed two unrelated things together
because the image was done a few months ago to doomfag about nintendo on CH threads to get people to buy goy-lead salvation on the pis5
>>714056620
that just means kikes are getting afraid of people just using crypto

>>714056546
>What’s wrong with dlsite anyways? Why can’t they distribute via that?
DLsite is literally getting double-penetrated by Visa/Mastercard right now.

>>714056417
Ah yeah if only those publishers accepted crypto as payment, too bad they dont.

>>714056620
*delegitimize the market

>>714055942
>people witj funny hats travel to the other side of the world to impose their standards
>no you see this is le free hand of the market

>>714056417
Until you can buy Elden Ring directly from the publisher with crypto, this will forever be wishful thinking.

>>714056585

>>714056536

Judging by the wording they used, Kanon also nearly fell victim to this but opted to just censor basically everything instead. Think about that, Nintendo was willing to demand changes to the designs of a 20-year old famous VN just because they can't stand cute anime girls.

>>714056601
>guy
Judging by their tweets and some comments anons made in the past, I'm pretty sure sugar star is a girl.

>>714056770
Not a good example when the publishers of kanon explicitly said they wanted to pander to the chink market.

>>714055101
True, maybe they should make the cool kind of shit we used to see on Nintendo's consoles, Sega's consoles, and Sony's consoles, you know something like Ape Escape but not or a not Megaman Legends instead of another VN. I think this was talked about in /a/ when the Gokudo author complained about how all these new fantasy authors in Japan keep making shitty generic isekai slop with the same damn premise.

>>714056835
Based

>>714056835
There are grown men in /agdg/ who type exactly like that. Well maybe “men” is a stretch but they are male. Point being do not judge by the way someone types.

>>714054494
nobody bothered to "compete" with steam when it was a dogshit platform intruding on no fuss installation from rom disks
but steam eventually ended up with a bunch of features convenient for both devs and players, and only by the time valve's dick got way too big to ignore did ea and ubisoft start playing catch-up (poorly)

>>714056546
Pic related, and the region-locking is aggressive enough that even a 12+ title like Menhera Farm was initially geoblocked until the dev complained. I've also heard they're rejecting more games in general now as well. DLSite has completely and utterly cucked.

>>714056593
Does that mean they're about to gut them in the near future?

>>714050980 (OP)
I get everything I need from dlsite anyway. These dinosaur studios don't matter anymore. In the first place, there is zero point in creating an all ages version and a crappy slice of life story
>muh credit card companies block the payment on dl site
Lol just pirate then faggit. Someone will just translate it with AI and gpt 4 and then post it on mega.nz. Its a service problem, just like fat Gaben used to say

>>714050980 (OP)
These niche japanese studios shouldnt even exist
Not because of loli fanservice but because their games are total crap anchored on the early 00s and rely only on fanservice

>>714056870
>they wanted to pander to the chink market
Is this the real problem of why America and Japan keep doing this?

>>714057027
i remember hearing about some NoA layoffs reported by kotaku a few months back leading to the release of the switch 2, and how they were not even given TOTK to playtest and were given no switch 2 info whatsoever until the warehouses were full
then again, >kotaku

>>714056870
Chinks hate kissing scenes?

>>714055743
It's just Big Noses ruining the fun for everyone because everything must be ugly and miserable.
>>714051835
It started in my youth and won't get any better. It's amazing how being born in the worst timing means most of your life being miserable.
No shit men are checking out, you can't even escapism now because hurt some trillonaire cuck feelings

>>714057010
Region locking to japan only gave us the golden era of the 90s so I eagerly welcome this.
Anyone with a brain is already bypassing the geoblock for digital purchases, thus giving far more money per purchase to the devs (while more often than not, getting the game for cheaper), and if worst comes to pass with them banning those workarounds, we will just be back to using proxy services to buy stuff.

>>714056881
>Gokudo author complained about how all these new fantasy authors in Japan keep making shitty generic isekai slop with the same damn premise
huh? wasn't gokudo riding the coattails of slayers at the time?
not that the sentiment is wrong, but trendchasing isn't exactly a new phenomenon

>>714057090
bruhdder, you can't even show bones on anything published on chinkland

>>714057084
It's the same problem as our American indie scene. Our indie scene is the same pixelated crap. Doesn't matter if some lefty or righty makes it, it's still the same crap. We need to bring back the Seal of Quality for video games as a whole.

>>714057149
>because hurt some trillonaire cuck feelings
That trillionaire is doing way worse things to little kids in Epstein island MK2 than whatever you could do in games

>>714056881
>I think this was talked about in /a/ when the Gokudo author complained about how all these new fantasy authors in Japan keep making shitty generic isekai slop with the same damn premise.
ironic when after the initial bandwagon wave that followed overlord and slime, we actually got a wide variety of isekai stuff
it's actually a problem to the point people have to come up with meme sub-genres for already existing sub-genres
it sounds like he's just a bitter cuck that his attempts to bandwagon slayers didn't pan out long term, just like the kakegurui threw a cataclysmic tantrum and wrote cheat slayer because a food isekai manga BTFOd his slop in sales

>>714057273
Exactly, but he still gets triggered if shut ins are playing some fanservice game. Nu millionaires are fucking cancer. If I were rich people watching anime would be the least of my concerns LMAO

>>714057223
That has nothing to do with my question.

If I were a more skilled developer, this seems like a niche you could tap by pushing and making your own game client.
Even if its just for the VN's as long as you give it some decent features, maybe it could work.
Then again, nothings stopping people from just pirating the VNs they want.

>>714056835
my ass, sugar star is 100% a man

>>714057261
I don't really trust this current crop of curators to tell me what "quality" is. Seems like an easy way to get a bunch of Dustborn's shoved down your throat.

>>714057261
>Pixelated
At least horror games are trying to be 3d. I wish someone made a jrpg like psx FF games with cute PS1 graphics

>>714051136
>Aquaplus is getting sold off and probably sent to their grave soon after.
>Compile Heart/Idea Factory games are barely peaking at 20 Steam CCUs anymore and often not charting in the Famitsu top 30s
>Gal Guardians Servants of the Dark was one of the most rushed games Inti's ever released and its possible this was an emergency to help with their finances sooner rather than later
Funny how you don't mention all of their last games were complete gutter trash and we're treated as such.

>>714056417
Crypto is an investment, not something you use to actually buy anything

>>714057507
I bought 4chan pass with it

>>714057507
Someone on /ic/ paid me in crypto to draw anime girl feet :O

>>714057517
Why? It'll likely be worth 40% more in 6 months

>>714057583
Because you couldn't pay in any other way when I did it.

>>714057424
inti games are good unironically, their only real blunder was SOTN with cute girls being buggy as shit on release, which they already fixed
iirc RoB with cute girls was fine on release
that recent aquaplus game was fine but it definitively felt like an AA ps3 era game
there's absolutely no saving CH at this point tho

>>714057261
This is really only a problem on itchio and can easily be avoided if you only play games by independent developers who don’t refer to themselves as “indie,” a term that has unfortunately become divorced from its original meaning thanks to the current cultural zeitgeist. Nowadays “indie game” is more akin to being an extension of the creator’s social media, rather than having to do with games themselves. The games are just a means to get people into their discord servers and to swell their twitter follower numbers.

>>714050980 (OP)
Jewish payment processors and digital platforms like Steam want Japanese games dead all because Concord, Dustborn, Forspoken, and Veilguard bombed.

>>714057424
And here comes the type of nigger calling anything that isn't generic UE5slop "shovelware".
I do agree there's no saving shart heart tho, ironically they have had the best graphics for JP AA devs since nep ninjas until recently when gust beat them with ryza, but their gameplay and storytelling has been utter gutter trash comparable to westoid shit since they had the high note that was VII.

>>714057712
This is really only a problem on itchio and can easily be avoided if you don’t go to itchio

Yeah there’s slop on Steam but it’s nowhere near as bad as itch

>>714057854
Was V-II actually good?

>>714057806
That's petty!

>steam allows porn games but draws the line at blatant underage illegal content
>this is seen as bad
Oh but please, do enlighten me that this is actually a censorship issue and that steam shouldn't over encroach on the artistic freedoms of kiddy diddlers.

>>714051083
fpbp

It was a better...different time.
I miss it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYPvIK3RRK0

>>714057865
>Yeah there’s slop on Steam but it’s nowhere near as bad as itch
no, steam slop is far worse, but the steam algorithm funnels you to mainstream goyslop do you notice it less, at the expense of fucking you out of good stuff, same problem jewtube has of choking smaller creators that deserve your attention to shove generic slop down your throat
itch basically has no algorithm past giving you random games with similar tags
>>714057906
yes, but at the point CH is at now you are better off pirating it
also be sure to play VII, not VIIR, the latter has slight graphic improvements at the cost of butchering half the plot, removing half the characters, and butchering the already piss easy combat system into actual braindead slop

Is Mary a actual person or just a name given to steam game content moderators or whatever they are called.

>>714057906
For a CH game, it's only second to the original FFF in terms of writing, and about on par with mary skelter 1 and 2 depending on who you ask.
In terms of gameplay it's the most depth nep has ever had, which granted it's not much, but it's something.
So yes it was actually pretty good, you don't even need to play the original trilogy for it either, it actually assumes you are aware of neptunia but never really played it or gave it's lore much thought.
Seconding you should avoid the literal cash grab that is VIIR at all costs and stick to VII.

>>714057923
>>714053520

>>714057923
No, it's censorship. Barely NSFW fan service with petite women is bad, actual lolicon is good. It's mind-boggling.

>>714058002
I’m conflicted

Itch manually curates what you see on the front page and itch staff is inherently leftist-biased so there’s lots of things adjacent to “getting misgendered in a Japanese bathhouse” and you have to appease content moderators who like that kind of stuff to get on the front page, otherwise you have zero hope of getting noticed

Steam while difficult feels like you at least have a chance because the algorithm is just an algorithm, it’s not going to throw you under he rug because its axe wound is hurting or something

The only thing that could save gaming at this point would be Iran nuking Israel.

>>714051083
Fippybippy

>>714057962
reminder this type of stuff is still being made, if you have a non-jailbroken switch 1 or 2 make a jp account and buy a cheapo VN of your tastes as your first purchase, the algorithm will fucking flood you with similar VNs
you can do the same on DMM if you know how to get around the geolock like any person with a brain would but compatibility on PC due to locale bullshit is more finicky than just buying it on a switch
if you do have a jailbroken switch 1, any ghost shop is fucking FLOODED with all kinds of VNs, but good fucking luck sorting through any of it

>>714058110
>For a CH game, it's only second to the original FFF in terms of writing, and about on par with mary skelter 1 and 2 depending on who you ask.
i will argue
>FFF = trillion > MS 1+2 >>> VII > moero chronicle > the original nep trilogy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> varnir
then again i would even take varnir today over the goyslop they are shitting out

>>714058615
Oh yeah forgot trillon was by CH, it was so good it didn't feel like a CH game, I forgot it wasn't by NIS (despite being 95% done by runaway NIS staff, which CH shafted over).
Yeah I would put trillion around the same tier as FFF if not a bit higher.
I also completely forgot varnir from how fucking awful it was.

how come i never see CHfags mention death end re quest
those games were pure kino, in terms of who and what we're talking about anyway. i think they're some of their best

>>714051267
But then they lose the older anime fan audience, their core demographic.

>>714056536
Drive-by rage bait disinformation on social media? No way!

>>714058689
Because only the first game was good, the second game is a weird yuri horror love story skinwalking as a DERQ game, which was fine if it didn't release around the peak of the anti-woke rage in fringe otaku circles (so far before it hit the normalfag sphere this year) and thus souring a lot of people on it and DERQZ is actual zogfeed garbage.

/v/ being pro censorship as usual

But when it effects their lgbtcoomer shit it's a real issue

Kill yourselves lol

>>714056601
Die, redditfaggot.

I'm still waiting for Japan to approach UnionPay and resolve this entirely
western processors would straighten up immediately

>>714058689
derq was shafted by tranny heart harder than even nep was
a goddamn spinoff using a dumbed down version of the trillion engine that they effectively stole from runaway NIS staff after a complete console generation of people asking for a conclusion to the trilogy is an straight up fucking insult
>>714058774
>DERQZ is actual zogfeed garbage.
im still fucking mad over them dumping their only combat system with actual fucking depth
it's FF all over again

>>714058864
Don't the Chinese and Japanese have history? I don't think that's an option.

>>714058875
>after a complete console generation of people asking for a conclusion to the trilogy is an straight up fucking insult
I really doubt anyone with the talent to pull it off is still working at CH.
Just let it go bro.

>>714058774
idk i do think 1 was better but 2 was cool too. they both have their different strengths and flaws
and im pc only so i havent played z yet but it cant be THAT bad can it? i already know its a spinoff with different gameplay, unless it completely fails at that gameplay or something then fair

>>714056536
>I draw with the soul of a lolicon! It seriously pisses me off when you paste my tweets onto some normal-fetish art!!!

All you have to do is have characters of legal age AND appearance, and have gameplay that treats and portrays women with respect, and all of these problems magically go away and you'll be allowed to sell your game. It's not hard to do.
But you would rather keep trying to get this shit past us when it's been made clear we know all your tricks and loopholes, and it's no longer being tolerated.
So until you can take a hint, your shit's all going straight in the ban bin if it smells remotely of the pedo crap you've been so used to getting away with selling.

>>714059032
>and im pc only so i havent played z yet but it cant be THAT bad can it?
it is, it's already out for the jp switch so you can just emulate it (and should, CH doesn't deserve your money)
they probably already shadowdropped it for an overseas release too, just go check if you care
>i already know its a spinoff with different gameplay, unless it completely fails at that gameplay or something then fair
oh it does, it's basically a mystery dungeon game without any of the depth of those kinds of games

>>714059171
>>714053520

>it's steam's fault that the genre that existed for decades without steam is dying
Huh?

I'm all in favor of variety of genres and freedom of expression but sometimes once big genres just fade away like rts, point & click adventures, beatemups and 6DOF shooters.

>>714056380
Don't make them look and act like a child.

>>714058864
>US vassal state teaming up with China
lol
lmao, even

>>714059032
Do you enjoy technically canon spinoffs completely retconning half of the things that made the original duology compelling to shoehorn a stronk landwhale? And justify she's technically not a mary sue with a guro fetish defeat CG collection?
Then oh boy you will love Z.

Hard reminder that there's a literal japanese hating tranny on the list of people who work on game approvals, and its the same faggot who keeps approving furry shit and ironic porn games

if you ever wonder why a japanese game got blocked, its that shitstain that blocked it

>>714053520
>content reviewer actually calling you out on your typical bullshit.

Color me shocked.

>>714059171
I don’t accept your BG3 dystopia and never will

>>714059459
>its just one guy
Nah. Valve has been acting gay for a while now.

>>714050980 (OP)
Japan should make a global version of DMM or a new original launcher to rival steam and push it in the west. I dont want an additional launcher, but I'll suffer it for uncensored JP games

>>714055101
fencesitter fags should get the rope

>>714059459
Seems like a major oversight on Valve’s part where a single bad employee can sabotage so much. Maybe its a bad idea to have such a vaguely defined review process with unclear “guidelines” and no way for the developer to appeal a rejection, by the way thanks for the $100 sucker idk just doesn’t seem like a good idea…

>>714057712
What's a good name to call them. A or AA?

>>714059827
Game Developer
It’s just the “indie” tag that carries all those gay connotations

>>714057507
stable coins exist

>>714051267
They do, it's not about age, it's about LOOKS

Feels good having an adult women fetish and not having this affect me at all.

>>714054092
Yeah I'm not a tranny though, fuck your fake money

>>714056380
Make sure there's a scene with them naked where you see their full bush on display
>>714059302
This doesn't work, Women act like that into their 40s

>>714059459
So dox him. You won't because it's not just one tranny, it's systemic within the company.

>>714059984
>He thinks it's not coming for him
When will you learn that they hate you, dummy. They use the games as an excuse to attack you

>>714059806
Why is it a one strike system, anyways? That’s a system ripe for abuse. You should be able to escalate a rejection appeal to manager at least make sure it wasn’t just one guy being a fag for no good reason.

>>714060190
I’m sorry I made this look like an ESL post, it’s past my bedtime

>>714058950
western processors are probably counting on that animosity and propaganda to prevent losing their stranglehold on Japan
a properly international competitor sidestepping their shenanigans over legal transactions would get them to drop this shit

>>714059501
You will, you won't have a choice
We ARE taking your pedo anime porn away and there's not a damn thing you can do about it

>>714060284
No you are the one who is the pedo anime porn

>>714060030
You know what I mean when I say 'look/act like a child'. Don't play dumb.

>>714051835
we are having hay's code 2 basically. americans can't help themselves

>>714050980 (OP)
>>714051136
Jews always win

>>714056417
Ausfag here: crypto is seen as similar to a company share here and so obtaining any is actually more difficult than opening a trading account for shares. I've tried pretty hard and I get roadblocked at every turn by some obscure bullshit requirement to open accounts.

You would think the country that made an entire industry about bypassing gambling laws and skirting regulation would find a way around this stuff

>>714060605
There no wiggle room for 'character looks like a child' especially when our laws generally go by percieved/apparent age instead of stated age

>>714059171
Kill yourself Mary

>>714056870
What does that have to do with changed exclusively to the Switch version?

>>714060190
Valve doesnt have managers

>>714060780
Ah that’s why the review process seems so poorly managed

>>714052284
As soon as a platform becomes systemic, such things no longer apply.
A platform is systemic if it counts for like 90% of sales of the thing.
A service is systemic if it's like a payment processor.
As soon as you are that dominant, you will have (should have) your claims to individual preference rescinded and you should legally be forced into acting as an open and free access-enabling marketplace.

If you do not want that applying to your business, you can shrink your footprint and retreat from systemic role.

>>714050980 (OP)
What are they even talking about with gal gun? Steam hasn't denied any of those while nintendo has jumped off the deep end censoring even the tamest shit like kissing.

>>714051267
Artistic freedom > moral handwringing

>>714051267
Literal dlsite porn games with lolis are selling better than these games. The issue obviously lies elsewhere.

>>714060710
There are like 3 jurisdictions in the world that ban 'characters' looking like something.
None of these ban characters going to a hotspring.

>>714056536
sugar star completely missed the point

>>714050980 (OP)
I don't get it. Steam has shitty half assed porn games made by russians and brazilians but professional romance visual novels are not okay?

Jewish as fuck.

>>714050980 (OP)
So it's another one of those scaremongering outrage A.I bots and the typical doomposting twitter screencap thread. But I kind of agree with that, steam, isn't a particularly good platform for publishing this kind of thing. Not that psn, XBLA, eshop are better, where there are even fewer games like these. But the lack of alternatives for this type of game. In fact, the lack of alternatives for publishing this kind of sexual content sets a bad precedent. I think platforms like onlyfans can take advantage of this to open up alternatives to these stores. Or that there are DIY projects to help publish this kind of content
But the biggest problem are the moral busybodies, both on the left and the right, lobbying for the government to censor stuff

>>714055101
That's because you are a complete nigger. They WILL come for shit you personally care about.

>>714060190
Presumably because valve has hardly any employees as a super tight knit company where everyone has a lot of freedom and they get 50+ games to go through every day. I doubt they want to put up with checking constant revisions to make sure every instance of loli pantsu was scrubbed and different reviewers have wildly different lines on what is or isn't allowed.

>>714061403
If you haven't noticed that only porn THEY don't control is being targetted and de facto banned, and that said porn tends to push a specific set of agendas, there's no hope for you
There is no point seeking solutions that have to work within the confines of THEIR rigged system, and goes for literally everything wrong that THEY have done to this planet and our civilization.

>>714051267
Etna is 1470 years old.
Flonne is 1509 years old.

>>714050980 (OP)
idk who these devs are but if they're anti steam i'll never buy their games no matter how much they beg

>>714057424
Inti's problem is treating PC gamers like second-class citizens with console-like releases. Meaning, lack of customization, poor communication with the playerbase, high price tags and lack of extended support.

>>714061603
>steam blocks your game for no reason
>have to use a different platform
>WHY ARE YOU ANTI-STEAM?!

>>714052907
attracting the government's attention to this matter would probably result in them realizing "this is good actually" and then getting shit deplatformed quicker and more efficiently

>>714061772
Just look at the recent supreme court case on Texas having id's to access porn online.
If anything, they'll make it illegal for payment processors to purchase any porn at all.

The VISA/MasterCard mafia doesn't get nearly enough attention, they need to get their teeth kicked in by authorities.

>>714051267
they are all 2000 yo, donchanow?

>>714062048
Both dems and GOP have allowed them to run a monopoly for well over 50 years now.
As long as Visa / Mastercard continue to bribe both sides with "campaign contributions", there's no reason for the government to do anything

>>714059459
It's the same old anti-Japan bias that Americans have had since the 90s. Remember game magazines always shitting on jap games? Remember SpikeTV? Gametrailers.com?

They just can't help themselves.

>>714050980 (OP)
Cant japs just make proper international platform of their own?

>>714061103
The last Gal Gun was in 2021, it's likely things would be different now if they tried putting another one on Steam, or at least that's what Inti Creates feels.

>>714050980 (OP)
>There is now a permanent chilling effect on Japanese studios that make games like these.

There none until 10 years ago they didn't have any access to a market outside of Japan. The chilling effect is that mobile games that have gatcha also are now visual novels. Meaning the mobage gatcha market effectively obliterated the Visual Novel and Eroge market.

>Even IF platform holders eased up a little bit, how are they even supposed to go back to making the games they used to?
If they went back to how it used to be they'd be selling DVDs of their games in Akiba. Even without Steam they have access to a global market these days via their own stores, their only problem is customer reach. Meaning they need to do better marketing.

They also need to find alternative ways to pay them that aren't Visa, MasterCard or American Express.

>It needs to be illegal to reject a release to games that have all been approved by ratings boards.

The primary reason for this isn't steam but CC providers that are exterting pressure on steam wanting to dictate morals. Get rid of them and you can do whatever you want.

>Aquaplus is getting sold off and probably sent to their grave soon after.
They didn't successfully transition into the mobage market yet they had Utawareumono, their fault they didn't adapt.

>Compile Heart/Idea Factory games are barely peaking at 20 Steam CCUs anymore and often not charting in the Famitsu top 30s
Because they're not adapting.
RTS games are also dead.

>This can't keep going on and all these studios are going to die.

I'm sorry to tell you this anon but they're already dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8ECkaNI_cY

Now go buy To Heart Remake

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3380520/ToHeart/

>>714062424
With what payment service? Visa and Mastercard are the ones behind all of this shit in the first place

>>714054649
these pusyfaggot begsites should at least team up and sue the fuck out of gayment jewcessors

>>714062424
unironically what is even the point of an international platform when anyone that cares is just going to jump through the hoops to buy the originals?
normalfags that treasure convenience and have crunchyroll subscriptions are already giving zero money to japanese companies, so why even bother?

>>714054637
imagine we will end up mailing unlabeled and encrypted CDs again

>>714062513
They have 10000 fucking services but they're all too pussy to oppose main CC becaue most of them are still loaded by the said CCs.

Japan could easily make Paypay or some sort of Bank Transfers international.

>>714062651
That's how you get Gaddafi'd

>>714050980 (OP)
>Look at games in the Steam sale
>Check for them on GOG
>The vast majority are not on GOG
>The few that are are more expensive on GOG instead of matching the Steam sale price
If devs don't want Steam having a monopoly then maybe they shouldn't be retards who contribute to it.

>>714062017
Texas does it right.

>>714051136
>kusoge studios about to close
And that's a bad thing why, exactly? Compile Shart hasn't made a single good game in their existence; neither has Aquaplus.

>>714057507
thats how your local schlomo misdirects you

>>714062563
It's every worse when you consider Rakuten owns Viber and Viber Pay is available in the most of the world.

>>714061660
Literally none of the games shown or discussed in that image have been blocked by steam. I have no clue what that gal gun representative is smoking when they act like steam has blocked anything they've done or acting like modern nintendo is some safe haven when they're going on a spree banning and censoring far tamer things.

>>714057647
>inti games are good unironically, their only real blunder was SOTN with cute girls being buggy as shit on release, which they already fixed
SotD was blatantly unfinished and shit besides. Fuck off. It'd be one thing if they sold it as early access but they sold it as a finished game, they didn't even have any proper mention of online co-op not being included at launch when it was advertised as a feature, they just quietly removed the tag from the store page a few weeks before release.

>>714051083
>>714057924
>>714058437
it's not just visual novels you stupid faggots. shoot'em ups, adventure games, and even RPGs are getting hit
and it's the fault of banks, credit card companies, and political groups sabotaging japan's cultural exports
>>714058797
>/v/ being pro censorship as usual
shills and corporate bootlickers are not people

>>714062881
>they didn't even have any proper mention of online co-op
Unironically nothingburger, it's a singleplayer game.

>>714051267

>>714054649
jesus kek what the fuck is this

>>714051267

>>714062929
>>/v/ being pro censorship as usual
>shills and corporate bootlickers are not people
reminder the leaks showed almost 90% of the posts on the website were just bots or jeet shills
that number is even higher by now

>>714055214
>he's still stuck in 2010s
NGMI

>>714062953
Both it and its prequel have local co-op, you retarded failure of a shill.

>>714063118
yeah local, not online lol

>>714062458
They've got it backwards, they should feel far more concerned about nintendo. The problem with steam is it seems a bit of a gamble depending on who reviews it, but they generally allow far more games and even loli porn games whereas nintendo is now censoring kissing scenes in kanon, banning a bunch of games outside of japan and even censoring third parties in japan.

>>714063118
It's almost like diverting resources away from pointless sinkholes like network infrastructure and netcode in a single player game is objectively a good thing or something.

>>714051891
this desu, at most I'd play compashit for free now, I have no intention of giving them money, they need to step up their game by about 1000%

>>714062513
Why can't they just make their own global credit card?

>>714063158
both the kanon publisher and EAS already dropped the pretense of nintendo censoring them because their marketing ploy failed anon

>>714061560
And they both look like 12 year olds
This is what you do not get. We don't care what you say their age is, we can already see with our own eyes that they are underage. They are children. You are sexualizing children.

>>714063132
Yeah, it doesn't have online co-op because they fucking removed it after advertising it as a selling point for why it was an improvement over the original, despite that there's an NPC in the game who has the option in his menu greyed out ever since launch.
https://www.gematsu.com/2024/09/gal-guardians-servants-of-the-dark-announced-for-ps5-xbox-series-ps4-xbox-one-switch-and-pc
>Additionally, Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark features online two-player cooperative play, allowing two players anywhere in the world to control the two sisters simultaneously.

>>714063175
Selling blatantly unfinished games with no warning to your customers that they're only going to be finished months later is not a good thing.

>>714052619
platforms forbid them from making the lewd games they are known for, of course they're gonna struggle. it's a slow death by 1000 cuts
you're a faggot

>>714055004
The Chinese have their own storefronts too though

>>714062651
Yeah, go ask Gaddafi how trying to disconnect from the (((global banking system))) went for his country

>>714055259
*Nintendo
Stop scapegoating to try and justify to yourself why you keep giving them money.

>try the spinoff game
>it's complete shit
Cygames really wanted $45 plus tariff for this crap?

>>714063494
Japanese prices are nonsensical. Another reason for Western VN outselling them on their own turf

>>714063214
I don't believe you.

Lolicon era is dead. You're late 25 years, haha

We're heading for a cultural dark age

>>714054985
>>714054909
>>714054776
They're all censored versions with the offending content removed.

>>714055334
Maybe they should try selling their games outside of Steam then.
>what do you mean I have to actually grow the market first, there should just be a market there ready for me to fall back on after the problem happens

>>714063632
they already quietly released the nep trilogy after claiming it was banned, right after their pis5 exclusive game flopped
for 60 per game of course >>714054008

>>714063805
This wouldn't even be an issue if steamgoyim didn't actively refuse to buy games outside steam for a decade straight.

This genre or aesthetic or whatever is dead. If SGK had this much issue gaining traction, it's guaranteed that this thing has zero chance going anywhere.
Companies own you, unfortunately.

>>714053469
No way, in 2015 anime was almost as clean as today. I don't notice much change. Fanservice shows are still being produced with the same standards, while mainstream stuff is completely devoid of them, just like in 2015.

>>714063295
Unlike westoid games, they actually fixed that within a month of release anon.
I don't see the problem at this point when the only "flaw" is the removal of a meme feature that was not going to be used either way.

>>714063818
America and Japan need to put up laws to keep our capitalist countries from working with socialist countries. We should only work with capitalists. I'm getting tired of this making games for the world over making games for your country and then seeing if others like it internationally but not taking it seriously if it doesn't do well, just stop selling it in that country.

>>714053469
>>714053943
>>714063890
95% of all anime is based on a manga or LN, something must have changed in that space.

>>714062463
>vtubers
yeah nvm im unwishlisting this tripe and going to just emulate it

>>714063890
>Fanservice shows are still being produced with the same standards
akshually fanservice in more niche anime skyrocketed once kadokawa got saved by sony aniplex cucking gooks out of controlling shares

>>714053469
>by 2035 Japanese media will just be photocopies of american trash.
and that's a good thing! don't you want to see more shows like cartoon network's renowned affirmative action smash hit craig of the creek and disney's culturally-aware show primos?

>>714062463
>but CC providers that are exterting pressure on steam wanting to dictate morals
all proof so far points to a single rogue employee and steam doing nothing about said employee anon
take off your fanboy glasses because this is why steam is dying like how playstation started to die around the ps4 era

>>714063932
It's more that capitalist countries need to prevent kernels of anti-free-market practices to pop up in them, which corporations are doing.
The corporations need to be rained in. Bring the full boot of the state down on them. Break them up if needed.
The tree of economic liberty needs to be watered with the blood of tyrant firms and patriotic regulation from time to time.

>>714063805
Steam is fine it's literally just one fucking tranny reviewer targeting niche games. You know they could never pull this shit with a big publisher like Capcom or Sega.
Either lobby Valve to fix this shit and fire Mary or wait for Trump to make trannies illegal and force them to detransition which would fix the issue at its core.
It's all very simple. Keep Trump-likes in federal positions and Dems in state positions as conservatards love banning this shit at state level but never on federal level. They'd probably ban all video games if they could lol. Do this and vidya will heal, has always been like this for the past 25 years.

>>714063195
Because it's expensive. Visa has spent billions and decades to build and convince merchants to use its global payment network, VisaNet.
And there's not much demand for new CC companies. Normies don't care if your chinese cartoons get censored, they'll happily continue to use the two main CC companies.

>>714064359
the problem is multihoming and switching costs. both are a big dent on the bottom line, which dissuades businesses from adopting other networks

>>714058797
After reading this thread I think Steam's decisions are for the best. If a red state like Texas finds games like this problematic then I trust their judgemeant.

>>714064471
>trusting boomer politicians who thought night trap was some sort of rape torture dungeon simulator
you have some serious issues

>>714063214
What marketing ploy? Gimping your games and spending money on something you're barred from releasing? Brilliant marketing. A slew of devs have already come out and explicitly called out Nintendo and their guidelines as the cause.

>>714051083
Gal*Gun is a rail shooter, aka an arcade genre, so the most video game ass video game that ever video gamed.

>>714050980 (OP)
>make Japanese Steam (not shit like DMM, a proper, fully English-supported platform)
>add English language to games natively without the influence of Westerners
There. I fixed Japanese gaming.

>>714064919
shut up you stupid spiteful snoy, they're just jealous of failing despite nintendo's platform dominance

>>714056585
>two unrelated things together
They're two examples for the same thing, dumbass. How's that unrelated?

>>714065036
>dlsite exists. it got deplatformed last year (no credit cards)
>it's back overseas now, but plenty of genres are hidden for firthy gaijin
>japan storefront still can't take credit cards so japs have to buy games via points
the credit card and banking kikes will never allow it to happen

>>714064471
TAXES is really only against "titillating" Japanese fiction, as they need their citizens contributing to the marrying minors economy instead

>>714064216
Kek at not realizing the corporations ARE the government, it’s like with the airlines during Covid; if they compete with each other, why didn’t one say “no masks required on our flights” to get all that business? Because they’re government institutions larping as private business. CC companies are the same, it’s just a way to bypass the First Amendment

>>714064471
by this argument steam wouldn't allow all the WEGs they do either

>>714065142
>using credit cards
Dumb burger.

>>714064919
>A slew of devs have already come out and explicitly called out Nintendo and their guidelines as the cause.
Only EAS and CH were.
And it turned out both were lying.

>>714065142
DLsite is another half-assed garbage platform. Japan will either get its shit together and create a proper global platform or they can enjoy getting fucked by kikes.

>>714051781
Nobody owns dvd players anymore except weirdos.

>>714050980 (OP)
gachashit has done more damage to niche japanese game studios

>>714057924
what does fpbp mean

>>714065491
just cuz most pc gamers chopped thier dicks off doesnt mean we all did

mountain of anime releases stuck on dvd

>>714063867
>>714062740

>>714053520
BASED

>>714063928
>Unlike westoid games, they actually fixed that within a month of release anon.
They're patching in the unfinished content in a series of monthly patches and the last one which contains online co-op isn't out until the end of next month aka four months after launch.
You really are a habitual liar in defence of the company you like.

>>714050980 (OP)
>Companies like Sony and Steam boycotting Japanese games
>Still Japanese games try to appeal to these companies instead of telling them to fuck off and make their games Switch and GOG exclusives
And yet they wonder why they bleed money. This is why some companies do the wise choice of making their games Switch exclusives. If anything by making them Switch exclusives they will get less piracy since PC piracy is easy as hell.

>>714050980 (OP)
Is it gambling or child porn related?

>>714064471
I generally agree with Valve's stance. Adding these games wholesale and unaltered is not worth the legal/credit card/mob backlash as that would negatively affect everyone. What I disagree with is their one shot submission review system. Work with the devs to create a comprehensive patch. They've already put some of the most degenerate games DLSite has to offer on Steam. Be consistent and avoid all this confusion and concern.

Remember when Marvelous suddenly saw their profits going full downhill the moment they decided to kill money printers like Senran Kagura to appeal to (((global audience))) with globohomo shit nobody buys?

>>714065185
They really are not. You underestimate the power of the state dramatically. And even if the state hypothetically were weak, you can just work to strengthen it or demand it.

Perhaps you are also cynical. But cynicism doesn't bring you anything. It certainly doesn't bring positive change.

Note that strong state =/= big government or socialism. That's not what I am talking about. I am speaking of government not being a doormat visavis corpos.

>>714065551
bump

>>714057507
Why isn't there a crypto that just maintains equivalent value to the USD? Wouldn't that solve this problem?

>>714065046
Poe's law.

>Steam: Allowing Western furry and Lgbt porn games
>Also Steam: Banning Japanese visual novels
People who defend this shit should kill themselves

>>714051136
>Aquaplus is getting sold off and probably sent to their grave soon after.
Nah. Aquaplus was the only profitable studio that company had, they are virtually guaranteed to be picked up by someone.

>>714065478
they can't because the credit card kikes will bar any and all attempts at doing that. network effects are a bitch
you can't sustain a global payment processing network with just h-game purchases

>>714065878
Nothing wrong with banning games portraying characters under the age of 18 in a pornographic/risque setting. Nothing hard to understand about that

>>714062881
>they didn't even have any proper mention of online co-op not being included at launch
They mentioned it several times thoughbeit, should've paid more attention, faggot. Also the game was good and is even better now thanks to the free updates, final major update releases near the end of July so for anyone thinking of trying it out wait until then.

Realistically, how long until Japan makes their own PC platform?

>>714065991
They did, it's called dlsite. And right now I can buy konoha's 12 year old tits on steam, but dlsite says no.

>>714065991
They have several already and for a long time, no less. Barely anyone buys from them compared to Steam, even more so now that payment processors castrated some of them like DLsite.

>>714065769
>What I disagree with is their one shot submission review system.
Made so much worse by the chance of getting Mary as the reviewer.

>>714065975
A small off-hand notice posted on the game's site is not sufficient notice for an advertised feature. Never mind that you are defending the game being blatantly unfinished in all the other shit that was obviously cut from the game at launch and was added back in in the monthly patches (ie people wondering for a month what the fuck was up with the colosseum and corpse trees and random demon lord in the intro who never showed up in game until it turned out lol cut content), and never mind the absolute idiocy of no way to know where a missing bone is at launch.
It was a shit launch that shouldn't have happened and you're a retarded cocksucker for defending it.

>>714066447
Game was still fun, so my point still stands.

>>714065478
no point in having a global platform now tho, overseas sales are dead and the ones that care are already counting as japanese sales

>>714065491
getting a dvd drive from a literal ewaste office pc is cheap as shit anon
even if you buy one of those external usb ones it's still peanuts

>>714054417
>First they came for the low quality ideafactory slop with underage anime girls.
>But I did not speak up because I was not a weeb.

>>714065771
Marvelous is a very bad example to use when it comes down to the one with all the power within the company being picrel and actively refusing to release his pet IP on non-snoy hardware.

>>714065945
If tomorrow the Feds said the AoC was 25 and all games with minors in sexual situations were to be banned how would you oppose it without being called a pedo?

>>714066746
Takaki left Marvelous half a decade ago.

>>714066447
funny how a niche AA dev is under so much scrutiny from an autistic CHfag for effectively delaying the game for about 3 months (realistically one which was all it took for all gamebreaking bugs to be fixed) but the original nep literally bricking ps3s is somehow swept under the rug

damage was already done

>>714050980 (OP)
Hear me out. Maybe they shouldn't create pedophilic games for pedophiles.

>>714066927
CHniggers are subhumans, what else is new.

>>714051136
Compile heart's games are pajeet asset flip tier. They deserve to die for churning out low effort garbage for so long.

>>714066927
Nigger what? I don't give a fuck about Neptunia, those games were always garbage and Idea Fucktory was always a trash developer. I paid full price for the original HDN when it came out and that was a far bigger waste of money than SotD was. It doesn't change that SotD's launch shouldn't have happened and Inti Creates don't usually pull that shit and they deserve to be shit on for it. Also,
>effectively delaying the game for about 3 months
They were selling an incomplete game with no warning that it was an early access release you dishonest cunt.

>>714065945
>Nothing wrong with banning games portraying (fictional) character under [subjective metric]
you're already australian

Just release games open source, problem solved.

>>714067171
i wouldn't even be mad about that if they at least actually had the decency of continuing the nep mainline story or finishing the DERQ one in a timely manner
a lot of dungeon crawlers (particularly experience ones) are also effectively asset flips and i have no problem with that because at least they keep making games instead of meme spinoffs
or worse, actually ripping off a minigame from one of the games and selling it as a 60 game (doggo riders)

>>714052408
>Mary
another eric name skizo moment?

>>714065945
I can go watch Romeo and Juliet and see 16 year old tits right now. I did it in high school.

>>714052408
>Mary
another eric name skizo moment?

>>714067518
Nigger what is your problem?

>>714050980 (OP)
>leaving Nintendo platforms as the remaining platform for the main Gal*Gun series
It'll just be rejected there too. Ninty has been letty tranny localizers censor their first party games for a while (picrel), and recently they've been cracking down on third party games too.
Just release your shit on the plethora of other platforms or even as a standalone launcher, avoid big corpo scumfucks.
>>714051136
Nothing of value lost, AquaPlus fell off after they stopped making 18+ VNs. Hope they're glad with their IPs being bought up by bugmen and turned into horrific gacha slop, like Utawarerumono.

>>714066756
It would alarm him and he would lash out, probably insult people or you for asking that question.
He's a double digit IQ, he doesn't understand how the world works, he doesn't understand implications -- so such a purely emotional reaction is the most likely outcome.

>>714067518
>>714067431
bot?

>>714067431
>>714067518
No, Mary is a real person that actively bans anime games on Steam

>>714067635
>and recently they've been cracking down on third party games too.
CH already admitted they were lying by releasing the games they claimed were banned by nintendo even in japan anon.

>>714067954
>CH admitted they were lying
Not once, you fucking retard. They said they couldn't release it in the west and that's true, which is why they're releasing it in asia.
Stupid bot.

>>714067954
fuck off tendie

>>714067954
Why do you keep pretending CH is the only example?

>>714050980 (OP)

>>714052408
>hings get banned with over 18s all the time
He went full retard like that one time.

>>714068239
because aside from kanon and qureate being fucked over by a chinky publisher, they effectively are the only example
unless you want to mention cuckdaka still seething about being forced to release the game in a nintendo console and censoring his game there out of spite

>>714068403
>what is redneg
>what is kamikaze lassplanes
>what is menhera farm

Why can't you keep your games and your porn separate? Do weebniggers really play a game for 30 minutes, then quickly whack off to whatever naked loli they get as a reward?

>>714068493

>>714068239
Because while he cares about this issue, it clashes hard with his obsession and loyalty to a corporation that doesn't give a shit about him and will happily fuck him over. Thus, he must find scapegoats to continue justifying his undying support of that corporation.

It will only get worse

>>714068438
>>what is menhera farm
really bad example when it turned out to be a spliced image to doomfag with >>714056536

>>714068564
You dumb shit, those are two separate games that were both rejected by Nintendo Japan, it doesn't matter in the slightest that the image put them both together.

>>714068510
You are talking about literal porn in games though, not attractive females

>>714068564
Menhara farm was also censored. The image at the top was just showing an example of that kind of censorship in action compared to the uncensored version.
But you already know all this and must perform endless mental gymnastics to perpetuate your doublethink on behalf of some accountant and EA executive's nu-Nintendo

Blue archive bros...

>>714068762
Doubling down on the misinfo is just admitting it's low effort anti-nintendo spam anon.

>>714068762
Also friendly reminder that blackrock is nintedo's third largest shareholder. Gotta reach the kids, they are the ftuure

>>714068564
>>714068843
>Menhera Farm dev talks about Nintendo refusing their game
>Someone makes an image pairing their post with an image from a different game
>This somehow means the Menhera Farm dev's post isn't real

>>714068927
>about Nintendo refusing their game
*NoA

>>714068958
That's great but Redneg was refused in Japan and Lassplanes was censored in the Japanese release which came out months before the western Switch release did.

>>714068843
Wake the fuck up, you can't have it both ways.

>>714051267
LOL
LMAO EVEN
If the creator wanted them to be under 18 then their wishes should be respected. Censorship of any kind is criminally cringe.
>>714063242
You got some developed 12 year olds in your neck of the woods Anon because neither of those two girls look 12.
>>714061125
>>714062954
>>714062996
These

>>714065142
its time for money revolution, Lars

>>714069016
>Redneg was refused in Japan
?
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/suggestive-japanese-bullet-hell-shooter-banned-on-us-and-eu-switch-stores-but-approved-in-japan/

>>714068958
*Nintendo

>>714063734
Otaku culture is dying.
Same as Akiba being filled with normalfags and tourists now.
They really really hate lolige and cute things.

>>714050980 (OP)
>Kneel to america and worship them
>Nooooo you can't do that to me im already kneeling what else do you want?
The absolute state of japan

>>714050980 (OP)
Japan just went full woke no wonder china won

>>714057854
>type of nigger calling anything that isn't generic UE5slop "shovelware"
The fucking irony. Cry more weebtrannies. I'll only start to give a fuck about AA nipnog developers once they stop producing tranime movieslops and start producing actual vidya instead. Powerpoint dialogue menu simulators aren't vidya.

>>714050980 (OP)
>Japanese developers for a niche medium like visual novels have the west as TOP priority when making their games because they dont want to get locked out of steam
KEK
Japan somehow keeps falling lower and lower

>>714069902
>Japan
Im sad I didnt get to visit some 15 years ago

>>714069902
They've been literally speedrunning into being libtarded and woke sissies. The Japan of just 5 or 6 years ago was totally different from the current one.

>>714050980 (OP)
>we Nipponoids are le victims
Spare me the victimhood. If single devs like ConcernedApe and LocalThunk could succeed, maybe it's time for japanese devs to reexamine where things have gone wrong for them.

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>>714067431
You're getting a thread on the farms of the kiwis, enjoy that, bro.

>>714067954
>the games they claimed were banned by nintendo even in japan anon.
They never claimed that, glownigger.

moments like these make me want thread ids here like on moe, it would be so funny to see either a single guy samefagging like crazy or a bunch of (1)s

>>714070206
Hoshiai no Sora having an entire episode dedicated to a fag coming out as non-binary was in 2019.

>>714068958
The Menhera Farm Dev was in contact with Nintendo Japan, as he's a Japanese dev himself. That game was censored on Switch and Steam compared to the DLsite version.

>>714068493
You're the first one to bring up porn, you literally retarded nigger. The thread wasn't about that.

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>>714056215
this is cultural imperialism. westerners are actively enforcing their ideas of what constitutes artistic value on the japanese, and that is just plain wrong.

>>714062048
visa/mastercard and the government are on the same team unfortunately

>>714050980 (OP)
>Niche Japanese game studios are being choked out of existence by platform holders
Valve sells every game shown/mentioned in that image and just accepted the loli little sister getting dicked in Nekopara all while loli games from dlsite are selling over 200k on steam in two weeks. These devs have far bigger, more fundamental problems that they refuse to acknowledge; nobody wants their wishy-washy milquetoast offerings anymore. The shift has been to pc and on pc nobody wants to plays some watered down game that's been neutered to sell on consoles. That representative acting like nintendo of all corpos is a last bastion just shows how out of touch they are. I get that credit cards are being kikes and mary can be a bitch, but they need to find a way to give their audience what they want.

>>714056215
>right side censorship edits
Uhhhh but I thought Nintendo was hecking based and redpilled and games never got censored on it? At least that's what the faggot retard bot frequenting these threads always says, also that Japan is somehow immune to westernization in their digital media, despite being raped by their western overlords for the better part of a century now.

>>714070698
>That game was censored on Switch and Steam compared to the DLsite version.
>big titty girl showing less skin
Steam has zero problem with big tits. That's sugar star putting the censored nintendo version onto steam for whatever dumb reason.