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malvarez1
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The Fortnite situation sucks for the employees, but my first thought was that Fortnite was indulging in too many collabs, those can’t be cheap.
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invalidname
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I loathe Fortnite, so what really bugs me about the Epic situation is the collateral damage. Epic bought both Harmonix (Rock Band) and Mediatonic (Fall Guys) years ago and immediately devastated both of them. Harmonix was made to abandon their DJ game Fuser and start working on a Rock Band-alike within Fortnite (Fortnite Festival) that nobody cares about, while also firing nearly everyone at Mediatonic and stranding Fall Guys with a future consisting of nothing but bad player-made levels and endlessly recycling Disney skins (thanks to Epic’s deal with The Mouse). I imagine both of these divisions were even further reduced in the recent layoffs.
Epic won their case against Google but lost on almost all points against Apple, the sole point being a restriction against linking to third-party websites for purchases. Also, the 30% figure is a long-standing norm in the industry, and what Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft typically charge third-party developers selling apps on their game platforms. |
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yeehaw
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Speaking of love and deepspace, I've noticed lots of chinese games de-chinese character names and I don't get why? And why do they make the english names so... Lame? No offense to any Calebs, it's a fine name for a normal guy but maybe not fr a demon thing.
I've recently started playing Infinity Nikki by the same company and was shocked to find out her name isn't actually Nikki? It's Nonoa, I think (I don't know Chinese so I don't know if that's how it would be spelled but that's what it sounds like.) That's a cute name! Why no keep it? It's not like Chinese names wouldn't sell, Mihoyo games have plenty of chinese characters that people love. Aside from that I think it's a travesty to remove the incest. If the game has incest then localize that incest! It might become illegal in the UK soon but then so be it! It was pretty funny seeing post from people finding out that their favorite boy was their brother and losing it though, even if it's sad that american media literacy is so nonexistent they can't handle imaginary half-incest in a dating sim |
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loveliver
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Sorry I'm late, but the ideal path for THE IDOLM@STER's global expansion should be this...
1. English subtitles for the songs on YouTube, supposedly the Gakuen ones first. 2. More of 765PRO and Cinderella Girls' full songs streaming (c'mon Columbia...). 3. Promote big at Anime Expo, like maybe do a concert akin to what's set to be done at Anime Central, maybe bigger. 4. Of course, Gakuen IDOLM@STER global server, and it should come FIRST. Shiny Colors Songs for Prism could come next, but any training simulation games for the past franchises could benefit from new games entirely with unlockable stories from past games so that the global players won't "feel left out." 5. If there's any console game that could be released for the North American market, it could only be Starlit Season to showcase the past franchises out on the fly, remastered and adds unlockable stories from past console games (separated from continuities, because 765PRO has many of them for some reason). It could probably benefit from a PS5 and Switch release anyway. 6. If Aniplex is no longer the licensor of the 2011 IDOLM@STER anime, Bandai Namco should bring it back on Crunchyroll (the rest of THE IDOLM@STER anime on Crunchyroll already shouldn't be affected as I saw Bandai Namco as the licensor for them anyway), maybe even license it out for Blu-ray release (disclaimer for a certain songwriter's involvement though). |
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yeehaw
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loveliver
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Hidekazu Tanaka, formerly of MONACA, composed and arranged three songs for 765Pro and fourteen (except one for which he only composed, not arranged) for Cinderella Girls. He's also the main composer and arranger for the Cinderella Girls anime soundtrack and did an official remix of Yakusoku. He attempted indecent assault on a 15-year-old girl and was arrested for that on October 2022. Columbia disassociated themselves from him by discontinuing physical CDs containing his work. The songs he worked on aren't legally streaming anywhere. I did find out two of the Cinderella Girls songs he worked on are on Starlit Season, so if it were to be remastered, Bandai Namco might want to be wary (possibly find suitable replacements), but then again, I don't want anything about their anime adaptations to change if they were to be brought to Blu-ray in the States (Aniplex Japan released the Cinderella Girls Blu-ray BOX uncut in 2024, but I don't know if they've added a disclaimer about him or not). EDIT: Semi-related, but his works outside of Columbia (for example: Lantis with Aikatsu) remains unaffected. |
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yeehaw
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Oh man, I looked it up and there's a lot of cinderella girl songs here, and they're all still in the game, I don't like that... |
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