Moogy: http://en.frontwing.jp/company/ all of this text
herkz: it's not a translate, it's just the only guy at frontwing who knows any english
herkz: (most likely)
Moogy: the game descriptions are i guess supposed to be translations
Moogy: the rest of the text on the site is just that guy who barely knows english
Moogy: if only frontwing had a business partnership with people who knew english...
Moogy: where would they ever find someone to write some english copy text for them
herkz: my guess is they weren't willing to pay anyone to do it
herkz: either that or they really don't give a fuck
herkz: like i said, there's only one person at frontwing who knows english
herkz: so they have no way of knowing
herkz: i mean we sent them the translated scripts for kajitsu months and months ago and they never looked at them at all
herkz: until they hired this new guy pretty recently
herkz: then they found things to complain about
herkz: so i'm quite sure none of them know any english
Good_Haro: oh they were giving you guys shit over the script?
herkz: yes
herkz: of course
herkz: they complain about everything
CoffeeFlux: i'm sure you love having people that barely know english criticize your tl
CoffeeFlux: that sounds like a fun and fulfilling experience
herkz: nah, it's the creators complaining
herkz: the guy who knows english just translates back and forth
CoffeeFlux: what can they complain about?
herkz: how stuff was localized
herkz: probably like "omg how dare you change my vision for this specific thing???" or something
CoffeeFlux: so you have people that don't know english complaining about your localization decisions
Moogy: yes
herkz: i said not to give in
ultama121: have they suggested any reasonable localization changes?
ultama121: or is it just them saying "we don't like this" and then letting you loose
herkz: of course not
herkz: they basically want things to not be translated
ultama121: lol
herkz: which is not a reasonable solution
herkz: also it's kind of funny because the game has been on steam for a while now
Good_Haro: are they trying to get you to change shit now...? lol
Moogy: yes
Moogy: they clearly never actually looked at the scripts before
Moogy: the issue in question is probably something they only noticed because it's in the ED videos
Moogy: and they kept bitching about the videos
Moogy: i can't blame SP if they never work with FW again
Moogy: and it looks like FW wants to do their own stuff now anyway
Moogy: so i hope people enjoy an engrish translation of hatsumira
herkz: it's funny because they refuse and/or can't give us any useful files for the videos but they give all these ridiculous requirements
Moogy: the engine also only supports mpeg1
herkz: like it's gonna be shit no matter what if they don't want to help
CoffeeFlux: wait
CoffeeFlux: they wouldn't give you the video masters?
CoffeeFlux: you had to work off the shit in the jp release?
herkz: for the 18+ version
herkz: yes
herkz: prototype has them for the all ages version
CoffeeFlux: wtf
herkz: it'd probably cost money for frontwing to buy them back since they apparently lost them
herkz: and the entire point of this project is for frontwing to make as much money as possible
herkz: so they're not gonna spend any money unless they have to
herkz: remember that frontwing raised the kickstarter goal by $40k for literally no reason
Repiphany: More money!
CoffeeFlux: after the kickstarter was created?
herkz: no
herkz: from the prefundia
herkz: it was $100k at first
CoffeeFlux: ah
herkz: then they told us to make it $140k
herkz: because they wanted more money
Moogy: i try to assume the best about japanese companies but that's hard to do with FW :(
herkz: it's funny because in the end they got way more money than they imagined
herkz: and are still greedy as fuck
ultama121: its hard to believe that they're so willing to bite their newly monetized fandom that's generating quite a bit of revenue
herkz: maybe if we're lucky chiruchiru won't sell very well and they'll realize they dont' know what they're doing
Good_Haro: are you sure they won't just blame you guys
Good_Haro: for it doing badly
herkz: i don't think that's possible
Ayumii: or they say western market is useless
ultama121: they can't do that after they 475k on kickstarter Ayumii
herkz: yeah they got like half of that as pure profit
herkz: by doing nothing
herkz: except uploading some files for us
Moogy: and they had a hard time even doing that
herkz: it's easy to forget apparently
herkz: we couldn't even start on meikyuu for like a month because they didn't send us the files for the all ages version
herkz: also there's not even an all ages pc build for meikyuu and rakuen
herkz: so i guess doddler has to combine them himself
Moogy: i guess that's what happens when companies give a shit about their products
Moogy: since FW doesn't seem to
herkz: like i said, they're doing nearly nothing