No. It got worse. Steam apparently has some future plans for a filtering system, but Valve being Valve can't communicate effectively and publishers are having a ton of trouble getting their games approved.
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Sekai Project (visual novel publisher) allegedly laid off their entire staff today
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Srsly..... They tweeted about it like 2 weeks ago, though it was their usual bullshit about it being in the last stage of QA or something.
I was supposed to be safe while kickstarting a localization and not a new game....
Oh yeah, that is right isn't it? Steam said they're going to eventually start allowing more or less any VN in, but for now they're explicitly blocking VNs until whenever they actually get that filtering system setup. So, like the one genre that Valve is actually policing at this point.
Seriously. As a company, they pretty much run on pure crowdfunding, which is highly successful most of the time. The money's not even coming out of the managements' pockets. Looks like somebody wanted a raise.
It was and i don't know how many games from them were even affected.
I mean it's one of the biggest publishers of Visual Novels on Steam and their content is still on steam https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/sekaiproject
As far as i know Steam allows almost everything now if it's not illegal.
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Looks like they posted a message on the Tokyo Chronos Kickstarter about it:
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ew-vr-mystery-visual-novel-game/posts/2262566
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ew-vr-mystery-visual-novel-game/posts/2262566
Having a dedicated office in LA is not cheap, nor is it something anyone else publishing VNs has. They probably structured their company a particular way during the Steam boom and now simply can't afford it in the current market.
It's a weird way of announcing a restructure in your company. Shouldn't be done on a more proper platform than a random KS they are making?
I wonder why they couldn't wait a few days until the KS was finished.
I'd say it was a good idea, because then the KS might not be funded if they kept quiet. People would find out, ask, get worried, and pull their pledges.
Interesting restructuration. Either they didn't lay off that many people, or they were bloated in a specific department then?
Wonder what will change in the future for them, and again, hope that the ones laid off will find something new quickly.
I would run far far away from this kickstarter now, especially after everything else they've failed to deliver.
Damn, this news hit me hard, coming straight from some hours spent playing Clannad... I sincerely hope for the people that lost their job to recover quickly. I also hope Sekai Project isn't in serious trouble, but I feel that right now they must be in a tough spot.
I'm not seeing anything about rabi ribi's LRG release. Last I heard it was sekai holding back everything. I know I could buy the euro version but... How bizarre.
LRG last said that it was on Sony's side pending approval, that's been the latest hold up.
Damn, sucks for the people who worked for them. Can't say I have much interest in their future releases (if they're still happening), but I was waiting for Baldr Sky. Oh well, at least Spike Chunsoft not going to cancel 428.
:| Sekai Project already take a decent amount of time. I hope I won't get screwed over regarding the kickstarters I backed. And I want to play dracu riot :(
edit: just saw Sekai Project statement.
edit: just saw Sekai Project statement.
Seems like it worked, they are 200$ under the goal now. I just think perhaps there were just a bunch of people holding their horses till the last days, and these numbers would have been reached anyway.
It's also very typical of KS. Lots of people either fund at the beginning or at the end. Plenty of people wait to see if it'll even be close to funding, before potching in (even if it doesn't cost anything).
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Bad press is still press, I'm sure a lot of people that didn't know about that campaign got to know after this happened.
So it looks like digital Vita might still be possible though? I think those 3 were the only ones with pending Vita ports that even digitally, are still being worked on? Kickstarter-wise, where are we at with unfulfilled Vita versions? (Root Double EU I know about).