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Any good anime games on steam asides from the ones carpe fulgar published?
rhemi1:
--- Quote ---In fact, I hate to say it, but the Western developed game Magical Diary doesn't look all that well drawn. Looking like it was drawn in the sort of style people on Deviantart often have when they're just starting to learn how to draw anime but have a lot to learn and a long way to go.
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That's pretty much the truth of it. Take a look at the rest of Hanako's stuff; its all the same deal. I was honestly more surprised to see Magical Diary on Steam than I was when I heard Recettear was on Steam.
--- Quote ---Not to mention the "Korean wave" is starting to hit Steam. Steam didn't used to be an MMORPG platform, but now it seems absolutely loaded with them coming over. And pretty much half of all MMORPGs are anime and from Korea.
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From what I can gather Valve has a deal with Nexon and Perfect World Int. to port as many of their licensed MMOs to Steam as possible. As for the others, like Star Trek and LoTR, you can thank DC Online for that. When it switched to F2P and got hosted on Steam, its profits skyrocketed. Other developers saw that and, well, follow-the-leader happened. It's been working pretty well, apparently.
The reason we don't see more games like Japanese indie games on Steam is probably a market issue, yeah. Just judging from the "games being played" portion you can tell that Steam is geared towards marketing to the FPS-loving competitive demographic that plagues-I mean that takes up the majority of the market these days. Games about cute girls doing cute things are bound to be either ignored, or in some sad cases, ridiculed for reasons entirely unrelated to the content within.
But hey, what can you do. I'll keep buying this stuff no matter what happens or what store its in. Steam, GOG, Amazon, etc. Whatever.
dkellis:
--- Quote from: rhemi1 on July 02, 2012, 02:14:06 PM ---From what I can gather Valve has a deal with Nexon and Perfect World Int. to port as many of their licensed MMOs to Steam as possible. As for the others, like Star Trek and LoTR, you can thank DC Online for that. When it switched to F2P and got hosted on Steam, its profits skyrocketed. Other developers saw that and, well, follow-the-leader happened. It's been working pretty well, apparently.
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STO (and Champions Online, for that matter) actually came out on Steam at launch when it was subscription-based and still owned by Atari. (I know this because I bought it at launch.) Of course, now they're both part of Perfect World.
DCUO is kind of a latecomer when it comes to F2P-ness and MMO-on-Steam. I think Dungeons and Dragons Online was the leader in terms of hybrid F2P models (ie has F2P and sub options).
rhemi1:
I've been on Steam practically since it launched and still managed to forget about STO being on there when it was released. Thanks for clarifying that.
I only really paid attention to all those F2P MMOs after the news over DCUO becoming really popular after going F2P. I still haven't heard anything about D&D online other than "don't play it", so that's also surprising.
temporarysanity:
--- Quote from: Ravenholme on July 02, 2012, 01:26:36 PM ---And Shira Oka is terrible. Great to watch someone LP, but hilariously awful if you try and play it.
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Still my favorite anime style indie game.
(And yes, I prefer it to CFs games.)
Anyway, I don't really feel like forum hopping much so I'm outta here. See y'all somewhere else.
neonie:
--- Quote from: LilithTome on June 19, 2012, 07:09:50 AM ---
I'm worried about Cherry Tree High Comedy Club now. I've been waiting for it to come out on Steam to get it. Just how Americanized is it?
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Protagonist who has the ability to walk from her dorm, to her school, to the "market district", to the movie theater, to the dock with a museum,to the shrine, to in front of the house that is clearly eastern built:
Protagonist: "Man it sure is weird having this shrine in the middle of America"
Shrine Maiden: "Ya it was a gift from so and so after a thing happened"
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