Stryker125 wrote...
I think the reason they wanted to use steam was the large installed user base. It may have been a one and done situation which is what I think has happened. Most likely the dlsite and patch option is what people will need but youd be surprised how many people on steam have not explored the eroge world but would still buy a porn game on steam
They could still try and sell on Steam with a proper English publisher also, which would enable the possibly of no mosaics if they wanted. In fact they'd have a much better chance of not being banned if they did a proper release with a studio who's already established on Steam. Some of the things / scenes that would potentially be a red flag could be cut out / edited by the localization team / Publisher beforehand, and a off-site patch could add them back in if you so desire. If they went about it this way, I guarantee you it would have been far more successful for them than whatever the fuck they were trying to do with that mosaic episodic release...
Steam is not a good thing if Japaneses studios are not using Western Publishers to release games. One, you're always gonna have mosaics, and two, there's no quality control on a translation except for the Japanese studio themselves. It's just a recipe for half ass poor releases. Steam is a lot more strict when it comes to certain content also, so we'll see future titles changes or altered to absolutely avoid receiving the ban hammer. We're already seeing that happen in fact.
People need to stop buying shit off Steam. Steam is not and never should be the be all end all store for Eroge. I know some people want to see it turn into some half ass Western DLsite or something, but they don't think about the damage they're potentially doing to the industry.
As for Lilith, I don't know what they were thinking. They'd have to be complete morons if they actually thought Valve wouldn't ban it, and what's with the attempted Episodic release? How stupid. I honestly think they're just completely inept. They could easily update the DLsite version with the English translation, but they don't. They could easily sell TA1 here or any of the other stores I mentioned, along with the other games of theirs that have been translated, but they don't.
They're just so dumb. Like I'd buy every single title of theirs that has been fan-translated if they'd license it out to whoever, release it uncensored and in English. A lot of the translation work would already be done for the publisher. I don't get it. I'd never buy something like that half ass Steam release they tried to do though.