Des21 wrote...
Thank you, i have only read the Blog Article about Kara no Shoujo and havent seen the Product Information Page yet.
Now i am anxious about these "necessary changes" they keep talking about in their blog post.
I'm guessing the biggest change was the voice stuff, which doesn't really matter to me. Other than that maybe they might do something about some of the sex scenes or violence? I can't really say. Hopefully it isn't anything too drastic, since I actually want to purchase this. All I know is that the BGM better make it in untouched.
Also, in regards to not getting voices it is probably safe to say that MG wasn't at fault this time. Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't Innocent Grey license everything they do? So even they don't technically own the voice work in the game they published. That all belongs to the agencies the actors belong to. MG most likely either went to the agency or agencies that does/do hold the voice rights and they wanted far too much for a game that might sell 1,000 - 1,500 copies if they are lucky, or they deemed it too unprofitable to even proceed with trying to acquire voices for a game with such a big cast in such a risky market. There are even fans that will buy eroge based solely on the voice roster alone, which would never happen in a large enough number here to justify voices. In addition to that Even Innocent Grey probably hurt for a little bit after paying the cost for voices. Doesn't they way the voice actor pay scale over their go something like $2.00-$1.20/per line for moderately popular voice actors. Given a whole script the length of KnS that can add up really fast. I can see why some people are angry, but it also makes a ton of sense to not have voices from a business standpoint.
TLDR: It is way to expensive for a company like MG to try to get voices from someone who may be asking too much for them since the western & eastern markets are so different.