2011-08-17, 14:56 | Link #6781 |
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Love for Rewrite among WH is not lacking. Does not make translation any more likely or possible tho.
I'm suggesting not to have too much hopes concerning that as thus. Better to have an unexpected good news then an unexpected bad news anyway (or to simply remain hopeful for a long time to end up in deception). |
2011-08-17, 16:50 | Link #6782 | |
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2011-08-17, 16:53 | Link #6783 |
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There's a decent number of ninja programmers out there. If someone really wanted to translate it, you'd just have to find the right person with the right skillset.
Although it is funny how they "region lock" their games. What, they don't want extra sales? |
2011-08-17, 22:31 | Link #6785 |
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That line of reasoning completely baffles me if they truly believe that. "Yes, to prevent pirating, we'll make our game unplayable outside of Japan, THAT WILL STOP THEM!" XD I think I mildly understand how it would work if someone got the rights to bring it out of Japan, but even then that line of logic still seems really off base lol
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2011-08-17, 22:33 | Link #6786 |
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Since when has DRM ever been logical?
In all seriousness, they're restricting a market that, even if 9/10 people pirate the game, there's still that 1/10 that will go to the trouble of importing the game because they respect the writers/just want the box. And those are sales they were never "supposed" to get in the first place. |
2011-08-18, 08:37 | Link #6787 |
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The problem with rewrite is a legal one, not one concerning the VN engine used in it. No amount of skills can compensate for that.
What personally baffles me is that microsoft still have region specific versions of it's OS. In any case, this conversation is drifting further and further away from what this thread is supposed to be about. |
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I only expressed our "interest" in Rewrite, while Higanbana (manga) wasn't much to my liking. That doesn't even mean we are going to translate any of them, let alone forsaking Episode 8.
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2011-08-18, 16:51 | Link #6791 |
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If Witch Hunt actually does decide to translate Rewrite and gets permission to do so, then I guess Key might be able to provide an engine that doesn't have the restriction. Of course, this may require some effort on the part of Key, so they may be unwilling to do so. Worst case scenario… make the game from scratch.
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2011-08-18, 17:30 | Link #6792 |
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That's extremely unlikely to happen. A company like Key would only go that far for an official distributor.
It's a lot more probable that someone will find out how to break the code and find a way to edit it.
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There's a lot of them here. Witch Hunt started as unofficial as well.
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2011-08-19, 11:20 | Link #6800 |
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I have no idea who it is (and I don't think Ixrec mentioned it again, while he stated he wasn't disappointed by it), but nothing prevents us or other people to help them or anything (our group is a huge example of that: Chrono joined way after the project started).
But again, I only mentioned "interest" alone. Starting translating it is a complete different story, especially we didn't plan it at all, since we have to finish ep8 first, obviously. Likewise, the fact I and Chrono didn't fancy Higanbana manga doesn't mean we won't change our mind once we finish the VN (I didn't even start yet, considering my current schedule, urgh). Also, please bear in mind that even though we have the fortunate instance of having the original author approving our project, we initially started on our own, just like what Jan-Poo said.
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