Domino wrote:MathU wrote:I wish that were a complete solution, but paying money for anti-consumer practices simply encourages more of them. The consequences for this behavior must be monetary or developers and publishers will never get the message.
I hope you understand that the Japanese normally do not like DRM-Free at all. They are very conservative with regards to digital rights. I also believe they have strict Anti-Piracy laws in Japan. End of their day their culture viewpoint on things like this plus their laws will provide direction with regards to their digital games. They will not care what a gaijin thinks about DRM. I accepted this fact ten plus years ago, and per the market gamers overwhelming prefer Steam over something like GOG. The market has spoken a long time ago on this matter, and in the end of the day gamers prefer convenience. You lose, admit it.
And yes, I prefer DRM-Free stuff in the end of the day. However, people made their decision a long time ago. Stop spamming the forum.
Where are you getting any of this from? 10+ year old preconceived notions about the Japanese doujin scene? There was no Japanese documentation 10 years ago for releasing your games on Steam (eventually they started putting games on Greenlight's process), all doujin games went through western publishers (ie. UFO with MOSS, Rockin Android with PlatineDispositif, Nyu Media with Siterskain), doujin games without any anti-piracy measures are released bi-yearly at Comiket (how do you think westerners are playing the latest Touhou mainline games day 1? they're not buying them), and commercially mainstream retail releases are usually geoblocked from Japan (there's a whole Japanese wiki on this issue) in order to prevent consumers from undercutting domestic sales for consoles/physical releases.
Arguing over DRM is pointless though so I'm not really sure what to say. I'm not going to bother defending Steam, I barely even use it (hell, in NZ you can't even sell digital games on consoles on the basis that you don't own them). People don't take MathU seriously because he's monotonous but maybe you could articulate yourself differently than just going "lmao ur autistic XD".
On-topic, City Connection bought Zerodiv which was operated by an ex-Psikyo employee, so I'm curious to see how their Switch backports will work without having to cope with Switch's native input lag.
I haven't actively browsed/used this forum in many years and it's no longer an accurate representation of me.
I have retired from genre-specific content creation after 13 years, but I'll always love this little genre in my own personal way.