New Mangagamer licenses? (Update: Partial confimations)

[Lipp]

@B173 M3

@Nandemonai

@B173 M3

How come they didn’t announce that on their website or update their catalog pages?

If I were to guess, I’d say it probably has something to do with repeatedly delaying things. Repeatedly failing to delay things, no less, in that they several times released a game for a few hours, then realized that the game was supposed to be delayed and yanked it.

I’d guess one of the things they did with their updated website was rework the whole way it works in the back end so it no longer automatically does stuff like that - meaning they probably have to update manually now.

Well, it still doesn’t really make much sense not to announce it on their website either way, especially considering the fact that nobody said they had to mention a release date of any kind–I don’t see why they can’t just annouce that they’re releasing “x” game just to get some attention and slap a “TBA” label next to the game info until they get a concrete release date. They could use the added attention/hype, even if they aren’t sure when exactly they’re releasing those games.

From what i remember, they couldn’t do a TBA on the website because of how it is set up/programmed
They have to put in an exact release date for how it is done ( which seems very simplistic and probably very cheap is why )

[zalas]

@B173 M3

So Mangagamer has announced three new games coming out in their lineup?

How come they didn’t announce that on their website or update their catalog pages? I’d would have thought Higurashi would have had it’s own page in the catalog section, but it’s nowhere to be found…

1. Considering that MangaGamer’s only public-facing portal is its website, these new games technically haven’t been formally announced yet, just “leaked” ;p
2. MangaGamer’s site right now appears to be simply a decked up online store. There’s no real “website” to speak of, if you compare MangaGamer’s site with other eroge publisher sites.
3. Games can’t be delayed or cancelled if they aren’t “announced” ;p

[michelous]

i hope they get Hinatarte so none japanese speakers can see the extra stories

[Lipp]

@michelous

i hope they get Hinatarte so none japanese speakers can see the extra stories

If i recall, the problem is that Tarte’s games are owned by many company’s now. I recall reading that when they closed, other company’s they worked with split the licenses. So unless they make agreements with whichever company has Hinatarte, we wont get it ( unless they have already, cause i haven’t looked up which company now owns it )
Also i believe that the short story’s involve a character from another of Tarte’s games, so it will lose it’s impact unless that other game is translated first.