Square Enix profits up 50% - credits casual gamers

NOTE: This article is from Sankaku Channel so there is some porn around it.

As can be seen, just as Konami is now very much a pachinko company despite most of its public profile being garnered from video games, Square Enix’s revenues from smartphone titles drastically exceed their traditional games in both extent and consistency – making it very much a casual gaming company. - quote from article

sankakucomplex.com/2018/02/07/square-enix-profits-up-50-casuals-are-the-gamers-now/

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They make some good phone games though, too bad they are only available on Japan


fucking retard

The vidya game crash cannot come soon enough.

its like you havent learn anything this past few years

Oh great, it's one of these.

Well here's the real question. Should we find a way to counter/stop this move of companies catering to casuals? And why are some many companies catering to casuals? Where did we go wrong as gamers?

ok, enjoy being datamined like the retard you are

NieR/Drakeguard/Drag-On Dragoon mobile game when?

Absolutely not.
I've been waiting for this shit and I hope it picks up steam.
The moment publishers think "Hey, there's a crapload of money in phone games!" is the moment they'll fuck off to suck money out of casuals like some weird shekel-vampire.
Then they'll leave the rest of the industry alone and we can go back to having 30-40 B-tier studios releasing flawed masterpieces, instead of this AAA comitee-designed DLC platforms we have now.

You're in no position to call anyone else a retard.

It's just easy shekels.
When the casul shit crashes and burns, they'll go back to making proper games and they'll have to make them decent or they will go bankrupt because there will be no sheep left to trick.


This too, but I haven't really seen a resurgence of smaller studios.
Then again, I don't exactly keep up with newer games either.

Archive everything
>>>/cuckchan/

OP is a faggot for not archiving the link, but b9d922 is also a faggot for being bait material.

Kill yourself newfag, this isn't cuckchan or nu-Holla Forums where nothing is archived anymore

I think you're right about the easy money part, but the more i think about it, what if the game companies in Japan are operating on the same kind of budgeting scheme that the car industry in America has been operating on for years. Which is borrow money from the banks to cover costs and then repay it with a ridiculous amount of interest attached. I think the Jap companies would get tired of that pretty quickly. Maybe that's why they are going into the causal/mobile cash grab

Game companies were doing this since 2008. Would there be a way to convince them otherwise after 10 years of this strategy being the way to go?

But it is too much fun to ruin their profit anyway.

Now it's real news!
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There is no such thing by definition.

at least try to fit in you retard

Speaking of Square.
The newest KH3 trailer just dropped.

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(((Disney)))


I demand proof or your head

Holy fuck, the projection.
Do you even know how a computer works?

I really wish Square would just give over everything to Horii and Enix and leave forever.

user, you could have just said you're a faggot.

Not-even-tabloid-tier rubbish. There's a reason /jp/ used to shit on it. Only thing OK is their booru for not being as awful as Gelbooru, or kiked as Danbooru.

Is there a booru left that isn't complete fucking garbage?

That many people bought Dissidia NT?

No, sankaku is just as bad as the others for having literally zero quality control. It's filled to the brim with incredibly low quality shit and faggot fetishes. If you think you can just black list it, think again, because their black list has a character limit that doesn't cover even a tenth of all the disgusting shit that I've seen there. Also fun fact: the place has a fuckton of faggots that post nothing but white girls getting fucked by nogs, including some that do nothing but edit non-blacked images into nogs fucking white girls.

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That's the 3D booru, which
There is a separate one for 2D. Sadly Danbooru is the best one for having decent tagging, decent QC, and the community. Translations too.

No, I'm talking about the 2D one. From what little I've seen of the 3DPD one, it's actually in a less awful state, which just tells us how fucking awful the 2D one is.

Don't be a casual user, you need to learn to read Japanese for vidya anyway, might as well practice with your porn

Yeesh never mind then. I just recall someone saying it was an alternative.


They're not all Japanese mate.

The manga won't end in harem, so why bother?

Didn't it remove lots of loli stuff some time ago?
Did it redeem itself later?
I thought gelbooru was the best one for completion despite all the adblock dodging bullshit.

Gelbooru removed toddlercon and the community and QC is generally atrocious on top of the multitude of ads. Danbooru restricts loli/shota and most "banned artists" to paid accounts. There an extension to bypass that but I don't know if it still works because I'm a faggot.


So? That doesn't mean I can't enjoy pretty girls, and fanworks of pretty girls that do.

They still have loli, they just hide it unless you're a good goy. You used to be able to use an addon to bypass it, but they fixed that a while ago.
Danbooru
Gelbooru
Sankaku

Finally I have use for this

danbooru
+gallery is good quality
+offers most translations
+no ads
-only 2 tag search without paid account
-no loli without paid account
-misses some stuff other boorus has

gelbooru
+gallery is mostly good quality
+can use many tags without paying
-cancerous ads
-cancerous anti-adblock mechanism
-doesn't offer translations often

sankaku
+offers biggest selection of images
+can use many tags without paying
+anti-adblock mechanisms are preventable
-cancerous ads
-cancerous anti-adblock mechanism
-rarely offers translations
-low quality gallery

Also stop fapping user.

There's too few harem endings as it is.

Huh, Danbooru has no ads now? Also yeah I forgot about the 2 tag limit. That's some garbage. Screengrabbing.

No.


Except in fanworks. It's irony that the harem genre never delivers.

I was probably wrong on that, but atleast it isn't cancerous about them

Even then it's really not satisfying. At best you'll get a 30 page doujin with some lewds and not much emotional payoff.

It's a fucking scam. For a genre that is supposed to be all about wish fulfillment said wishes rarely get fulfilled. How the fuck is it 2018 yet Umi no Misaki still sits as the undisputed king of harem manga and why doesn't it have an anime adaptation?

Actually Im not sure if it really has ads at all nowadays.
Staying on my original statement, until someone posts contrary evidence.

Have you not been seeing what has been happening the past few decades? Those AAA companies will just buy out the B-tier studios and force them to make mobile shit and other trash which will over saturate the market, again.


Yeah it's all fucked at this point. I just rely on finding everything myself using Pixiv, Nijil, Pawoo, Twitter, and Tumblr every blue moon. It's a lot to keep up with but it's the only way to find a bunch of good stuff. Also Yande.re and Konachan are still good. Yande.re has nice quality control and high res images/scans. Konachan being good for wallpapers. You can also check the Non-H section of Exhentai which will have some good stuff every once in a while.

I just checked with ABL turned off and not logged in. There's Google Analytics but the actual in-your-face ads have vanished. Paid accounts used to remove them, so did the extension. Even when it had ads though it was always tame stuff like J-List. Not the absolute cancer you'd expect out of a 3D porn site, which is why I don't use n-hentai.


Simple quantity over quality. It's why I lean to 1:1 relationships even if it's rooted in a harem series. At the very least a harem series needs to deliver on lewd.


Pixiv and Twitter have their own issues. But yeah I use the latter for artists, and the former for artists and the rare general search.

Y'all niggas should just use safebooru for your needs.
Or atleast filter lewd content out


Alright thanks.

I do use those, but unfortunately they have really bad tagging. Speaking of exhentai, it's a shame that they're flooded by trash quality. So much garbage now compared to the quality stuff. While we're on the subject, anyone know if tsumino or nhentai are any good?

Hello newfriend, how goes the shilling?

That's not the issue though. You could just as well focus on character interactions (which should be the main part of a harem story anyway) so each heroine gets enough character development. Then again, actually having a plot and not using cheap tricks such as introducing new girls whenever you require new developments helps. Just look at Campione!, the number of heroines is small (four total) and they are all introduced in the first few volumes, so that the author can then focus on story and character development. On the other hand you have that monster inn garbage where more and more girls are thrown into the mix yet the author wastes all screentime on the ghost girl. He needn't have even bothered with a harem if he had wanted to focus on her.

Fucking this. What baffles me is when they start uploading non-erotic 3DPD cosplay of Western characters, and yet no one seems to grasp why that is the ultimate and total opposite of what a hentai site should be.

Don't they also hide some content if you haven't been a member since a certain date or don't have a certain number of posts in their forums?

Would explain a lot, a lot of raws disappear from my ability to see with only English "translations" available, but that might also be them blocking me since I'm actually in Japan.

Although usage of the space matters a lot there's only so much you can fit into a given number of pages. A typical H manga is maybe 20-30. Fine for one girl, but quickly gets cramped as you add more and more. The same principle applies to a long running series.


I don't think anyone has a clue how that works. But the lesson there is to archive everything you care about instead of relying on third-parties to keep it for you. They've also taken down things for being on Fuckyou!


Thankfully those categories can be disabled. Maybe they'll die some day, or at least go the way of the Asian Porn one.


n-hentai has the community issue and aforementioned ads but seems to at least have some content. I've never even heard of tsumino.

Are you the fag I talked to the other day that couldn't understand the difference between a rewrite and a translation in exhentai?

Artists are leaving Pixiv in mass so I'm constantly losing people I'm following. So I find new people all the time and then lose a dozen more every month.


Searching things under tags in Pixiv is horrible. Especially under more obscure stuff.

Couldn't that also be due to Fakku taking many artist? I know a ton of things I've favorite over the years are now gone.

Granted, but the fact that people are so blind they don't grasp what the problem is is depressing.


I don't think so, no. I just don't trust other people's translations in general.

It's not, other users can see the galleries just fine, but for me they always return "Gallery Not Available."

God damn it

Rockstar games are good, just wishing they would finally get off their asses and make Vice City Stories mobile. They already made Liberty City Stories mobile. They are just ports of older games, but they count in my eyes. There's no good way to play these games if you don't have a PSP or PS2, and emulation sucks since the resolution for PSP is total shit and PS2 emulation is awful.

It all depends on how good the author is at outlining the plot. I've seen stories with one girls that get bogged down in pointless bullshit and harem stories that remain on topic throughout without issue.

Sankaku also has a perk of not needing to constantly click between pages, as it will just load the next however many as you continue to scroll down, but on the other hand will attempt to load the ads for those "pages" of content as well. So I suppose it negates its own benefit (on the user end anyhow).


Same thing with the ads on just about any major lewd site. It's one thing to advertise newly released CGs or hentai games, or where to buy an onahole or whatever, but more often than not it's ads for 3DPD related shit, which just screams not knowing your audience. People are coming to such sites for 2D, stop trying to shill real life porn or meet ups at them. Makes about as much sense as the time 8ch got a bunch of ads for pussy pumps (which I highly doubt there's much of a market for here).

I think some stuff either gets excised due to DMCA at times, but it wouldn't shock me if it's more likely just hidden from those not logged in. Think that's what happens with, say, hitomi, where you can find a link in a related content section and click it, only for it to shoot back a 403 error page or whatnot. Could well be that some content it freely accessible for X amount of time, before becoming permanently account-only. But that's just my own speculation.


Speaking of Fakku, it seems fucking stupid to me that other sites, rather than merely taking down any links to doujins that Fakku now sells under DMCA, will instead reroute the page to a fucking advertisement for that spider Jake's site to buy it through. I mean, why in the fuck would you willingly advertise for one of your click-competition rivals? At least as far as 8ch is concerned, there's free-to-download torrents in the GG thread copypastas for stuff Jake wants shekels for.

oh shit
Why is that?
And where are they going?

Is there any place where you can get Fakku stuff without having to get Jewed out for it?

The share thread

Share thread for individual doujins/anthologies maybe, but also see this copypasta in the current GG thread (starting at "Spread this").

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Tsumino has a lot of it but I don't know if the site is good or if they do some shady stuff.

Wish I'd screencapped the guy who posted about it on /a/. Basically, expect it to be overwhelmingly boring vanilla with cringey titles, because think about who the target audience is.


Pixiv's tagging is pure trash. Doesn't help that the site has a mess of Westerners polluting the namespace either.


Hence why I said "use of the space matters".


I expect it's "any ads" since they're so fickle about certain content. That's why exhentai has no ads but has loli and shota and a few other things. It's also why Danbooru hides loli/shota (even though there shouldn't be a need to now).


Sorry.

You and I need to have words.

The fuck you factor alone of having 2300 doujins from behind a paywall more then makes up for what the content most likely is.

Not sure why but I'm assuming Pixiv got anti-consumer (or at least for the artists) but looking it up doesn't give me much info. However I have been losing many artists over time. I know some were going to Twitter but some are going to Pawoo now. Nijil still doesn't have a ton of artists but it's not bad for some lewds.

I've read through a bunch of them myself. I doesn't do much for me. It's vanilla in the most vanilla of ways. No lovey dovey but just plain boring. No focus on certain fetishes outside of clothing like nurse outfits, school girls, and such. Barely any monster girls outside of succubi. Barely any loli. Nothing too crazy or hilarious even. It's just so grounded that it feels like they're restricting the artist's identity. Hell my doujin collection is probably better but it's only somewhere around 1400+.

pixiv started banning lolicon contet at one point I believe and has gotten stricter with lewds as time goes by if memory serves.
That's because a majority of Fakku's content is professionally published hentai manga and not actually doujins, though they do have some officially licensing agreement with certain doujin groups. (Don't ask me how they copyrighted fan content.)

Don't worry I love vanilla stuff, but even I branch out once in a while, and there's a difference between good and bad vanilla. Also the cringey bit is the titles. Think the sort of garbage you find on Brazzers ("hot sister fucking" and stuff to that effect).


Big mistake.

They pushed a policy basically saying they reserved the right to use the work of any artist that posted content for their site for free as promotional material without having to respect their ownership rights. After banning toddler and other risque shit naturally people got fed up and fucking left.

Either the magazines are run by retarded kikes or the doujin artists are literally fucking retarded and think they'll get a good deal from kikes when they're getting kiked, ie Nicalis and the Cave Story dev. Either way we can blame the English anime community being run with apathetic fucktards when they allow pajeets and San Fuck kikes to push shit around. /jp/ did jack shit when Sekai Project literally stole fan translations and sold them as commercial products.

I assumed he meant that they're selling works based on another series which is legally questionable. The doujin community gets away with it because they're not supposed to be about profiting, but creating and acting as a form of advertisement.

Nomura is still alive? and even more horrifying, willing to work with nuDisney after the shit they pulled at Marvel and Lucasfilms?

You're giving them the benefit of the doubt, if you want them to fuck off threaten them with legal pressure.

This, though it appears that Fakku has an agreement with Enshodo which "professionally publishes hentai doujins" so the people who copyright it in the US is Enshodo, who then sells it to Fakku. So now I wonder how Enshodo copyrights fan material.

Sad, good thing i saved that one big archive before it was deleted.


most certainly, as i have noticed some artist i follow took down their works or simply disappeared which puzzled me for a while since i didn't expect the nips to be such fucking cucks. I wonder if now they upload somewhere else.

this is all your fault faggots, you're to blame for ruining vidya to the state of today

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but we're probably the few people that don't mindlessly consume crap like that?

What the fuck.
archive.is/aVShH
And Fakku sells fan doujins of Dangan Ronpa at least.
fakku.net/hentai/super-panpanronpa-12-english (archive.is shits itself whenever I try to archive fakku)
I wonder how much legal trouble we could get them in.

It'd be even funnier if Spike Chunsoft gave them the go-ahead. Unlikely though.

Crashes happen (most of the time) from the lack of trust of investors, or the lack of interest of consumers.
Consumers keep spending their wages in imaginary digital access to pointless data that costs next to nothing to produce, and show no sign of stopping. It won't crash.

Video games are interesting for that matter because it's a prime exemple of how using psychology and behavioral theories for marketing is terrifyingly effective. It's going to get worse, much much worse. If I put on my tinfoil hat, I might even say that's the main reason why political groups have had such a keen interest in vidya this last decade.

I'd say it's less that and more that it's the biggest medium not controlled by (((America))) and thus the strongest venue for messages that don't mesh with what (((The West))) wants people to think and know.

I don't like any of Square's games but I respect them because even though they are making bank with shit tier mobile games they are still putting out normal ass games.
Unlike Konami.

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I did say I didn't like their stuff user. The reasons you stated are a big part of the reasons why.

It's called Sinoalice, it's a poor man's Granblue Fantasy with loads of text by Yoko Taro. Only in japanese of course.

That user should have said
Instead of what he said. You’re both dumb.

What heresy is this?

this is gonna last, just like Zynga

Those designs look pretty cool

There is still loli and plenty of degenerate lewd shit on there. I use pixiv almost every day and have noticed little change over the last year or so, although I have little experience with the content creator side of things. I imagine if you have a big enough audience though, just uploading your shit onto social media would be more productive.

Looks like all the characters are girls.
How is that not stupid?

Maximum shit tastes detected.

It's not what you're expecting. Some mind fuckery that ties into her powers is in it for a bit, but it's overall really sweet.
I can't possibly take that ending seriously, certainly not when the source is typical bad harem anime (albeit with good lewd). It's actually positive if he's finally manned up and chosen a girl even if some of them lose out.

When you stop going to Holla Forums

It's exactly what I was expecting - a cheap gimmick used to break her down and open her legs without really meaning anything at all. Mindbreak isn't bad. Authors that can't think or time mindbreak into something potent are bad. But then, most of those faggots have a seasonal schedule and will never plan out something to make it truly effective.

We'll disagree. The lewd in TLR is absolute shit. Nothing natural about it at all, so there's no relate or tie-in. He'd have done better by at least making some of the girls have gravure careers for all the realism put in those shitty pratfalls. TLR is shit through and through.

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