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i've heard of starry sky, but i've never heard of this group (or is it just a single person translating?) until now but

it might be just me, but the tone of this post kind of rubs me the wrong way. reading this, it sounds like they're so ~shocked~ and ~betrayed~ by the whole thing when they (in their own words) "only wanted to make [fans] happy, to bring you translation of games [they] want to play and to let [them, the fans,] SUPPORT the developer." after all, "it might not be possible anymore" thanks to mean, ol' asgard.

another thing:

Also for those who wonder why we didn’t ask for permission in the first place, you are wrong if you think contacting a developer from overseas, way over in Japan is easy. You can barely contact localization companies.

...i'm going to assume these people (or is it a single person?) never actually tried contacting a localization publisher at all. if they actually did contact a publisher such as sekai project, mangagamer, or jast usa, they'd find that they'd be willing to look into licensing the game using their translation. this blog post does list examples of games that used fan translations for official releases including some visual novels:

http://legendsoflocalization.com/these-fan-translations-became-official-translations/

and didn't jast try to get the rights to release starry sky but couldn't because they couldn't afford the costs for voice acting with the budget they had? so it's not like any of these publishers aren't interested in releasing the series in english.

i mean, i get it's disappointing to be told that you have to stop working on something that you put a lot of effort into, but really

http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

i have no horse in this race, but there's your answer

Yeah, JAST looked into trying to get the license for Starry Sky but the costs for the voices was too high for them.

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