In a recent FAQ spotted by Automaton, Housenka responded to a hypothetical of “I’ll promote you, give me a Steam key” with a delightfully blunt: “Buy it, you piece of garbage.” Or, as Automaton translates it from the original Japanese, “Buy the game, you piece of sh*t.” I can’t decide which I like better, honestly. The full FAQ is worth a read, if only for Housenka’s sense of humour and an insight into the absurd questions independent devs get asked these days.
“Make this character’s ass and thighs thicker,” another frequent-question-asker demands, to which Housenka responds: “Accept her as she is.” When asked by a phantom answer if the game will add sex, Housenka also proceeds to provide a link to DLsite, an online store that sells doujinshi—self-published manga comics that are often (though not always) pornographic in nature. “No sex. Please visit DLsite for that.”
“Make this character’s ass and thighs thicker,” another frequent-question-asker demands, to which Housenka responds: “Accept her as she is.”
edit: there’s probably some irony or hypocrisy in me using this image (a guy with exaggerated muscles) as a positive on a comment about sexualization but I couldn’t think of a better image to use
but I couldn’t think of a better image to use
kind of sums up the problem our society is struggling with. Chad is perfect here. Why should you try to think of a better image to use?
We need to rationalize that humans like this sort of thing, and also that they shouldn’t demand it of others.
Is it laughable to demand game characters always be hot? Yes
Do people appreciate fan service characters? Also yes
Humans have been sexualizing everything forever, it’s in our nature. But we need to stop being so damn creepy about it.
it’s ironic, that’s kind of the joke.
The humorous part of the statement is not the fact that the dev doesn’t care, but the fact that the dev who doesn’t care is portrayed as this “gigachad” individual. The gigachad part here is literally not being THE gigachad.
Venn diagram:
Japanese dev (buy it, you piece of garbage) dominatrix
Keep going I’m almost there
Spit on me and call me scum!!
People who ask for free keys are Scammers. They sell the keys on sites like G2A.
Many keys on such sites are bought with stolen credit cards. Publishers could disable these keys afterwards but most don’t because it’s not the sole fault of the buyer. That’s another method of selling these keys, never Buffy them for an indie Dev or small studio, they could actually lose money if they need to charge back (including fees etc), for the 500 Trillion $ networth AAAAA-Publishers I cannot be bothered to pay 70$
Also because the buyer is going to complain in public and leave out the fact that they bought their key at a sketchy key reseller.
to be fair, the free “review” keys often end up on websites like g2a and kinguin, so if I were to publish a game on Steam, I would’ve replied with the same thing to anyone asking me for 'em… the guy’s based af
Valve should enable a feature to make Steam keys self destruct for these scams. Let them generate a key that is valid for a few hours and if it didn’t get redeemed in that time frame, it no longer works. A key only valid until 5pm of issue date will let reviewers redeem it in time, but resellers will most likely have a dud by the time they try to sell it.
devs can assign keys to specific promotions, and mass recall unactivated keys and activated games from people’s accounts, so yeah this is possible even though needs to be done manually, but most devs don’t do it
And make them a review sample.
And make them unique. All keys are starting or ending with an “R” in the code.
This prevents scammers from being able to sell it to informed users
It’s been a few years since Valve introduced curators system. Curators don’t receive keys but legit copies. Not all curators act in a good faith but it’s impossible for them to put such copies on sale on platforms you mentioned.
“But its for a review!”
Ah so you’ll be monetizing that key. Buy it.
based
I agree with this statement.
“Make this character’s ass and thighs thicker,” another frequent-question-asker demands.
Genshin Impact and its consequences on the already stunted gamer race.
There’s not a single thick playable character in Genshin.
The modders made sure there are some…
Genshin is literally Loli-land with a couple onee-sans, what are you on about?
what
Loads of child-like characters and few thicc women, in non-weebspeak.
with the amount of thirstposts I’ve seen over that game in passing I find that alarming
This is a great story. I kind of want to buy the game just to support them. Looks like there’s a demo for Windows available. I’ll check it out later.
List of downloads: https://www.denneko.com/sakuratower
Direct link to latest version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13_6nBWuxjmbvmC3Txtn3Y6rtg0MdGphf/view?usp=sharing
In a recent FAQ spotted by Automaton, Housenka responded to a hypothetical of “I’ll promote you, give me a Steam key” with a delightfully blunt: “Buy it, you piece of garbage.” Or, as Automaton translates it from the original Japanese, “Buy the game, you piece of sh*t.” I can’t decide which I like better, honestly.
Damn
“Make this character’s ass and thighs thicker,”
No love for thin bodies SMH
There are key beggars even on AAA tweets, it’s so strange, I think if may be bots that will sell them later.
That’s part of how key reseller websites get their cheap keys. So: yes.
This dev sounds awesome
