Anonymous asked:

What's with everyone saying Lilith has made 4 attempts at a SFW Taimanin game and failed 4 times? There's only AT, GOGO, and RPG if we count that. RPG is successful, GOGO failed for entirely different reasons, and AT during it's first half of a year after launch. It's been doing fine since then. What is the 4th attempt? It's Gremory making these games anyway, not the main h-team.

Sometimes people are bitter about the gacha games' success, but sometimes they're just talking out of their asses, like when anybody ever brings up the "NTR login bonus". I hate how absolutely desperate everybody has become to shit on everything. I blame it in part on this being the YouTube clickbait age, where everything is a HILARIOUS DISASTER in capital letters, with some douchebag facepalming, a giant, glib caption like FLOP, and an arrow pointing at the only thing in the picture. Like, share and subscribe, by the way, because my e-penis is more important than my integrity.

Technically, RPGX Exstasy didn't even "fail" fail. TABA continued for years without much of a userbase, which was why you could actually compete on the leaderboards instead of getting automatic 28 000th place. They could have kept it up and made a steady profit, but after GOGO (which was a total misreading of what attracted people to Taimanin in the first place), the higher-ups seemingly went into cost-cutting mode and got rid of everything that wasn't solidly making bank. It was less a victim of outright failure, even taking the gem debt controversy into account, and more a victim of their "throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks" approach finally biting them in the ass.

Anonymous asked:

Do you think we'll ever see another Kangoku Senkan or is it forever fated to rot in the back of Lilith's catalog with the rest of their non Taimanin properties?

There's technically a chance, but I wouldn't anticipate anything. At the very least, I would expect them to reserve one of their top artists for a game of that importance, but that would mean that artist not having time to do gacha content.

Anonymous asked:

Is there a question you answered shorter than "No"?

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Anonymous asked:

Does Lilith realize that instead of their last 4 failed SFW projects they could have made 4 more VNs and made a profit? Is their business advisor an orc?

Or, they could make two dozen more cheap ASMR packages and make several times that profit, each. It's just not worth the effort anymore.

This is why I think they should adapt the existing games into RPGX. Take the original scripts, alter the details according to world and continuity differences, add more story, add cameos from the gacha characters, redo the art in the modern style, and sell them in segments for 300 Taima stones each. That way, you can rejig your model so that you're still technically making VNs, but they also count as gacha content, and have enough story to fit comfortably into the SFW version. Then, once you've remade all the originals, you can continue into, say, Taimanin Maika, without having to do all the things that a proper VN requires, like having original background, music and enemy sprite assets. That would fit very comfortably into Lilith's current "profit over effort" business strategy.

Mini-update on the Rentry page.

Almost every year, I swear that this time, I'm absolutely not going to push myself to get some kind of release done in time for Christmas. And almost every year, I turn out to be a lying cunt.