Disaster. That should not be applauded.
Huh?
Something something, selling out, something something quality.
Basically, as VNs become less niche the average quality on them will drop dramatically as they go for larger appeal (see Sakura Spirit and Nekopara), and as older/higher quality VNs are officially translated, they get bowdlerized in a way that ruins the work (You can see some bits of it in stuff like Konosora), especially in the transition from 18+ > all-ages. This is amplified because of the way that VNs are coming to the west through crowdfunding like Kickstarter because they're trying to cash in largely on the western otaku market who can't read moon runes and have no intention on ever putting the forth the effort, a section of the market that also largely wants waifu simulators. What will wind up coming to the west because of this are shitty moege and the like, as opposed to some of the important works that actually push the medium or take advantage of it to be more than hentai anime you watch at your own pace.
MLA especially holds a place in mine, and a lot other people who've been reading VNs for a long ass time because A, it's one of the few legitimately 10/10 VNs to ever come to English for mass consumption by the western world, and B, successfully installing it is a natural gatekeeper that keeps idiots who can't use google out of discussions over it because of how difficult it is.
Part of it is a "muh sekrit club" bitching, but part of it is a legitimate criticism with the fact that the quality of the medium as a whole will drop dramatically as it enters mainstream. The day Comyu becomes above the curve is the day I put on my grandpa outfit and rose-tinted glasses and reminisce about the days when non-shit was produced.
On another note, Subahibi translation is coming out very soon, which led to our lord and savior Moogy to declare it kusoge now. Get your shit game while it's hot.
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