Neb Neb

Hey everyone!Today we have a new lengthy update blog post for you prepared! You can use this thread to discuss! We really want to know your opinion regarding the physical releases!

To get this right out of the way, this is not the announcement for the two titles we said we would announce. We know that some of you have been unhappy with the way we have been handling the upcoming announcements, and we promise we will be much more careful about announcing announcements going forward. Unlike back when we started, we are now working much closer together with developers, and also our partners, which has caused us to misjudge how long some of the involved preparations take. We apologize. So, we're making this post because there are some things we wanted to discuss. As many of you have heard, our upcoming title Hello,Goodbye was recently banned on Steam. This is very alarming because the build that was submitted didn't contain any nudity or sexual content whatsoever. It could be a mistake or just a kneejerk reaction of some Steam rep, but the problem is that we have no way of knowing that because Valve is unwilling to communicate, which is beyond frustrating. You often read people bring up the argument that publishers could avoid going to Steam in the first place, but that's not really an option. There are titles where you can easily make a return even without Steam for sure, but we're going for the big titles with outstanding quality that a majority of the community is asking and wishing for, and these titles are expensive. Now to make things clear, we aren't going to really panic or change anything at the moment since this is still just a minor blow to us that isn't going to affect much in the long run, but we need to keep in mind that this can happen again, and also with titles where it would be a much bigger issue. This also kind of ties into our next topic: physical releases. As we announced before, we have secured connections that will allow us to manufacture everything we need for physical releases, but the big problem here is cost. So far we have been prioritizing getting new, exciting licenses and the titles we have announced so far, and have yet to announce, should show you our commitment in this regard. The downside is that we currently don't have any financial leeway, and the situation with Steam is only adding additional risk. We discussed this matter extensively within the company and arrived at the conclusion that there are only two available options to us here. We either wait until we have released one or two more big titles, or we could resort to a pre-sale/crowdfunding kind of deal for physical releases, much like Frontwing, for instance. We want to hear your opinion on this matter, though. If we find that a majority of the community is strictly against the idea, we won't do it. Moving on, or rather back, let's talk some more about Hello,Goodbye. We hadn't disclosed that so far, but the reason Hello,Goodbye got delayed is that we've been developing our own engine in Unity, and we have ported Hello,Goodbye to our engine. We're sure you can imagine what the advantages of that are, and also for what purpose you definitely need a different engine for visual novels, but we'll discuss that at a later date. Everything is coming along greatly, and we should be ready for a release by the end of the month, but we figured we should take some extra time to make sure everything is 100% working, so the release is going to be the 25th January 2019. We'll also open pre-orders within the next few weeks (this time for sure!). If you want to support us and the developers, this the way that will get the most money directly to us. We'll also make sure to throw in some neat pre-order bonus. Also, good news for both those who like mosaics and those who can't stand mosaics. As some of you have suggested, we're adding an in-game option that will allow you to toggle mosaics on/off. Lastly, Fureraba Fandisk is also coming soon. Translation has been completed and editing mostly as well. Maybe we can still make it this year, but no promises on that. All right, that will be it for the time being. If you have any sort of suggestions regarding what we've discussed in this post or also other topics, we would appreciate your input. Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement. We'll give you the date as soon as we're 100% sure what day we can make said announcement.

Okay yeah the Steam version gets updated automatically Was just checking

No, we can't read any PMs as far as I know. Just looked into it and couldn't find any option for that. As for NSFW stuff in PMs, we don't mind it at all.

Hey! Thank you for your support! Do you have already downloaded our newest patch for Sanoba(Patch 1.24)? We fixed a lot of reported typos in that patch! As for reporting bugs and typos you can always open a thread here in our forum(or use this thread now) or post them on our discord in the Sanoba channel! You can post them as a screenshot or as a text snippet whatever you like best! You could also write them all down in a txt.file (with the chapter number) and send it to me here on the forums as a PM! We are really grateful for everyone helping us identify typos and bugs!

Haven't seen any of those discounted during Black Friday sale, so we had to postpone those to a later date

We don't have one yet But we will have one starting next year But that sounds pretty much like what we had in mind for our interior

Neb Neb needs his own bag.

I will consider myself "successful" when I can pay the rent for my own apartment and don't have to eat instant ramen every second day

Sadly the process of making and delivering physical editions is a long one. After showing you guys what would be included in the physical editions there will be a (pre-)order time period. After confirming the number of orders we will then send them to the manufacturer and after that's finished we still have to mail them around the world. All in all that process will take around 4-6 months depending on how smooth everything goes. So we are really sorry but we can't make a Christmas delivery happen Our blog post regarding physical editions and our two upcoming announcements will soon be finished (currently building the websites for each product)!

Do you play with unlocked framerates? That said a high GPU usage is generally desirable provided that your GPU temperature isn't too high and you are not having any graphical bugs, glitches etc. I have 60% GPU while playing Sanoba myself with unlocked framerates and I have a GTX1080 TI. When I cap the framerate to 60 or 30 I drop down to 10%. But generally, a high GPU usage is a good thing because it means that your CPU isn't bottlenecking your GPU. When I play AAA titles my GPU is always at around 90-100%. But if you want to restrict your GPU usage I would suggest limiting your framerate.

I'm currently searching for my "next" game because after playing Octopath Traveler for 5+ hours I got really bored of it and I planned to play it for some time... But your post reminds me that I still can play the Rest of Valkyria Chronicles 4~

Oh yeah, thanks we should also clarify that as well. I guess the installer produces a patch3 because it's the third patch... Something's not quite right there. Will look into it!

You only need the latest "patch.xp3" and "patch.xp3.sig" in your main installation folder. If it's called anything like "patch2.xp3" the game won't be able to locate it. It includes all the fixes that we did in the 2 earlier patches. I guess they haven't updated it so far ;x The version should be 1.23 like this

That issue was fixed with the latest patch! If you bought the game in our store you can download the patch under the extra downloads dropdown menu in the "My games" tab!