Mirodir

Reading this comment gave me the idea to get Gemini's "opinion". Ironically, it turns out Google might've actually done better if they did that.

It's a bit of a weird article indeed. I also fully disagree with the author's notion that reading a VN is faster than watching the anime equivalent. And I say this as someone who enjoys reading VNs every now and then. If I wanted to optimize the story/spent minute ratio I would just watch an anime or even better, read a manga.

Overall I hope the article can push a few people who were on the fence to the try reading a VN to finally do so. I doubt it'll affect anyone who was not very interested already. Likewise it also won't do much for people who already took the plunge.

Also I think DDLC isn't a good starter VN at all. All the meta stuff will be lost on the reader and the time before the twist is a real slog that might easily turn people off VNs forever. I would argue the only reason it worked is because streamers had their chats pressure them into continuing and "normal people" had friends who told them the same.

With Larian's previous game having great DM tools and them saying they would've loved to do DM tools for BG3, I think WotC telling them not to is a fair assumption to make.

Good intentions alone don't guarantee good outcomes. I suggest not giving any single person or entity too much power, no matter who they are.

Currently running a similar list in MTGA (as a Modern 8 rack enthusiast). I'm surprised at the lack of The Raven Man in his list. I'm also running Invasion of Eldraine as Racks 5-8 among a few other differences, mostly because they were my only 4 Rack pieces before Bloomburrow hit.

There was a fan translation, so fans were able to "complete the series in English" for quite some years already.

While I was quite happy to see it fimally get an official English release, I kinda hate this article not even mentioning the fan translation in passing.

Tell me you're not tall without telling me you're not tall.

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The person who was caught is the artist of the manga adaptation and not the writer of the original light novel.

(Also both the ln-writer and the manga-artist are female.)

I didn't say that.

I expect it to be about as awful as Starfield. However, unlike Starfield (which didn't sell horrendously by any source I can find, just not great) it has incredible brand recognition behind it. I have no doubts it will sell based on that alone as long as it looks like Skyrim 2 at first glance.

Edit: right after posting I figured out how to formulate what else I wanted to say but couldn't find the correct words for: "Sadly profitability and quality don't always correlate."

5.5 years? No way they'll shut down this quickly. The next Elder Scrolls alone will carry them into 2030. (As much as I would enjoy you being right though...)

In Season of Discovery, yes. Not on classic though. It was "just" the equivalent to Warchief's Blessing.