No more otome on steam?

[K.Pimpin' Partridge]

Apparently there's a big hullabaloo about this game being on Steam/pc and how it affected sales. I've only read hearsay in forums and whatnot, so does anyone know if this is true? Will any more otome games be ported to the pc? Will anymore otome games be translated and brought over?

[meow]

There's a lot of otome on steam already if you know where to look.

And there will always be doomsayers, there will be more otome on Steam. Probably not many more big name titles or ports from other consoles, but PC/Linux native otome and indie games will certainly come to steam in the future.

For what it's worth, western otome (what little of it there is) is consistently ending up on steam.

[Hobbes]

Where did you hear this? I can't say I've heard much about this one way or another? What do you mean it affected sales? Because people can pirate it on PC....or...?

[K.Pimpin' Partridge]

Yes because people pirated it. Aksys threw a ♥♥♥♥ fit about it.

[house-special curry]

^ Idea Factory International brought this over, not Aksys.

It's also waaaay too early to say whether there will or won't be any other Otomate games on Steam.

As for otome games, well, there are plenty of those lined up for future release.

[meow]

Despite the fact that there's a lot of money put into this game, most people don't see it as being worth the price just because it's a VN.

I really don't think using the Steam platform was a great idea here. Desura would have been much better if they could have gotten it on there despite clearly not being indie.

[Abby Girl]

Amnesia memories had an estimated 5,732 - 10,520 owners. I don't know why Aksys threw a fit about it, even I haven't heard them talking about it. They probably reacted that way when Amnesia was just released on steam and only got around 3k owners at that time. Otome games takes time to sell, but hey 10k is already remarkable. Good job to the ladies who helped out reaching for the audience! Hopefully we get more in the future.

In the meantime, may I suggest you gals check Idea Factory on their facebook page and twitter? There's lot of neptunia fans over there but if we reach out to Idea Factory about otome games maybe we'll be heard again. Last time people answered PC ports in their survey so we got Amnesia on steam. I'm sure they will hear us out again!

https://www.facebook.com/IdeaFactoryIntl?fref=ts
https://twitter.com/IdeaFactoryIntl

I'd rather disagree with putting it on Desura tho, aside from the ownership change, Desura filed for bankruptcy.