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In this while NieR Re:Incarnation EoS/Fan-server dialogue I'm starting to realize that something really important either isn't known to the JP side, or they don't understand it. Comments like "well if you wanted it to stay up you should have been spending money on it!" but, that's not why Square Enix ended the service. It wasn't unprofitable; the work is already done and they could have packaged a lightweight local server into the app and had it run offline. Or, just cease development and only maintain a small server for the remaining players for literally pennies (singular yen) a day. Operation costs wouldn't even be in the thousands of dollars and they could continue to draw mtx if they wanted. These games all run on an 80/20 model where most of the income comes from the small ratio of whales, while most players are F2P so it's unlikely they'd even see a real loss in revenue! End of Service happened because they wanted to funnel people into other games and because NieR wasn't profitable enough. Square keeps doing this with their live-service offerings, developing something and when it doesn't continuously print money forever, they abandon it. From a creative's perspective this is the sort of short-sightedness you see exclusively with accountants and, well, look at who staffs Square Enix's C-Suite. I understand from your perspective that it's Squeenix's choice to abandon a product and that it must then die, but from our perspective we've already paid into it in some way and just want to keep enjoying something. Nothing is being stolen- Square sent us the files for the game, we legally acquired them. They then chose to no longer maintain the servers. Spinning up our own, running proprietary code, is not against our laws and doesn't hurt your companies whatsoever. We do this for our own live service games, World of Warcraft for example, and you want to know how that impacted Blizzard? It didn't, it just told them there's a market for people wanting to play older versions of WoW, so they packaged and sold it to general acclaim. Western fans will gladly do the work of rebuilding and restoring stuff without companies needing to be involved or assist. We'll then provide this work, to them, for free. The entire modding culture around Bethesda games, I know Skyrim is/was popular in Japan, is centred around this and has been a continuous dialogue between developers and modders. There's a middle ground to be found here and yes it requires some give from both sides, but especially from the companies and super-fans. And to be clear, I write this as a writer, as a creator, as someone who tangibly loses if copyright gets conceptually abolished. But I also have a similar attitude to ZUN when it comes to any derivatives of my work. I think everyone needs to lower their hackles and stop slinging insults or labelling the other side as bad, stupid, slavish or evil because they have a different perspective. It's OK to disagree but try to understand first.

日本にサメ映画専門の輸入商社があるのは、大手配給会社がサメ映画を輸入しないからといって、サメ映画マニアたちがサメ映画を海賊版で見ようとしなかったからだぞ。

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