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Kibaro wrote:how come some 4LS dev's are still on the KS forums after so much time after finishing the game? im guessing the forums is mostly a pain in the arse for you guys, having to tame ppl like me and others from doing stupid stuff. but what made/makes you want to keep on going with KS( even in forum form ), i know you didn't hate KS despite the headaches it gave you but from what i gathered(but i might be wrong) you guys were really happy to have finished it and forget about it as soon as possible being fed up with it after so many years of developing

Just because we released KS it doesn't mean we can "forget about it". If you didn't notice, we just released a new version of it this week, and there's still going to be at least one more release before we stop supporting it. Some of the translation team work is done on these forums and our own development forums are here (the parts you see are just a side function). We also chose to bear responsibility for KS: I still have to reply to all sorts of inquiries regularly (I just turned down an offer to buy KS's rights off us). Sure we were happy to finish KS but the rest of your impression is simply wrong.

As for the public forum and why we don't just kick you all out to avoid having dealing with your shit: this might come as a surprise, but it's because I don't want your community to die. The alternative to keeping administrating the forums is shutting them down, which at least I don't want to do. Maybe if I moderated in a less laissez-faire manner it'd feel more of a burden (Silentcook does the heavy lifting for me and we all should be really grateful for him, even if you guys sometimes butt heads (ask him about what motivates him)). I'm sure there will come a time when 4LS will truly dissolve and at that point at the latest, these forums will be killed forever. But that time isn't yet.

bhtooefr wrote:Also, quite relevant to this story, is that one of the causes of congenital deafness is LQT1... which is the most common form of long QT.

Essentially, you could quite easily have someone who's deaf and also arrhythmic at Yamaku...

Which actually leads to the next question... what variant of long QT does Hisao have? And how did Shizune's congenital deafness happen (or was that decided)?

At least I can't remember the answer to either.

Aura wrote:

Kibaro wrote:how come some 4LS dev's are still on the KS forums after so much time after finishing the game? im guessing the forums is mostly a pain in the arse for you guys, having to tame ppl like me and others from doing stupid stuff. but what made/makes you want to keep on going with KS( even in forum form ), i know you didn't hate KS despite the headaches it gave you but from what i gathered(but i might be wrong) you guys were really happy to have finished it and forget about it as soon as possible being fed up with it after so many years of developing

Just because we released KS it doesn't mean we can "forget about it". If you didn't notice, we just released a new version of it this week, and there's still going to be at least one more release before we stop supporting it. Some of the translation team work is done on these forums and our own development forums are here (the parts you see are just a side function). We also chose to bear responsibility for KS: I still have to reply to all sorts of inquiries regularly (I just turned down an offer to buy KS's rights off us). Sure we were happy to finish KS but the rest of your impression is simply wrong.

As for the public forum and why we don't just kick you all out to avoid having dealing with your shit: this might come as a surprise, but it's because I don't want your community to die. The alternative to keeping administrating the forums is shutting them down, which at least I don't want to do. Maybe if I moderated in a less laissez-faire manner it'd feel more of a burden (Silentcook does the heavy lifting for me and we all should be really grateful for him, even if you guys sometimes butt heads (ask him about what motivates him)). I'm sure there will come a time when 4LS will truly dissolve and at that point at the latest, these forums will be killed forever. But that time isn't yet.

Well I as well as countless others are thankfull that you guys are keeping the forums open and let people discuss even if it already has been discussed before to death. The forums for me is a place to relax and discuss this wonderfull VN with likeminded people. Also big props to Silentcook for keeping up with the forums

On a related note ever thought of "hiring" additional mods for the forum?

Aura wrote:Just because we released KS it doesn't mean we can "forget about it". If you didn't notice, we just released a new version of it this week, and there's still going to be at least one more release before we stop supporting it. Some of the translation team work is done on these forums and our own development forums are here (the parts you see are just a side function). We also chose to bear responsibility for KS: I still have to reply to all sorts of inquiries regularly (I just turned down an offer to buy KS's rights off us). Sure we were happy to finish KS but the rest of your impression is simply wrong.

As for the public forum and why we don't just kick you all out to avoid having dealing with your shit: this might come as a surprise, but it's because I don't want your community to die. The alternative to keeping administrating the forums is shutting them down, which at least I don't want to do. Maybe if I moderated in a less laissez-faire manner it'd feel more of a burden (Silentcook does the heavy lifting for me and we all should be really grateful for him, even if you guys sometimes butt heads (ask him about what motivates him)). I'm sure there will come a time when 4LS will truly dissolve and at that point at the latest, these forums will be killed forever. But that time isn't yet.

Now that you've had a few years to sit on it, is your response to the overall reception of the game still the same? All of the fanart, fanfiction, coverage by review sites and forums, even let's plays? I can imagine it being either a huge confidence booster or something to cringe about, depending on which part of the community you're looking at.

At least mine is, more or less. It's still mindblowing how popular KS became but it's just a fact of life now so I don't think about it much.

Aura wrote:I still have to reply to all sorts of inquiries regularly (I just turned down an offer to buy KS's rights off us)

Wait, what?

For what purpose? Or was it just a case of someone attempting to buy them and then thinking of a way to make money out of them?

http://woodmusicbox.tumblr.com

At the link above, that can't be legit right? I didn't want to make a new thread on it so I thought I would just ask one of you fine people here if that link can be confirmed as true or not true.

Ok. I had to move a multitude of posts out of this thread, because it's not for discussion, and I will give a swift ban to anyone who tries to shit up my sanctuary of learning questions about soup further.

The posts concerned the last question and are now in the "random discussion" thread, appropriately, as it seems the best place.

Hey, Aura.

What inspired you to write Rin the way you did? What I mean by that is how deep and random she was.

I have another question. Who's arc did you like the most from the VN? (You cannot choose your own c:)

WarbirdHD wrote:Hey, Aura.

What inspired you to write Rin the way you did? What I mean by that is how deep and random she was.

I have another question. Who's arc did you like the most from the VN? (You cannot choose your own c:)

To the first part, I guess I just wanted an unconventional character. I write ponderous stuff anyway, so it just happened to go this way.

Why is climatic blamed for the failure of Measuring Shadows? Flakiness, or something else?

Long Story wrote:Why is climatic blamed for the failure of Measuring Shadows? Flakiness, or something else?

It's a long story.

Is there anything you personally dislike that ended up in the final game? Could be a line, a character trait, an event, anything.

Of course! KS is so big and we were so big that it'd be impossible for everyone to be happy about everything. Of course there's a difference between things we're unsatisfied with and things we think are just genuinely a bad idea, but I'd expect there's both for everyone. For me personally, Hideaki's and Jigoro's character designs come to mind at least.

Dat Emi sprite at the end of Act 3.