Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-24980562-20151025022704/@comment-26574811-20151030102850

Qunow wrote: osapi is the framework DMM used to wrap every game, that include all other DMM games.

Yes DMM fund kancolle and so that's why DMM own the trademark. But it is still kadokawa operating the game.

There are no sign showing it is a outsource relationship between dmm and kadokawa

The last two parts are exactly what I wabt to said. DMM funds the game, runs the game, and owns the game, so what makes you say that it's KDKW who "operates" the game? Unless by "operating", you mean coming up with all the designs and updates.

Since KDKW didn't fund a penny for the development of the game, KDKW won't get a penny from the game itself. Tanaka and his men must earn their paycheck through some sort of DMM payment toward KDKW, plus KDKW's income from merchendises, that's how KDKW pay their salaries.

If Tanaka and C2 Kikan are the guys who first came up with KC, then it is possible that it's these guys who came to DMM first, but that does not interfere with the fact that DMM kinda hired these guys.

BTW, that's pretty much how anime companies work as well. Even the "coming up with an idea" part.