Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170916104500/@comment-32647310-20170920123832

AllTrianglesMakeASquare wrote: Oh cool. So I get to play untill somewhere during the spring of 2018. And after that, maybe never again because I can't connect to the server anymore. Great. Thank whatever-god-you-believe-in that I gave up on the Saratoga quest. I see no reason why Kadokawa would let the non-Japanese players go on, if we don't find a way ourselves. Is it even possible to do the cookie hack in HTML-5? I don't understand a thing about programming but from what I have gathered it doesn't look good... The issue of access is through DMM's website (which there are workarounds for), rather than the game itself. So after the change, I do not see a reason why you would not be able to log on and play as you usually do.

The real problem is how viewers like KC3 and KanColle Viewer act/behave. My understanding is that they work by taking a look at the code that is sent to your system (PC, mobile device, whatever), parsing it out and delivering it in the format that we know and love that makes playing the game easier and/or more manageable...which is done because of the very nature of how Flash works.

By moving to HTML 5, your concern shouldn't be whether or not you can access the game, I do not see a reason why you would not*. The issue is whether or not your viewer can give you the information it does at present and whether or not the folks that work on/maintain it are willing/able to make the changes so that it works with HTML5.

* it *is* possible that Kadokawa and/or DMM could use this as a means to purge 'undesierables' (which is something that I have heard that has been done in the past), but that would probably do far more harm than good. I figure they will just keep turning a blind eye to us/pretend we don't exist. しろ wrote:

On another note, i wonder if kancolle will ever be available worldwide by deafult. I don't see that happening. Ever.

While KanColle is not anti-US/anti-Allies with regard to WWII, it is *VERY* IJN-centric with showing favor to the Axis-Powers. While those forces are not necessarily celebrated, their actions are certainly glossed over/whitewashed or otherwise not acknowledged.

This generally does not go over well with the rest of the world. As it is, Japan *still* receives criticisim for how they have glossed over and/or buried (or tried to bury) their actions in WWII in regards to China, Korea and Southeast Asia.

All of these are things that KanColle has already recieved criticisim for from others, both in and outside of Japan. Imagine that criticism magnified on the worldwide scale.

I don't think Kadokawa or DMM want that level of frusteration.