Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-24980562-20151025022704/@comment-749631-20151030130620

Vcharng wrote: I would prefer imagining DMM owning the "Master Machine" behind KC (the system), and hired KDKW to control this system. DMM is the master of the game (what I understand with "operating" the game), and hired KDKW's people to do the actual work for DMM.

If you click http://http://203.104.209.71, you see KADOKAWA.

Randomly click on an interview on Tanaka, you would see he answer with the identify of being part of kadokawa games. http://www.4gamer.net/games/205/G020591/20130911062/

If you looked at the official twitter, it says their HQ is at "Harbor Area, Tokyo", while both DMM and KDKW Games have their base at Shibuya District, Tokyo. I believe that this means KC has an independent office of its own. So "the company that operates KC" now becomes the company that provides the system where the whole game is running under, and/or the company that owns the game, both of them means DMM. According to people from 2ch, Harbor Area is where Tanaka's home locate at.

If I remembered correctly, that complaint from KDKW's boss was "We are earning too few money from KC". In other words, "the fraction of KC revenue to KDKW" (which I believe does not exist) + income from merchandises + the paycheck given to KDKW from DMM (which I belive do exist instead of the revenue) is not good enough. If KDKW is getting paid fractional to the sales of KC, there's no reason he is not satisfied, unless if he was stupid enough to sign a contract unfair to his company when all this started.

Just look at how itvis written originally: http://m.huffpost.com/jp/entry/4001827

The subject is about income from the game.

Information posted there also double confirmed the kancolle game is made by kadokawa games.

No one expected kancolle would be such a hit before its launch and thus you can say kadokawa being fool to sign such a contract.

Let's think again about the anime-like mechanism. Do you know that Silver Link earns absolutely zero yen from the sales of Blu-ray disc of its own anime? (unless if it is also part of the production committee, no investment, no share) They got paid for a certain amount of money before making it, and then pay for everything themselves in order to make the anime, deliver their work, and enjoy the rest of the money. Since we now agree that KC was made under a collaboration machanism similar to an anime, I do not believe that a firm who paid zero yen for the production would get anything from the sales of the product, which is also very possibly the sole reason why KDKW's boss complained. Instead, they are paid of a "production/development fee", probably monthly or annually, that's where Tanaka and his men got paid from. Most anime I watch are using a production committee system which the production company is in 70% cases part of the production committee. Actually it is the least accurate example out of all 3 examples I have mentioned as it involve creation of another body but it is not the case in this cooperation.