Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-4125495-20150920120714

Qunow wrote: I believe the role of DMM in kancolle is the one who fund the whole project, and therefore possessing the trademark and enjoy larger share of profit. However, while it do mean DMM would most likely have the power on deciding how the game should run, it do not mean DMM would want to involve in the game's daily operation and its operation strategies as it run hundreds of games on top of it developed by various different devs. Like Tanaka is currently working in kadokawa not dmm.

p.s. with the latest new boss's equipment item, it is clear that they would turn weapon root from meteric countries into imperial unit when they are given to abyssals...

No, DMM just host the portal and payments system. Kadokawa pay for, develop and run the game themselves and probably pay a percentage to DMM, plus I imagine DMM will collect a cut on all of the payments. It's a highly proftable arrangement for DMM but in Kadokawa's case the game itself barely breaks even, they make their money off the merchandising. That's because Kadokawa are the ones with the most skin in the game.

I doubt DMM have any real say in how the game is developed. They shouldn't, at least, and it shouldn't matter to them. They're just a portal service. A close analogy in the PC space would be Steam.