Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170916104500/@comment-27999059-20170919221412

しろ wrote: 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... If you read the comments above you will see why that most likely won't happen.

But in short: We make them money, they gain nothing by getting rid of us, the worst thing that can happen is that they won't care about any problems we have. Even if we can't access it at first, someone will find a way.

On another note, i wonder if kancolle will ever be available worldwide by deafult. I read most of the comments. And I still maintain that it doesn't look good. Until there will be a huge breakthrough either morally (the Japanese opening their game to a worldwide audience (hell will freeze 10x over before that ever happens)) or technically (which will require a lot of technically adept or even professional people to throw their weight behind it.) things don't look great. If the technical barrier is too high, it simply wouldn't be cost efficient. That is my main fear.

I know we have a dedicated community. Thing is, assuming the tech-barriers will be overcome is not based in fact thus far. It is based on belief, faith almost. Could people do it? Consensus for now is: yes. Will/Can they? Now that is a question we can't answer for certain. And it will be many more months before we can know for certain: meaning to say that it is uncertain for now.

And excuse me for (mis)quoting that horrible BvS movie: "If we but one inclination that he is our enemy, we have to take it as an absolute certainty" Kadokawa aren't our friends. And don't respect us beyond our wallets. Like any company, of course. Mix in a little Japanese gamedev arrogance (look at Japanese ports to PC for instance, even as recent as 2015/16 they weren't always great) and there is little evidence that they will take us in consideration especially if it is more convenient/profitable for them not to.

I know that this is assuming the worst. But I feel that the possibility that this change will have no negitive consequences for outside players should be ruled out completely. Best-case scenario is we will not be able to connect to the servers for a while (2-4 weeks). Until a fix is created. At best. Worst case is that we won't be able to at all.

And them's the facts :P