Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-26574811-20150920131304

Atomicstrawberry wrote:

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. This has been discussed above, DMM holds 100% of the trademark "Kantai Collection", do you think they can achieve this by contributing just the portal and payment system? And, do you think the sole owner of the trademark will not have a say? Quite the opposite, isn't it?

Steam? Oh come on, let's take any of the recent CoD series as an example (although I know quite a number of ppl hate it), their trademarks belong to Activision, not Valve. DMM is more like Activision + Valve, while KDKW games is more like Treyarch or Infinite Ward.