I too remember when this forum used to have an active userbase.I mean you can't blame the ppl that use the forum I remember when this forum uses to do the same before the rules, not the ppl that go overboard yes but let's not try grouping everyone.
a certain update did way more damages than the enforcement of the rules.I too remember when this forum used to have an active userbase.
Honestly, in a lot of cases the devs are just better off not responding or engaging people considering that it's just gonna cause more grief, and more people to do the exact thing they don't want them to do simply for no other reason then that they can. Trust me, I'm not gonna begrudge F95 for simply existing and doing what it does considering it DOES serve as a pretty great resource for all things H-games related, lots of older games at that which would be difficult to find otherwise are pretty easily accessible, but it does also have the unfortunate side effect of drawing in those who feel more entitled to getting everything handed to them on a silver platter for free. Not much else to be expected from a forum dedicated to pirating, and hell this forum once upon a time was in a somewhat similar position, though I definitely prefer what it is now for finding useful information or discussion on ongoing projects, and F95 basically just for a quick download without going through too much hassle.I think it's partially to do with the dev's response/behavior to the posts here as well. I am fine with supporting the games of devs I have never seen interacting with their community, but once they do, you realize the type of person they are and it kills whatever magic/delusions you had about them and makes me stop (Mofu, かぐら堂, and BlueHat). There are some devs here who are chill about it / dont care / know pirates are gonna pirate and it's inevitable, but if someone is lashing out all unhinged it's more fun to prod em.
They probably have more issues with cheating (one of MTool function), and some devs don't like foreigners in the first place.Refresh my knowledge here-- why are some devs against Mtool again?
I'm not too familiar with how it interacts with piracy, if at all.
Could potentially be related to the monetisation as well, having someone else profit off of 'their' work. Lot of devs also aren't fans of cracking/datamining their stuff, like a few times when guys on here dug into game files and found spoilers/hidden assets for upcoming content.Refresh my knowledge here-- why are some devs against Mtool again?
I'm not too familiar with how it interacts with piracy, if at all.
I mean, F95's sole reason for being shit is it's moderation staff being hypocrites and losers. Besides that though it's a very useful site. They had a massive boast in popularity thanks to their reach on 4chan and great website UI layout. It's the go to site for western H game sharing for the most part, alongside all the helpful/not so helpful talk you would have seen from a place like Hongfire back in the day. Arguably it's what ULMF shoulda been but never took off for the most part, though to be fair back when ULMF started there were more useful alternatives for H games due to ulmf's lack of link sharing and no loli/requesting rules, sites like Hongfire and Nihongo. No one can truly understand on what a site is or isn't besides the creators or whatever of F95 and ULMF anyway.
God was it really as far back as 2012 when the rules were changed? Then I again, I suppose it has been five years since the server update broke the old forum... doesn't feel that long ago.Arguably it's what ULMF shoulda been but never took off for the most part, though to be fair back when ULMF started there were more useful alternatives for H games due to ulmf's lack of link sharing and no loli/requesting rules, sites like Hongfire and Nihongo.
I still vaguely remember this being a sharing community even way back when we were squatting on the comments of the last post of an abandoned blog, praying for the second coming of LM.Not much else to be expected from a forum dedicated to pirating, and hell this forum once upon a time was in a somewhat similar position
I said lack of sharing not prohibition of sharing. Most people here don't always share links, especially to updated versions of H games, that was more common on the other sites hence why more people flocked to them.God was it really as far back as 2012 when the rules were changed? Then I again, I suppose it has been five years since the server update broke the old forum... doesn't feel that long ago.
Anyway, it was never against the rules to post links (Hongfire was the one that banned links to dlsite games, because they were running ads for dlsite), only begging was banned, and it was pretty much a given that if a thread for a game was posted a link would also be shared, as hhh7773 will attest.
I still vaguely remember this being a sharing community even way back when we were squatting on the comments of the last post of an abandoned blog, praying for the second coming of LM.
A big difference I guess back then was that a lot of stuff (western anyway) were just hobby projects and so were free, or done for commission like Toonpimp.
And Japanese devs were far more isolated, but they too produced a lot of freebies.
I do remember a time though when you'd search for a hentai game and the top result on google would be to a ulmf thread, so ulmf did take off and was the top dog for quite a while.
Which is what led to its downfall, it became a victim of its own success, because instead of a link going down (or an update being released) and a single person requesting a reup you'd suddenly get half a dozen single digit post having twat waffle lurkers all spamming a thread instead of just being patient. But instead of dealing with that specific problem of those specific types of poster instead the imo draconian rule of outright banning any requests for links was made, which caused the aforementioned confusion that links in general were banned.
Another issue was that ULMF's peak popularity was right when crowdfunding became the latest trend (thanks Chris Roberts, you absolute cunt) and suddenly every talentless hack with a dream (and not even a tech demo or sometimes not even screenshots) came flooding in with their low effort OPs to shill for subscribers and try and get rich quick, and unfortunately the mod team were just too slow to react to enforce a standards rule.
Granted this is an issue that has continued on to F95 too, with a bulk of threads being badly made 0.01s; but at least on there threads have be requested and can't just be posted and dumped by some randomer.
Kinda funny how in the last poll MONKEY was addedBestiality is pretty odd in hentai games-- always a horse, or dog. I noticed Western titles getting sus and adding dolphins/pigs to the mix.
Waiting to see what unfathomable sins the JAV communities can create in the future.