HentaiWriter
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I'm only making a topic for this as I feel it does impact quite a few devs and potential buyers of games that might visit this board that are currently living in Japan, etc.
So if the creator of a game in the west gets their game translated into Japanese, they're obviously wanting their game to be bought by/played by native Japanese speakers/residents.
Now we all know that you have to censor your game for sale on DLSite, nothing new there etc.
However, if the creator of a game were to provide Japanese as an additional language in their game, like through the option menu, and then they attempted to sell it on other sites that did *not* require this censorship to be inherent in the game;
1) Would they get in trouble with the Japanese government in any way?
2) Would they get the people buying the game in trouble in any way, assuming they live in Japan?
3) Would they get anyone who links to their game or blogs about it in Japan in trouble?
This may seem like an over the top or silly question, but I haven't found any answers for it anywhere, so I was hoping some people living in Japan would be able to shed light on this, for all h-game devs wanting to eventually add in translation (because while it does cost money, given the size of the h-game market in Japan, it's a really good investment!)
So if the creator of a game in the west gets their game translated into Japanese, they're obviously wanting their game to be bought by/played by native Japanese speakers/residents.
Now we all know that you have to censor your game for sale on DLSite, nothing new there etc.
However, if the creator of a game were to provide Japanese as an additional language in their game, like through the option menu, and then they attempted to sell it on other sites that did *not* require this censorship to be inherent in the game;
1) Would they get in trouble with the Japanese government in any way?
2) Would they get the people buying the game in trouble in any way, assuming they live in Japan?
3) Would they get anyone who links to their game or blogs about it in Japan in trouble?
This may seem like an over the top or silly question, but I haven't found any answers for it anywhere, so I was hoping some people living in Japan would be able to shed light on this, for all h-game devs wanting to eventually add in translation (because while it does cost money, given the size of the h-game market in Japan, it's a really good investment!)