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Do you think ZUN will ever sign a deal or sell off Touhou to a larger company?
I'm sure he's been asked at least once by now, but there is a possibility that he could break and give in, isn't there?

>> No.2353322

He makes the games because he likes making them.

>> No.2353326 [SPOILER] 
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2353326

Like, to Sega?

>> No.2353331

>>2353322
You're telling me if some large gaming company came to you with a large sum of money, you wouldn't give in?
There is only so much pressure someone can take, and I'm sure realistically most people would give in.

>> No.2353330

He's gotten thousands of requests (i.e. for official anime adaptions) and he's denied them all.

The only non-game material is stuff he asks for, like SSiB and CiLR.

>> No.2353332

I thought you said you would quit making retarded topics, but I guess that's too much to ask from a tripfag.

>> No.2353336

Touhou gets sold to Blizzard.
/v/ and /jp/ become 10 pages of rage threads.

>> No.2353337

>>2353332
I believe I said for one day.
And what's so bad about a discussion thread?

>> No.2353338

>>2353331
And lose your claim to fame?

>> No.2353341

>>2353338
Possibly.
I'd rather have lots of money over lots of fame.
Granted you'd be branded a sellout by your fans.
It must be hard on ZUN.

>> No.2353343

>>2353336
That would've been the best April Fool's joke ever from ZUN.

Also the second ZUN sells it off is the second it dies. Can you imagine what would happen if a company attempted to enforce copyright on TOUHOU?

>> No.2353345

>>2353331
I'm sure that he's already received such offers.

>> No.2353348

>>2353331
The new Touhou games would not make success because they're not powered by love (or beer).
ZUN would just get out of there and start a new series.

>> No.2353349
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>Touhou Corporation specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products — particularly danmaku systems. Through organic, drunken growth and doujin works, Touhou enlarged its share of the software market. By 2007 Touhou ranked third on the list of largest danmaku companies in the world, after Cave and Amusement Makers. Subsequently it became larger than Amusement Makers after its acquisition of Taito Corporation.

>The corporation has arguably become best-known due to association with its flagship Touhou danmaku. The company also builds tools for danmaku development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and bullet pattern management (BPM) software.

>The founder and CEO of Touhou Corporation, ZUN, has served as Touhou's CEO throughout the company's history.

>Touhou is the industry leader of enterprise-quality danmaku solutions. Without technologies, you will lack re-sizing. What does the jargon-based term "bullet intelligence" really mean? We will revalue our capacity to utilize without lessening our capability to target. We constantly embrace viral niches. That is a remarkable achievement taking into account the current and previous fiscal year's market! What does it really mean to engineer "robustly"? What do we incentivize? Anything and everything, regardless of obscureness! Choose Touhou for your bullet intelligence application solutions.

Larger? Touhou is already pretty big, the only competitor I can think of that's bigger is Microsoft Bullet Analysis Services.

>> No.2353350

>>2353345
See the original post
>I'm sure he's been asked at least once by now, but there is a possibility that he could break and give in, isn't there?

>> No.2353351

>>2353322
>>2353322
>>2353322

>> No.2353357

>>2353336
Holy Fuck

WoG

>> No.2353354

>>2353343
Japanese companies don't seem to care about doujin material.

>> No.2353353

in before angry argument about whether or not Touhou is a viable commercial enterprise and therefore whether or not zun has been approached

protip: it's not

>> No.2353359
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>>2353354

>> No.2353362

>>2353353
Touhou 12g is pretty enterprise.

>> No.2353364

But he can't sell it because he doesn't own it legally. And he can't sue anyone if they would do it without permission.

>> No.2353365

>>2353350
>I'm sure he's been asked at least once by now, but there is a possibility that he could break and give in, isn't there?
No.

>> No.2353366

>>2353341
Enjoy never making games as good as Touhou, then.
Nor being someone as awesome as ZUN.

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>>2353357
>WoG
Don't even say such things.

>> No.2353372

it's a shump, the big name commerical titles have trouble warranting console ports as it is.

>> No.2353375

>>2353366
Even if I made games and enjoyed doing it, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to come close to what ZUN creates.
It's fairly obvious from my posts that I'd never be as cool either, but then again not too many people are as cool as him.

>> No.2353380

I wish we could vote on banning shitty tripfags. It would be like survivor but with only slightly more faggotry.

>> No.2353386

>>2353380
Don't kid yourself.
If that were to happen you might as well just have forced Anon.

>> No.2353390
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>>2353357
Something like this.

>> No.2353393

>>2353359
Type-Moon sold out long before Fate/Stay Night.

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>>2353316
Zun has said he wants to keep Touhou as a doujin game.

>> No.2353418

>>2353359
I'm not sure what you're implying but I meant that they don't care about enforcing copyrights against doujin works of their franchises.

>> No.2353434

>>2353418
I never considered that.
It'd probably be a nightmare to even attempt that.

>> No.2353449

ZUN likes making those games, and popularity is secondary to that. But he probably doesn't want others making undeserved fortunes off his ideas and creations. And really, that's quite fair.

>> No.2353464

>>2353434
Well if anything support from the doujin community only increases the popularity of a series, so they don't even have a reason to try to take legal action.

>> No.2353470

>>2353316

I doubt it. He's been working for Taito for years. The games by that company are what inspired him to create Touhou in the first place.

I'm not sure if he still works for them; I wouldn't be surprised if he was laid off during the whole Square Enix takeover in late 2008. But he would have completely whored out Touhou a long time ago if he needed to (or even cared to).

>> No.2353486

now I feel bad for pirating his games + music.

>> No.2353487

>>2353486
Buy Touhou 12 then.

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2353518

Zun will sell it to Taito, who in turn will give it to Square-enix, who will make an Einhander style shooter about Marisa beating the other touhoes and using their powers against them.

real little girls use youmu's blade

>> No.2353526

>>2353518
Don't know if want...

>> No.2353535

>>2353518

Do want, I love Einhander.

>> No.2353537

ZUN should just open his !bar finally and concentrate all his programming efforts on Touhou. He should already have quite a sum on his account from all the sales through the years. If he didn't spend it all on alcohol, that is.

>> No.2353550

>>2353486

Zun among others is an exception but most groups only get revenue from their initial print run and sales at the event.

Piracy of doujin goods isn't damaging like it is to a commerical company and any artist who pays much attention to their income beyond meeting costs doesn't belong in the scene.

Especially in the case of music I don't understand people who refuse to upload stuff in the name of encouraging sales, it doesn't work like that.

>> No.2353552

Hey guys I bet CliffyB could make a pretty fuckin' cash Touhou game!

>> No.2353566

>>2353518
That reminds me, I was playing this yesterday and got up to the satellite. How the fuck do you kill this thing? I only had a few continues left and it fucking raped me.

>> No.2353583

>>2353537

Yeah, I think Japanese ZUN is a simple man.

If he could spend the rest of his life drinking beer, making doujin games, and replaying Darius Gaiden and XEXEX then he would probably be an extremely happy man.

He doesn't need riches or women or any of that stuff. Because he could have gotten those by now if he wanted them.

>> No.2353590

>>2353566

Schwarzgeist is my favorite boss, I haven't played it in a while but I remember that you can destroy its "legs" to prevent it from firing missiles, and the best way to kill those saucer things is by shooting them in the center but they quickly come back anyway. You can avoid the screen-wide laser barrage by moving under the boss or between the lasers.

>> No.2353601

>>2353590

Also, you can fight the bonus jellyfish boss by destroying the "button" that comes out of the top of the boss's saucer part but that boss is a real pain in the ass.

>> No.2353616
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>>2353487
Are you sure about that?

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>>2353616
I've already bought the guide book.

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