Update on DLC and next patch for Honey Select Unlimited.

From a deleted post on news and updates on the DLC and next patch from Jacob regarding Honely Select Unlimited, the following are bullet points and not exact quotes.

* The next patch will drop very soon anytime this week or next week. There were unexpected complications during the programming that delayed the patch drop.

* The 2 Big DLC patches are being price negotiated with ILLUSION games since in Japan they are full priced; so FAKKU is currently working hard on translation/localization and bringing down the price to be more reasonable for customers outside of Japan.

* Expect clearer news on these two points sometime this week from FAKKU.

Cannot wait. This is awesome.

I have to second this, and mention my disappointment in the community for down voting this. These are very real concerns, all of which I also have. I understand fakku isnt a game porting company but this has been sketchy and shoddy at best.

p.s. Ive also been pretty dissapointed in a couple of book purchases that just haven't been fulfilled, no word on them either. (i have an order i placed in early December, its not shipped yet.)

Yeah, I agree, it would be good to take a break and keep supporting the prodyct.

Jacob and FAKKU in general are caught between a rock and a hard place here. The community wanted answers regarding the patch and I'm certain that Jacob wanted to supply those answers but your comment tells me you have never had to work with a developer (full disclosure; I work for a software company). You can't ask a developer "how long until x is fixed" because they can give you a very rough guess at best which means anything you tell the community is very likely to be wrong. The developer won't know how long it will take to fix until they put in that last line of code or whatever and it is suddenly fixed. Look on any gaming forum you care to mention and you will find the devs rarely ever commit to anything other than "soon" because the backlash from the community if they do give a date and miss it is always extreme. At work I automatically add 3 months to any release date I'm given and I never give a date to a customer until I have the release build in my hands (even then a build can be pulled at the last minute if QA miss something).

This is the first time FAKKU have done a game localisation before as I understand it and they are almost certainly reliant on Illusion for a lot of stuff as well so anyone asking them to be perfect first time around is really asking too much. They have much to learn about this process as they did with all of the downloads timing out right around release day. All you can ask is that they learn from their mistakes and improve like the download manager that has been mentioned and the tweaks they applied to the server(s) delivering the downloads following the timeout reports.

As for the DLC it is again a "we don't really know" as Illusion charge full price for the DLC in Japan and FAKKU don't want to do that. Any negotiation is again an open-ended thing. They could reach an agreement tomorrow or they could back-and-forth for day, weeks or even months if neither want to budge.

I get that people are frustrated but please do try seeing it from FAKKU's side :)

On a related note, what exactly would full priced for the DLC mean? $60 for each DLC? (I have no idea what HS cost in JP originally)

Yes. FAKKU are trying to get that reduced as much as they can according to Jacob though.

Good luck!

There's more than one? I only know of Party.

Thanks. I did 20 pages of searches at least and all I ever came up with was EMF and Party. Nothing was clear. Except EMF is garbage. Beyond that I was lost.

Thanks again.