There are restrictions on what you can make and where you can sell it, but he doesn’t see a dime of the derivative works.
He sells out almost instantaneously of the official works, though, so he definitely gets his share. And the rate of official works has been slowly increasing over the years; there’s several concurrent manga now, for example.
The restrictions are actually a serious pain in the butt for the western audience that wants to make stuff because there’s a lot of “Hey, sell it at conventions, nerds.”
W-what? What Touhou game would you need a Hori stick for? The Senkou no Ronde-esque one?
In my head, I’m too used to thinking of Touhou as a keyboard game, even though it’s just a shmup.
Also, I saw that Pokeclone game! I wonder if it’s made using RPG Maker and the Pokemon clone engine fans have made for it. I’d play it if there’s an English patch. (There’s probably an English patch, huh?)
You still don’t need a stick because it doesn’t have motions, though?
I don’t understand where this franchise is going. I think it’s kind of BS if Friends Of ZUN get favorable treatment in the selling out, while everyone else is left behind.
If I were in his place, yeah I’d totally do it too.
As someone who used to work on fan tls though, I kind of really wanted to see more of the doujin culture become available to westerners; we got pretty locked out by it being a convention-only thing. So going the full commercial route makes a lot of sense for the fans, but it doesn’t export of any of what made the franchise what it is in the first place, you know? A bit of a letdown.
