Originally Posted by Maladaptive

The advantages of Steam are:

- potential for trading cards (means a lot for some folks)
- achievements (means a lot for some other folks)
- potentially a much much larger player base, meaning more income for DMM/Nutaku through more Gacha sales. Steam player base if huuuuge and there are lots of soft nudity games on there. The would have to cut out the H scenes for the Steam version, but still plenty of players who would drop some money on a starter pack and occasional bonus/deal.

Three words: "return on investment". How much money would they gain, due to the increased traffic from Steam? And how would that compare, both immediately and in the long term, with the money they lose due to creating and maintaining the Steam version?

The first two points I'm not sure are terribly valid. They don't seem like things that would result in more traffic (at least, I can't imagine as such); rather, they seem like things that would be perks for players once they start playing, incentives to keep playing more. So unless you're saying that people would drop money on Steam due to trading cards and achievements, and that the money they spent wouldn't have been spent anyway had those not existed, then those two items are moot.

The last point is, in fact, a potentially valid point. The larger Steam playerbase means more eyeballs seeing the game, and likely means more downloads and eventual purchases. But again, how much? It all comes down to money. It always does. Nutaku is a business. DMM is a business. And like all businesses, they're looking to maximize profits and minimize losses.

And I highly doubt that the the people they get via Steam would offset the cost of making a stripped down special version just for Steam. Unless, again, the version was literally just their already-existing "non-H" version. Which already works perfectly fine for people running Steam, because Steam runs on PCs, and PCs have flash-capable browsers.

...The entire thing would basically just be a glorified ad, placed in Steam, for the existing browser version.