The only thing DMM is to blame for is trusting a company as incompetent as Nutaku to handle the western versions of their games.
This honestly simplifies things for me in a number of ways. Since I won't be looking forward to new characters to obtain and have a limited time-set to finish H-ing up my collection, I can burn all the SC I have left on that, then take pictures, and store my sex-capades somewhere local to look back on. Also given that this is the second to last game I'm willing to take up under Nutaku with the last being still questionable, I'm making it easy for myself to say goodbye and walk away satisfied (pretty much all the other games are too taxing with gacha dependencies).
I'd say I was let down, disappointed, pissed off but I'm honestly not. I have 4 months of backlog for downloaded H-games, another 10 for other games, 2 mmos I can get back into, and weeks of anime to catch up with so this is one less thing to keep up with.
And for those bitching about Nutaku being incompetent or 100% responsible for everything, clearly you haven't had the kinda middleman job where your providers half-ass their work and threaten to cut you off when you say too much and your customers nitpick every little thing that you were ordered to leave as is or tried to deal with when it was beyond your ability. If you've worked that field, if you've done it right, and if you've been more successful than Nutaku has made itself to be, then by all means, don't only criticize but go and take their business. Otherwise, if you have no intent on doing any of that and just want to be sore about sinking your money into something that ended at a time that was inconvenient for you, then rant away but don't go pointing fingers at shit you only think you understand.
anyone know if any japan people are also shocked/wondering about this? like a thread on 2ch or something.
Well, this is unpleasant news. This is the 4th game I've enjoyed on Nutaku that has been shut down (although two of those were only mildly interesting to me). At least I know now not to spend any more on this game... and also, most likely, not to spend any more on Nutaku.
Guess I should get some enjoyment out of the affection scenes while I still can, and possibly contribute to some project to save the scenes... I've learned the hard way make sure anything I like on the internet is saved to a hard drive.
Maybe Nutaku's Aigis main competition was the DMMver and if dev was getting even twice as much profit for the same amount of effort, it would make sense for them to stop trying. Unfortunately, Japanserver of game will always make a lot more money because of willingness of player to spend. I see this as something that was long time coming, although I am surprised it ended as soon as it did. All online game will end, you only pay if you feel you are getting your entertainment's worth. No one can complain about their favorite band ending concert tour, it is band's decision. If you enjoy going to concerts, you pay for that concert.
If u enjoy Aigis for its gameplay, it is strongly recommended to join me and try to at least start on DMM and see how it goes. Every time there was new reason to sign up in DMM whether in 2015 or 2016 u hear tales of how player caught up to their Nutaku progress in a very shorter amount of time because the game over there is much further on. I more understand that while it was likely dev Tea's decision to stop supporting English version, probably their reasons for doing so is related to business and DMMver is at much less risk of stopping because the paying userbase is there and very guaranteed.
Maybe Nutaku could have handled things better but I think it was over when Nordland said dev Tea wanted to continue handling the service about 1year ago.
Seriously, supporting the devs who decided to trash our money and our progress is not happening.