Just over one year since the CLANNAD Official English Release Kickstarter launched, Sekai Project have just now published the Steam Store page for this most awaited visual novel! But what is the only little detail that could be even more exciting than that? How about the fact that, after months
This is getting me suuuuper excited man! I absolutely cannot wait any longer to get started in replaying the VN that got me into VNs 
I’ll be staring at the countdown on store page for the meantime. We need a song to go with this hype train.
Does anyone know how much it will be on steam?
I believe it will be $39.99, at least based on the http://kazamatsuri.org/harmonia-steam-release-confirmed/?u=yerian magazine. Also thats how much it was on the Kickstarter.
Thank you very much!
They just announced the price, it’s going to be $50. A little bit high, not going to spend my money on that until it’s at least $40.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/SekaiProject/posts/1180849428609196
woooooosh thats steep. Understandably steep, but for a market that seems more prone to piracy than other markets (excluding music) I can’t help but worry about the sales numbers. Of course, plenty of people are already going to get their copy through the KS so thats a positive.
True, but it seems like a little slap in the face for those who didn’t Kickstart it… I mean at least us have the same price as the non-early bird package. As much as I love Clannad, I feel as though the price could be lowered a tad bit since… you know… it is ten years old…
Despite it beinf a 10-year old piece of work, so much love was put into this localization such that it feels like a modern visual novel, really. So I think the price point really is justifiable
Oh I agree CLANNAD is easily worth $50. But I still think this was a bad move that’s going to hurt sales a lot.
Agreed. The target demographic is young people. People still living with parents, in college, just starting out in the adult world. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to throw 50 dollars at a visual novel. It’s also expensive for a visual novel. Not saying Clannad isn’t worth it, but they really are aiming a bit too high here. The people who wanted Clannad badly enough to spend that much probably all backed the kickstarter anyway.
I don’t necessarily agree that it was a bad move/idea. If you buy games at the western market, mainly all of them are around 50-60 dollars, well, at least for the new releases, and some of those games that cost that much are utter trash. Some of those games are only 10-20 hours of playing too.
Yes, CLANNAD is more like a book, which might pull gamers away, but the CLANNAD visual novel is for people who actually want it.
The anime-adaption touched many hearts, and most people who backed up the Kickstarter, did that, because of the anime-adaption.
You have to take into account that with prices going up, 50 dollars today, is like 40 dollars during 2013. You also have to take into account, that mainly the people from the Kickstarter are buying it, meaning they’ve had over a year to save 50 dollars. It is 10 years old, but it’s still a story that touched many people, and is still loved by many people to this day.
Plus, shouldn’t we be glad ? I mean, isn’t 2 episodes-worth of Charlotte on Blu-Ray worth a bit over 50 bucks ? Talk about overpriced rip-off when the show itself wasn’t even as good as it could have been.
Oh gosh, just thinking about the Little Busters! Pricing and hopefully soon-to-be Rewrite’s translations, official release’s pricing. But the pricing was fine. If you can’t buy it now, it’s fine isn’t it ? It’s gonna still be on steam, even if you don’t buy it the day of its release. You’ll still have a lot of time to save up anyways. Even if the first day-release is what Visual arts looks at the most.
