Sol Press Discussion Thread
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@terrence I hold some hopes, Futekiya, an 18+ BL manga subscription service, managed to get Stripe to reinstate them (possibly due to twitter-shaming)
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@caramelwithoutthesalt They aren't doing it without reason. Although the reason is a little outdated. Banks/payment processors associate 18+ content of any type with a clientelle that is more likely to use stolen/illegal credit cards, which could lead to a lot of chargebacks. See this article for more: https://medium.heartpie.com/nsfws-payment-processing-problem-aa0d53c0ea2f
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@jon-mitchell Amazon is also huge, with the majority of its merchandise being SFW. Odds are that those factors drop it back down into the low-risk section.
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@CaramelWithoutTheSalt said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
Amazon is
Amazon themselves aren’t
Amazon isn’t
I think you found your answer. I don't know what you're trying to get at here, but Amazon isn't a payment processor, they're a content provider. If Sol Press wants to sell their stuff on anything but Amazon, they need a payment processor, and the ones that are trustworthy, reliable, and easy to work with are the ones that don't allow 18+ content.
You don't need a press release from Sol Press to know that this is how things work. If you don't believe chocolatkey, then do the research yourself.
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Well I hoping they release a physical version of Busy Wizard: This Warlock Just Wants to Provide for His Wives!
I pay for that one and I even preorder it.
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@myskaros said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
I think you found your answer. I don't know what you're trying to get at here, but Amazon isn't a payment processor, they're a content provider. If Sol Press wants to sell their stuff on anything but Amazon, they need a payment processor, and the ones that are trustworthy, reliable, and easy to work with are the ones that don't allow 18+ content.
Sol Press has dabbled in visual novels, and that area has both erotic content and storefronts for that erotic content. What exactly is so difficult for Sol Press to solve the payment processor issue that wasn't such an issue for denpa, mangagamer, j-list, nekonyan and all the other ones I can't remember right off the bat?
I think a lot of the blame does lie with them, all their troubles with their various kickstarter campaigns should make that pretty evident...I wouldn't mind them so much if they didn't hold a lot of light novel content I care about essentially hostage(looking at you, Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World...).
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@Korppi I can't speak to VNs because I don't follow that side of things, but are you saying that their VNs have been taken off stores as well? If so, then you're right, it seems to be a problem with Sol Press. But if not, then their VNs are irrelevant since we're talking light novels, not visual novels.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say Sol Press is doing nothing wrong, I'm only saying that when it specifically comes to 18+ light novels, there is a more basic problem that needs to be solved first, outside of whatever issues Sol Press may be having internally.
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What does not help is their lack of keeping to schedules. I have waited for an official Chivalry in English for a long time, it and Rokujouma are what started my love for light novels.
If I have the choice of physical and electronic, I will always choose the physical, especially for a series such as this. Yet, the release date of February has come and passed.
Exceptionally disappointed.
Author of Praetor's Blood.
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@custodes If a month late was all they were I'd be happily ordering books from them still, but they're far, far worse than that. I ordered a physical copy of volume 1 of both the manga and light novel of 80k Gold way back in August of 2019. Eight months later and there's no sign of the books, and no updates from them on their printer status other than a post someone from their company made on Reddit I think back in November or December saying they were making sure quality control was right at the printers this time. At this point I've almost written off getting anything for the $30 I spent up front, since their official store charges through PayPal immediately. I certainly won't be trusting them with any other pre-orders going forward.
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Seems like they just want to concentrate on visual novels and almost only visual novels. Everything else is just whatever, whenever. It's just a really bad situation.
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Why did it have to be Sol Press....
My Japanese is just above basic in terms of reading, I could buy the Japanese version to know what is happening, but I think it would just spoil the series if I did it that way.
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I don't understand how a company can operate the way they currently are and believe they will stay in business
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@Khaos Because people willfully ignore their bad practices and continue buying their products regardless. The manga/LN/VN sphere is still niche enough that many people are just happy that anyone is (ostensibly) localizing, and that's how some companies take advantage of both their employees and their customers.
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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@myskaros I understand that to an extent, but the fact that they are not producing any product, I mean they release 1 volume per series a year. I see that as anything but profitable. And with no updates, it just appears they have gone AWOL and people are going to just end up losing interest and forget.
Even if they are as slow as they are but actually had some transparency or an actual update even just monthly I'd feel a bit better about it.
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@Khaos
I don't want to be rude but what you're doing is exactly what they want people to do. They want people to COMPROMISE. The mindset that "as long as they give updates" or "as long as they release 1 volume per year" is the compromise that we the consumers shouldn't be even giving them.They are a company and what they do for a living is a profession thus they should act professionals themselves. They should either follow the standard of their competitors or go beyond and not show us a very poor and disappointing performance.
JNC started with around 5 series and after almost 4 years they've released 450+ volumes. Sol Press on the other hand has been around for 3 years and even if you count the VNs as 5 volumes worth of content they've only released 45 volumes in 3 years.
Rakudai was the last chance that I gave them and look at what happened. Nothing, absolutely nothing happened. My trust for them didn't hit rock bottom it just became nothing, absolutely nothing.
PS: Sorry for the rant but they just pissed me off so much.
JNC LN Ranking:
1st - Rokujouma
2nd - Realist Hero
3rd - Bookworm
