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As most of you know by now, Blick and other group members are discussing things with JAST about an official Western release. I understand that he takes my actions amiss. I also want to apologize to everyone who feels trolled by us and those who bought the Japanese game because they put their faith in us. If there’s someone to blame, it’d be me. I failed your trust. So please, stop the hatred comments on the others and look forward to the official release. Blick, Nagato and whoever’s part of the new group will give their best.
You’ll find Blick’s blog here, be sure to support him!
Best regards,
Antheon
Edit January 24, 2012
Since the start of the filepocalypse, you can download Geckoey Lurker’s patch (V.1.3) here as well.
You’ll be able to comment for the next ten days. Afterwards, the site will be closed.
For some time now there have been complaints about the lack of informations regarding the project’s status. Rumors about our work being sold to JAST appeared as well of some rather rude assumptions of us not caring about your opinions and curiosity. Today I’ll try to answer some of your questions though I won’t be able to satisfy you all.
First of all I’d like to remind you that this is our first project. Though the translations went on pretty fast, that doesn’t mean that there haven’t been problems. As most of you know, Blick has disappeared. I won’t deny the fact that he’s been the very backbone of our group. The speed of his translations have been the very reason we aimed for Christmas as release date. With him gone, things will eventually slow down. As to why he vanished … I can’t say. Yet. We are still trying to get in touch with him and talk things out. To assume he sold his translations to JAST is very rude though, unless he told you so himself.
As for myself, I can tell you that JAST has indeed contacted me. One e-mail even mentioned Steam being interested in a playable demo. I did not reply to those mails. At the beginning of our translation project, I told Reading Steiner that I’d only work with them if that would speed up the game’s release. Needless to say that we’re still waiting for Chaos;Head. I can only speak for myself but RS and I made very clear that we are not interested in money, just the release of this wonderful Visual Novel. This hasn’t changed and it never will.
So, why are there no updates when everything’s fine? The short answer would be: We are taking a break. Now I know that there’ll be people out there saying “No shit, Sherlock!” and I’d have to tell them that our group is experiencing a couple of problems. Some of them involve real life and its traps. I myself have been MIA for a few months because I lost my job and had to think about other things than this project. Might sound harsh but I won’t put an internet hobby above my real life. Another problem has been the lack of motivation (or the growing fatigue after a good head start). Due to my absence people could not tell me that they’d have a break for a while. So I’m still trying to get into touch with everyone. Last but not least there are also some dissents on a few topics regarding translation and editing.
Until we settle everything, we will put the project on-hold officially.
I’m sorry to say this but it makes no sense to talk about an ETA when we are still discussing which way to go. I also regret that I haven’t replied to you earlier but it wouldn’t have done any good talking about updates whilst not knowing anything myself. While I’m at it I also want to apologize to everyone who has sent me an e-mail but did not get a reply. Since this project’s beginning I’m flooded with mails, receiving every comment one submits. I could turn off that function but I like to know what you think. I read every mail but I still have 281 mails to go through. So if you want me to reply, please re-send your mail!
That said, I want you to know that this project will be finished – one way or another. As long as it’s the choice of Steins Gate.
Kind regards,
Antheon
Hello again, when we started this project we had high hopes and aspirations, perhaps it was foolish of us to project our release date for Christmas originally, though now it seems we were correct after all. We’re looking at a Christmas season to Early 2012 release for the edited and complete edition of Steins;Gate.
Additionally, if you’re interested in the side stories of Steins;Gate that are in Manga form and have yet to be translated, you should check out my other translation site dedicated to translating those.
That is all and thank you for your continued support.
If you’re reading this then you should know, we’ve reached past the 1% Divergence and completed translation (11/11 Chapters Translated), but it’s not enough. Everything is in great peril.
We must begin Operation Redigering (Editing), in order to ensure the safety of the world and all of you. We’ve come this far but we must leap the final hurdle. Wish us luck friends.
El.
Psy.
Congroo.
*(We’ve completed translation and we are now starting the text/Image editing process)
Many of our fellow mad scientists may have noticed that the site had been offline for two days and panicked were worried about this project. So here is a short summary of what has happened …
It came as a surprise. Supa hacka Antheon assured labomen 008, Aelwain, that no-one would be able to track them while they were secretly downloading Blick Winkel’s newest translation. All of a sudden, the lab was attacked by the Henchmen of Evil and the only chance to survive had been abandoning the lab. It was thanks to Reading Steiner’s bravery (and the choice of Steins Gate of course) that we retrieved everything. Victory is ours, once again!
The Henchmen of Evil - Guile, Cheng, Bobby, Steve and Sissi
Seriously, after a recent update I encountered problems with the site’s nameservers. But yeah, as you can see, everything is back up and kicking again. I want to express my most humble apologies to anyone who was experiencing the downtime and worried about us. Nothing will stop us in our quest to translate this VN.
Because that is the choice of STEINS GATE.
We’ve made good progress in the 19 days since the last update!
I can now safely say that we’ve moved from being between 6 and 7 translated chapters, and that we’re now between 8 and 9 translated chapters!
The release is edging closer by the day! Keep believing in us, friends and we will surely prevail!
Kudos to Blick Winkel and Aelwain for being extra dilligent in their work this month!
I’m happy to say that we’re currently between 6 and 7 chapters translated now!
I can also now safely say that we’re expecting completion before December. Keep on waiting, friends! Our time will soon come.
We’ve made a breakthrough! The divergence meter now points to 0.523307%* A few steps closer to success!
*5/11 Chapters Translated, progressing smoothly.
Our goal… is to achieve a 1.1% divergence for this VN. In order to complete it, we must get to that number!
So far the translation world line we are on is about 0.337187%.*
The team is trying very hard to bring us out of the dystopian world line that will lead to the failure of this project!
*That means we have nearly 4/11 chapters translated
I’ve put a short extract from the prologue up onto youtube, as a rough teaser. As it says in the description it’s completely unedited and does not reflect the final version, you can find it here:
Steins;Gate English Translation – Rough Test Run
EDIT: The translated VN prologue is also available to watch! Check it out!
