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Originally Posted by mone-chan
not really you have to remember that we are talkng about games made for japanese versions of windows (XP as you can have ways around it in 98 and ME) programs that look for the fonts windows have runs into problems if they can't find them. you have games that will not run even with you have region settings to japanese and microsoft's MUI(multi user interface) installed unless you have a no dvd patch or the original DVD to run it. but it is something they just started this year and the no DVD patch doesn't always fix the problem.
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Since you bought the game and it is a Japanese game, you should obviously have the DVD and know how to run Japanese games, right? And games have been requiring the original discs for years now; it is not a new development. Furthermore, it's not like the game companies are targeting gaijin without Japanese Windows who just downloaded a game off the Internet.
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You also need to remember that ripping the CG or the text story is also a problem for this type of game remake program 1.6 GB or CG 480MB text file 2MB after all why pay for a tsuki hime remake if you can just download the pictures and the full text of the story ?
Then take into account even if they can extract/translate/reinstall and debug the remake's text you will still be looking at 1-2 years before you get a tranlated version being beta tested instead of one being beta tested as we speak.
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Your argument is akin to "why pay for a game when you can download it?" and you should know the answer to that. The difference between 200MB of pictures and text and a 1.6GB game is the difference between an actual movie and a flipbook. Furthermore, someone dedicated enough to want to download 200MB of pictures and text to play through a game isn't going to break a sweat downloading the whole game.
As for the extra time involved, since the scripts are translated already, and that there's a very slim chance of TYPE MOON rewriting the entire game script from scratch, a simple program can be made to patch the new script using the old translation, and then extract out the nonmatching lines for the extra text that needs to be translated. Trust me, the bulk of the work is in the translation/editing of the game script. Technical aspects including adapting to a new version of the script, extraction, insertion, etc. are not time consuming, although they require a lot of skill for fast results.