Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2023
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Oh i know u didn’t call anyone scumbags, i was just explaining why i was angry initially at another post. Idk if u saw but i was explaining in another post that i’m totally cool with another translator working on it. I personally feel that these manga aren’t owned by any of these translators, if 20 groups wanted to translate at the same time I’d be fine. It’s just weird to me that ppl not named the author of the series can take hold of the series and nobody else can work on it cause of some sniping rule. Hell of on the funniest things ive seen on this site was when like, 12 groups all translated that Tsundere girl getting less dere every chapterDon't know why you're quoting my post because I never once called them scumbags. Hell, I was generally pretty complementary of their efforts for the most part.
But the point of the "sniping" debate is that most groups or translators work together either implicitly or explicitly with a sort of fair play/honor system setup of not stepping on others' toes when it comes to who's working on a series. If someone's doing a decent job and not being excessively slow then what point is there to swooping in and translating more chapters from a series they're working on? Why not find one of the scores and scores of series that people have abandoned or ignored and translate that to fill a gap? The community works best when everyone finds a hole to fill and through just a basic amount of consideration and respect that's pretty easy to maintain. But what Degen is doing is taking advantage of that. They rely on the fact that most groups won't come and poach their series in order to build up a catalog of titles that they exclusively translate while using patreon to monetize the popularity of some of their titles. But then when someone does decide to move into their territory, suddenly they show interest in releasing chapters for titles they had ignored, likely hoping to scare off the new group by making it appear as if they're interested again. But if Scyllazy stopped now and doesn't post another chapter, chances are we wouldn't see Degen touch this again for months.
Degen has a ton of titles to work on. And there are a bunch of titles out there that they could pick up instead of this if they have a slot to fill in their release schedule. There's no need to suddenly switch back onto a series they ignored for the better part of a year just because another group has decided to fill the hole they created.