Okay, story time! A few days ago I made a meme poking fun at the Natsume-Marvelous split and the resulting drop in quality that came from Natsume trying to DEVELOP their own games, rather than stick to English localizations/publishing.
Well YESTERDAY my meme was reposted (not by me) to the subreddit r/Harvestmoon on Reddit.com and it resulted in CHAOS! A comment war started, exposing the fact that so many of the subreddits users still didn’t quite understand the difference between “development” and “publication”. People were being downvoted left and right and it spurred the subreddits moderators to pin a SPECIAL post explaining the difference between the “good” Harvest Moon games (now known as Story of Seasons) and the “bad” Harvest Moon games (the ones published by Natsume, who still own the legal rights to the Harvest Moon title)
As of this Tumblr post, my meme has 92 comments and 397 upvotes (highly unusual for that subreddit, whose comments rarely go above 50). Here’s hoping that my inadvertent “Reformation” of the Harvest Moon subreddit sheds a little light on the differences between Natsume-published Harvest Moon and Natsume-DEVELOPED Harvest Moon.
