Sekai Project have revealed that they are attempting to bring the massively popular Vocaloid-cenrtic 3D animation software MikuMikuDance to Steam Greenlight, sure to get western fans excited even if an English variant of the famed freeware has been around for some time sans DRM.
Some have questioned the significance of bringing such freeware to Steam – though the prospect of giving the software and its masses of users access to the Steam Workshop might very well make the endeavor worthwhile.
There is no information regarding whether additional content or features will be added to the Steam release, but the program’s arrival onto the platform will surely help in attaining Miku’s goal of world domination.
Reactions from Steam users have been predictably positive as well:
“So ready for this! I had no idea where I could get MMD before, but this makes it really easy now! I’m excited to get to use this!”
“god i’d imagine making models and videos and pictures would be easier if this ends up using the steam workshop which has me EXCITED!”
“ITS HAPPENING!”
“Imagine how much easier it would be to add models and effects.”
“The otaku in me wants this game on steam immediately”
“As someone who used this, I can say this is a good product. Lots of people make stuff for you to use. Even pokemon!”
“Gaben pls”
If they make it the definite version and their main development platform with workshop intergration i’ll consider giving it a whirl, it is a pain in the ass to keep track of the hundreds of models and animations which i can’t even read the filename of.
As far as straight up animation goes SFM is superior in every way right now.
Considering the amount of complaining about the “stealing” and “misuse” of content in the MMD community, I don’t think workshop support would go over well. You’d have people uploading others models and sets as their own, and other people whining about it and constantly flagging things for deletion, whether justified or not. Already, a lot of Japanese MMD content creators have made things increasingly difficult for outsiders to get their content, and having it available through a primarily non-Japanese software distribution service would probably make them even less likely to release their content publicly.
I think 90% of people who were interested in MMD have already tried it and moved past it by now. We really do need more MMD hentai/sexy dances that are in first person for the oculus though, but that doesn’t have anything to do with steam.
I respectfully disagree. It’s probably because many of us just see the often too many dance videos made in MMD by a 10 year old kid just using a motion data, camera motion , load the model, stage, render and done. So i do understand where the stereotypical come from but trust me on this there’s MANY of good animation video made by a serious animator using that software especially from the Japanese community.
And don’t compare the one who used this software there with the majority of the west, there it has used to made full season (although short) anime show for a numerous time and commercial stuff. while in the West most of them just made stuff like i mentioned above…
give people a chance, there might be a few diamonds in the rough.
MMD is still used to animate awkward dance vids. I’m sure the demand isn’t going away for the next decade.
I still enjoy the dance
Great. Get ready for an even bigger flood of drama from 5-year-old Western brats whining about not receiving free stuff sooner because they can’t wait to steal credit by rereleasing it under their own name.
Why is MMD on Steam when it is a FREE program you can download from the actual site. Not sure the maker would like that
Technically there is potential that Steam could put it up for free, there are several types of games and software that are already free. Simply putting it on Steam, even for free, could be a potentially beneficial sales tactic in the long term. Make something with a following easily accessible and attach it to a full community of modders, you’ll bring in more traffic to your service which will generate more sales. It’s likely already happened several times over with Maple Store and, much more largely, Final Fantasy.
Well, It’ll be nice to share downloads on the steam workshop.
Steam Workshop! All the mods you will ever need in one hub! Yeah, I can see why one would want to grab MMD through Steam.
Some people are too lazy to actually go find things on a site and down load them or are scared of getting a malware infection though the Steam client it’s self can be considered malware by many of the definitions of the term and introduces it’s own security risks.
I am not opposed to this at all. But please Sega, try to bring Project Diva over to Steam too.
IF Sega didn’t bring PSO2 to the west, what are the chances of this lol
PSO2 sucks
I played PSO2 and I tell you you ain’t missing anything.
Also, why does my brick-bot float like a butterfly?
That’s kinda us western players fault…I mean we give them no reason to bring PSO2 over since we are already in the JP one, pay for things,a nd get along with the JP players. So I doubt we will see any time soon. Not that I really care since I already and maxed out in the JP version.