>>69869119>>69868499One of the more common requests /nasfaqg/ used to get back in the day (before NijiEN even, although the requests spiked when Lazulight was debuting) was to add Nijis.
Riku was on a warpath against fan projects at the time, so the devs for NASFAQ said "No. Holos and their mamas only." and that policy has been maintained since.
In working on my own projects over the years, both /here/ and elsewhere, I've talked with other devs, and any of them that wanted to do Niji stuff had roughly the same opinions:
>Anycolor might come for me and make me tear it down, and that Sword of Damocles makes it difficult to get passionate.>I don't want to waste my time making content for a liver that will graduate in less than a year; I'd rather make content for their reincarnation.>I don't want Nijisanji to just steal my work and claim it as theirs. This got even worse after the Selen outfit shit last year, as more artists became aware of Anycolor's willingness to just steal artwork and monetize it without giving the artist a cut, which is a big no-no in most artistic fields. The fact that Holo came out with a way for aspiring fan devs to monetize their work under license in the same year was icing on the cake.>I'm a newbie dev trying to build a portfolio, and working with Niji is more harm than good to my own reputation.Pretty much the only people making Niji-based games anymore are /here/, and that's almost exclusively as part of a larger unity project. Even then, with recent events I'd rather cut Nijis out than have to deal with the sisters. I have no fear for my reputation, it's just more hassle than it's worth.