Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow  - AUTOMATON WEST
automaton-media.com
A change in license plans has made it up to 50 times more expensive for Japanese game developers to use commercial fonts in their games and apps.
  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    … they already have two syllabaries. They’re not about to upend their whole writing system just to maintain foreign intellectual property.