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Old Aug 19, 2013, 08:06 PM
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We've been terribly inconsistent about what "Doujin/Indie" means for years, and it keeps getting worse with stuff like these Joypad albums. At this point, our uses of "commercial" and "doujin" are so far divorced from their actual meanings that we should stop using them.

If what we want is to capture is whether the publisher is a large commercial organization or a doujin group, we should do that (and we already do with label classifications). If what we want is to be able to filter out fan arrangement albums and original works by doujin artists, we should do that. If what we want is to classify which albums are properly licensed and which one's aren't, we should do that.

As it stands, we're trying to capture no fewer than three different concepts in one field, and it's no wonder it keeps leading to arguments and confusion.

This was the discussion thread about that field: https://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4358
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