That's a false statement, I've played tons of mtl and was able to finish almost all of them, the ones that have real bugs usually get fixed by the community with a few patches, if you know what to expect mtl can be pretty enjoyable and are far easier to play than the full untranslated game for most people.
And no, it doesn't discourage translations, if anything most of these games by random devs were never even going to be picked by manual translators in the first place for not being that popular. This game is another example of MTL or nothing unless a fan really enjoyed it and decided to pickup for full translation which probably would never happen.
Think like this, a translator can take months to finish a single manual translation project on a leisure pace, so they only go for popular games or things they personally enjoy and this is not nearly fast enough to keep up with the ammount of untranslated games that exist and keep being developed. So most games would never have seen the light of day around the western market if not for the MTL version. If you don't like it just ignore MTL threads but know that they do serve a purpose and many users like myself really enjoy having more Jap games to play even if they aren't manually translated.
I don't care for mtls and don't play games that have them
Personally rather happy Its not a game I've been waiting to see a tl for but the game came out less than a month ago if I remember correctly. If its simply a matter of whether or not someone wants to play an mtl or a decent tl it really wouldn't matter much but I see a problem with it possibly discouraging those considering translating something like this among other games.
I'd say if they can't decide between what they have the first thing they'll do is cross off the ones that have a tl of any kind, but I suppose I can't really prove or say such a thing happens much so I suppose it isn't worth trying to argue such.
but it says alot to me when someone making an MTL can't even use a word-wrap to keep their words from flying out of the dialogue box through whatever sort of incompetence being lazy or genuinely just unable to do it I highly doubt they themselves would be able to fix any bugs the machine makes should they arise.
though You might be right perhaps someone in the community will decide to fix that if whoever throws the mtl out does not so may not be much point in arguing that either.
However there is nothing false in saying that an mtl with no edits adds nothing at all.
Unless one feels the convenience of not having to download and take a few minutes to figure out how to use a good text extraction program and gain the benefits that comes with that over using an non-edited mtl'd game is a huge benefit.
