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Hallo, i was just thinking about how there's barely any year gap where at least one atelier game doesn't release even if they're a side game and/or remasters and remakes

for example:

• 2018, no main game but atelier online came to be

• not exactly a remaster but the gap of 2021 was filled with atelier mysterious trilogy deluxe pack

in 2024 we didn't get any games, but we had the Yumia announcement during summer of 2024 along with not even a month later having an announcement of Resleriana (not the gacha) technically making up for the year gap by releasing two games within 2025

so,,, what i'm trying to say is that, i would like to see a remake of an older game such as Mana Khemia either within 2026 or again, by making up for the lack of a game within this year, having a second one in 2027 along with Karia.

that gets us to another discussion which is, if there is a possibility of a game coming out later during 2026 or next year along with Karia, which one would you want it to be?

a remake? an original? perhaps Resleriana 2? maybe remakes of the other Salburg games?

of course tho i understand other people's opinions on probably getting nothing in 2026 due to blue reflection but yeah-- one can only dream

Hello everyone, I (F/26yo) am having a hard time trying to decide if I actually want the job that I'm doing in the conditions that I do, so I'm leaning towards wanting to end things but don't know how.

For some context, I'm a graphic designer working in a creative office for almost 4 years (6 months of unpaid internship and the rest of the years working as an employee). In a small office with only 4 (technically 3) employees (me, another dude who did his internship and then stayed, the employer and his wife who does the accounting stuff WHEN she comes over to work).

At this point I do pretty much everything in the office besides the accountant's stuff, which means that I do everything from graphic design work, to going to the typographer's office to manage the printing, to managing and using a cutter machine that we have, to making and putting said stickers to any place that the clients need us to, to making signages and other installations, to contacting clients and suppliers, to literally dusting, swiping and mopping the office.

For all that work and for the amount of time I've been working on all that I'm getting paid 750€ per month, which is the minimum wage where I live.

Now here's the thing, although I wasn't happy with the payment, I was happy with the work I was doing (due to the creativeness of it all), but since earlier this year, my boss has been very VERY annoying about how we're slow and other graphic design offices and signage makers are faster and we need to pick up the pace because when we're slow we're losing jobs and then we're not getting paid in time. We always argue that of course when you do both graphic design and signage making jobs, you're not gonna be as fast because you have to switch between the two at all times.

So the dude was not lying in some sense, payment time started to get slooow. My other coworker has a bad living situation where he lives paycheck to paycheck so he has it rough, I on the other hand still live with my parents (because most of the rentals here are around 500+ euros). So at a time of need where the boss said he didn't have enough to pay both at the time I told him that he should pay my other coworker first because he needs it more. From that point forward at some point I was 3 payments behind with apologies here and there both from him and his wife.

Also another thing I forgot to mention is that I'm doing so so so many hours overtime (I work from 8:30 to 16:30 and I have even left work at 24:00 with the most usual overtime being from 18:00 to 20:00). And recently I learnt that they don't legally pay us the overtime money but only "what they can afford" to give us as extra money

And that's where the real problem started. I'm a very emotional person and when I heard that my boss and his wife and their 2 year old are looking for a new place because the people that rented them the place need it for themselves, it has me feeling bad. I was like "how can I ask for my payments when they're having just as bad of a time?" because the office is so not corporate that we're communicating like friends with the employer and his wife and this relationship doesn't have clear boundaries when it comes to work's matters like this one.

As of now the other employee is ready to leave as soon as he finds another job. I, on the other hand I'm afraid to confront them, I was thinking maybe I should see how stuff are going after my coworker leaves in the case they're really struggling with money, but even if that's the case, I might end up working always overtime and if I do so, they'll still not have enough to pay me the money I should be getting.

I have also made the mistake of stating at one point that I have saved up quite some money (for trying to move in with my partner). So I'm also afraid they're thinking that I'm so well off that it's okay if they're late with money (again right now I'm 2 payments behind).

The question at hand; how do I resign? What do I tell them? How do I confront them about the mistreatment of the overtime money and the overall bad payment wait? How do I do anything that makes it both worth it and not awkward? I feel like the moment I'm about to talk about anything remotely close to that conversation, I'll choke up my words and start crying. I'm tired of everything and I've tried a lot to just keep up, but the amount of time I'm working, with the amount of nagging I hear on the daily and the bad payment.. I don't think I can make this work anymore.

Oof I'm sorry for rambling and I'm sorry this is such a big post, I didn't really know where to start, and I'm sorry for my English isn't my first language so I'm being quite repetitive after a point. To whoever manages to read the entire thing first off, thank you for your time and secondly, I'd gladly take any advice given.