Dehry posted:

CrashCat posted:

gigantic shocker, D_T posts for half a year about how he'll hate game, then he hate game

Carth Dookie posted:

She's totally going to purge that later.

Endorph posted:

also tbh a guy posting his thoughts on a vita game is way better than arguing about gamergate or jokes about anorexia

Endorph posted:

don't make this post, it's incredibly hosed up and weird

kirbysuperstar posted:

It's almost like Takaki is a one-trick pony. Weird!

Endorph posted:

also tbh a guy posting his thoughts on a vita game is way better than arguing about gamergate or jokes about anorexia

Endorph posted:

also tbh a guy posting his thoughts on a vita game is way better than arguing about gamergate or jokes about anorexia

Carth Dookie posted:

Eat me.

Endorph posted:

id would but then you'd want me to puke you back out

Super No Vacancy posted:

honoka snipe

Endorph posted:

also tbh a guy posting his thoughts on a vita game is way better than arguing about gamergate or jokes about anorexia

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

Is not a bad game, mindlessly beating up guys is kind of fun but it gets repetitive fast.

FactsAreUseless posted:

This is why Akane Tendo hates going to school.

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There are a number of reasons why we might not localize a game. For specific games, we can rarely ever officially identify our exact reasoning to fans, but in general, these are some of the more common things that will keep us from localizing a title:

The game is prohibitively expensive to license, for one reason or another, or the terms of the contract we'd have to sign for the game seem virtually guaranteed to lose us money. Sometimes, we can tell you guys when this happens, but other times, we really can't (for legal reasons). It happens a lot more often than you'd think, though, and for games you wouldn't necessarily expect it to.

Somebody else just wanted the game more than we did, and was willing to bid higher than we were able to for the rights to it. This comes up very, very infrequently -- in general, when we really want a game, we're willing to pay pretty well for it -- but just like when you're bidding on an eBay item that you REALLY WANT, there's always that one stray item every now and again where some dude places an absurdly high bid that you can't possibly match because dammit, he WANTS it, and he won't allow anyone else to have it, even if he has to go broke to get it!

There are technical/programming issues with the game that would make localization costly and/or impossible. This happens a little more often than you'd think too, and has forced us to pass on some games we really, really would've loved to work on otherwise. If there's a game you can think of that never got localized by anyone, despite it seeming like a no-brainer, this is a very likely explanation for that.

Somebody on the Japanese development team or at the Japanese publisher really doesn't want the game to be released outside of Japan, for one reason or another. This has absolutely happened before, where the devs simply wouldn't let a particular game go for ANY sum of money, and it's always really disheartening when it does -- especially because the reasoning behind it never seems to make any sense at all.

We evaluated the game and simply didn't like it. This is one reason you'll never hear us own up to for any game, as it would be terribly unprofessional of us to do so and could damage business relationships with Japanese developers and publishers. But it definitely happens! We take pride in all the games we release, so if we evaluate a game that we feel doesn't measure up to our standards, we won't release it -- even if fans are begging for it, we won't feel comfortable releasing something that we know sucks, as that'll just come across like we're fleecing you guys. (And yes, this does mean that at least one XSEED member has been able to recommend, to some extent or another, each and every game we've released to date -- even the ones that didn't review well and that you guys make fun of from time to time!)

It's been determined that the game wouldn't sell well enough to justify the cost we'd have to put into it. This, I think, is where the "XSEED has given up on Vita-exclusive games" point of view stems from -- but rest assured, a game being Vita-exclusive isn't nearly enough to preclude it from being a viable business venture. We've had a lot of luck with Vita games to date, and the Vita install base is certainly big enough to support the kinds of numbers we need to survive. A game's platforms of availability certainly do factor into our decisions on these sorts of matters, but it's rarely the deciding factor -- especially in this day and age where porting games to PC is almost always a viable option, given enough time and budget.

Again, this is just a general list, and far from a complete one. Each game is unique, and reasons can sometimes get very specific. And again, I'll never be able to confirm the exact reason we aren't the ones working on any game in particular. But hopefully, this list will help you realize that there's more to evaluating a game for localization than you may have thought.

-Tom

voltcatfish posted:

i wonder which games got denied because japan refused to let them be localized

ciel nosurge maybe??

Policenaut posted:

I think the more alarming thing about that is there are actually human beings at XSEED who think Corpse Party: Blood Drive was good.

Policenaut posted:

Happy EVO everybody, Garou: Mark of the Wolves is coming back.

Policenaut posted:

Happy EVO everybody, Garou: Mark of the Wolves is coming back.

Endorph posted:

and xseed probably poked around on doa xtreme 3 too

Motto posted:

Proto-klan was a misrememberance on my part, but they do mention early on that it was bascially an rp group before escalating into a terror organization.

http://thedollop.libsyn.com/98-dc-stephenson
e: it's more of a jokey-joke podcast than a pure history one though