The Official Valkyria Chronicles Thread

[ookaze]

Zuhyc said:

ookaze said:
I'm not glad. What's the point of even releasing it earlier in Europe, as less people will buy it, because most people won't understand the language?
All this will do is make SRPG even more niche than they are in Europe. This is the same stupidity we had a decade ago. SRPG are nearly extinct in Europe now.
I won't support nonsense like that anyway, I'm patiently waiting for the USA release. There's no point in paying 20-30 € more for sth that isn't even better.
Europe isn't even getting a special edition of the game. It's a shame...

Translating games only makes the localisation proces more expensive, which makes turning a profit less likely. Importing your games is what's damaging the already niche RPG market in Europe.

 

Cut the nonsense please!

The game is NOT translated from english and STILL cost 20-30 € more in Europe. Besides, most people don't speak english here, so these people won't suddenly love sth where they don't even understand what's going on, especially in a JRPG.

Importing never damaged the niche RPG market in Europe. Obviously you're not from Europe or very young to
believe this. In every time I've known, which include PS1, SNES and NES times, you just couldn't play most JRPG without importing. Us importers often have two versions of the very same game : the original japanese one and a PAL version.

You lack perspective and abstraction power. Just replace Europe with NA and the language of the game from English to Japanese, and look again at what you said.

Now, if you're saying I'm damaging the niche ENGLISH FOR NON-ENGLISH COUNTRIES RPG market in Europe, then you're absolutely right, as this market makes no sense and should be removed as soon as possible, to be replaced by a LOCALISED RPG market in Europe.

What's worse, is that the not-translated games market in Europe is mostly made of importers, which means people who have no problems with foreign languages. If you believe we are stupid people, I'll let you believe that and won't buy such nonsensical games.