Since it's such a pain in the ass to localise Tales of why don't they let someone else do it? Argh.

Heres an idea.

Instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on famous VAs, try to find NEW VA namco. You'll be surprised how many good voice actors there are who don't charge an arm and a leg for their work.

There is one thing I don't get.The dubbing part.Do J-rpg/anime/Tales fans really prefer the english dub than the original?Even if some do prefer it I'm sure the majority doesn't.Plus as alekth mentioned if Atlus can so can NB.But why is not releasing it at all better than releasing it without eng dub?

For some reason this reminds me of Capcom's PC SSFIV thing.We won't release the game for the PC because of the piracy and we won't make it steam exclusive as well because that would be unfair to PC owners...Yeah makes sense!

I'm really tired about all these localisation things.Especially when Nintendo and Namco Bandai are mentioned.

Namco seems to be one of the fewest company which didn't get the need of selling their games in the western market, that is to say the biggest market.

They do not want to translate without voice actors, but we're encouraged to import Japanese versions ? Seriously ?

Well, I used to think that most people prefer original voices and subs, but I've heard plenty of people opposing. Personally I'm all for subs, but English isn't my native language anyway, and I've been watching anime since forever, when not much was getting localized, and the huge majority of the existing dubs were truly awful. So I'm used to subs. I'm still very much in favour of dual-language tracks, as long as there is room on the media.

However there are quite a few points in namco's replies that don't make much sense:

- Vesperia's voices are done to a large extent. Did MS actually finance so much that the rest of the voicing wouldn't be covered by all Western PS3 sales?
- It's not below Namco to cut corners in voicing anyway (Abyss skits, a whole part of Legendia unvoiced)
- as mentioned, there are more voice actors out there than a few big names
- why refuse other publishers? Quality cannot possibly be a problem, Atlus do great at JRPG localization. There is a certain loss of developer identity in some cases (e.g. a lot of people quoting Demon's Souls as an Atlus game). However Tales of games always have Tales of in the title. It's not a single game, and a publisher cannot kidnap the brand forever.

And anyway, how is me importing games going to encourage Namco localizing them more often. Especially since I've spent quite enough this gen on Namco's platform hops, and if they finally release in the West one of the games I imported, they certainly won't see me buying that edition as well just to show them my appreciation for finally throwing the West a bone after all the petitioning.

Well, what do you know... sounds just like the Wii's core games dilemma, eh?

OT: As alekth pointed out, I'm not buying it. ToV PS3 especially still doesn't fit with what the guy said. Whatever, their loss

If her bestfriend is hot, pretty and sexy. I wouldn't mind.

This made my day... maybe sell it in ebay =]

@wyver      this way you can have both at the same time

"If you want Tales of Whateveria, buy Splatterhouse first!" Fuck Namco.

If they weren't a so-so company (on a very, very good day), they would take XSeed up on their offer to localize the shit for them.