JP "bonanza" compared to the NA/EU

[0nionKn1ght]

The world is evil, Corporations anyway. Greed mostly. Thinking otherwise is naive. Not a single business on earth cares about you, me or anyone, the only thing they care about is how much money they can make out of us. They have no favor for anything other than money.

I see what you're saying that regions are usually legal issues, But I understand why some people would immediately jump to the "THEY HATE NA!" response.

Japanese culture is not exactly known for its glorious acceptance of other cultures. in fact, they're, mostly, borderline xenophobic... Not all of them mind you. The gaming companies there rarely make good calls when it comes to games too. A lot of the localization issues aren't due to them liking themselves more, Its because they don't think it'll sell good enough to bother porting it.

As far as this contest goes, they've stated multiple times they have a lot of legal issues regarding it being gambling, which some countries say it is. So if you want to blame anyone, blame your countries laws that block virtual goods from being lotteried off.

Regardless of the fact, Onion, You visit Blizzard forums much? They use green text there for "MVP's", Meaning people who have made highly rated comments. I hope thats not the case... Cause that would be brutally pathetic. Just thought I'd ask.

Was enjoying reading your post until the last line. Why is the fact that I change the colour of my posts causing so much animosity from people on these forums? Gotten a death threat from someone who said that changing colours makes me an attention seeker. He actually said he would hunt me down and kill me if I didn't change to the default. It's something I have always done just to see where my last post was so I can catch up on conversation. I have never known such a venomous response to me liking the colour green. The forum gives me the option to use these settings, why is it such a heinous crime if I take an extra minute to post in a colour I like?

Your post raised some good points, but lost it at the end.

[Avina]

Japanese culture is not exactly known for its glorious acceptance of other cultures. in fact, they're, mostly, borderline xenophobic... Not all of them mind you. The gaming companies there rarely make good calls when it comes to games too. A lot of the localization issues aren't due to them liking themselves more, Its because they don't think it'll sell good enough to bother porting it.

It's also a lot more complicated than just how much the game will sell in the new region. They have to hire translation staff, as well as hire support staff for the game that will cater to the new region. If your game has voice acting, you have to not only translate the game and redub it as well. I wouldn't say they make a lot of bad calls in these areas; the companies WANT to make as much money as they can.

Something Square-Enix doesn't bring out here frequently are 'International' versions of their Final Fantasy games or the "Final Mix" line of Kingdom Hearts games. But that's because games are kind of treated differently here. In Japan they favor the RPG genre whereas we tend to favor more action games. While yes, it would appease NA fans of the series to release these versions of the game out here, I unfortunately can't blame them for not doing so because I don't think it would do well on our market. The average player of Kingdom Hearts, for example, probably wouldn't buy a new "Final Mix" were it released here.

Regardless of the fact, Onion, You visit Blizzard forums much? They use green text there for "MVP's", Meaning people who have made highly rated comments. I hope thats not the case... Cause that would be brutally pathetic. Just thought I'd ask.

Um, why do you gotta troll a guy who is just posting reasonable points of view? He explained why he used green text. Don't be a jerk.

[zataz]

but yea im just happy were getting something. i mean they could of just done it for japan and dropped it for legal reasons afterward.

[Avina]

Was enjoying reading your post until the last line. Why is the fact that I change the colour of my posts causing so much animosity from people on these forums? Gotten a death threat from someone who said that changing colours makes me an attention seeker. He actually said he would hunt me down and kill me if I didn't change to the default. It's something I have always done just to see where my last post was so I can catch up on conversation. I have never known such a venomous response to me liking the colour green. The forum gives me the option to use these settings, why is it such a heinous crime if I take an extra minute to post in a colour I like?

Your post raised some good points, but lost it at the end.

Because people feel like they are winning a debate if they throw in a nasty comment.

[FrankReynolds]

I like colored text. do you?


But seriously, wouldn't it be way easier to just make a signature so that the text is less offensive to the reader and you could still easily distinguish your posts? People can ignore your sig and still read your post. They can't ignore the text though.

[zataz]

>.> yellow looks fun to post in! and btw post in any color u want i couln't care less.

[Karbuncle]

How is it a troll? Was a legitimate question and statement. If he's using green text cause its an MVP on another forum, Its pathetic. I didn't accuse him of anything, I asked a question because i want to know his reasoning.

IF you people wanna take it as trolling, be my guest, But maybe you should look up the definition of Internet trolling before throwing the word out.

It could have been much worse. Stop playing a victim, can easily answer the question without taking offense to everything. Now you're simply looking for problems. Answer the question, Or ignore it, but stop looking for sympathy points for acting offended.

Because people feel like they are winning a debate if they throw in a nasty comment.

Nope.

P.S If i wanted to be a jerk, I could have made it much worse. I consider my posts on here very very tame, and i even go out of my way to make them less offensive because people should not fear giving their opinions, It should be a friendly atmosphere.

However, accuse me of being a jerk when i go out of my way not to be, and I'll be sure to save you a trip to Dictionary.com to look up the definition, because i will become Jerk incarnate.

[0nionKn1ght]

How is it a troll? Was a legitimate question and statement. If he's using green text cause its an MVP on another forum, Its pathetic. I didn't accuse him of anything, I asked a question because i want to know his reasoning.

IF you people wanna take it as trolling, be my guest, But maybe you should look up the definition of Internet trolling before throwing the word out.

It could have been much worse. Stop playing a victim, can easily answer the question without taking offense to everything. Now you're simply looking for problems. Answer the question, Or ignore it, but stop looking for sympathy points for acting offended.



Nope.

P.S If i wanted to be a jerk, I could have made it much worse. I consider my posts on here very very tame, and i even go out of my way to make them less offensive because people should not fear giving their opinions, It should be a friendly atmosphere.

However, accuse me of being a jerk when i go out of my way not to be, and I'll be sure to save you a trip to Dictionary.com to look up the definition, because i will become Jerk incarnate.

Why are you still making so much drama out of you being initially wrong and vile towards people? I am not acting the victim, you however are acting horrifically. Stop flapping your yapper about stuff no one cares about and try contributing. Also I am well aware of MvP's, but if you must know, I like the colour green because it always kind of stands out to me. I also write irl in green pen, and I wear emerald green socks ^_^

In short, get over yourself, the reason you are on a forum is usually because no one listens to you irl, stop trying to stomp about like you own a text based chat system.

FFXI Official Forums - The only place where apparantley colour matters, alot.

[Karbuncle]

Why are you still making so much drama out of you being initially wrong and vile towards people? I am not acting the victim, you however are acting horrifically. Stop flapping your yapper about stuff no one cares about and try contributing. Also I am well aware of MvP's, but if you must know, I like the colour green because it always kind of stands out to me. I also write irl in green pen, and I wear emerald green socks ^_^

In short, get over yourself, the reason you are on a forum is usually because no one listens to you irl, stop trying to stomp about like you own a text based chat system.

FFXI Official Forums - The only place where apparantley colour matters, alot.

For someone who makes a point to say "No one cares", You appear to be giving a lot of caring. Do you know the term contradiction? Or perhaps thats a little beyond your grasp, Since you seem entirely more concerned with telling people to contribute, while going out of his way to make yet another derailed post to insult the entire FFXI Official forums, as well as inform someone to "Get over themselves" in the same post they are calling someone out on being "Horrific".

You are the epitome of hypocrisy and are in fact, playing a victim, while trying to act offended and then in turn perform the same actions of insulting and berating you are apparently so vehemently disgusted by.

You're playing up the entire thing, Which makes me think i hit the nail on the head with my initial assessment of the reasoning for your text, otherwise, you would have shrugged it off and told me the reasoning to begin with, instead of insisting i was trolling or making it seem to be far more rude than it actually was.

If someone questioned my motives for an action, implying a reasoning that was incorrect, I would simply state thats not the care, not whine on about how he's a horrible troll. Then again, I'm not insecure and adamant about everyone being a troll.

[0nionKn1ght]

For someone who makes a point to say "No one cares", You appear to be giving a lot of caring. Do you know the term contradiction? Or perhaps thats a little beyond your grasp, Since you seem entirely more concerned with telling people to contribute, while going out of his way to make yet another derailed post to insult the entire FFXI Official forums, as well as inform someone to "Get over themselves" in the same post they are calling someone out on being "Horrific".

You are the epitome of hypocrisy and are in fact, playing a victim, while trying to act offended and then in turn perform the same actions of insulting and berating you are apparently so vehemently disgusted by.

If you're going to go on about not derailing, caring, or acting rude, You should refrain from derailing, caring, and acting rude. It exposes your hypocrisy.

Oh do be quiet, enough with your bleating and go away. On with the thread!