JP "bonanza" compared to the NA/EU

[Karbuncle]

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

I'll go away when i feel the topic is done, Once more your hypocrisy is showing. You're now telling someone to stop giving their opinion or response because you disagree with it. You're silencing responses you don't like, So please, do go on telling me how I'm the rude one.

But this train wreck is getting boring, So i guess we can agree to disagree for the sake of the continued rage at the JP, you know, the reason for this thread. For someone who told me to "Get over myself", You sure seem to think so highly of yourself if you think your meager excuse for an opinion can actually get me to stop responding to a topic.
since you know, raging at the contest seems like a much more reasonable course of discussion? Topic is played out anyway. We're the only ones discussing it anymore, and all we're doing is discussing your infatuation with green, which i think we can both agree is about as strange as me liking K-pop.

[Avina]

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.

Uh oh, I'm shaking in my boots now.

[Randwolf]

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

I say we all do different colors and make the forums look like a Pride parade.

[0nionKn1ght]

I say we all do different colors and make the forums look like a Pride parade.

Thats the spirit!

[Karbuncle]

I call Dibs on White.

[FrankReynolds]

I call Dibs on White.

Why not green?

[Karbuncle]

I'd say something like cause "White is the Superior color", But due to recent events, I'd likely offend someone. Jerk is one thing, Don't need people screaming THATS RACIST.

Plus, My posts are so good, People will highlight them to read them.

[Zerich]

hip hop frou-de-frop don't stop till you drop!

fixed it for you.

[Demon6324236]

I'd say something like cause "White is the Superior color", But due to recent events, I'd likely offend someone. Jerk is one thing, Don't need people screaming THATS RACIST.

Plus, My posts are so good, People will highlight them to read them.

I just go into "Reply With Quote" lol ><

[bungiefanNA]

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.

The American market is not looked at as accepting a rerelease of a game a year or so later on the same platform with more content, unless it's going to be at greatly reduced price. The only game I've seen them do it with was Guilty Gear XX Accent Core on Wii and PS2, which got a Plus version a short while later, and while Accent Core was $40-50 when it came out, Accent Core Plus was only $20. I suppose they could have done it with the Greatest Hits release, but the saves aren't compatible between the regular and upgraded versions in Japan, so they wouldn't be here either.

Meanwhile, the Japanese eat up RPG releases, especially with extra features. Their market is known to tolerate buying multiple versions at full price.