Translations (JP to English)

[Fear]

C'mon Reinheart Yoshi gave you his approval!

[Dagr81]

First person I thought of was Reinheart.
We all have family and friend would not want to leave that either. Possible a good paying job aswell

[HiirNoivl]

I can't believe they're making people live/move to Japan. That's hard (I spent two months in Japan and I wanted to shoot myself after 2 weeks... i got better but still I had the hope of going home if I wanted to die after getting on the wrong train AGAIN.)

But in this day and age where high speed net is the norm, what has happened to telecommuting? I work from home and only come into the office twice a year for training. Why not SE?

[Gokulo]

Because that's how translation teams work. They have to work together and on the spot, that's just how this profession looks.

[HiirNoivl]

Telecommuting is just like being there. You have a face, you have a voice and you're present in electronic form. Instant messaging also works.

Only thing that would be interesting would be the weird hours if someone were to stay in the states.

[Fear]

They are altering game files, translating posts from the Community reps, speaking with the Dev team and have access to a lot of infomation on the games state.

If it were my company I would want them to be there in person, not half way across the world.

[HiirNoivl]

Fear, there's already an NA team. I find the requirement for Localization to live in Japan odd for that reason. They already have Remote teams in the US that do the things you specified.

This isn't the 90s. They could totally do this. Maybe they just want the whole team to be there for morning TaiChi?

[Gokulo]

NA team doesn't probably have much to do with the development process itself

[Fear]

All the NA team does is take already translated JP > English text and make it sound right for the English language, they dont have to have access to near as much stuff as the JP side of things.

[Chardrizard]

All the NA team does is take already translated JP > English text and make it sound right for the English language, they dont have to have access to near as much stuff as the JP side of things.

This. NA team won't be the one brainstorming for new ideas/scenarios.