Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Kolsykol]

It also stinks when it happens to imported media as well. Something too risque or might be too offensive? Time for a localization! I agree that there are elements that are hard or downright impossible to translate from one region to another but it feels like 9 times out of 10 the term localization gets interchanged with translated when they are two different approaches to one task.

I think that FFXIV is a fantastic example of how to do it right, I think that the localizers for FFXIV just work way closer with the dev team too than usual.
I mean Koji Fox even helps developing the lore it kinda helps having people who are that invested and not just a third party who are handling the work of people they don't even know and had no hand in creating.
They also don't change or erase content in the game either.

Whenever localizers change or erase content it's always extremely frustrating and bad imo, only time I can understand it is if we're talking about some really touchy stuff that enters questionable legal territory too like minors being depicted in certain ways.
But that's totally different than an adult character.
Whenever I hear '' appeal to a Western audience '' too I just dunno how they can say this when the responsive is always so overwhelmingly negative.
It feels like people who went to school for marketing and bring in all of these weird ideas from other industry and are still stuck in the '' family values '' era.
And it's also not their job to care about the quality or vision of the game, all they care about is making it sell as much as possible even if it means compromising the product ( which I think more often than not results in less sales not more ).

It leads to so much dumb crap too in other industries like movies where they literally have swear quotas and movie directors are forced by the studio to censor their movies to lower the rating.
It's just really frustrating how a lot of media gets compromised because of idiots who shouldn't have any creative say whatsoever.

I think there's so many amazing games that could become the new big thing but are just never allowed to.
I am not a big Mortal Kombat fan, but like I can't imagine a new Mortal Kombat happening today especially not under a big publisher.

But yeah I dunno, I know a lot of people don't care but I just kinda find it sad in a way.
Because people are essentially putting up with worse products, if people were more unified about it then the market would have to adapt.
Instead people just shrug it off there's just something depressing about that to me like we could have a better movie if people just raised their voices a bit.
Peoples indifference is kinda rotting the industries and making it worse.

Edit: Damn Koji has been with them for 20 years it has been such a long time and he has worked on other FF games too.
Dude is awesome.