An unholy union in Japan

[Duhulk]

http://www.sonyonline.com/corp/press...uare_sony.html

[Samus Aran]

Originally posted by Duhulk
http://www.sonyonline.com/corp/press...uare_sony.html

Hello and welcome to 5/11/04!

Oh, by the by... So what? Do you have a point here? SOE hired another company to localise and manage EQ2 in Japan.. ...... AND?

[Mazuli]

Originally posted by JerleMinara
Hello and welcome to 5/11/04!

Wow, you're cool.

[Hardcore Cracka]

Originally posted by Mazuli
Wow, you're cool.

And you're a faggoat, so I guess that makes everything square.

[Mazuli]

Originally posted by hardcore_cracka
And you're a faggoat, so I guess that makes everything square.

Wow, compared to you, that other guy is shit!

[Szlia]

To link that to another topic... I wonder if Square Enix will redo the character models

[Iannis]

I'm not quite sure why Square-Enix would get involved with EQ2. They already have Final Fantasy. Shit, they could make a Dragon Warrior MMO, too. I think in Japan that has a HUGE following, even dwarfing FF's name...

[xlurkerx]

Are they re-doing all the voice acting for different languages?

[Jait]

Originally posted by Iannis
I'm not quite sure why Square-Enix would get involved with EQ2. They already have Final Fantasy. Shit, they could make a Dragon Warrior MMO, too. I think in Japan that has a HUGE following, even dwarfing FF's name...

Because Square went bankrupt and/or merged 43,320 times and EQ1 was a cash-cow. Make sense?


It's better than becoming Square-Microsoft

[Szlia]

I bet $1 that SOE would go bankrupt if they attempted to do a post-apocalyptic cgi long feature for theatre called EverQuest: The Spirits Without.


EDIT: To add something more interesting (possibly). Doesn't Square-Enix distribute EA games in Japan?

And when you think of it, the odd people are Sony Computer Entertainement Inc... you would think they would be the one publishing a SOE title in Japan... but after all, it's Capcom that released The Getaway in Japan too (SCE Europe game) so I guess SCEI policy is a bit odd... well for The Getaway it was because of the violence they did not take it... for EQ2... it might be the lack of know-how in the server management side of things? Odd odd...

[Cybsled]

Japan tends to like english voice acting, so they wont change the EQ2 voices I'm %99 sure. They'll just translate the written dialogue.

[Duhulk]

I found it interesting Jerle, I had no hidden point or agenda.

Oh, and they WILL make a Dragon Warrior MMO, you can bet your bank on it =p.

[Samus Aran]

Originally posted by Duhulk
I found it interesting Jerle, I had no hidden point or agenda.

Oh, and they WILL make a Dragon Warrior MMO, you can bet your bank on it =p.

Obviously you didn't understand my response.

A) This is old as shit
B) who gives a fuck? how is it "interesting"? Companies hire other companies to do localisation all the time.

[Duhulk]

Yes douchebag, but not this company, and this isn't just a localizaion. HIRING a company to do a localization is not nearly the same thing as PARTNERING with a company to let them publish a game.

Now it's not interesting that SOE is having an outside company publish one of their games overseas, they've done this frequently.

The interesting part is that Square-Enix is not only publishing a game they didn't make, which is a rare occurance inandof itself, but is publishing a game developed in America that they had no part of, which is, well, a first as far as I know.

Name the last external American developed video game Square, Enix, or Square-Enix published in Japan. Go ahead, do it. You'll have to go back fuckin far if you find one at all.

[Samus Aran]

Originally posted by Duhulk
The interesting part is that Square-Enix is not only publishing a game they didn't make, which is a rare occurance inandof itself, but is publishing a game developed in America that they had no part of, which is, well, a first as far as I know.

Name the last external American developed video game Square, Enix, or Square-Enix published in Japan. Go ahead, do it. You'll have to go back fuckin far if you find one at all.

I'm not seeing how this is interesting though. So what, they're having another company publish their shit(as you said it's common). They just added enough 0s to the check to make it worth Square's while. Eh. oh well.