Eemedrelyt wrote:So they are probably just being lazy again on transfering it into english or are fixing a bug. They always push a harvest moon game back. I dont know why they take so long because there are other companies who translate a game and release it so fast. Yea yea there may be less people at natsume. They should just give it up and have someone else translate the games imo.
Kinda like how rune factory frontier was out so fast in english after the japan release
here's another person who "opens mouth, inserts foot".The process of localizing a video game, by ATLUS (as found on the RS page)
Natsume is smaller than ATLUS, and would obviously take more time than the process ATLUS goes through.
Besides just localization work, you have to work deals with retail stores that may or may not want to give up precious shelf space for a game. If they say "we will have room when we remove lame-wii-game off the shelf sometime in December", then December it will be.
Plus there's the other companies involved; for example, if Brady Games is taking a really long time to make their strategy guide, would it make more sense to postpone the game release as well so that you make more money from people who buy the game and guide at the same time?
And then there's the pre-order bonus items. Those take time to manufacture as well.
Remember, video games are about making money. If more money will be earned by releasing a game in a different time frame then that is was is going happen. No amount of you piss-whining is going to change that.
