Il y a 2-3 jours, j'avais posté mon mécontentement envers les producteurs des séries Harvest Moon et Rune Factory. MMV (Jap) et Rising Star Games (Europe).
J'ai donc reçu une longue réponse aujourd'hui de la part de Rising Star Games à propos de ces séries.
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Greetings
Good luck with your Japanese studies!!!!
Oh! I see, you were being ironic.
Maybe a short explanation will help you remain calm and give you an understanding that 5 years is a bit of a 'damn' exaggeration.
Harvest Moon has over the years suffered from poor localisation for the European release. In addition changes of publisher have led to inconsistencies in the quality of the games and their availability across Europe.
Consequently, we have consolidated the rights and the publishing of all the future games into our portfolio. We believe this is the best thing to do for the much loved franchise.
We have spent many months translating the game into five languages - English (that is not American English), French, German, Italian and Spanish. As you will know, some languages are gender specific, so whereas 'a table' in English is simply 'a table' in French, Italian and Spanish it has a gender. In all this amounts to more than 1 million words to localise, check, input into the code, check, test, check, etc. It takes considerable time and considerable financial investment.
Further, we have had to iron out the glitches and bugs that dogged the USA version of Harvest Moon DS.
At long last this process has been completed to a standard where we are happy and hopefully, in turn, so are the many Harvest Moon fans. Much better to release a game that has no bugs and can be understood in someone's native tongue don't you agree?
Then we have to actually manufacture the games in Japan and ship them to Europe and then out to each and every country, then to the shops. This too also takes time.
Now we can start on HM Rune Factory. Rather than announce a release date before we even launch the first HM DS, for which we would probably be criticised, we have decided to assess the work required for Rune Factory using the experience we now have of the processes mentioned above, let people look forward to the first HM DS and maybe even enjoy playing it for a few weeks and then make information available that is more reliable. Hopefully, you'll agree that is a good idea too. (By the way Rune Factory also has a lot of text to translate).
We're doing our best to make great games. We're certainly not deliberately releasing games very late for fun - after all how would we recoup our considerable investment?
Square has considerably more resources at their disposal, they have a long track record of localising games, years of experience and a consistent publishing history - but hey they are not so perfect and not always so timely.
Hopefully you'll have some patience for a few more weeks and enjoy the games when they come. Our goal is to reduce the times between the Japanese releases and our own but each and every game requires considerable effort and work and it is not always so easy.
Then again, you could always learn Japanese as you suggest!
Kind regards
Rising Star Games
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posted the 02/01/2007 at 09:12 PM by
tyu
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Ca me rappelle une fois où j'avais envoyé un mail à THQ pour gueuler du prix de Conker et de l'annulation de Indiana Jones en Europe sur N64 , et là aussi , j'avais été très surpris car j'avais eu droit à une longue réponse argumentée et pleine de détails.
Sinon, si tu les recontactes , peux-tu leur demander si on a une chance de voir Legend of the River King DS et Harvest Moon Wii en Europe?