not so much, i mean i understand what you are saying but honestly i would have my doubts.
clearly localizing the game isnt that difficult after all the community is doing so as we speak without funding and using a client side workaround rather than server side resources but there must be a reason and more than likely a financial reason as to why the game has not been released in Europe and Japan that we as yet are not aware of.
Likely reasons are as follows:
-The age of the franchise
-licensing issues with the english translation with Funimation
-lack of specific interest from polls
-server costs for an EU or JP location
-server maintenance outsourcing to a partner company
-translation costs to paid translators and coders
-Tax and business costs for digital distribution of virtual materials in EU
-Cash shop legal red tape
-simple cost of advertising
-staff costs and admin costs for EU forums and account servers
-conventional merchandising limitations
the list can go on but thats the vast majority covered. I don't want to put the game down but it has been three years since launch and it hasn't even bee translated and distributed in the language the anime and manga was originally produced in due to lack of interest.
I have said it once and i will say it again, if we want to see DBO in english we are going to have to do it ourselves.
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