Talk:Translation project/@comment-177.138.197.110-20170610223106/@comment-68.7.12.243-20170611183137

Well... several reasons. Remember these are pornographic games. Different obscenity laws in different countries can create problems for the studio, as well as potential public blowback from these new countries. I don't think anything like that would happen but that is a fear for publishers - what we can get away with in our country might cause us a lot of trouble in others and in some cases legal trouble.

But more than that I think it's just the money. There probably wasn't a belief that the game would sell well to an English audience and therefore wasn't worth investing time and effort (and money) into a quality translation.

Steam sales have only recently begun to change Japanese developers' minds on that for their non blockbuster games. For example, Final Fantasy games will get quick international releases but the Japanese Trails in the Sky games were huge hits in Japan but only recently saw an English release - about 10 years after coming out - mostly due to passion from a translation studio (and sold quite well). Japanese publishers - in general - now seem more open to investing in English sales but it's by no means a sure thing yet.

But Alicesoft's eye is on Mangagamer's releases. If the next, say, three English releases sell very well then you'd probably start to see the possibility of a near simultaneous japanese/english release - though by then Rance X would likely nearly be out (hopefully) and so it would probably come more into play if they continue remaking Rance games.

So. You want to see more English releases?

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