AzureBlaze
Aug 20, 2005, 01:11 AM
I am the last to rain on any proverbial parade...
However, I am suspicious. But once I got to thinking about it, I began to wonder who is actually at fault.
As everyone knows, ST has been faithfully updating their difficult to load and use flash site for PSU about every week. Now, everything Sega of America has been putting out seems to say "We're going to fix our track-record with this game. This IS NOT PSO, it is all new, a fresh start". That sounds fantastic.
What is not fantastic?
It looks (for now) EXACTLY like good ol' ST is up to their old 'games'. Showering the JP side with fancy sites, info and pictures, and totally neglecting EU and USA like it doesn't exist. Fans scramble for info. Magazines bungle the facts and scare off customers. The boring English site fails to impress newcomers into wanting the game.
Sounds like another trip down bad-memory-lane. We can only hope like crazy that they don't pull the '1 quest and you're done' BS like they did with CARD....or give out JP exclusive fun weps quests that Eng. can't play, and then give all the Eng quests to the JPs. What if the PS3 and 360 and Revolution look 'too good' and PSU is dropped in the can after 4 months like card was? They'll replace it with a PSU 1.44 that's the same game with 1 more level and then support that instead...after you shelled out over 500 bucks for the game and new system.
How many updates now have we FAILED to have?
But, is this ST not giving out info because they don't care? Or is SOA ultra-lazy and just writing the game off as a 'sleeper hit' of some kind that doesn't actually need support?
Who is responsible for the neglect of English info? I mean, they could get a fan to do it for free (the translation) Bragging rights would be MEGA. Plus, whoever did it would be privy to the FIRST info fresh off the ST press, how exciting!
For years I have said it: "The fans are a company's greatest resource--to use and soar, or to neglect and fall"
Here's to hopin' this is just an early error and we will not recieve the ill-treatment we've had in the past.
However, I am suspicious. But once I got to thinking about it, I began to wonder who is actually at fault.
As everyone knows, ST has been faithfully updating their difficult to load and use flash site for PSU about every week. Now, everything Sega of America has been putting out seems to say "We're going to fix our track-record with this game. This IS NOT PSO, it is all new, a fresh start". That sounds fantastic.
What is not fantastic?
It looks (for now) EXACTLY like good ol' ST is up to their old 'games'. Showering the JP side with fancy sites, info and pictures, and totally neglecting EU and USA like it doesn't exist. Fans scramble for info. Magazines bungle the facts and scare off customers. The boring English site fails to impress newcomers into wanting the game.
Sounds like another trip down bad-memory-lane. We can only hope like crazy that they don't pull the '1 quest and you're done' BS like they did with CARD....or give out JP exclusive fun weps quests that Eng. can't play, and then give all the Eng quests to the JPs. What if the PS3 and 360 and Revolution look 'too good' and PSU is dropped in the can after 4 months like card was? They'll replace it with a PSU 1.44 that's the same game with 1 more level and then support that instead...after you shelled out over 500 bucks for the game and new system.
How many updates now have we FAILED to have?
But, is this ST not giving out info because they don't care? Or is SOA ultra-lazy and just writing the game off as a 'sleeper hit' of some kind that doesn't actually need support?
Who is responsible for the neglect of English info? I mean, they could get a fan to do it for free (the translation) Bragging rights would be MEGA. Plus, whoever did it would be privy to the FIRST info fresh off the ST press, how exciting!
For years I have said it: "The fans are a company's greatest resource--to use and soar, or to neglect and fall"
Here's to hopin' this is just an early error and we will not recieve the ill-treatment we've had in the past.