Shenmue Dojo

Baba is kinda out of touch, he's the main reason I've come to hate the Tales series, so it hard to take him at his word. He doesn't even come to the US often I think he's coming for SDCC but he's going to skip out on NYCC

which is the one he wants to go to because of stuff like this (if you don't care to read New York State has 5 of the top 10 cities that spend the most on games and one of the biggest industries in the country that spends the most on games)

http://www.theesa.com/games-improving-w ... conomy.asp
http://venturebeat.com/2010/05/09/ameri ... deo-games/

@South Carmain: Yea but like I said above Baba isn't all there, I mean I could figure out why if I knew how most Europeans bought games, or if in fact Europeans as a whole had the same buying habits. In the US Urban areas buy from stores, in Rural they buy online, on the east coast people buy from Gamestop on the west Play n' trade so if the US has so many different areas that buy games in a bunch of different ways I'd imagine Europe which has a bunch of entirely different cultures might have very different delivery methods.

Still as an "American" and the biggest Tales...I guess "fan" on this board I really disagree. I don't think Europe likes RPGs or the Tales series as much as the US because in the 90s a ton of people (myself included) modded their consoles to buy ad play games like Terranigma(which Europe got), Star Ocean, FEDA, Dragon quest 6, Thracia 776, Genealogy of the Holy War and Tales of Phantasia. This movement of hardcore RPG fandom was exclusive to the US back then and I've never seen a group of games as heavily imported as those. If Baba thinks Europeans are more willing to buy into a series that American games have been going out of their way to buy for almost 20 years (going so far as to buy up the Europe exclusive PSP version of Tales of Eternia) he can go on thinking that. (He also thinks every RPG should have a main hero who uses friendship to save the day, every heroine should sacrifice herself for a tree and every middle age male should turn on the main character)

Quick note if anyone can find me a boxed copy of Tales of Eternia for PSP I'll buy it off you, or trade you something really rare like Radiant Historia.

@segata you're right it won't outsell the us anytime soon, there is no ad campaign and passing round the word here is much harder than in the usa due to all the language barriers, also why it's harder for developers to advertise properly in europe as they need to make it into 5 different languages (just for the main countries) and respect the rules and take into consideration the culture and ways of each country, an ad campaign in that is succesful in italy can totally fail in the uk as we operate completely different to them

And lets not forget all these annoying eu regulations and taxes, yeah europe is a mess

But lets say someone takes all that into consideration and makes a plan strong enough to overcome all those obstacles and i'm sure it can be as succesful if not more than the US

I'm going to have to, though I doubt I'll put any real money into it.

Oh yeah youre developing a game, well if you need any help or advice about the european side inbox me i would be happy to help, i speak fluent french also if thats any help

south carmain wrote:Oh yeah youre developing a game, well if you need any help or advice about the european side inbox me i would be happy to help, i speak fluent french also if thats any help

It likely will be since I'll need translators, still I'm working on the game itself, post release stuff is a ways off.

Well you just found yourself a translator ;)

Hopefully he will remember to water you and give you a fertilizing every now and then.

Ahh yea, I remember now.