While PSO2 has been one of the most prosperous titles

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SEGA didn't just wait to bring PSO2 to the west. Remember that there were plans to localize the match early on, but for one reason or another the job was scrapped till lately. The pso2.com page was busy as early as 2012, showing teasers and other details on the game with a big"COMING SOON" plastered on the webpage. SEGA announced plans to localize PSO2 just days after the JP release, hoping to start in 2013. The page had no upgrades whatsoever and was eventually taken down late 2017. Come last year, all of a sudden SEGA announces PSO2 coming into the west on Microsoft's platform. With a little bit of digging, we could piece together what might have occurred.

Hosting and making an MMO isn't affordable. Even if the dev work is currently done, you still need to have a translation team, client service servers and servers to host the game. What occurred to SEGA they had to cut funding for the localization job? The enterprise to purchase Atlus was none other than SEGA. Cue the milking of hot names Persona 4 and 3. Regardless of what actually occurred, we can observe that SEGA has been on a downward tendency financially over the past decade. You can take a look at the printed financial reports on your own. While PSO2 has been one of the most prosperous titles, it does not cost as much to maintain it in JP compared to hiring a new team and setting up new infrastructure to get it localized. It would be a huge threat for SEGA to attempt to force the match to the west. The need is still, but with all these foreigners already playing on the JP servers, SEGA might have become complacent and decided it wasn't necessary to attempt to create that drive. The failure of the SEA server didn't assist with this choice, even if the cause falls upon Asiasoft's poor handling of this game.

We now know that the foreign inhabitants about the JP servers is little compared to the population playing on the NA servers, however, hindsight is 20/20. Speaking of 2020, enter Microsoft. A number of years back, Microsoft opens up Azure for gaming. While we don't know who , it's very obvious that there was an arrangement between both businesses: Microsoft can fund the PSO2 localization project in exchange for SEGA using and analyzing Microsoft's platform. The rest is history. SEGA didn't wait because they wanted to. For one reason or another, they could not bring PSO2 into the west till Microsoft swooped in.

Because I am all for that! Wait what? I thought that game funds have been stolen to finance Borderlands instead of that game I heard, that's stupid. That game is written off as a loss to Sega. It's a rumor, however, Jeff Gertsmann was the person who talked about it, and he's not some random. Granted, he is not super influential in the gaming scene, but he is very much an experienced reporter and match reviewer, even though he is not a journalist; he's a lot of connections. For a while SEGA needed to focus only on a few key franchises in the west, and it was just after SEGA of America was merged into Atlus USA at 2015 that things began to get better.

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