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You can expect random color change of some characters with complete disregard to the world or even parents.
Servers, yeah well, IF they run they're okay for some time but don't count on it first week(s). Although that's a rather common issue with MMOs to be fair.
As for support: yeah well, you can get lucky but don't count on it. Any game related stuff is rather not a thing you can except decent help with - at least not until you get passed along a few times and get lucky some day ^^
Anything remotely too sexy in Amazon's eyes will get censored. ALso hard to uncensor. Even now, almost a year after Lost Ark West release there's still no patch for it!
Asian dub took a while to get implemented as well.
Financially, well, that depends from person to person. I never spent a dime to advance only the basic premium to support the devs and make my life easier. In my opinion roughly 9-15€ each month is a fair deal for the fun you can get.
So yeah, guess we'll have to see what they're gonna mess up this time. I mean, it's free. We can always uninstall.
But looking at how different the TGA trailer and the JP trailer feels + naming a class foe breaker... FOE BREAKER! tells me they are determined on making everything more wo-- 'appropriate' for themselves rather than the players who would simply be content with having a port of the JP version but in English.
For gods sake, AGS, please just be a background character for once with this game, you can go make New World and Lost Ark completely western for all I care, just leave Blue Protocol alone.
Sadly, they aren't going to localise the game, and that's what we all the players want (except the woke Twitter crowd that won't play the game, of course).
They are going to westernise the release, which means:
→ They will blackwash NPCs if Bandai doesn't have a wide range of black NPCs in the game. They want inclusivity... forcing the change of race... to NPCs instead of creating new ones...
→ They will modify the character creation to suit their tastes, which means they will remove Japanese presets while they include Amazon's ordered presets. In other words, you might find videos of a Japanese player with a female wearing a bun. On the day of creation, you won't have that bun. Instead, you will have an afro hairstyle. They will remove styles, so you have less options. Removing options for them means that you might be inclined to use their presets.
→ Every content shown in betas won't matter, especially the ones affecting visuals. Amazon changed the undies(no armor) in Lost Ark to something that resembles a plate set before release. They also decided to remove one class and changed it for another weeks before release after the betas. Surprise for you, mommyrailer!
→ They will randomly change names because they think they're cool... or something like that. Imagine one boss in the game is called Fūjin (lit. "Wind God"). Do you think they will rename Fūjin to "Wind God"? Noooooo. They'll probably call him Akwokwo because screw you and screw any lore ever created about this game.
→ If you dare to complain with constructive criticism, they will say: "Yes, yes. We are talking with Bandai Namco. Stay tuned." That means nothing. It's a simple way to shoo you off.
On top of that, they might hold classes hostage to release them later down the line with special item shop packages for said classes.
It doesn't matter how much we cry. They won't localise the game. They intend to westernise it, and that's already in the works. Did you ever hear about Japanizing beam? Amazon has its counterpart — Wokenisation beam. And they already shot it against this game.
-a large base of western players who are tired of anime/eastern games getting fundamentally ruined by western publishers trying to make it "appropriate" for us-"
Too late, AGS already stated they will make changes to make Blue Protocol more suitable for Westerners.
1.) and given no details on what that entails
2.) the game is still almost a year away, there is some small, almost negligible chance the corporate machine might actually listen to feedback and not slaughter this game for us...... or that Bamco could see all the blasting and doomposting, look into AGS, and pull out in favor of another publisher (or self-publishing) before AGS has a chance to slaughter their game
Edit to add: We should also probably make sure to do what we can to ensure Bandai Namco themselves know about our displeasure with them choosing AGS as publisher and encourage them to self-publish in the west. AGS has too much of a track record of ignoring any and all feedback for our voices to be heard by their devs.
Depending on how far along their deal is (I've heard mention that they've had a deal going since sometime in 2021, by now they may have already signed a contract) it may be too late for that, but yeah doesn't hurt to let Bamco know they may have messed up xD
https://blue-protocol.com/game/#character
https://www.playblueprotocol.com/en-gb/game/story
Everything you're talking about is just localisation, by the way. If you don't want things getting butchered in the name of appealing to the west, you should be asking for a translation, not a localisation.
A literal translation makes no sense, especially for expressions and such. Whenever you see a translation from one country to another, they don't simply translate. They localise.
The expression killing two birds with the same stone literally translated from my language to English is killing two birds with the same bullet. How would you feel if you read the last sentence out of the blue in your game because someone translated the script from my language? With an awful aftertaste, of course.
The same happens with jokes. Some jokes in the Asian language aren't funny to us or don't make sense, and vice versa, so they're replaced with something that makes sense in your language. So, no. I want a localisation and not a translation.
Amazon changing the names of NPCs is not localising. They're being incompetent. It's different.
There's also a subtle difference between including (ADDING) things on top of what the game already has and what Amazon always do. That's not quite localising. That's a terrible localisation called westernisation. When you say that a game has been westernised instead of localised, you do it pejoratively.
We want the game to be localised. To adopt our hate against the predatory gacha business model, if applicable, that Asians love but not us. We also need to have coherent blocks of text in our native languages and nothing else. That falls under localisation. But there are more things added into the localisation that we don't want to have, like blackwashed Asian NPCs (because they never add, they only modify, and the result is horrible) that feel out of place because Amazon wants to push their agenda.
Your car might have six gears, but that doesn't mean you have to use all of them all the time.
There's a reason why localisation companies always jump to "it's not translation, it's localisation!" to defend their garbage rewrites.
I do not want localisations, ever. To say you want localisation over translation is to say you don't actually want the story as it was written at all.
It's possible the trailer only showed the starter gear (cause they all looked the same). Future gear and the fact that it's made by a JP studio means we'll see some cool looking gear/skins as time goes on... providing AGS doesn't western them for no other reason other than to s**t on anime fans.
This! This is what some people who are okay with AGS potential censorship and AGS themselves don't seem to understand when we're worried about possible censorship. The endgame... true endgame of every MMORPG is the fashion/glamour.
They clearly don't understand how much fun it is to wear a badass, skimpy or downright ridiculous outfit like a wearing only a pumpkin head and speedos to kill the hardest raid boss.
You might get bored when you kill the same raid boss 100+ times with the same looking gear. You might get bored if the gear/skins aren't cute/badass/cool enough to farm/buy. Hell, you might even get bored playing with the same race/gender for 1k+ hours. That's just the nature of mmorpgs.
When I had time to play ffxiv for hours every day, I changed my race and gender to something different at least once every 6 months and every change felt like a whole new experience. Playing as a roe black mage and a lalafell black mage felt completely different even though both races had the same skills.
If AGS is going to limit this freedom of choice that MMORPG tend to have or to censor anything because it's not 'appropriate' then they made a mistake investing in Blue Protocol cause they clearly don't know what anime/mmorpg fans want to see.