Most Frustrating Release

[BRSGia]

I'm so frustrated with the release of this game. I bought the limited edition switch jp release on play asia because it was listed as having english. It released on Feb 2024 with a statement to have an english patch at a later date. The game then proceeded to have no news for months until an announcement that a western publisher will be handling it's english release on the switch on Oct 2024, 8 months after the initial release. Then it gets delayed another month to Nov 2024. Now today, the game is released digitally only on the switch. No patch on either the japanese copy or steam page.

I am now forced to make a decision of buying another copy digitally through the switch eshop so I can finally play it after 9 months, and once again for the english collector's edition releasing in Jan 2025 so I can play Sword Maiden. THAT MAKES 3 COPIES OF THIS GAME I WOULD OWN. Why would I do this you may ask? Because I love the franchise and couldn't care less if the game is bad. I just want to spend time playing a game that has my favorite characters in fiction. Is it too much to ask the devs and publishers to clearly clarify the release of this game?

[VertVentus]

Yeah, it's so baffling how Bushiroad handled this.

From March 2023, "It will launch for Switch and PC via Steam this winter worldwide with English and Japanese language support. " So Play-Asia listed it as Multi-Language, although I got mine from Amazon JP. If you pre-ordered from Amazon, you got a +30 ATK accessory (your 3rd, otherwise you only get 2), while you'd get a +30 MAG accessory from Geo (4th, 3 otherwise).
https://www.gematsu.com/2023/03/goblin-slayer-another-adventurer-nightmare-feast-first-details-trailer-and-screenshot

Like 2 weeks before the JP release, Feb 29 2024, Bushiroad pulls out any mention of the English language option which screws over anyone who pre-ordered. Then they price the Steam version as 100 Yen = 1 USD, so 5500 yen becomes overpriced at $55 instead of the converted $40ish it should be (thankfully that is the Switch version price, which currently has a -20% discount for $32 until 11/22?).
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2456410/eventcomments/6407003171826706209/

July 2024, Red Art Games announces their localization. The Collector's Edition does NOT have Sword Maiden listed as DLC, and it's missing the soundtrack OST from the Deluxe Edition.
https://twitter.com/RedArtGames/status/1808153661245476949

3 months later in October, then they announce the delay to mid November and that Sword Maiden is now included with CEs, so this screws over any who didn't pre-order. You'd have to do it directly from them (France?) or VideoGamesPlus Canada last I checked.
https://twitter.com/RedArtGames/status/1846204628158853143

Due to the different eShop publishers, Bushiroad for JP and Red Art Games for NA, my JP physical copy is considered a different software. That means I can't use my JP Sword Maiden and ATK accessory DLC with my English digital copy. I had chapter saves prepped for all dialogue scenes to just speedrun the story in English too...

I did detail Sword Maiden's skills here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/150QrymqO32Z257OtNpXZ9-mXS1Lx-ztI4AELaKI_WLg/edit?gid=1391611447#gid=1391611447
and record her special technique here (magic attack with an exclusive MDF debuff)
https://twitter.com/VertVentus/status/1771175580748378148
but she has no story lines and isn't too gamebreaking. You'd have to wait 2 months to play her in English, and by then you'd be done with this kusoge.

And the final kick in the nuts is that the English version also has Japanese text, so I don't know what's stopping them.

[CheshireCat]

There was someone on reddit who e-mailed PlayAsia about potential refunds for those who bought Japanese release of the game hoping for English patch: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoblinSlayer/comments/1dv0q8f/update_on_english_patch_for_japanese_version_of/

If I was one of those who bought it in Japanese on Steam or Switch, I wouldn't feel guilty for emulating the English Switch release.

[KenpachiElric.ttv]

I pre-ordered the collectors physical edition and just got an email that it's been postponed to June 2025... may just cancel it entirely... gets moved further and further away... I wanted the physical version so I could play whenever and not be bound by the limited SD mem stick memory and not need to constantly delete games to make room.

Tl:dr annoyed with constant change of release date for physical game and may cancel my copy