Gonna miss Bandai Namco Studios.

[Aya]

Yes, i know that the game is co-developed by Marvelous though from my understanding, most of the work is still done by the same studio behind the other titles in the series. However, God Eater isn't the only game made by Bandai Namco Studios, seeing that they're also the folks behind Tales Of, Tekken, SoulCalibur, Ace Combat and some other games that are currently consoles only (and will likely stay that way due to our current approach to the Japanese PC scene)

I think what i'm trying to say is that fans of Bandai Namco Studios' products will probably never realize that they're all on the same boat in regards to PC ports whether they're a fan of Tales, Tekken, God Eater, SoulCalibur or Ace Combat... until it's too late. I've also been noticing that fans on consoles have been wanting Ace Combat 7 to fail so that this game will be the studio's last PC game... and they're winning.

In spite of all this, I'm still gonna throw money at this game out of the vain hope that we'll get more Bandai Namco Studios games on Steam but seriously guys... I just hope that the developers will be a lesson that the need to "buy x so y can be on PC" isn't going anywhere.

As for why i'm making this thread, I'd actually like to be wrong about the Japanese approach to PC gaming but as someone who has been paying attention to the Japanese PC scene since 2013, I get the feeling of "I already know how this will end", especially with a franchise as unpopular as God Eater, combined with the demand for AC7's failure on PC. So, if people start asking why Code Vein's PC port got cancelled or why SoulCalibur VI Season 2's only available for PS4 and Xbox One, they now know why. I mean, we've already disappointed them once with how well God Eater 2 sold on Steam.

[milinagi]

Buy a life child

[Artog]

Man, why you think that buy game x will help game y? This is so bad tactic and logic. Please stop spaming this message in disscusions

[Hackvize]

huh ? ac7 failure ?

[Aya]

Originally posted by Artog:

Man, why you think that buy game x will help game y? This is so bad tactic and logic. Please stop spaming this message in disscusions

Because Japan hates PC gaming. Sure, we are getting a lot of Japanese games now, though developers from Japan are way too easy to disappoint. The only devs that really seem to take PC gaming seriously are Idea Factory and PlatinumGames.

Every other Japanese developer will only port their games begrudgingly while maintaining the expectation that fans of their previous works will like this new game they're porting over to Steam. Why? Because they chose to game on PC and failing to satisfy the developer's expectation means that they'll just stay on consoles.

Originally posted by Hackvize:

huh ? ac7 failure ?

The people who'd otherwise be interested in AC7 aren't at all confident with the PC version and folks on consoles want the PC version to fail. God Eater is also fairly obscure, even moreso than SoulCalibur.

[Pig Mac]

Originally posted by Aya Shameimaru:

..Whine Whine, End of PC support from Bamco.. buy all their other games to show it's needed .

In every damn Bandai game thread you start you're whining.. and try to get people to support buy Ace Combat 7

Get the hell away from the Bandai forums. you make people hate coming to them!

Seriously, no matter the paranoia or retardation you suffer from.. keep it to your mom and your extremely frustrated psycologist!

If people want the game, they buy it.. if they don't.. or even haven't heard of it, they come and see you doing your standard doomsday rant, and pass along to another game.

Yes I will buy this one, even as you're present here (for now) and that only since I find GE2RB slightly amusing.

The PC or Bandai aren't the death or JRPG's, or console exlusives coming to the western PC's

[Aya]

Originally posted by Pigmachine:

Originally posted by Aya Shameimaru:

..Whine Whine, End of PC support from Bamco.. buy all their other games to show it's needed .

-snip-

Don't say i didn't told you so. That's all i can say at this point.

You can either ignore the person who's been paying attention to the Japanese PC scene for almost six years now and has been disappointed enough times to know what he's talking about or you can pony up and spend your money on the developer's future PC support.

Either way, thanks for confirming that i am in fact being unreasonable for wanting SoulCalibur VI's PC port to get the same level of support as the PS4 and Xbox One versions and that i'm also being unreasonable for wanting another Tales game on Steam moving on from a re-release from 2008.

[NineTailedFox89]

lets all report him?

[Pig Mac]

Originally posted by NineTailedFox89:

lets all report him?

Everyone always do.. Threads gets locked.. but he's still around, like a doosday tick covered with superglue!

[ulrickai]

I honestly don't know if you're a troll or honestly concerned but if it's the latter, hopefully what I'm going to write can ease your troubled soul.
Japan doesn't hate PC gaming, it's just generally not as big of a market for them. Though that doesn't matter for localized releases. The reason being is generally, companies in one country doesn't affect the same company in a different one. For example. Let's say Bandai Namco Japan releases God Eater 2 for PC in Japan (which I don't even think is a thing that happened but this is for example sake) did poorly but the console release did amazingly. When God Eater 2 gets translated and release in other regions, it's not the same Bandai Namco, in fact it's Bandai Namco US or EU that releases this product. Now if it does well on PC, it's a different story for that region. Suddenly BNJ, doesn't do PC releases BUT that still means for BNUS or BNEU, it's still a money maker.
A lot of Japanese game don't even have a PC release in Japan for the most part but do well enough that other companies think that it's worth porting the project because in other regions PC is a large market. Bandai Namco would have stopped porting games a long time ago if this wasn't the case.

Now in the topic of AC7. I'm not sure where you heard it from that console players want AC7 not to do well in PC but who the cares? That doesn't affect how the game will do. Sure it released on Consoles first but a lot of games do that and if it's a good game the PC version is still profitable. Whatever a console gamer may want, it doesn't affect how PC players will buy PC games. Also, if anything, AC is more obscure than Soul Calibur and God Eater at this point. AC7 relies on the fact you want a flight sim while SC is known by the entire fighting game community and GE got a remastered version and it's sequel on PC, something that as new and exciting for PC player.

Now I hope this was informative to you. Though if you are a troll like most people believe, please just stop now. Thank you.

[Demonos3]

Originally posted by Aya Shameimaru:

Because Japan hates PC gaming. Sure, we are getting a lot of Japanese games now, though developers from Japan are way too easy to disappoint. The only devs that really seem to take PC gaming seriously are Idea Factory and PlatinumGames.
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From what I've heard, its not the gamers of Japan that hates it, its just the developers. the console market isn't doing very well over there. The only platforms that are on the rise atm are both Mobile and PC. The Switch is lucking out because Asian gamers want to be able to play on the move. The devs that aren't going to get on the wave are going to die out when it comes to the Asian Market. even here in the west where most of us weebs are concerned, Soyny and xbone have almost nothing to offer (soyny because of that new censorship policy they have just like Steam).

[Hackvize]

uhh here, one more exclusive console title coming to steam
https://youtu.be/jm0YUOjtRRg

[Projekt XIII]

Please stop doing this to literally every Bandai Game forum.

[Aya]

Originally posted by Tsukasa:

Please stop doing this to literally every Bandai Game forum.

Originally posted by Aya Shameimaru:

thanks for confirming that i am in fact being unreasonable for wanting SoulCalibur VI's PC port to get the same level of support as the PS4 and Xbox One versions and that i'm also being unreasonable for wanting another Tales game on Steam moving on from a re-release from 2008.

Like, I already know that the chances of us getting another BNSI game on Steam are pretty fucked. In spite of this, I am willing to support the developers to the bitter end. I can only hope that Bandai Namco Studios Inc. will be a lesson in regards to the Japanese PC scene

[Ralen]

Do not feed the troll. I have provided him with evidence of God Eater 2 Rage Burst actually selling more copies on PC than on PS4 in the West (the actual reason God Eater 3 is coming to PC straight from mouth of the God Eater general producer). He conveniently ignores all evidence and goes back to "Japan hates PC and Bandai Namco is one bomb away from pulling all future games from PC" nonsese.

Citation for evidence:

Yusuke Tomizawa, General Producer (On why it is coming to PC): “When God Eater 2 Rage Burst released overseas they did play the PS4 version, but the PC version sold like hotcakes, and in total the PC version sold the most.”

http://www.siliconera.com/2018/12/19/god-eater-3-scrapped-its-giant-gauntlet-weapon-but-it-helped-make-the-heavy-moon/#zXfveCke0pJwsSPD.99

Nothing of what he says is based in reality. Bandai Namco is bringing more titles to PC now than they ever did before. Even Gundam games made for consoles are being ported to PC now (first New Gundam Breaker and now SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays), and that NEVER happened before. Let him live in his fantasy of delusions and lies while the rest of us enjoy this golden age of amazing Japanese games finally coming to the PC platform.

[MkVF]

Sony had a exclusivity choke hold on the nonnintendo industry in Japan, and there wasn't a problem with that in JP. So now many of the developers are just starting to get more experienced with developing for PC compared to western developers.

It's also unreasonble for companies to skip out on the vast and accessable markets of PC gaming just because a few people dislikes developing for PC, as slapping together a PC version even if your team is inexperienced with creating PC versions cost only a small fraction of the total development budget including all the assests, artwork, character voice and core game design ideas you paid everyone for.

Especially now that they managed to escape Sony's exclusivity death choke. They
are now free to excrement out terrible games and rerelease it again on pc.


It's not that Japan hates PC gaming, it's just more people are only just starting to realize we can do more then just work, read trashy web novels and post things that bring into question the poster's own intelligence on futaba mirrors with a computer