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Post by Assman on Sept 3, 2012 9:48:29 GMT
As it's my birthday next month and this months pay is considerably better than next months will be I thought I'd pick this game up and give it to my missus to wrap up. Really excited for it to be honest, I've only played Eternia and Vesperia in the series but loved them both. The problem is most games in the series don't get released in the West, because Namco Bandai has a stupid release strategy - they ship 50,000 copies of one title, only 30,000 sell so they consider it a failure. For their next game they ship 20,000 copies, the damn thing sells out, but it's still only a figure of 20,000 so it's considered more of a failure than the first game. Of course, they flat out refuse to ship any more copies, so unless you've preordered it there's little chance of getting the second game unless you pay silly money for it on Ebay. So because of two failures they completely refuse to port their next release which gets 10/10 ratings in Japanese magazines. This is basically what's happening with the Tales games, although they have finally changed their minds about demand for their games in Europe and North America with Tales of Graces F and the latest game in the series Tales of Xillia which is getting translated for next year. So hopefully with enough sales they'll continue to port their games, so if this interests you in any way please buy it.
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