SEGABits @ New York Comic Con '13

[SuperSonicEX]

Interesting to hear about Demon Tribe, and I'm not that surprised about the SEGA/Atlus deal still being worked out, if I'm not mistaken they said it would be finalized by November, right?  Also, who won the sealed PDS?

For inthesky, I've spoken to Aaron Webber about the Sakura Wars and Valkyria Chronicles series after Hatsune Miku performance. The groups are doing a fantasic job with the campaign for the company however requires right timing with the products. So in the mean time, the groups would have to keep going and never give up. Hopefully we can get enough people to support the series in three more years.

This is encouraging to hear for me, though I wonder when that right time will be to release VC3, LOL.  Still, I'll just keep pushing for it along with Yakuza 5 (heck, I got a friend in to Yakuza and now I'm trying to get him into VC) to be localized...is there any we can strength either campaign?

[Deefy]

Thanks for the info Kori, specially about Demon Tribe, I did not expect more that came out in the West also because the trademark had been filed in the U.S. and EU nearly a year ago and is already out in japan the 2.0 version...

[inthesky]

This is encouraging to hear for me, though I wonder when that right time will be to release VC3, LOL.  Still, I'll just keep pushing for it along with Yakuza 5 (heck, I got a friend in to Yakuza and now I'm trying to get him into VC) to be localized...is there any we can strength either campaign?

For Yakuza 5 and Valkyria Chronicles 3, stop by and post in the subsections of the official Sega forums. I am guessing keeping up to date with Yakuza fan's stuff may be helpful too, whatever happens on twitter or facebook There seems to be some discussion about an "Operation Rainfall" styled Sega campaign in the General section of the forums too, so you might want to stop there. I want both of those titles released too, heh heh.

For inthesky, I've spoken to Aaron Webber about the Sakura Wars and Valkyria Chronicles series after Hatsune Miku performance. The groups are doing a fantasic job with the campaign for the company however requires right timing with the products. So in the mean time, the groups would have to keep going and never give up. Hopefully we can get enough people to support the series in three more years.

thanks! Both games have picked up a bit of steam. There were definitely new Sakura Wars recruits with the release of Project X Zone and Kiss Me Sweet helped corral them. The VC forum has had a steady trickle of things to post about over the past few months, however small, and for whatever reason there have often been occasions where a sizable amount of people would be viewing the forum at a given time. Here's to localization.

Sort of confused what you mean by getting enough people to support the series in three more years? In any case, hope you had fun.

[SuperSonicEX]

Is the Gallian Liberation Front active these days? seems like what Aaron said should revitalize their efforts.  Guess I should also keep tweeting Sony too.

and yea, Yakuza 5 and Valkyria Chronicles 3 are pretty much at the top of my list of wanted games to play, so believe me, I'll do anything I possibly can to see them both released.

and I should have said this from the start, but Thank you Kori for this opportunity and asking for us, I hope you had fun there.

[inthesky]

The Gallian Liberation Front is still active and posts sporadically on their facebook. The blog itself is basically inactive.  People regularly respond to the GLF facebook posts, even if it's sort of tangentially related to VC3 localization efforts, so it's by no means an absolute graveyard. The GLF isn't all that active with regards to campaigning though; currently they have a lot of support for the fan translation patch. They do still support official localization, and did some sort of campaign sometime during the summer.

Personally I appreciate you being as committed as you are! It's a rough spot to be in for several Sega fans, but it's nice to see some people willing to tough it out for some time.

Anyway I'm excited to hear that Aaron Webber seems happy with the continued activity of fans to back localization of Yakuza and Valkyria, a duo to which now we can add Sakura Wars. Hopefully Sega sees to it to get PSNova over, and PSO2!

[Trippled]

Yakuza is priority anyways...it's on active consoles, and a bigger budget game.

No videos of the panel anywhere?

[SuperSonicEX]

Yakuza is priority anyways...it's on active consoles, and a bigger budget game.

I would have to disagree, there a few handful of PSP games that still see release digitally and in some cases (like Class of Heroes 2) limited Physical/Retail release.  Like the Japanese version (and unofficially with VC2) it can be compatible with the Vita which is still an active and growing platform (especially if the former option for release is only available).  Furthermore, people who loved the first game (and are still discovering it to this day) maybe persuaded to look in to VC3 since it has been said to be the better sequel (and closer in spirit to the first).

Plus I imagine the localization costs wouldn't as expensive when compared to Yakuza 5 (which is on a platform that will still be active for sometime after the launch of PS4) even if you threw in a Studiopolis English dub...I would also argument that if the smaller budget game is successful, then maybe SEGA can persuaded to take another shot with the bigger budget game.

If nothing else, the less of a priority VC3 becomes over time, the more likely (I feel anyways) it will be forgotten.  I think we should organize and move forward to strike while the iron (or rather teases like the artbook and PXZ) are hot...or still lukewarm.

okay, I'll get off the soapbox now.

[Kori-Maru]

Yakuza is priority anyways...it's on active consoles, and a bigger budget game.

No videos of the panel anywhere?

Working on that now. But some of the quality might be a little jumpy.

[Kori-Maru]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have pictures. I'll be working on the video tonight and post pictures on the front page this week.

[CrazyT]

looking great as always kori /jealous

[Deefy]

Yup! Remarkable depiction Kori  :D, and then in company of one who!

[SuperSonicEX]

Awesome, Kori.  Glad you had a great time.

[inthesky]

Who's the guy in the fly Ichiro Ogami outfit? =P

[Kori-Maru]

Manage to finish the video and article. Better late than never.
http://segabits.com/blog/2013/10/22/segabits-new-york-comic-con-2013-panel-video-sega-through-the-years/

[Trippled]

Very cool stuff.

Altough the Q/A stuff wasn't as satisfying as I hoped. Ah well.