Relic working on an existing Japanese MMO

[TimmiT]

Found on NeoGAF, this job listing for Relic popped up:

Server Engineer
Programming/Engineering | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | 12/23/2013

Relic Entertainment, a wholly owned studio of SEGA, is the award winning RTS developer of Homeworld, Dawn of War and Company of Heroes, among other games. Relic was founded on the premise that it is entirely possible to ship first class, genre altering, AAA titles, and have a life. Relic is based out of beautiful Vancouver, Canada, a city that has breath-taking mountain and ocean views, along with snowboarding and skiing, golfing year-round and amazing hiking trails. If you love games, enjoy working collaboratively with smart, creative people, and have diverse personal interests outside of work – you’ll enjoy our culture.

What you will be doing

Ramp up and perform due diligence on an existing live MMO project in development in Japan, embedded with the live team
Gain full understanding of the game and code architecture, content authoring pipelines, build and deployment process, engineering process, and current code status
Establish working relationships with key members of Japanese development team
Participate in and contribute to minor/peripheral engineering tasks on the project, as well as in daily project planning, code reviews, release process, etc.
Create/translate documentation of existing code modules, tools, processes and work flows
Prepare regular status and activity reports to Producer
Prepare a full written project evaluation

What you should have

5+ years’ engineering experience from PC client/server based MMO development
Ability to spend extended (3+ months) periods of time on-site in Tokyo
Ideally fluent in Japanese and English languages
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Guess we know who is localizing PSO2. :V

[Barry the Nomad]

And people called us crazy for saying it was still coming west... http://segabits.com/blog/2013/09/19/phantasy-star-online-2-still-coming-west/

[Happy Cat]

I'd be thrilled if Relic was translating PSO2 for western release :D

[TimmiT]

I'd be thrilled if Relic was translating PSO2 for western release :D

For an MMO more would need to be done than just translating when it comes to a western release. Like servers, which is why it's a good thing that this job posting is for Server Engineer. :V

[Pao]

Hopefully they also bring out the Vita version.

[JRcade19]

Strange that they got Relic to do it in place of someone like Atlus.

[Radrappy]

I would definitely give this game another shot in english!  Make it so, Relic!

[TimmiT]

Strange that they got Relic to do it in place of someone like Atlus.

Relic was working on an MMO (which was never released) while they were under THQ, so they have more experience in that field than Atlus.

[JRcade19]

Relic was working on an MMO (which was never released) while they were under THQ, so they have more experience in that field than Atlus.

Yea I just found that out when I searched after this post.(Old gamespot article)

Strange that the MMO was never really mentioned in any of their descriptions(as far as I found).

[Nameless 24]

Kind of sad how SEGA of America promised this game to westerners for 2013 and said NOTHING about the progress of the game's localisation stages throughout.

Happy to see it's being done by Relic...but it's so annoying to know that SEGA of America said nothing about it and rather leave their PSO fans in the lurch.


SEGAC indeed in this case.