There's bad faith all around. Some people complaining that it's not exactly 1-to-1. Unicorn Overlord might get brought up soon. I was shown a comparison of a conversation with a female bodyguard assigned to the MC; it actually looked just fine to me, don't know why people would use that for complaints.
Then I see the bird-pun fellow. Literally on the level of pickle dude from FE Fates.
Edit: Goddammit guys, I try not to care about downvotes but I mostly agreed with all of you, and still get nothing but that? Make it make sense.
There IS bad faith arguments. That recent NicheGamer article on the opening segment of Infinite Wealth? Bad faith. I hate this shit as much as any of you, but that article hurt our position, making us look way too obsessed with unofficial rough translations. Pick your fucking battles, because loose cannons lose support.
I think most people just don't want their content changed because of someone's bias, as they like the content for what it is, not what someone on our side of the world thinks it should be.
There is always bad faith on both sides cause humans like to take advantage of others, but it doesn't excuse any of the bad behavior exhibited by localizers over the past few years and people aren't wrong to want the original creator's work.
The Unicorn Overlord thing is absolutely a case of "the well is poisoned."
Because its clear that most of the problems is them trying to fluff up the dialogue to sound more grand and medieval, which probably wouldn't be a problem if localizers hadn't poisoned the well. So now literally anything, even stuff that is probably innocent enough, will be attacked, critiqued and run around.
Because so far of all the examples the only thing that looks slightly ideological is turning "old women" into "unmagicked octogenarians." Which has enough plausible deniability to just be coincidental, but no one will give them the benefit of the doubt because they've thrown away any good will anyone would ever want to give them.
The true victim in all this is the parts that people don't notice. Like the big focus in Triangle Strategy in removing all gendered text, but nobody bringing up that the game let's you successfully argue that the Not-Jews deserve to be put into the Labor Camps and have their rights stripped.
There's bad faith all around. Some people complaining that it's not exactly 1-to-1. Unicorn Overlord might get brought up soon. I was shown a comparison of a conversation with a female bodyguard assigned to the MC; it actually looked just fine to me, don't know why people would use that for complaints.
Then I see the bird-pun fellow. Literally on the level of pickle dude from FE Fates.
Edit: Goddammit guys, I try not to care about downvotes but I mostly agreed with all of you, and still get nothing but that? Make it make sense.
There IS bad faith arguments. That recent NicheGamer article on the opening segment of Infinite Wealth? Bad faith. I hate this shit as much as any of you, but that article hurt our position, making us look way too obsessed with unofficial rough translations. Pick your fucking battles, because loose cannons lose support.
I think most people just don't want their content changed because of someone's bias, as they like the content for what it is, not what someone on our side of the world thinks it should be.
There is always bad faith on both sides cause humans like to take advantage of others, but it doesn't excuse any of the bad behavior exhibited by localizers over the past few years and people aren't wrong to want the original creator's work.
The Unicorn Overlord thing is absolutely a case of "the well is poisoned."
Because its clear that most of the problems is them trying to fluff up the dialogue to sound more grand and medieval, which probably wouldn't be a problem if localizers hadn't poisoned the well. So now literally anything, even stuff that is probably innocent enough, will be attacked, critiqued and run around.
Because so far of all the examples the only thing that looks slightly ideological is turning "old women" into "unmagicked octogenarians." Which has enough plausible deniability to just be coincidental, but no one will give them the benefit of the doubt because they've thrown away any good will anyone would ever want to give them.
The true victim in all this is the parts that people don't notice. Like the big focus in Triangle Strategy in removing all gendered text, but nobody bringing up that the game let's you successfully argue that the Not-Jews deserve to be put into the Labor Camps and have their rights stripped.