So Kotaku ended up doing a Podcast where they interviewed Jessica Chavez, the former editor for XSEED about her experience bringing games from Japan over to the US.
Kotaku Did A Podcast about Localization and Censorship
Noah Brown
Bentley Reyes
I don't want to listen to it but can I assume they were making excuses for why they add memes.
Xavier Roberts
Care to give us a TL;DL summary?
Gavin Myers
Why didn't they bring someone from fucking Nintendo of America? Or NISA?
Jose Barnes
This. I want know what the xseexd editor had to say but dont want to pay attention to anything kotaku related
Caleb Diaz
Show is basically an hour long, but basically Kotaku said
"She’s got plenty of stories from the trenches of localization, which is far more complex than most people realize. (As it turns out, the localization decisions that some people complain about are usually made in tandem with the developers themselves.)"
There's an mp3 download link there so you don't have to get it from the itunes store
Dominic Smith
Why should I care fam?
Jason Cox
Stopped reading there.
Hunter Richardson
Well who gives a shit if the devs approve it, they only approve it because they have no knowledge of the world outside of Nippon. I bet she reading rage comics on tumblr.
Jason Bell
So devs that complain about shit localization as well still do it anyways? I dont think I got that.