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What on Earth does that mean?!
From what I can gather...
- The publisher Tecmo/Koei decided it would not sell their game to the West, a game with women playing volleyball in bikinis because they knew there would be a backlash from politically correct, social justice warriors (SJW).
- Play Asia, a game selling site decides to will ship the game to the West.
- The SJW game sites and supporters start boycotting Play Asia, which ultimately just gives Play Asia lots of publicity, fans and money.
- Play Asia wins
Soldato
It means your old and dont understand kids language.
Same as me then
no it just means you're intelligent and don't understand idiot
Commissario
IIRC apparently the game simply wasn't expected to sell well enough in the west to be worth localising (adding English subs and possibly voices and releasing), but one of the publishers people made a comment about the market or something so it was taken as because the "SJW's" fault.
I've no idea about Playasia though,
Soldato
http://i.imgur.com/Mtca5s3.gifv
sjw means social justice warriors
sells more in the west than in japan
What on Earth does that mean?!
sjw means social justice warriors
sells more in the west than in japan
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I really like him: knowledgeable, quiet, relaxed and tells you all the history.
Commissario
But that's not hard, it also will almost certainly sell for far more in Japan than the West (DVD's and Blu-rays certainly sell for an utter fortune in Japan, and can turn a profit on 500-1000 units sold).
And the "West" potentially includes a lot of territories, all of which would require marketing, packaging, distribution, and potentially things like passing certifications, which adds up.
So given the cost of licensing it for the "west", localisation, marketing, distribution and any regulatory costs it can mean that even if previous ones sold more copies they may not have made much profit.
What I'm saying is that it's far more likely they thought it wouldn't cover the costs of officially selling it in the West, and came up with a fairly lame excuse (IIRC the volleyball game doesn't differ too much in the characters and amount of skin shown to the main games, so why aren't they that worried about the main games if it is because of the "SJW's").
Soldato
Idk about koei tecmo but when sega released yakuza 3 to the west all they did was put localised subs
Associate
Cosimo, that dog gif made me laugh more than it probably should have 
Caporegime
Tecmo never gave such a reason. They most likely just decided it wasn't economically
You missed out the next stage:
[*]Play Asia decide to appeal to the squealing man-babies of GamerGate by pretending this was some great crushing blow against political correctness or phantom SJWs or something.
[*]Not a single flip was given by the rest of the world who merely wondered why PlayAsia thinks aligning themselves with squealing man-babies is a good idea?
Soldato
Tecmo did on the games facebook page when asked about a western release
playasia are standing up the sjws lol phantoms that's why they are "boycotting" them and report spamming their twitter page
again if not flip was given the why did the sjws get so offended by some tame tweets by playasia which also resulted in a follower jump from 9K to 24K in two days
What episode is that from?