User blog comment:Seieireppa/Why God Eater 2 Rage Burst and God Eater Resurrection will NEVER BE LOCALIZED, so all of you can STOP BEGGING/@comment-16789166-20150820093930/@comment-1419424-20150820142254

"[I] won't this time?" Fools!

"Minimal effort?" Uh, no. Translating takes time and money, which, again, Bamco won't risk.

Not that heavy code-wise? Perhaps, but let me tell you a story. During the translation of Valkyria Chronicles 3, the translators had to REPEATEDLY rework the text to get it to fit in the alotted space. Mission names were butchered and dialogue was heavily altered in places.

And that's not counting the technical stuff that goes into actually replacing the text. It's not as simple as copy-and-pasting the English text where the Japanese text used to be, because unforeseen bugs WILL arise, and they'll have to alter the code to account for that, and so on and so forth.

It's not nearly as easy as you make it out to be. And, again, even the easiest method would take time and money, neither of which Bamco is willing to risk on a market in which GEB sold like ass.