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-5905591-20151011143652/@comment-1419424-20151011150410

I'll address all your points individually.

The PS4 has a huge install base, true, BUT, again, look at GEB's sales. Bamco has SO much more they could be doing with their time and money than trying to resurrect (hurr durr) a dead series in the west. Unless there was some petition that got 100k signatures at least, there's no chance of GER coming over here, because Bamco can't guarantee the sales numbers and thus can't justify localization costs.

"Ready for localization?" What, exactly, does that mean? If by "ready for localization" you mean "completely untouched," then yeah. They'd have to start from scratch on both of them. And doing so would mean months spent translating, coding, and more importantly dubbing, since Bamco always dubs their western releases, even the Naruto games. And all of these things would cost MONEY, money that they CANNOT justify spending without being able to guarantee a certain baseline sales number.

Yakuza was already an established, popular franchise. God Eater is not.

Here's the thing about PXZ. You said it yourself, you came to PXZ because it had characters you liked and were familiar with. That's entirely the point of PXZ and the driving force behind its sales—Bamco/Capcom/Sega made this to draw in people who were familiar with the included characters and thus boost PXZ's sales. It's a fanservice game. It's not meant to introduce players to new franchises, although that can be an unintended side-effect.

Oh, and if you think the GE anime was panned because of its similarities to Attack on Titan, then you clearly don't know why the GE anime was panned at all. It was panned because it is garbage, plain and simple. The characters are shallow, the setting is poorly-defined, and there's next to no real development on either front. And you know why? Because God Eater already is like that. It's a shallow game with bad, unimaginative characters and a bad, unimaginative setting. It was panned both by mainstream fans AND by GE fans, the former because it's just a bad anime and the latter because it didn't even touch the game.

"Not written in stone?" Keep telling yourself that.