STW2 and disaster

**elcid123** · March 12, 2011, 10:03 AM

Any thoughts on how (or if) the recent natural disaster in Japan and its subsequent worldwide news coverage will affect the release of Shogun 2 in markets outside of Japan?

**Basileos Leandros I** · March 12, 2011, 10:04 AM

No effect. The release goes on as normal.

**Evan MF** · March 12, 2011, 10:14 AM

CA might lose out on some sales to the Japanese market.

**Basileos Leandros I** · March 12, 2011, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Evan MF

CA might lose out on some sales to the Japanese market.

Some, but I don't think much. And plus they don't have that much of a fanbase in Japan as they do in Europe.

**-=PHX=-Hades** · March 12, 2011, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Evan MF

CA might lose out on some sales to the Japanese market.

They will definitely lose sales to Japan initially, but over time they will come back.

**Xerrop** · March 12, 2011, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by elcid123

Any thoughts on how (or if) the recent natural disaster in Japan and its subsequent worldwide news coverage will affect the release of Shogun 2 in markets outside of Japan?

A good question. Many more people will hear and read about japanese topics. So it might give more publicity to this game. Just think about all the people saying they will never buy Shogun because they don´t know anything about Japan. It could increase the sales to some (small) extent.

**BunnyPoopCereal** · March 12, 2011, 01:45 PM

multiple threads on this very topic, what the hell

**Tim_Ward** · March 12, 2011, 02:24 PM

This thread makes me ill.

**bangell99** · March 12, 2011, 02:45 PM

Uh... I don't see why it will have any effect.

**eXistenZ** · March 12, 2011, 02:45 PM

Another one...

CA isn't a japanese company, case closed

**Yojimbo** · March 12, 2011, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by Tim_Ward

This thread makes me ill.

Agreed enough of these threads already.

**panzerschreck** · March 12, 2011, 02:50 PM

CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE please

**kentuckybandit** · March 12, 2011, 02:57 PM

threads like this are what happens when an innocent human emotion like empathy, gets mixed up with ignorance, too much free time, sensationalism and the anonymity of the internet. Yes a horrible thing happened and that sucks, but really? How would it affect a computer game?

**Jackhammer** · March 12, 2011, 04:05 PM

Any connection a wargame about Japanese history of 450 years ago & the terrible things happening in Japan today is totally irrelavent. I mean, is there one ?

I can't see how us playing Shogun 2 is being insensitive to the plight of the Japanese people. We are cognizent of & sympathetic ( to say the least ) to the ongoing events so far away, but if you were to say ' Don't play this game as it's disrespectfull ' - you should also say ' Don't play ANY games at this time as that would be disrepectfull '. In this case, the subject matter is irrelavent to the unfolding disaster. IMO.

Wether we should seek enjoyable diversion for ourselves at all at this time is another matter entirely & should be left to individual choice.

**NovaColonel** · March 12, 2011, 04:10 PM

It's just disrespectful (in the full meaning of the word!) to ask what the OP asked in face of such a bad catastrophe. As much as we enjoy it, a game remains a mere game, and it is simply not important how it would be affected by the suffering of so many people.
Hell, if one single life could be saved by not releasing this game, it would be a damn good thing.

Someone please close this thread.