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Foreword: Thanks to Durante and other members of the GAF community in their support of me organizing this. Also, shoutout to Grief.exe and TaroYamada for the #SegaPCPorts campaign. The groundwork for this would simply not exist without the recent PC release of Valkyria Chronicles. Oh and, before you read any more of this, go buy Valkyria Chronicles on Steam if you have not yet. Now. There's a 50% off sale on GreenManGaming if you are so inclined.
2010: Valkyria Chronicles 2 comes out. It fails commercially, and not long after, Sega officially pulls support for the PSP in western markets.
2011: Valkyria Chronicles 3 releases in Japan, Sega quickly reaffirms that PSP games are off the table for western release.
2014: Valkyria Chronicles 1 is rereleased on PC, to resounding success and acknowledgement by Sega of vastly outperforming expectations and competition on Steam.
Our Manifesto:
Operation 422 is a renewed campaign to encourage Sega to bring Valkyria Chronicles 3 to western markets - No matter the platform. You may have looked at older campaigns, like the ill-fated Gallian Liberation Front and came to the conclusion that this is a lost cause. It isn't. 2011 presented a very different environment compared to 2015 - Namely, it had just been going off of the embarassment of Valkyria Chronicles 2, which naturally doomed the third game at the time.
But now, we have the massive success of Valkyria Chronicles PC to work with, as well as an ongoing JRPG boom on PC, from Dark Souls, to Agarest, to of course Valkyria Chronicles. The soil here is fertile and growing, as opposed to what the PSP in 2011 was - Like Chernobyl - Interesting to explore, not a good place to invest in. With the Steam release of Valkyria Chronicles, new gamers have been introduced to the series, have became fans, and naturally want more. Valkyria Chronicles 3 localization would serve two groups with one plate; Old fans longing for the third game, and new fans hungry for more content.
We are not asking for a fullblown remake, premium remastering, or whole new game. We are asking for a localization and western release on any non-PSP platform. PS4... 3DS... Or for obvious reasons, PC. The great reactions to the PC release of Valkyria Chronicles in the PC Gaming Community and internally at Sega proved that the series has a future in the west, and now is the time to capitalize on that future. There are two roads that can be taken here - Sit content with the results of Valkyria Chronicles PC and let the series once more drift into the abyss, or act on the opportunity it has created and restore the IP to its deserved glory and amend the sour note left by Valkyria Chronicles 3's absence in western markets.
Altaha Abilia 422.
The Campaign:
This is a specifically targetted campaign laser focused solely on Valkyria Chronicles 3 alone, much like how this campaign's namesake of Operation Rainfall focused down on the Big 3 Wii RPGs. As much as many others and I would love for many other Sega games to see western release, generalist campaigns like Segalization fell flat on their face and ultimately lacked the necessary focus to do anything. No other game in Sega's Japan-only library has the unique circumstances going for it that this game does, and therefore we must capitalize on this one in particular.
Much like the original Sega PC Ports campaign which is presumed to have convinced Sega to bring the first game to PC, we're going straight to Twitter. Get on Twitter and post anything to @Sega with the #Operation422 hashtag along the lines of this.
Likewise, remember to hit up @GioCorsi with the #BuildingTheList hashtag, as well as the #Operation422 tag as well – It has been said many times by now that #BuildingTheList was a major part of what lead to the localization of Tales of Hearts R, as well as the incoming localizations of Type-0 and Yakuza 5 – We would be stupid not to try and bring Valkyria Chronicles 3 through this initiative as well.
And of course, get into contact with the gaming press. Movements like these live and die by press coverage. Let us not act like we are any different.
The first season of this campaign I would like to dub "March to E3". It is important that we entertain the possibility that a Valkyria Chronicles 3 localization is already happening. Key work "Entertain" – We cannot surrender ourselves to presuming that Valkyria Chronicles 3 localization work started right away on the heels of Sega's acknowledgement of the first game's PC success. Ideally, this part of the campaign is to encourage Sega to unveil a localization in the works at E3 if one already is being worked on. Realistically, if one is not being made already it will not get an E3 showing – We're simply too close to E3 for production to begin and get far enough to warrant any E3 exposure. However, at this point we do find ourselves to be within the ballpark of PlayStation Experience 2015 being 9 months away. It is important that we treat this as a Long-Term campaign like YakuzaFan's campaign for Yakuza 5 localization was. These things don't happen overnight, and I hope everyone involved can understand that as they support this campaign.
You may notice that I have not mentioned anything like Change.org petitions or anything of that sort. Why not? This is a campaign, not a simpleminded petition. A petition will only make us look like an ass and has been for the most part been an endeavor frowned upon by the gaming press, as well as here on GAF by the moderators and a significant portion of members. For the most part, a petition will be nothing more than a meaningless number, while a proper social media campaign via Twitter, Facebook, and Sega's forums is much more visible and much more alive than the sterile environment of a petition. Unless there is massive support for a petition to be put up, or Sega's acknowledgement asking for a petition and X number Ala what happened with Dark Souls PC, I am against going with the petition format for this.
Also, join our Steam group! This will provide an effective way to get out updates on the campaign to all involved, and also pits our movement as desiring a PC version as well.
I was going to include a little footnote on how many here would want Valkyria Chronicles Duel as well, somethingsomethingChain ChroniclesomethingsomethingFanserviceMarketInTheWest – But it just came to my attention that Duel is being shut down down barely 12 days from now. RIP you magnificent, perverted game that people judged to be the death of VC. It was going to be a little stinger-joke, now it's a eulogy. /21GunSalute
If I shall begin...
