Discussion from "VF5R for console effort" thread

To be honest I'm sure Sega of Japan has a ton of employees who are fluent in both English and Japanese. So someone from VFDC translating everything would have been most likely unnecessary.

Let's just hope that we get a legitimate response from Sega instead of the usual one or two 'diplomatic' generic lines and then being completely ignored.

 

Kamaage already posted on his blog that he had met with Sega, but made no mention of the petition he brought. He only talked about live streaming Sega's events and whatnot on his blog. I don't know what became of the console talks but it'd be best to just wait until he posts.

 

Hi, All.
Let me update what happened today in Sega.

I met one Sega guy who is in quite responsible position.
He was very impressed with the formal proposal. I told him
how much you guys love VF and how much VF5R is wanted in all over the world. He promised me to send it to development team.

BUT the stroy continues. He said "I will pass to development team" and I asked him "Is it possible to give directly to Presidentof Sega?" That way, I thought we can have the maximum output.

I asked him Can I do it? He said "Yes I can pass this to the President" so its possible. but If you guys want, I will try mybest to negotiate and pass it from me to the President of Sega.

But Being Honest document was great but the Sega guy and I agreed on one point. its not quite enough. I do not think President will read the whole document neither japanese or english. What we need is "number of pages".

He said it will be very powerful if we can have 5times more(which is 500pages..) and I think so too.

There are two options.
1: Document is passed to development team. We wait for output.
2: We make 5times more and I will pass it to the president face to face.

I do feel the same with you guys. Making number of pages sounds bit rediculous and it might not be successful at all. Actually we did really good job here and we can stop here.

If you can decide to go on, then I will start to get the formal proposal of japanese version too.

So please dicuss and decide what to do.

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mod note: Those linking from the front page news or from other fighting game websites, please post your message to Sega in this petition thread - Kamaage: VF5R for Console Effort. Thanks

 

I think we should do both. Give the 100 page one to the devs. And make a 500 pages one in the mean time. ^-^

Also Ill try to get more ppl to write.

 

Thank you Kamaage. Your efforts are very much appreciated. I suppose it couldn't hurt to keep adding comments here in the interim.

Do we have a time frame to get 500 pages? And is it possible for those who already posted comments to add more to extend the length of the document?

 

500 Pages would be the most effective option, door knock for VF5R appeal or something

Find every single friend or person that has played VF and get them to write a story, given the layout of the document if each person could write a minimum of 200 words then we would be looking solid.

I know I can get about 30 or 40 others to discuss their experiences with the game to some detail, words will trump number here, we had 20-30 people (majority are well known and respected inside the fighting game community) but if we were to step it up a notch and get a few more, get a story placed on Iplaywinner, Joystiq or even Kotaku then we'd be in great shape.

These are just my ideas, but doing some of these would help alot!

Kamaage, thankyou for your efforts so far and I hope we can get you a 500 page document to take to the President of SEGA.

 

Thanks @ Kamaage.

500 pages is quite a lot. It depends on how much time we would have for that.
I´ve already started proposal-threads at german videogame-websites. I think we could get more contributions from there.

 

Thanks for the update Kamaage. Who else is involved in this project besides VFDC? Is there anyway you could pass your documents to both? How sure are you that they'll obtain such documents?

 

500 pages is really alot, lets hope sega will really hear us out this time and not make us wait for a long time for this game to hit u.s stores

 

5x what was accomplished in a week, redouble the effort and 200 words per person really isnt as bad as it looks at the moment.

Considering most word documents are about 500 words a page without formatting, considering the format of the document it's really do-able.

Photos could also work with "we want VF5R in your native language, with about 5 or 6 people in the 1 close up.

 

I've asked in several other forums for help hope it'll work.

 

You just gotta love Kamaage. Going for MAX Damage in a battle. Ok ramblers lets get rambling.

 

I'll ask some people to write something.

Wether they want to or not.

I'll redraft mine as well, make it more presentable and more to the point.


It also might be worth contacting a magazine, I know Rayne has contacts that work with a 360 magazine and PrivateRyan writes for one here in the UK. It might be worth asking them to help.

 

No essentially we need more signatures.Having said that Myke is there some way to make some sort of forum/blog that doesn't require people to sign up?. We NEED make a petition on a bigger scale.

But we have a good start I guess..

 

Thanks Kamaage , and everyone else involved. I've already solicted help from Gamespots VF5 mb , before the deadline. If we hit up posters on the 1up , Ign and Gamesradar forums 500 pages is a cakewalk. When, not if you get 500 pages you should give a copy to both the dev team and the president of Sega. That way you would cover all bases. The president is all well and good, but our personal experiences might inspire someone on the dev team to take the initiative. Remember, it was Ono who had to push for Street Fighter 4, Capcom corporate didn't have faith in the project and were against it.

 

Get some notable people on SRK, TZ, DOAC and so forth to say something and more people will sign.

It couldn't hurt to say something on Gamefaqs or Xbox.com as well.

 

1) Give the original document to the developers. It is strong enough that after the developers have read it, they will make the case to whoever they need to, to get approval.

2) Instead of a 500 page document, which no CEO will read, lets make a power point presentation that makes the case in 3 to 5 minutes. (which is about all the time a CEO will spend on us). Put the presentation on jump drive, CD, or make a YouTube video of the presentation and let the president watch it that way.


The "number of pages" will not be as effective as a well produced power point that lasts no longer than 3-to- 5 minutes.

 

I disagree completely.

 

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I think we should reach out to other FG sites and let them know they can help. There's a lot of members on SRK, that'd get us a long way right there.

We should link it on SRK, NeoGAF and even Game FAQs just cause there's so many users we're bound to catch some eyes. To get another article on Kotaku would be awesome too.