Sephie Wrote:It kinda sucks to see everyone so blasé and negative. This SAO crossover was partially a result of this.
I don't think it was a result of this at all.
November 2013 this event was out in JMS. This was 5 months after the initial post was made by Girasol. The depth of this event, the licensing, etc would take more than 5 months to develop and ship to JMS. I believe Girasol included SAO as a selection in that post solely because she was informed that this was already being developed for JMS.
I will agree that there may have been some influence from GMS players to translate the content to English, however there is no way to discern this. From what I remember, many Southperrians/Maplers wanted Adventure Time.
All in all, I believe SAO was pushed through to GMS release due to the popularity that the animu has had outside of Japan. Netflix is streaming it, it has its own game published by Bandai in the Playstation Store, and this event coincides with the new season being shown so I guess the hype is at its peak for now.
Players may think that this is some sort of "Cash grab" from Nexon, but they forget about the inverse of this. People who just like watching an anime (SAO for instance) would probably like to play a game with an ingame event about SAO. The same could be said for past tie-in events. In JMS they have had similar events for Miku/Naruto/FMA/Madoka Magica/K-On/Lotte (Candy? IDK)/Other things I may have forgotten.
List of campaigns by JMS
http://maplestory.nexon.co.jp/campaign/m...stival.asp
http://maplestory.nexon.co.jp/campaign/sao.asp
http://maplestory.nexon.co.jp/campaign/sanrio/
http://maplestory.nexon.co.jp/campaign/c...hemist.asp (Dead Link)
http://maplestory.nexon.co.jp/campaign/k-on_tieup.asp
http://maplestory.nexon.co.jp/campaign/madoka-magica/
Proving my point.
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