Well, a Square Enix executive has a new approach to this and may consider crowdfunding in the future to localize games. Speaking in the latest issue of Game Informer, Square Enix Europe CEO Phil Rogers said:
When Rogers was asked if crowdfunding could be used to help localize more games, he said that crowdfunding would be a “very natural” idea to help fund localize games but did not confirm any plans to use crowdfunding for localization.
He went on to say: “I think it’s a really interesting idea. I would love to try to work with that, to find a way, because ultimately we want to satisfy the demands of the fans.”
Recently Square Enix had canceled their Augment Your Pre-order program for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided because of the massive backlash from fans.
