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Now I get why people hate the Undertale fandom
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Tbh I don't understand why that's a major problem. There's tons of media that is only available in Spanish, or in French, or in Chinese, or whatever. Some stuff you've gotta know the language it's available in to enjoy it. It'll be ok if people who don't speak English or Japanese don't play Toby Fox's games. There are a million JRPGs out there.
Usually you want as many people as possible to experience your creation, and in case of his games they are extremely popular and well-regarded, and it is not like he can't afford to localize them, at the end of the day all this does is gatekeep the game from people that can't speak one of the languages it is in.
I think I can give one example of how bad this is. It's not a fair comparison but, Nintendo have been here on Brasil for a long time now, but only recently have they started localizing their games into Portuguese, and even then, there are still games that are not being localized. Their games here are really, really, really expensive. Easily some of, if not the most expensive games we can get here right now, to the point they had to announce a price change very recently, so their games are now 25% cheaper, and yet it is still too expensive. Their localization is actually verry good, but for the longest time we have felt like we didn't matter. One infamous incident is when they announced a new localization for Pokémon for Latin America, and despite we being one of their biggest consumers of the region, it was only spanish localization, which was super cool for everyone else, but felt like a slap to our face, specially since people have been begging for it for the longest time. There's always fan translations, but you need a Hacked Switch for that, and not every game is gonna have one.