A new job has been posted by Sega and Relic Entertainment, and it has some interesting information regarding a possible localization that fans have been demanding.
The find was is courtesy of NeoGAF user Nirolak), and we’ve posted it here, with the text you should really scrutinize bolded:
Server Engineer
Programming/Engineering | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | 12/23/2013
Relic Entertainment, a wholly owned studio of SEGA, is the award winning RTS developer of Homeworld, Dawn of War and Company of Heroes, among other games. Relic was founded on the premise that it is entirely possible to ship first class, genre altering, AAA titles, and have a life. Relic is based out of beautiful Vancouver, Canada, a city that has breath-taking mountain and ocean views, along with snowboarding and skiing, golfing year-round and amazing hiking trails. If you love games, enjoy working collaboratively with smart, creative people, and have diverse personal interests outside of work – you’ll enjoy our culture.
What you will be doing
- Ramp up and perform due diligence on an existing live MMO project in development in Japan, embedded with the live team
- Gain full understanding of the game and code architecture, content authoring pipelines, build and deployment process, engineering process, and current code status
- Establish working relationships with key members of Japanese development team
- Participate in and contribute to minor/peripheral engineering tasks on the project, as well as in daily project planning, code reviews, release process, etc.
- Create/translate documentation of existing code modules, tools, processes and work flows
- Prepare regular status and activity reports to Producer
- Prepare a full written project evaluation
What you should have
- 5+ years’ engineering experience from PC client/server based MMO development
- Ability to spend extended (3+ months) periods of time on-site in Tokyo
- Ideally fluent in Japanese and English languages
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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I don’t know about you, but the only MMORPG that Sega has been working on in recent history is Phantasy Star Online 2, which was released in Japan across PC and Playstation Vita.
Despite EastAsiaSoft localizing the game for Asia, the game has still remained untranslated, officially at least, in the Western regions like America and Europe.
Could this mean that Sega is finally localizing the MMORPG, and if so, would it be both PC and Vita?
