Yesterday, SEGAbits and Sonic Retro launched a new fan #TakeMyMoneySoE campaign, following a forum post by Overlord. The idea is to show SEGA Europe that they’re losing money by not bringing games like the SEGA 3D Classics Collection to Europe, even though they’ve already been announced for the US. In order to demonstrate this, SEGA fans in Europe are asked to write down the name of the game they want to see localized for the European market on a sheet of paper, together with a few bank notes totaling the cost of a regular game, take a picture of it and then tweet it to @SEGA_Europe with the #TakeMyMoneySoE hash tag.
Today, SEGA Europe responded to the fan campaign on Twitter, stating that they’re “working on this”. They also replied to a specific tweet from Nostalgia Ninja asking for news regarding the SEGA 3D Classics collection, stating that they’re “working on bringing them to Europe” but “don’t have a date to share at this time”. You can see both of these tweets below. It’s good to see SEGA Europe respond to the campaign quickly, and hearing that they’re actively working on bringing the games to Europe suggests that there’s a good chance it’ll happen eventually. Let’s hope for more news soon!
@SEGAbits we're working on this & when we are ready to share info we will do so – thanks for your support & being awesome fans!
— SEGA Europe (@SEGA_Europe) April 16, 2016
@NostalgiaNinja we're working on bringing them to Europe – we don't have a date to share at this time.
— SEGA Europe (@SEGA_Europe) April 16, 2016
Now that Sega of America is literally Atlus, it doesn’t surprise me at all that their games are hard to be released in Europe.
Good point 🙂 When SEGA Europe published Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, I had imagined they would help bring Atlus games to Europe. But I think that’s the only Atlus game they published so far in Europe, and things have actually gotten worse in terms of SEGA games. I hope this is just a matter of “when”, and not “if”, the games are released in Europe.