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Ilinox

I'm so used to seeing that shorthand as Idea Factory that it took me a hot second to understand what you were talking about. I was like "Why would Idea Factory be handling this?" HAHAHA.

I don't think so though, because if I remember correctly the speech style for the account that was taken down showed a more casual use of English. I don't think "trust fund kid" would come naturally to someone with poor English. The mistaken use of tutor is more understandable, but I agree it's a terrible look because someone shouldn't be running an advertising campaign in a language they're not fluent in, especially if they want to be the "face" of the campaign.

I don't doubt that they like the game, but as a saying goes in Chinese "Godly opponents aren't scary, what's scary are pig teammates!" because the road to hell can be paved with good intentions. "News" accounts should be as impartial as possible if they have any ethics, but IF rarely includes Love and Deepspace announcements. HM. To say nothing of reversing the identity of a news account to use its clout to serve a personal agenda. No one likes this kind of move.

Leaking the official Vietnamese and Thai names for the men, translation choices like "Enchanting Eyes" on Evan's profile, as well as the progress of the localization team like publicly asking for feedback on character names when that's an internal decision that has to be reviewed and approved is just LOL on top of everything else. The fact that the VNG team didn't reprimand them enough shows their lack of management, in addition to how the official account is posting and setting things up at a time that's inconvenient for every time zone. They really created the discord server and went to sleep, huh, not even doing it on business hours or having contacted and vetted fan moderators (not that I trust their vetting process, oops). It's a bad look all around.

I'm so used to seeing that shorthand as Idea Factory that it took me a hot second to understand what you were talking about. I was like "Why would Idea Factory be handling this?" HAHAHA.

I don't think so though, because if I remember correctly the speech style for the account that was taken down showed a more casual use of English. I don't think "trust fund kid" would come naturally to someone with poor English. The mistaken use of tutor is more understandable, but I agree it's a terrible look because someone shouldn't be running an advertising campaign in a language they're not fluent in, especially if they want to be the "face" of the campaign.

I don't doubt that they like the game, but as a saying goes in Chinese "Godly opponents aren't scary, what's scary are pig teammates!" because the road to hell can be paved with good intentions. "News" accounts should be as impartial as possible if they have any ethics, but IF rarely includes Love and Deepspace announcements. HM. To say nothing of reversing the identity of a news account to use its clout to serve a personal agenda. No one likes this kind of move.

Leaking the official Vietnamese and Thai names for the men, translation choices like "Enchanting Eyes" on Evan's profile, as well as the progress of the localization team like publicly asking for feedback on character names when that's an internal decision that has to be reviewed and approved is just LOL on top of everything else. The fact that the VNG team didn't reprimand them enough shows their lack of management, in addition to how the official account is posting and setting things up at a time that's inconvenient for every time zone. They really created the discord server and went to sleep, huh, not even doing it on business hours or having contacted and vetted fan moderators (not that I trust their vetting process, oops). It's a bad look all around.

The previous EN/GLB L&N account was maybe run by IF too? Both were vague teasing before the official SEA account made their accouncement (glb "coming soon" in bio, IF talking about another CN game being loc'd soon), cannot separate official from fan content (glb using the SEA logo asset early and linking the loc company's email on their fb but claiming to be just a fan account, IF doing the inverse as a preexisting multifandom account but posting bios with the TH and VN names of characters that weren't in SEA PV or account yet but that they know of already from allegedly assisting in the TH tl QC), deleting things when criticized for misrepresenting characters/game despite claiming to be a longtime fan who should know better... IDK maybe they really wanted to be the official socmed manager for the clout but didn't get a role beyond QCing. IF seems to want to be more involved than they need to be with them even making excuses about SEA twt account taking the PV down based on audience feedback when actually the platform suspended them. Even if it were true, IF doesn't have to be the one to say it because the other SEA accounts are still up and they can make a statement there. Also reminds me of when they asked for feedback on localizing character names which I feel like should be something the team addresses way earlier than QC stage since the names are going to come up a lot and it'd be a hassle to go back and change it later when they probably have a lot of TLs stockpiled ahead to ensure steady flow of new content...

Not trying to be a hater and they might mean well (like maybe the bad profile descriptions such as "trust fund kid" and "tutor" were due to English not being their native tongue and therefore missing the nuances) but as an "insider" unfortunately all this just makes the professionalism of them and the company that chose to reach out to them questionable, which in turn negatively affects the server's chance of success.

Ilinox

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