08/08/2014 - Day of the Dragon

[king_ruckus]

EDIT: Date has been changed to 8/8/2014, giving anyone who wishes to do so a little more time to send mail directly to Japan or London as well as to Sega of America. I'll go ahead and post the address here at the top:

Sega of America:

SEGA of America, Inc.
350 Rhode Island Street
Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA

Japan:

SEGA Corporate
1-2-12 Haneda
Ohta-ku
Tokyo 144-8531
Japan

London:

SEGA Europe Ltd.
27 Great West Road
Brentford
Middlesex
TW8 9BW
United Kingdom


Do you want this series to continue or NOT?

That question is rhetorical, because if you're here you clearly like the series and want more of it.

I'm proposing a simple idea that I have proposed a few times in the past. WRITE A LETTER TO SEGA.

Just one, per fan, or friend of fan or whomever.

I think people are content to sit back and post on Twitter or Facebook because it's instantaneous. They want to say something(much like I do now), they say it and they feel like they've done something. In some ways they have, but it only carries so much weight. Mailing in a letter means more to Sega than just spamming their Twitter feed or Facebook. In another thread I just read and replied to, there is direct confirmation that spamming them like that does more harm than good.

If you like this series and you want it to continue, can't you take, what, FIVE MINUTES TOTAL out of your day and put something on paper?

It's ridiculous. I'm not trying to be mean here, but I can't believe that we're still not getting it. This is a NICHE title, and it's not doing well enough in Sega's eyes for various reasons. We have to show them that this game has enough fans to justify them continuing the series over here, whether it's in disc based or strictly digital format(preferably on both PS3 and PS4).

You can come here and complain that SEGA's "not listening" or that they "don't care" about the fans, but you can't take a few minutes and put together a meaningful method of communication? Come on now. This is it...we're the last line of defense for this series, and we're phoning it in when we should be MAILING IT IN.

I think our best option is to get organized and mail letters in around the same time. We need to get this moving as quickly as possible. The sooner the ball gets rolling, the further it can go. I'm proposing that our letters arrive on or around August 1st, 2014. That's a Friday, and it's about three weeks from now giving us all PLENTY of time to write anything from "Please bring Yakuza 5 West!" to an epic yarn telling SEGA everything from when you first played Yakuza, to what your favorite seafood is. It also gives this time to pick up some steam. It's important for us to have as many people write in as possible.

I'll call 8/1/2014 "Day of the Dragon". It sounds a little silly, but it ties in to the Japanese title.

Ideally I would hope that we can get together at least 1,000 fans. Like I said, "Niche Title". I'm trying to be realistic here. I know the series has a lot more fans than that, but if we can get around 1,000 letters from 1,000 different people to show up at or around the same time, Sega will be more likely to respond.

Look, I want this series to survive. I'm sorry if you're sick of seeing me say "let's mail in letters" but I say it because it's our most viable option. These letters arrive and they've got physical, tangible evidence that people out there want to play this game and will pay for it Day One. It will get things going again. Obviously the more letters, the better.

Are we seriously unable to get 1,000 or so fans together? Are we really content to sit and complain online instead of spending maybe $2 total for paper, envelope and a stamp?

And please, PLEASE keep "I would rather play (insert game here) first" out of this thread. PLEASE. We all want to play Kenzan in English without having to refer to some of the wonderfully done guides out there. We all want to at least try the PSP games. We all want those. Don't do that in this thread. All this community needs you to do in THIS thread is say "Ok, I'm mailing something in" and FOLLOW THROUGH.

Spread the word about this, get people involved.

When I have time this week, I'll put together a video about it. If you can get one up sooner please do so.

I saw an article on Kotaku weeks ago about how Yakuza 5 still hasn't made it out of Japan yet. If this thing picks up steam, maybe they'll post another article about THIS and what we're trying to do, getting more people involved. Maybe other gaming sites might see that and decide to post their own articles. Maybe SEGA sees that, gets our letters on 8/1, and decides not to let this series die outside Japan.

You want to help? I hope so. If you do, Sega's address is:

Sega of America
350 Rhode Island St #400
San Francisco, CA 94103

You've got plenty of time, so say whatever you want in your letter about this great series.

[suketodara]

I'm on. But I will need two more addresses, because I'm sending a letter to San Francisco, another one to London, and the third one to Tokyo.

[synapse]

What he (suketodara) said.

[Freddo]

Ideally I would hope that we can get together at least 1,000 fans. Like I said, "Niche Title". I'm trying to be realistic here. I know the series has a lot more fans than that, but if we can get around 1,000 letters from 1,000 different people to show up at or around the same time, Sega will be more likely to respond.

Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible. It's only two weeks from now, more time is needed to spread the word around (not to mention the international letters might take more time). And what exactly are being done to get the word spread around?

I guess posting on neogaf could be a good idea and let Luke Plunkett at Kotaku.com and maybe other places too like Siliconera, Eurogamer and so on? I don't really know, it's not like I've done something like this.

Oh yeah, some official website for this campaign, or a facebook group or whatever, could help too to get things organised, I suppose.

That said, I do like the idea of sending them a proper mail very much.

[king_ruckus]

suketodara, glad you're on board, and also willing to send letters to their overseas offices. Synapse and Freddo I don't know if you're thinking of going the overseas route too, but glad to see that you're interested in the idea.

Here are the addresses you asked for suketodara:

Japan:

SEGA Corporate
1-2-12 Haneda
Ohta-ku
Tokyo 144-8531
Japan


London:

SEGA Europe Ltd.
27 Great West Road
Brentford
Middlesex
TW8 9BW
United Kingdom

The first date I thought of was 8-8-2014(it sounds better), but I thought that might be too long and went with 8-1-2014 instead. It's almost three weeks from now which is more than enough time to spread the word and have something ready to mail in that week. I'm kind of antsy, want to see something happen

However, seeing as how this thing is in its infancy and we haven't started any type of promotion yet, if you guys think an extra week is necessary, cool. We've been waiting this long already, what's one more week? It'll give people who are willing to do so a little extra time to mail something out to Japan and/or London as well as Sega of America. The important thing is to not get too fragmented, Sega of America is the main office we want to mail to. Sega of Japan and the office in London definitely matter, but Sega of America is where we want to make sure we all send in mail together.

EDIT: I can't change the thread title, can a moderator please change the date to 8/8/2014?

[SonsofOcelot]

8/1/2014.... The "Day of the Dragon".... I like that!

Organisation is definitely key here though to make it work. We will need to get people in the know about this and get them behind it.

I will drop a line over at segalization.com and yakuzafan.com soon as I'm done with this. Also I'd use twitter and facebook to grab peoples attention. #DayoftheDragon pointed at @SEGA, @YakFan, and @Segalization should get a fair amount of people in the know. Let them know about the letters to be sent and arrive around 8/1. We can still make a difference here (or at least make a good effort)...

Lets get those letters in!

[king_ruckus]

lol, this is one thing I was worried about with changing the date even this early in the game. I couldn't change the title of the thread to reflect the new date of 8/8/2014. The extra week will give people who wish to do so a bit more time to mail letters overseas, but the main goal is to mail letters to Sega of America.

Thank you for starting to help spread the word though! I'm in the midst of leaving a topic about this over on GameFAQs. I'll link to this thread.

[SonsofOcelot]

lol, this is one thing I was worried about with changing the date even this early in the game. I couldn't change the title of the thread to reflect the new date of 8/8/2014. The extra week will give people who wish to do so a bit more time to mail letters overseas, but the main goal is to mail letters to Sega of America.

Thank you for starting to help spread the word though! I'm in the midst of leaving a topic about this over on GameFAQs. I'll link to this thread.

Haha yeah. Luckily I caught your edit after i went to twitter and nothing else. Everything is now marked 8/8 as it should be. Going to Segalization and then headed to bed for the night. Will make a youtube vid in the next day or so too about this.

And hey anything to spread the word about the series

[SonsofOcelot]

So I just made a quick facebook cover image for the "Day of the Dragon" in M$ paint. Nothing fancy but it'll catch peoples attention nonetheless.

here's the link: http://imgur.com/DKEwnpg

[KazumaKiryu25]

This is such a great idea. Definitely count me in.

Maybe if they start to see what this game means to us using our own personal handwriting, it'll get through to them. But honestly, i'm willing to do anything to get this game (and the others) localized.