SINoALICE, the Yoko Taro directed smartphone game with edgier depictions of fairy tale characters, will regretfully not make its predicted July 18th release date in the West as announced by the title’s developers.
The main reason given for the delay has been cited as quality concerns for the game’s localization.
The full message from the developers and the localization team explaining the reasons for the delay:
Hello, everyone.
This is the Management Team for SINoALICE.First and foremost, we would like to express our sincerest apologies to inform everyone who has been waiting a long time for the World Wide Launch, that the service schedule has been delayed.
SINoALICE is a work in progress that began last year, during which we aimed to open its services on July 18th, 2019.
As the opening date draws nearer, we have been running our final maintenances and check-ups for the global service. However, we have come to the conclusion that the localization quality of SINoALICE is nowhere near perfect at this stage of development.
In this regard, we have made many discussions with the Japanese developers, and at the cost of rescheduling the World Wide Launch, we have decided to optimize the localization of the game to provide the highest level of satisfaction for all users.
As the service schedule has been delayed, we are fully aware that many of you are disappointed and once again, we take this opportunity to apologize for our shortcomings.
As much hype there was built up for the global service of SINoALICE, our priority is to provide you with an experience that exceeds your expectations. We hope you understand that we have made a very difficult decision in delaying our global services.
The future World Wide Launch schedule is currently being negotiated.
As much as you are curious about the exact date of release, we will try our best to bring you the fully localized version of SINoALICE as soon as possible.
Furthermore, compensatory rewards for the service delay are currently being discussed internally.
We will notify you about the new World Wide Launch date and compensations through detailed announcements in the future.Once again, we would like to express our sincerest apologies to everyone who has shown so much love and interest in SINoALICE.
SINoALICE will be made available in the West for iOS and Android mobile devices at a currently unspecified date.
probably to ensure everything will be properly censored, as any Nexon release
Nexon doesn’t fail to deliver.
Game is not even up yet, and everyone is already disappointed with this performance.
have fun with that s♥♥t while me and many others enjoy the jp version
this is just done and would be retarded if they’re censoring but this is exactly why i dont even bother with NA releases
Sad but true, I wish non westerners would actually fight back the fascist censors and put heavy tariffs on the pozz western media products, because they are put at an unfair advantage by not being forced to be censored just like JP products do
its normal for NeXOoN garbage
Most likely it’s delayed because they want to f♥♥k up the game more like Nexon always does to all it’s global releases.