Didn't the president of Falcom flat out say that NIS got Ys VIII because they guaranteed release on more platforms than others could offer. Plus I thought I read that Ys VIII was the best selling Falcom game in the west. Regardless of the initial translation issues (not as bad as people made it out to be) the game still sold really well in the west and Falcom is probably happy about that. Considering how small Falcom is, a translation house than can also port their stuff to other platforms is probably a significant plus.
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