Forspoken Fails To Credit Localizers, Quality Assurance Testers - Kotaku

Forspoken, the newest action-adventure romp from developer Luminous Productions, caught flack online after failing to fully list its localization and quality assurance teams.

“In Forspoken, you can find monsters, magic, cool abilities…but no proper credits,” audiovisual and video game translator Yasmina Casado González tweeted on January 24, as first spotted by TheGamer.

The hashtag has gained traction as other games or gaming-related media have fallen short of giving everyone their due acknowledgement.

The problem has plagued The Callisto Protocol, Persona 3 and 4, and HBO’s The Last of Us television show, as TheGamer points out.

“This is just not acceptable,” Twitter user CWDGH said, sharing a picture of the four individual people named from the game’s localization and quality assurance divisions.

As Kotaku has previously stated, everyone who worked on a game, whether that’s writing code, localizing language, or producing art, should appear in the end credits, regardless of whether or not they’re still employed at the studio.