Interestingly, fan translators often embark on the localisation of a game because they feel that they are not able to experience the game in a similar way to the original players. Thus, fan translations of Japanese games tend to be more literal and more exoticising than official translations, which are sometimes criticised by fans for being too local and for removing traces of the original Japanese culture. This seems paradoxical, as the main objective of game localisation is to provide target players with a similar PX, and that is the reason why games tend to be heavily adapted. Therefore, further research is needed in order to find out more about players' reception of fan-localised versions versus the officially localised versions of games.

The difficulty in obtaining training materials due to the confidential nature of the industry should also be highlighted. Because of this, trainers have to manually transcribe the text from the game or work with open source games which are freely available. One of the pending issues in this area is to establish a fruitful collaboration between industry and academia so that companies can provide trainers with localisable assets of older games. This would also allow for the implementation of small-scale localisation projects which replicate all the steps of a professional localisation project, including quality assessment of the localised game.