Why isn't Trails more popular?

Why isn't Trails more popular?

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Westerners hate reading
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It's the most generic jrpg ever.

Too many games and not enough reward for the average person. It's a long, slowly paced series with no end in sight

It never fucking ends. Playing cold steel 1 to 4. Just want it to be over, heard there's one more fucking rean game I need to play

Because having ongoing story heavy series with as many entries as Trails has is sales poison most of the time. Its impenetrable for new players.

Now let's discuss Towa's ass.

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Is Trails of Blues Clues out officially yet? Why are they taking so long? Everyone says it's just using the fan translation so why does it take multiple years to release them?

this, but bad writing also

Estelle isn't the main character anymore :(

The first 3 games are pretty much PC exclusives (3rd straight up is for the West). Weebs vastly prefer consoles so right away this is a filter.
The first 5 games have "bad" outdated graphics and no dub. This is another filter.
4th and 5th games aren't even localized yet
They are barely advertised. When Nintendo featured Ys VIII in a Direct it actually sold like 500k copies or something but Trails has never gotten this treatment.
You have to play every game in the series in order. Unlike Kingdom Hearts there is no Disney and FF characters to lure people in.
The later games are the length of 3-4 JRPGs combined but have snail paced storylines
It takes 2-3 years to localize the games