Sabaini.4975 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 And we still don't have a translation for us Brazilians. [First, I'm sorry for bad english] It's amazing how many Brazilian players stop playing this game, because of a "simple" translation. The game is magnificent, the story is magnificent, the company is magnificent. But this is an MMORPG, it is a lot of information that goes unnoticed and that ends up leaving players discouraged. I say skills, history, builds and a lot of more informations In the year 2017 a form was even made and sent to the company, where countless players asked ArenaNet to give us attention, equal companies of even smaller sizes gave us, so that there was a translation for the game. And the answer was a disaster for ArenaNet, unfortunately. And today, I came back on a video on youtube, where people keep asking: 2020 and there is still no translation? It's a great game, but it gets complicated without a translation ... it's a shame. So ArenaNet, will you still ignore us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 You probabely have as much luck to get this as OCE players have to get their own data center mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokomis.5076 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 "simple" translation? You do realize that there are hundreds of hours of voice messages, many ten-thousand lines of texts and, even more crucial, hundreds of more languages in this world where always someone will mourn that there is no translation? How many other MMOs are fully translated into Portuguese? How many other world wide games at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voltaicbore.8012 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 It must be hard trying to enjoy the game fully without a translation, kudos to you (and the entire Brazilian GW2 community) for sticking with this as long as you have! As @"Nokomis.5076" said, I'm not sure it's at all easy to translate an entire game, and I would only expect them to do so if they calculate that enough money will come out of Portuguese-speaking players as a result. I think your best bet would be to have some sort of fan-translation effort at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astyrah.4015 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 > @"Nokomis.5076" said: > "simple" translation? > > You do realize that there are hundreds of hours of voice messages, many ten-thousand lines of texts and, even more crucial, hundreds of more languages in this world where always someone will mourn that there is no translation? > > How many other MMOs are fully translated into Portuguese? How many other world wide games at all? this basically. translation is not free. especially if you want fully voiced everything. other popular languages like Dutch/Russian/Hindi/Polish/Japanese/Vietnamese/etc. aren't offered too. an MMORPG or any game for that matter has to choose which languages it would support with it's budget (current and past). you could argue "but the Chinese version of GW2 is translated" there, but those translations are funded and handled by their local publisher. so unless Brazil gets a local publisher for GW2 and releases a data centre for that region, that chances are very very very low. with the Anet team's size and budget they'd prioritise resources into things that would apply to all of their clients/players. not saying it's impossible, just that it's very unlikely to happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Hayes.6890 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Update your thread title. Definitely click bait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Here's some official responses: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/comment/444283/#Comment_444283 https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/comment/307741/#Comment_307741 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannelore.8153 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 For the record this isn't something ArenaNet has to do. Anyone is free to translate the parts of the game they see fit, and an addon can implement the translation, using screen-reading, overlays and other methods already used in existing tools. Its just that no one wants to do it, probably for much the same reasons the devs don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrizzFreston.5290 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 I always wondered why they couldnt add textual translation. Subtitles and the like. No idea if there is an API code for voiced or text dialogue in the game, but if there is it would make it possible for a community-run subtitle (maybe even dub) addon/overlay or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fueki.4753 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 As far as I'm aware, U.K. players don't have their own _translation_ either. Swiss people don't have their own _Swiss German_ version either. The Portuguese/Brazilian/Angolan player base simply isn't big enough for Arenanet to hire someone to translate the game. Most people have to bite into the sour apple and play in U.S.A. English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannelore.8153 Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 > @"FrizzFreston.5290" said: > I always wondered why they couldnt add textual translation. Subtitles and the like. > > No idea if there is an API code for voiced or text dialogue in the game, but if there is it would make it possible for a community-run subtitle (maybe even dub) addon/overlay or something. You don't need an API for it. You can use a screen reader (OCR), because in this case everything you'd want to translate already appears on the screen as text, you'd just have to overlay it in a way that makes the translation readable too. You only need APIs for things that aren't easily visible during gameplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dayra.7405 Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 I always though Portuguese understand Spanish without much problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fueki.4753 Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 > @"Dayra.7405" said: > I always though Portuguese understand Spanish without much problems. Those two languages are as different from each other as they are from Italian or French. I had two Brazilians in my Spanish lessons in school and they just barely passed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blude.6812 Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 OP seems to have a fantastic grasp of the english language. There is no issue here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnusthorek.8027 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 How to translate big content (any kind) without spending a penny? Simple! Create an affiliation with a solid translation system that rewards associated translators with good in-game reputation (a.k.a. not botters, trollers and etc.) for their time and resources spent with virtual things (gems, skins... shiny things in general). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valento.9852 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 I'm a headstart player (played early 2012 closed beta weekends) and I am brazilian too. It makes me utterly ashamed that folks from Brazil still come here asking the same kitten again. Everyone here understands the challenges a company faces when localizing a game and so do I, and it pisses me off that they mention the country as if we all had the same opinion when, in fact, that's far from true. I never saw the need for a translation and I still do not see the need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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