german plz?

[Nachtbrut]

i mean seriously tho, i would also go play those games, if its just a random google translator german translation. but instead all those mmorpgs these days join the group of vindictus and atlantica. games i like and i wont play, just cuz they are lazy.
im not racist, just because i want to play a game in my mother language tho ...

[Kibōchen]

It bothers me too that there is no German translation of the game... but at least I can put my English into good practice

[askasys]

In recent years, localizations are limited to only 2 languages, English and French, in all Japanese games.
Most of them have only English, as is the case with PSO2.

The only way for us Europeans is to learn some written English.
Set the dub in Japanese, and profit. Especially if you used to watch Anime you should know some Japanese.

[Dr.Robert]

Learn English already. Seriously. Most RPGs do not get translated. This is a fact. Start watching movies, anime or whatever with english subtitles. Play all games with english text only. Look up words you do not understand. Doing this for like a year will put you at a level where you won't even complain about this stuff anymore.

Edit: NVM. This thread is 10 days old and someone brought it back to live lol.

[Trollslegur]

Originally posted by chrnodroid:

In recent years, localizations are limited to only 2 languages, English and French, in all Japanese games.
Most of them have only English, as is the case with PSO2.

The only way for us Europeans is to learn some written English.
Set the dub in Japanese, and profit. Especially if you used to watch Anime you should know some Japanese.

I can understand translating to English but...
French? Really? I had no idea that market was that Big...

[askasys]

Originally posted by Trollslegur:

French? Really? I had no idea that market was that Big...

Yes, but that is disappearing too. The last time I saw French was on Star Ocean 5 on PS4.
2016

I think today's JRPGs only have English.
Only mainstream titles like Dragon Ball have DE-IT-FR-SP-EN the glorious Multi5

[Kibōchen]

Originally posted by Dr.Robert:

Most RPGs do not get translated. Doing this for like a year will put you at a level where you won't even complain about this stuff anymore.

Do you not think that's a problem? It makes the game less accessible to non-English speakers, especially considering it's not the most widely spoken language.
Also, asking for a missing feature does not equate to "complaining." These are discussions for a reason, so we can speak out.

[Konomi☆Nanasaki]

Originally posted by Kirito:

Do you not think that's a problem? It makes the game less accessible to non-English speakers,

specific languages other than english are small minorities though, so having multiple translations might not turn out being worth at all

[Nachtbrut]

as u see i can speak english. i also understand it quite well. but u guyz cant tell me, that games arent also more fun to u, if those are in your mothers language

[SpeedFreak3]

English is one of or maybe even the easiest language to learn and you only need basic knowledge to understand most games.

The lack of translation has nothing to do with exclusion of non-english speakers, it's about money.

Did you ever encounter a game that was translated so poorly that you needed to switch back to english? I did with a lot of games.

[askasys]

Originally posted by SpeedFreak3:

Did you ever encounter a game that was translated so poorly that you needed to switch back to english? I did with a lot of games.

Same but I switch to Japanese, even English has a lot of problems due to some localization teams.

[Konomi☆Nanasaki]

there's not even 5 games i prefer playing in german tbh.
it's rare that the voice acting is on par with the original voices (sure, it does happen sometimes, but it's really not common)
(edit: so i usually always use the original language, whatever it is, in most cases it has the highest quality because it's nearly impossible nothing gets lost in translation at all)

if it's more about just the text and not the voices i've had so many friends play games in german and then look sth up and not understand what they were talking about, because stuff has different names.

so if you're not just playing the game, but also talk about it on the internet it's (imho) better to know the english names of skills, items, etc.

also, regarding pso2, the english translation already has some errors, so i certainly wouldn't want to know how bad a german translation would be. i'd imagine something like those horrible mobile game translations (which seem to be even worse than a full google translation), especially with games that don't let you change the language

[[HBM] Raiden]

Originally posted by SpeedFreak3:

English is one of or maybe even the easiest language to learn and you only need basic knowledge to understand most games.

The lack of translation has nothing to do with exclusion of non-english speakers, it's about money.

Did you ever encounter a game that was translated so poorly that you needed to switch back to english? I did with a lot of games.

english is one of the hardest languages to learn. so many words have different meanings but spelled the same. and slang thats used. ect.

[Trollslegur]

Originally posted by Kirito:

Do you not think that's a problem? It makes the game less accessible to non-English speakers, especially considering it's not the most widely spoken language.

Wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
More people speak English as either a first or second language than any other in the world.
A VERY quick Google search proves that.

[askasys]

Originally posted by Trollslegur:

Originally posted by Kirito:

Do you not think that's a problem? It makes the game less accessible to non-English speakers, especially considering it's not the most widely spoken language.

Wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
More people speak English as either a first or second language than any other in the world.
A VERY quick Google search proves that.

People still arguin about what is the most spoken language in the world...
Although English is the best known globally thanks to the internet, and some states have it as a second language, they don't necessarily know how to speak it. This is a very rough statistic.
A fact is Chinese, a language actually spoken by an immense number of people. Japanese games are also localized in Chinese lately, there is a lot of market demand.

Undoubtedly English and Chinese are the most advantageous languages to know in 2020.

Deep regret for all nations with a smaller population, there will always be little market demand or almost zero.
Hindi is most like a problem of another nature. I mean, there are really a lot o people in India but internet and videogames are not for all. Zero market demand.

Imagine an Albanian, a Romanian, a Greek, how do these people do? They are forced to learn English if they want to play games or even to watch movies. And certainly English is not the second language of their states.

The most fortunate European states are France and Spain.
Italy and Germany not and their languages are used less and less on localizations.

I was born in a country with low market demand and my language is never included. I had to learn some English to be able to play and watch anime. Eventually I also learned Japanese for convenience.
My situation is the most common here on Steam.

[SpeedFreak3]

Originally posted by Raiden:

english is one of the hardest languages to learn. so many words have different meanings but spelled the same. and slang thats used. ect.

So uh like ... every other language ?

at least in english you don't need a bloated and redundant vocabulary for every day conversations.