ARABIC LANGUAGE SUPPORT

[Fahad]

Greetings New World Developers,

Millions of Arab players including me, would really appreciate if we could get to play New World in our own language to get the full experience out of this game.
This will hugely improve our enjoyment of your product.

Thank you for your time

[MaJeK]

yes +++

[MaJeK]

I hope it will be a game in everyone's language to enjoy the game

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by MaJeK:

I hope it will be a game in everyone's language to enjoy the game

And whom do you think should pay for those and should it be all languages spoken? that is around 6500 languages.

[MaJeK]

If there are high purchases for the region and language, why not?

[Copperic]

Originally posted by MaJeK:

If there are high purchases for the region and language, why not?

But who is paying for this? Should the people that want the language translated pay or should the Dev eat the cost or does the cost of the game go up and everyone pay for this? Maybe if you speak both languages, you should message New World and offer your time and translate the game for them.

[Copperic]

Its been around a year since Ive been working on a game, But at that time it was around .10 per word to translate. So lets say New World has 200k words that would be around $20k to translate that. We all know that New World has more then 200k words in it.

[IrLeet]

+

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by Copperic:

Its been around a year since Ive been working on a game, But at that time it was around .10 per word to translate. So lets say New World has 200k words that would be around $20k to translate that. We all know that New World has more then 200k words in it.

Often professional translaters take 0.2 euro per letter, not word. So going by the avarage word being 4-5 letters, you can go add that to your math.. My take is that translations for this game cost around 40-50k euro per langauge, maybe less if its a bulk.

But what people don´t understand is that this is a mmo, next quest, new stuff, etc gets updated all the time, this means each language has to get translated all the time on new stuff and it also means that they have to add live service for said languages.

Cost is most likely closer to 70-80k for a translation + 1 year of translation support/live service support..


You can see the prices here for various regions
https://steamdb.info/sub/417246/

That should also be taken into account.

[Русич]

И Арабов конечно!

[123]

++++++++++++

[TheSaLe7]

+

[AboHagos]

+1

[hellkn]

+1

[He1senmashadoW]

lan siz nerden çıktınız

[MJ]

So I am Arabic... this is a very bad idea. Why? Because there is a very good chance that if the game becomes popular, it will get banned in many Arab countries. So I wouldnt even bother. If you are Arab, just play it and dont tell everyone.

Also the middle east has a major tech problem. Hardware is stupid expensive, and usually outdated by the time it arrives. Most only have a basic computer for internet and word processing. The internet in most Arab countries is absolutely horrible too. I mean... we still have a huge population of people who have sub 1mbps DSL at home... We do have cell network (G3+4 mostly) but good luck with that since its limited.