Store Page
Baldur's Gate 3
All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews

Baldur's Gate 3

Store Page
View Stats:
Global Achievements
This topic has been locked
KrZ Sep 2, 2023 @ 6:52am
Full audio support for other languages?
With the tremendous -and well deserved- success of BG3, can players expect full audio support to be extended to other languages? German, French, Japanese, Turkish, etc.
< >
Showing 1-15 of 42 comments
Razorblade Sep 2, 2023 @ 6:52am 
No. English is all that was promised, so players should expect nothing else.
Last edited by Razorblade; Sep 2, 2023 @ 6:53am
#1
Selunevis (Banned) Sep 2, 2023 @ 6:53am 
NOPE. Already developed games exists only for a reason: Make the investors richer. They cared little about our preferences before, even less now that the money is in their hands.
#2
KrZ Sep 2, 2023 @ 9:07am 
Originally posted by SeluESP:
NOPE. Already developed games exists only for a reason: Make the investors richer. They cared little about our preferences before, even less now that the money is in their hands.
What investors? Larian are self-published and fully independent studio.

Originally posted by Razorblade:
No. English is all that was promised, so players should expect nothing else.
I ain't buying that, especially given the unexpected commercial success of the game. Circumstances have changed.
#3
Mormacil Sep 2, 2023 @ 9:09am 
All animations were directly build on the English voice acting by motion tracking the actors. They're not gonna redo that for the limited sales extra full audio support would bring in. We get subtitles, which is plenty.

Personally I wouldn't want to mess up my craft either by tacking on poorly synced audio. There's a level of personal pride and all that.
#4
Notch Sep 2, 2023 @ 9:24am 
Originally posted by KrZ:
With the tremendous -and well deserved- success of BG3, can players expect full audio support to be extended to other languages? German, French, Japanese, Turkish, etc.
GTHO don't waste 1 sec or $1 on languages until the game is fixed and finished. I don't go complaining about all the AAA games made in your languages that don't get translated.
#5
KrZ Sep 2, 2023 @ 9:38am 
Originally posted by Notch:
Originally posted by KrZ:
With the tremendous -and well deserved- success of BG3, can players expect full audio support to be extended to other languages? German, French, Japanese, Turkish, etc.
GTHO don't waste 1 sec or $1 on languages until the game is fixed and finished. I don't go complaining about all the AAA games made in your languages that don't get translated.
What's my language buddy? :kodama: Besides, recording new audio lines has no impact on fixing bugs, not to mention that game localization is easily outsourced.

Originally posted by Mormacil:
They're not gonna redo that for the limited sales extra full audio support would bring in.
They don't have to rework animations to add other audio tracks, although it would be nice. Regarding potential additional sales, how do you know they would be limited? You have no idea.
#6
Mormacil Sep 2, 2023 @ 10:43am 
Originally posted by KrZ:
Originally posted by Notch:
GTHO don't waste 1 sec or $1 on languages until the game is fixed and finished. I don't go complaining about all the AAA games made in your languages that don't get translated.
What's my language buddy? :kodama: Besides, recording new audio lines has no impact on fixing bugs, not to mention that game localization is easily outsourced.

Originally posted by Mormacil:
They're not gonna redo that for the limited sales extra full audio support would bring in.
They don't have to rework animations to add other audio tracks, although it would be nice. Regarding potential additional sales, how do you know they would be limited? You have no idea.
They don't need to do full voice acting either, you could just do text to speech. Would that be a far inferior product? Of course but like you said it would be nice if it was better. THat's the quality difference we're talking about here.

And I actually do have an idea. You know people track this stuff professionally right? There has been actual studies trying to figure out the sale potential between subtitles vs full dubbing. And for video games the return on investment has been genuinely rated as minimal.

The return of investment on localization with subs can be very good but they already did that.
#7
KrZ Sep 2, 2023 @ 11:02am 
Originally posted by Mormacil:
And I actually do have an idea. You know people track this stuff professionally right? There has been actual studies trying to figure out the sale potential between subtitles vs full dubbing. And for video games the return on investment has been genuinely rated as minimal.

The return of investment on localization with subs can be very good but they already did that.
Let's look at it then - post a link to this study here and am more happy to check it and be proven wrong. However, there is a very good reason why dubbing exists, for movies and videogames alike, and I doubt it is done out of charity.
#8
Kafik Sep 2, 2023 @ 11:03am 
Start a Gofundme. Get it to about three to five million dollars. Give that money to Larian and we can maybe get five new languages.
#9
Faefu Sep 2, 2023 @ 11:04am 
it would be so much better to just read the subtitles, like we do with anime.
#10
Orion Invictus Sep 2, 2023 @ 11:05am 
Originally posted by Kfuk:
Start a Gofundme. Get it to about three to five million dollars. Give that money to Larian and we can maybe get five new languages.
There are over two million voice lines in the game, from what I heard. No way it's that cheap.
#11
Mormacil Sep 2, 2023 @ 11:13am 
Originally posted by KrZ:
Originally posted by Mormacil:
And I actually do have an idea. You know people track this stuff professionally right? There has been actual studies trying to figure out the sale potential between subtitles vs full dubbing. And for video games the return on investment has been genuinely rated as minimal.

The return of investment on localization with subs can be very good but they already did that.
Let's look at it then - post a link to this study here and am more happy to check it and be proven wrong. However, there is a very good reason why dubbing exists, for movies and videogames alike, and I doubt it is done out of charity.
Dubbing indeed exists for a myriad of reasons. There's also a reason why subbing exists. Not a particularly compelling argument there.

But feel free to make a case in favor of dubbing in addition to the subs. Give me some figures on how much money this would make.
#12
Notch Sep 2, 2023 @ 11:50am 
Originally posted by KrZ:
Originally posted by Notch:
GTHO don't waste 1 sec or $1 on languages until the game is fixed and finished. I don't go complaining about all the AAA games made in your languages that don't get translated.
What's my language buddy? :kodama: Besides, recording new audio lines has no impact on fixing bugs, not to mention that game localization is easily outsourced.

Originally posted by Mormacil:
They're not gonna redo that for the limited sales extra full audio support would bring in.
They don't have to rework animations to add other audio tracks, although it would be nice. Regarding potential additional sales, how do you know they would be limited? You have no idea.
A language not supported apparently, also any additions cost time and resources that could be better spent on well anything else.
#13
KrZ Sep 3, 2023 @ 5:11am 
Originally posted by Mormacil:
Originally posted by KrZ:
Let's look at it then - post a link to this study here and am more happy to check it and be proven wrong. However, there is a very good reason why dubbing exists, for movies and videogames alike, and I doubt it is done out of charity.
Dubbing indeed exists for a myriad of reasons. There's also a reason why subbing exists. Not a particularly compelling argument there.

But feel free to make a case in favor of dubbing in addition to the subs. Give me some figures on how much money this would make.


Originally posted by Mormacil:
Originally posted by KrZ:
Let's look at it then - post a link to this study here and am more happy to check it and be proven wrong. However, there is a very good reason why dubbing exists, for movies and videogames alike, and I doubt it is done out of charity.
Dubbing indeed exists for a myriad of reasons. There's also a reason why subbing exists. Not a particularly compelling argument there.

But feel free to make a case in favor of dubbing in addition to the subs. Give me some figures on how much money this would make.
Very simple - opening up new markets with millions of potential Customers to get additional revenue. Here's just one source and this is a for a single country:
https://laoret.com/blog/turkish-game-localization/

Now you show me data showing that dubbing is not a compelling strategy :MrFoster:
#14
101Asa Sep 3, 2023 @ 5:12am 
You might try mods perhaps. Maybe someone will make a language pack?
#15
< >
Showing 1-15 of 42 comments
Per page: 1530 50

Baldur's Gate 3 > General Discussions > Topic Details
Date Posted: Sep 2, 2023 @ 6:52am
Posts: 42

Discussions Rules and Guidelines