At least add the Ukrainian language.

[𝕄𝕚𝕣𝕠𝕧𝕠𝕪]

At least add the Ukrainian language. Why should I, being a Ukrainian, suffer because of anti-Russian sanctions? They managed to remove the Russian language, which is spoken and thought in Ukraine by a third of the country, so be kind enough to add Ukrainian in this case.

[evghen]

Ukrainian language

Hello, dear developers,
Could you please add ukrainian language in your future game?
You have a huge army of fans in our country, and dispite of total war with russian pharaoh we need to have a relax with high-level PC entertainment like your game.

Thanks a lot, guys, for all you have done for us.

[Dmytro Joestarovych]

Ukrainian localization

Hello, dear devs.

I’m a big fan of Total War Series and play a lot of hours in your games. You have huge fan base in Ukraine. So it would be great if you add Ukrainian translation (text) in your game.

[Inquerion]

When asking localization questions you need to answer to yourself:
- How many of my people would buy this game?

SEGA likely did the same and calculated, that for few thousand Ukrainian buyers it's not worth to spend tens of thousands of $ for localization (it's very expensive these days, especially voices). Unfortunately, piracy is widespread in Ukraine and many people from your "huge fan base in Ukraine" likely pirated their games or bought their games on huge sales which means a loss of profit for publisher.

Also, gaming market in Ukraine is just too small.
Too few people in Ukraine buy games and Total War titles especially.

Another point, is that most of your people (that stay away from politics and just want to play games) likely have no problem playing popular games in Russian. Russian gaming market is several times bigger than Ukrainian market since players from countries like Kazakhstan also play in Russian.

I don't want to sound disrespectful or anything, I just wanted to explain to you how all of this works.

Good luck to you, I hope that this war will end soon. Stay safe.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Johnny Joestar:

Hello, dear devs.

I’m a big fan of Total War Series and play a lot of hours in your games. You have huge fan base in Ukraine. So it would be great if you add Ukrainian translation (text) in your game.

No.

Stop begging with every new release. Your English is good enough. Use it.

[yukarichi]

Please add Ukrainian language. It is important for Ukrainians to see their native language in games. I and many other Ukrainians buy games, not pirate them. So don't pay attention to Inquerion's post, because it's an outright lie.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Originally posted by Inquerion:

When asking localization questions you need to answer to yourself:
- How many of my people would buy this game?

SEGA likely did the same and calculated, that for few thousand Ukrainian buyers it's not worth to spend tens of thousands of $ for localization (it's very expensive these days, especially voices). Unfortunately, piracy is widespread in Ukraine and many people from your "huge fan base in Ukraine" likely pirated their games or bought their games on huge sales which means a loss of profit for publisher.

Also, gaming market in Ukraine is just too small.
Too few people in Ukraine buy games and Total War titles especially.

Another point, is that most of your people (that stay away from politics and just want to play games) likely have no problem playing popular games in Russian. Russian gaming market is several times bigger than Ukrainian market since players from countries like Kazakhstan also play in Russian.

I don't want to sound disrespectful or anything, I just wanted to explain to you how all of this works.

Good luck to you, I hope that this war will end soon. Stay safe.

Sure, but there's no Russian localization anymore.

[SleepyHead <3]

use the russian one

[Spartan.117]

so its an outright lie that you have a huge fanbase because thats not true how you still having fun while other of your country get to fight in the war? your country is getting invaded and you think its more important having a translation ? really?

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Spartan.117:

so its an outright lie that you have a huge fanbase because thats not true how you still having fun while other of your country get to fight in the war? your country is getting invaded and you think its more important having a translation ? really?

For a country with 45million people, only 240million US$ is projected to be spend on games in 2023. That indeed isn't a very fruitfull market https://www.statista.com/outlook/dmo/digital-media/video-games/ukraine

To provide a contrast. Netherlands with 19million people has a projected 1,633.00million US$ to in 2023. https://www.statista.com/outlook/dmo/digital-media/video-games/netherlands

[SleepyHead <3]

Originally posted by Spartan.117:

so its an outright lie that you have a huge fanbase because thats not true how you still having fun while other of your country get to fight in the war? your country is getting invaded and you think its more important having a translation ? really?

Once total war get localized Putin will be forced to end the war ;^)

[Terchi]

Please add Ukrainian language.

[Inquerion]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

Originally posted by Inquerion:

When asking localization questions you need to answer to yourself:
- How many of my people would buy this game?

SEGA likely did the same and calculated, that for few thousand Ukrainian buyers it's not worth to spend tens of thousands of $ for localization (it's very expensive these days, especially voices). Unfortunately, piracy is widespread in Ukraine and many people from your "huge fan base in Ukraine" likely pirated their games or bought their games on huge sales which means a loss of profit for publisher.

Also, gaming market in Ukraine is just too small.
Too few people in Ukraine buy games and Total War titles especially.

Another point, is that most of your people (that stay away from politics and just want to play games) likely have no problem playing popular games in Russian. Russian gaming market is several times bigger than Ukrainian market since players from countries like Kazakhstan also play in Russian.

I don't want to sound disrespectful or anything, I just wanted to explain to you how all of this works.

Good luck to you, I hope that this war will end soon. Stay safe.

Sure, but there's no Russian localization anymore.

You are right, I'm suprised...

"Text and subtitles will be available in: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Polish, Turkish, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Simplified & Traditional Chinese.
Full audio will be available in: English, German and Mandarin.
Partial audio will be available in: French, Italian, Spanish and Polish (this is for the advisor only)."

In that case, I recommend English (lingua franca of Europe) or...Polish/Czech.

Similar languages/culture and many Ukrainians already know Polish. Czech is similar too.

I understand that learning Latin alphabet is the hardest part.

I had the same issue with learning Cyrillic, but once I did that (quite recently), I can understand ~50% (written; speaking is A LOT harder) Ukrainian, without ever learning this language.

[Leanora]

Originally posted by yukarichi:

Please add Ukrainian language. It is important for Ukrainians to see their native language in games. I and many other Ukrainians buy games, not pirate them. So don't pay attention to Inquerion's post, because it's an outright lie.

Originally posted by Paradox:

Please add Ukrainian language.

You haven't even played the previous games in the series.

[Phantombos]

Request. Please add Ukrainian localization to the game so that I can enjoy it to the fullest!

[Leanora]

Originally posted by Phantombos:

Request. Please add Ukrainian localization to the game so that I can enjoy it to the fullest!

Congrats you own Total War: SHOGUN 2 but seems like you dislike it so much that you never even played it.