Russian language. To be or not to be?

[hawkeyzo]

Dear developers, will there be a Russian translation in the game?

[transolar]

We do not currently plan to translate Rogue to Redemption into Russian, but it is a possibility in the future. As Steam prices for Russia are much lower than for other countries, we would have to sell a large number of extra units to justify the expense. We are looking into some other translations. If they work out, we will consider doing a Russian version of the game.

[Runa]

Justify the expense?
The translation into several languages should be in the initial budget, at least in the text games.

You make a game with passion, but you have not translated it into several languages. That is an incomplete game, and unfair. You have created it initially for a majority, but not for everyone.

[transolar]

Rune: Creating a game is the art of compromise. And no, our games were never "for everyone" - We have a small boutique audience of players who love to read, who enjoy puns, and who like our mix of adventure and RPG, and don't mind the slower pace of a turn-based non-action game. That's a pretty elite audience already.

Would I like the game to be available in Russian? Of course! Also in Korean, Japanese, and many other languages that we don't plan to support. But each translation costs about $15,000, money which we would have to borrow. The problem is that Hero-U has a *lot* of text, and translation prices are by the word.

A Russian translation is especially problematic because the Steam-recommended price in Russia is one-third of the price we charge in the U.S. and Western Europe. We would have to sell 5,000 extra units to Russian speakers just to break even on the translation costs. We only need to sell 2,000 (or fewer) extra units to justify other languages.

Instead, we've chosen to focus on our next game, Summer Daze at Hero-U. Or we could stop making games, which might be wiser - Lori and I could have bought a car and traveled around the world for much less than we personally spent on Rogue to Redemption.

[hirou]

Rest assured that you have fans in Russia who are not discouraged by this. Just bought this after heartful recommendation from a friend, and I'm charmed.

[dmitrijsatanic]

Too many games have only english language. Why if someone want to play those games they complaint about language instead of learning english??(

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just checked the demo version, everything works fine, glory to unity
use XUnity.AutoTranslator if you want to translate game for personal understand, the puns will be difficult to translate, cheers up