No Japanese language?

[kinginora]

add japanese language plz

[Remosu37]

+1. Japanese support would be fantastic. Even the ability to display just the names of character's in traditional Chinese (only) would be cool.

As a Japanese American fan of Rot3K, I know the character as 関羽、not Guan Yu, but I can't otherwise read Chinese.

[rincewind]

We have already a delay, you want it to be delayed more?
Japanese language would cost way too many Charlemagnes! Waaaay to many!

[kinginora]

a lot of japanese like romance of three kingdoms Ca Should add japanese language we r hard to make japanese launguage mod everytime in Tw series

[Remosu37]

Localization teams are teams of translators that have nothing to do with people who work on the guts of the game. Localization towards another language would have zero impact on the game's release date (and additional localizations are added to games after they release all the time).

It's literally the matter of a few additional lines of code plus writing a check to a localization company the work is outsourced to.

[Too Much Salt]

It really depends on the size of the playerbase. If memory serves me right, TWW did not have mandarin when first release but chinese players made a sizable chunk of their playerbase which CA later on did add support for mandarin.

If Three Kingdoms is popular in Japan, I am sure CA would be happy to tap that market and add Japanese language support. Thing is, PC gaming in Japan is negligible.

[Remosu37]

It's fair to say Japan had a pretty small PC gaming scene. But despite CA not announcing a Japanese versiom, the game has gotten some coverage in Japanese gaming media, mostly because Japanese people love Rot3K almost as much as the Chinese.

Expressions from the novel like "you can't capture a tiger pup without entering the tiger's lair" or "boiling beans by burning beanstalks" are part of our common lexicon.

It doesn't cost THAT much to localize a game, particularly a game that's not as text heavy as an RPG or visual novel. So I'd be surprised if it didn't pay for iteslef.

[猿神擁躉]

I'm 100% support for adding Japanese language support, I know our Japanese brethren also like RoTK as much as we Chinese do, just like Koreans, Vietnamese...etc.
But TW Shoguns didn't have Japanese support neither(and it still doesn't), which are the games directly set in Japan, I'm sure you already know it. SEGA even puts regional lock on Shogun 2 in Japan and SEGA is Japanese company. It really depends on how large the player base in your region and the profits the company forecasts. I think you might have higher chance if you send your request to SEGA directly, CA has to follow SEGA's policy(and funds) on the publishing matter.

[Dragoon]

Ironically, Shogun 2 wasn't even released in Japan and didn't get Japanese language support right?

[shane83185s]

I would love to set the subs as Chinese but with the guys speaking Japanese
it will be great if the sub and the speaking setting is separate

[Darth Alpharius]

there could be Japanese sub/dub because you can have it in mandarin dub.

[[HAN]falcofyc]

Originally posted by shane83185s:

I would love to set the subs as Chinese but with the guys speaking Japanese
it will be great if the sub and the speaking setting is separate

I think Japanese can understand Chinese, partially

[[BR1] Dark Sota]

They will add it later most likely or it will be modded in.

[kinginora]

yet dont add JP langu?

[Tak]

It is indeed weird how there isnt japanese sub, it has to do with something on SEGA

Weird thing is even Shogun 2 don't have Japanese language, so for now bear with English. Shogun 2 had some japanese players who made Japanese language mod. And it seems PC gaming in Japan is too low as everything is console

I also hope there will be japanese sub, as Three Kingdoms is pretty big in Japan

Kohime Musou, ROTK 1-13 etc

[Tak]

Sad thing is there is also 0 videos about Three Kingdoms Total War in any Japanese channels, meaning none of the Japanese players know about this game, only very few