安装 Steam
登录
|
语言
繁體中文（繁体中文）
日本語（日语）
한국어（韩语）
ไทย（泰语）
български（保加利亚语）
Čeština（捷克语）
Dansk（丹麦语）
Deutsch（德语）
English（英语）
Español-España（西班牙语 - 西班牙）
Español - Latinoamérica（西班牙语 - 拉丁美洲）
Ελληνικά（希腊语）
Français（法语）
Italiano（意大利语）
Bahasa Indonesia（印度尼西亚语）
Magyar（匈牙利语）
Nederlands（荷兰语）
Norsk（挪威语）
Polski（波兰语）
Português（葡萄牙语 - 葡萄牙）
Português-Brasil（葡萄牙语 - 巴西）
Română（罗马尼亚语）
Русский（俄语）
Suomi（芬兰语）
Svenska（瑞典语）
Türkçe（土耳其语）
Tiếng Việt（越南语）
Українська（乌克兰语）
报告翻译问题
讨论规则及指引
举报此帖
English is the current Lingua Franca, but with how the world's economy is going, it's going to end up being Mandarin or some other Asian language. The only reason why English is the Lingua Franca of the world is because the US used to be the trade powerhouse of the world. Now that we're done with exporting jobs, and exporting war isn't paying the bills anymore... our economy is tanking. So English's days as the Lingua Franca are numbered.
Its also the largest user group on Steam.
Contrary to popular belief English or the United States are not the center of the world, not even in gaming.
Also no developer has to make games for the English speaking market, they are free to only make games in Chinese, Japanese or whatever language they want.
Steam is a international service.
Edit: thx for the free points. I know, the truth hurts your ego. :P
Edit: Changed my wording a bit to correct its meaning.
And former british colonies.
日本語を習っています. 日本語を話せるようになりたいです.
Learning Japanese is extremely rewarding and fun. I would love to be able to play some of my favorite games in their native Japanese.
Fixed that for you
Yeah, I got my wording wrong in my initial post as that wasn't what I was driving at. Apologies.
Answer to your question is not English is not a world language, its one of hundreds existing lexicons which in of itself holds about 18 sub-English codexs with the United States English being one of those and another such as English China SAR which is used for international machines, in all reality English is not one of the most global languages out there, its not by any means small but there's about 30ish sub-codexes of Spanish which topples the number of English but that also said is that it frankly is just how it is.
Some games were not meant to be played by the English speaking audience and visa versa, some games were not meant for those that didn't speak English either, its nothing more then a simple oversight in most cases (and in the ones its not is a situation that I will not get into as its not a fun history lesson)
Translators are expensive to hire- other games use Steam Workshop to allow players to translate the game into other languages until they could afford to hire professional translators.
The Long Dark was one of these games- when it first released in Early Access, the studio was small and could not afford to hire a professional translation team, so players translated the game through the Workshop, and many of those translation mods still exist- and a few of them are funny "slang" language localizations. The Aussie slang language localization is a hoot.
Because, in the case of Japanese (at least), 99.1% of the people those games are aimed at don't speak English. Steam is an international store, they sell worldwide. You are not the target audience for every single game available and English language support isn't and never will be mandatory.
Same reason English only games are allowed on Steam. They payed the Steam Direct fee. There are no language requirements for entry to Steam. If developer/publisher wants to sell their games only to Chinese or Japanese speaking audiences, Valve is perfectly fine with it.