Steam needs an auto translate button.

[Evolvei]

Be nice if everyone could understand what everyone else's viewpoint is without going through a bunch of hoops.

[potato]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/to-google-translate/

[Evolvei]

without going through a bunch of hoops.

[Pscht]

If that is "a bunch" for you, try learning the languages you are so interested in.

[d3str0y3r]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3951406499781404872/#c3951406499781521568

[Evolvei]

Originally posted by Pscht:

If that is "a bunch" for you, try learning the languages you are so interested in.

That would not solve the problem for everyone. The point is Steam tries to keep us in their UI.
If the UI had a translator would make it better for everyone using their UI.

This was not meant to be a PVP forum post, only a simple suggestion.

[potato]

Originally posted by Evolvei:

without going through a bunch of hoops.

it takes two clicks

[Pscht]

Originally posted by Evolvei:

The point is Steam tries to keep us in their UI.

Uh, no? I read the forums in a browser because the Steam client is less than optimal for anything besides installing and running games. Which means I can visit any site I want and install extensions.

[Evolvei]

I agree. That works fine if you use a browser instead of using Steams UI. Steam would still be better served to have a translator in their UI.

And I apologize, the link may help players that use a browser. I use Steam UI for access to whatever I want on Steam.

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by Evolvei:

I agree. That works fine if you use a browser instead of using Steams UI. Steam would still be better served to have a translator in their UI.

And I apologize, the link may help players that use a browser. I use Steam UI for access to whatever I want on Steam.

And I agree with you.
I use the Client only.
I do not log into Steam in a browser. Ever.
And having to either copy the page url and open it in a browser to translate it or copying the text and opening a browser to use a machine translator is a bit of a pain at times. I don't speak or read every language used on this planet, and I don't expect other people to only post in my native language. And not having a machine translator built into the Client makes helping people who are not posting in English a bit of a pain at times.
I'll still try to help people if I can, but am honestly less likely to if I have to jump through hoops to translate their posts, especially if the thread gets long. And it would help those people to be able to translate my English postings into their native language, or into a language they understand better than they understand "'Murican" English.

It's lovely that some folks here prefer to use a browser for Steam, but not everyone does. This would be a useful option, and options are good.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by d3str0y3r:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3951406499781404872/#c3951406499781521568

Adding the post as a quote just so they see it cause since they didn't bother to search we know they won't bother to go read the link to see what it says. :)

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

As mentioned in many other threads on this topic, Valve can't even get spell check right so getting translations working is pretty much impossible.

Also using a 3rd party to do the translating would be very expensive. There are over 25 million active accounts each day, 140 million each month and over 1 billion in total. There would be something like 100 different languages it would need to do.

A few of the last threads about this topic...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3815166265399439337/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/5330625727558269230/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3801649759591523843/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/6516193260179802688/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/6516193260165338259/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3841053085036758895/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3821909708348138768/

[Evolvei]

I did check the link. Doesn't hurt for the same problem to keep coming up in case anyone from steam actually reads the suggestions and the assumption that it would be too expensive is, well, how much profit has Steam made in the last 5 years?

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Evolvei:

I did check the link. Doesn't hurt for the same problem to keep coming up in case anyone from steam actually reads the suggestions and the assumption that it would be too expensive is, well, how much profit has Steam made in the last 5 years?

Doesn't matter how much profit Valve makes from Steam. If Valve did every single suggestion that people made, just because those people say its a good idea, they would not be making any profit at all.

Also with everything Valve supports behind the scenes already, it costs a lot of money, they pay for a lot of servers all around the world and all the info on those servers need to be on every other server so thats a lot of drive space and physical space and they all have very large net connections to them.

None of us actually know how much actual profit they make, being a private company they don't have to say anything publicly.

I also recently learned that Valve itself still only consists of about 300 to 350 people total. (this does not include support or any other 3rd party hided for stuff).

Google has thousands of people just working on translation software and all the languages they support (133+ I think it is)

Google is also dedicated into information tech, so doing translations helps them gather more information. Valve is a dedicated gaming, more specifically selling games on a store. Not even close to the same thing as being dedicated to information tech like Google. Just because you can program a store, or a game doesn't mean you could easily just program something to do translations.

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Also using a 3rd party to do the translating would be very expensive. There are over 25 million active accounts each day, 140 million each month and over 1 billion in total. There would be something like 100 different languages it would need to do.

And Steam already has built-in translations for the entire Client. Steam Settings > Interface > Steam Client Language. Not in every language used across the globe, but they can use the already supported language localizations built into the Client .
The Steam Translation Servers project is long over, IIRC, but there are languages other than English already automatically translated Client-wide. The problem is- you have to change the settings and restart the client to apply it, and it changes the entire Client, not just a selected post or thread.
It already exists. It just does not exist for single posts or threads. And while it would not be "free" or "easy", it could very well be added as an on-the-fly function the same way other browsers use machine translation services. Just- someone needs to start writing the code into the Client (which is a browser) to make it work. They would not need to pay for human translators to translate each requested post translation on demand.

[Evolvei]

And it is based on Chromium already. May possibly make the translation addition easier.

Since a lot of posts are in English this could possibly make other language gamers feel more welcome in Steam since everyone could converse with them much easier.

[captaincofresi]

I agree, Steam (when using the native Windows app and not a browser) does need an auto translate button OR a way to disable comments on forums other than your set primary language.

At the moment I am stopping to read Game Discussions Forums because there is way too much 'noise' for me due to loads of foreign lagnuage posts that I do not understand (so not in English that is).