In discussions, implement an automatic translator from different languages.

[Cosmo]

In discussions, implement an automatic translator from different languages.

[CANCELCULTURE]

implement translation everywhere, it seems some Steam user reviews sections, there are way more abusive and vulgar reviews being left that, Valve and other users ignore, simply because they can't read them

translations in chat rooms too, so it's easier to read and keep up with those that spread propaganda, hate, in their native languages.

[HikariLight]

Do you know that translators for business use are extremely expensive?
Why add an expensive thing when users can search up the free version themselves?

[Cosmo]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Do you know that translators for business use are extremely expensive?
Why add an expensive thing when users can search up the free version themselves?

Suppose you enter in game discussions - “X” - “Textures lag” and look for mentions and solutions to the problem, but only within the framework of your language. What about Portuguese, Polish, German, Chinese?

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by CS 22:

In discussions, implement an automatic translator from different languages.

Originally posted by CS 22:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Do you know that translators for business use are extremely expensive?
Why add an expensive thing when users can search up the free version themselves?

Suppose you enter in game discussions - “X” - “Textures lag” and look for mentions and solutions to the problem, but only within the framework of your language. What about Portuguese, Polish, German, Chinese?

As mentioned in MANY other threads on this topic....

Valve can't even get spell check right, what makes you think they could get something FAR more complicated like translations to work properly? Google can't even do them well, and they have thousands of people working on it for the past 2 decades. They are also an information tech company, meaning that translation is right up their ally.

Valve is a gaming company which has a total of 350 people, most of which do not work on Steam itself. They certainly do no have enough people to properly work on something like this. Also unlike google, no one is actually tasked with working on stuff. At Valve, they can literally wander around and move their desks to work on what ever they feel like working on at the time.

Paying another company like google to do the translations for them would be VERY expensive. They would need to translate 100+ different languages, into 100+ other languages. For one person big deal... but they have 25+ million active accounts a day, 140+ million a month, over 1 billion accounts in total. That would get very expensive quickly.

Are you going to pay a monthly fee to get stuff translated? I know I wouldn't. I doubt many would.


Want to make things easier on yourself, view the forums with a real browser and use a translation addon to translate when you need to. I personally only ever use the actual steam client for installing/uninstalling/launching games and maybe a couple other things that a real browser can't do.

[Satoru]

Note translation costs an ASTRONOMICAL amount of money. Its built in to Chrome only because Google pays for it

If Steam wants to integrate translation, they'd be paying literally millions of dollars a day to do it.