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yasır Jan 12 @ 10:05am
Automatic Translation
A feature should be introduced to automatically translate things written in different languages ​​on Steam, such as game descriptions, game comments, community messages, into our own language.
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Ettanin Jan 12 @ 10:08am 
It costs companies 20$ per 1 million characters to translate text using either Google Translate or DeepL while it is free for you to do so yourself.

So, do it yourself.
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yasır Jan 12 @ 10:13am 
Dude, I don't want to deal with translating every game comment one by one. That's why I want Steam to bring an automatic feature. And these amounts are not too much for Steam
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William Shakesman Jan 12 @ 10:15am 
Twitter has always done it for free
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Yzal Jan 12 @ 10:19am 
No i don't want ♥♥♥♥ auto translated for me.
Last edited by Yzal; Jan 12 @ 10:24am
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76561198407601200 Jan 12 @ 10:36am 
Originally posted by yasır:
A feature should be introduced to automatically translate things written in different languages ​​on Steam, such as game descriptions, game comments, community messages, into our own language.
Right-click in browser > translate.
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Ettanin Jan 12 @ 11:05am 
Originally posted by yasır:
Dude, I don't want to deal with translating every game comment one by one. That's why I want Steam to bring an automatic feature. And these amounts are not too much for Steam
Steam's realtime CCU is 30 million people (MAU is probably even higher). 1% of that is 300k people. If each of these people open a page a second that has 1K characters in it (1k characters * 300k pageviews per second = 300 million characters per second which costs 6k USD per second), it will cost Valve 6K USD * 86400 seconds/day * 30 days = 15,552,000,000 USD a month.

Assuming they use caching and have a hitrate of 99.7% that's still 0.3% of pageviews that have to be translated fresh which is still roughly 46,656,000 USD a month.
Last edited by Ettanin; Jan 12 @ 11:14am
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William Shakesman Jan 12 @ 11:15am 
Originally posted by Ettanin:
Originally posted by yasır:
Dude, I don't want to deal with translating every game comment one by one. That's why I want Steam to bring an automatic feature. And these amounts are not too much for Steam
Steam's realtime CCU is 30 million people (MAU is probably even higher). 1% of that is 300k people. If each of these people open a page a second that has 1K characters in it (1k characters * 300k pageviews per second = 300 million characters per second which costs 6k USD per second), it will cost Valve 6K USD * 86400 seconds/day * 30 days = 15,552,000,000 USD a month.

Assuming they use caching and have a hitrate of 99.7% that's still 0.3% of pageviews that have to be translated which is still roughly 46,656,000 USD a month.
Wow. That's literally unbelievable. I wonder how much Twitter pays to do this for free.
Last edited by William Shakesman; Jan 12 @ 11:15am
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Nx Machina Jan 12 @ 11:38am 
Originally posted by William Shakesman:
Wow. That's literally unbelievable. I wonder how much Twitter pays to do this for free.

It is their built in translator hence why they pay zero.
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lecrie Jan 12 @ 11:49am 
nah dont want it
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Gwarsbane Jan 12 @ 2:32pm 
Originally posted by yasır:
A feature should be introduced to automatically translate things written in different languages ​​on Steam, such as game descriptions, game comments, community messages, into our own language.

It would be nice if people used the search feature and READ all the other threads on that topic....

Short version, Valve screwed up spell check, they can not do a translation themselves. They have around 350ish people that work for Valve, most of who do not work on Steam. Google, who is an information tech company, who has been working on translations for 20 years, who has thousands of people to dedicated to just that one project can't get translations right. 100+ different languages with 140+ million active accounts a month, 30+ million active accounts a day, over 1 billion accounts total that they have to get right, because one mistranslated and they get blamed for what went wrong.

Valve is also not going to pay for it because its very expensive for companies to buy the service from other companies and Valve makes nothing from it so its just a money sink. 100+ different languages with 140+ million active accounts a month, 30+ million active accounts a day, over 1 billion accounts total. Thats going to be expensive.

Use a real browser to do all the communicating and use a translation addon. That I think is the best you are going to get.

Long version, use the search feature and read the 100+ other threads on the topic.


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

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/7074686901648637713/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4362372646223474818/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4843149419124020052/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/5330625727558269230/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/1661194916749752531/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4511004055389905928/
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Tito Shivan Jan 12 @ 3:01pm 
Originally posted by Nx Machina:
It is their built in translator hence why they pay zero.
Please don't make Valve build their own language translator.
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76561197963519852 Jan 12 @ 4:12pm 
Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
Originally posted by Nx Machina:
It is their built in translator hence why they pay zero.
Please don't make Valve build their own language translator.
Why not?
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Tito Shivan Jan 12 @ 11:18pm 
Originally posted by 76561197963519852:
Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
Please don't make Valve build their own language translator.
Why not?
Just look at the media player they built for the Steam client.
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