Translating whole game?
ZephyrZodiac:
Really, they are missing out on a lot of untapped market potential! They support Rumanian - now I'm sure the population of Latvia or Lithuania is around the same size, so why support one and not the other? Or have they just not realised that those three countries exist, because having thrown off the yoke of the soviet they just got on with organising their countries quietly by themselves without having to be sorted out by outsiders? Not even requests for financial aid that I can remember....(or do they just not have anyone who speaks those languages working for them?)
Quinctia:
Huh, I could've sworn there were at least a couple of letters that looked non-Roman on some of the cards and postage I've seen, but maybe I was mistaking stylized fonts, since they were in a foreign language. (Okay, I wikipedia-ed it...there are twelve written vowels, which is seven more than the original roman alphabet, and this, plus the markings over some of the consonants, just made me think "other alphabet" instead of extra characters. Whoops.)
I know Estonian's a real pain in the butt (it's got about sixteen cases for the nouns, if I remember right), so I'm wondering if all the Baltic states just got kind shafted because of difficulty issues. Aren't the languages more related to each other than any other languages in Europe? There may be lots of people who could do translations from English there, but if EA Europe is in London...it'll be harder to find translators. As for Romanian, it's a Romance language, and it's related to French, Spanish, and Italian, so even if the population is smaller, it's related to more popular languages, and easier to learn. (...hmm...wiki tells me also that it's spoken by 24-28 million people, as opposed to Lithuanian's 4 million, so that's significantly more.)
ZephyrZodiac:
I suppose it is more, obviously, but they are both what might be considered at small in marketing terms - also the Baltic states generally have a wealthier and more educated population, I would think, than is true of the majority of the Balkans, which have mostly seen a great deal of problems in recent years. And people who can't afford computers can't play computer games....and yes, Rumanian is a Romance language, but unlike, say, the Nordic languages, they are not mutually comprehended, but very much separate.
broo:
Quote from: dizzy on 2007 September 14, 01:12:59
There are hundreds of languages they don't even attempt to support. Really, what they *should* do is just use a nice standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext type library and let people contribute translations.
That's a great idea! Sadly EA will never agree with it ::) I should try emailing them about my plans though.
Quote from: Quinctia on 2007 September 14, 01:55:34
Huh, I could've sworn there were at least a couple of letters that looked non-Roman on some of the cards and postage I've seen, but maybe I was mistaking stylized fonts, since they were in a foreign language. (Okay, I wikipedia-ed it...there are twelve written vowels, which is seven more than the original roman alphabet, and this, plus the markings over some of the consonants, just made me think "other alphabet" instead of extra characters. Whoops.)
It's OK, you didn't know ;)
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I know Estonian's a real pain in the butt (it's got about sixteen cases for the nouns, if I remember right), so I'm wondering if all the Baltic states just got kind shafted because of difficulty issues. Aren't the languages more related to each other than any other languages in Europe? There may be lots of people who could do translations from English there, but if EA Europe is in London...it'll be harder to find translators. As for Romanian, it's a Romance language, and it's related to French, Spanish, and Italian, so even if the population is smaller, it's related to more popular languages, and easier to learn. (...hmm...wiki tells me also that it's spoken by 24-28 million people, as opposed to Lithuanian's 4 million, so that's significantly more.)
I've never heard real estonian speaking so I don't know anything about Estonian language but Lithuanian and Latvian have some similarities.
And talking about London, London is full of Lithuanians ;D! Althought probably the most of them hardly even speak English. Or even write their own language without mistakes... ::) Anyway, I suppose there should be some well educated people as well (not everyone goes to Uk to work in fish factories, you know).
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 September 14, 02:11:51
I suppose it is more, obviously, but they are both what might be considered at small in marketing terms - also the Baltic states generally have a wealthier and more educated population, I would think, than is true of the majority of the Balkans, which have mostly seen a great deal of problems in recent years. And people who can't afford computers can't play computer games....
True.
ZephyrZodiac:
Not everybody who comes to the UK actually comes here to work! And goodness knows why they want to come to a country which has one of the highest costs of living and the worst weather in the world is beyond me!
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