Translations are stretch goals? lol
For all I know, it's actually better.There appears to be a dwarf sidekick, but sidekick doesn't qualify as "proper companion" either.
Translations are stretch goals? lol
Professional translations of a text heavy game are insanely expensive.
Since Pillars of Eternity is a very Eurocentric game
Translations are stretch goals? lol
I'm honestly curious how they will handle Korean and Chinese translation, they're quite ballsy to promise them.
Since Pillars of Eternity is a very Eurocentric game and Obsidian has a very modest budget, I think the translation would probably be as awkward as Tales of Wuxia, in which idioms and figure of speech would be translated as literally as possible lol.
I'm honestly curious how they will handle Korean and Chinese translation, they're quite ballsy to promise them.
Since Pillars of Eternity is a very Eurocentric game and Obsidian has a very modest budget, I think the translation would probably be as awkward as Tales of Wuxia, in which idioms and figure of speech would be translated as literally as possible lol.
Argument: The Pillars of Eternity series is biased against dwarves. Neither game has a proper dwarf companion.
Counterpoint: By not providing such a companion, the games are implicitly encouraging players to play as a dwarf themselves.
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But it gets people who speak those languages to invest in the KS, whether it makes logical sense or not. And if you do one language as a stretch goal, you kinda have to do them all.Translations cost money, but turning them into kickstarter goals is pretty stupid imo. If the translation will push enough copies to pay for itself, Obsidian can fork over the money themselves. If it won't, you're wasting backer money on something that an infinitesimal minority of players will ever get to see.
Can't speak for Spanish and Portoguese people, but while it's true that Italians generally are not very proficient in English, games like PoE are of interest only to a niche of gamers, and they had to learn English to pursue their hobby since a lot of not-mainstream RPGs are not translated (both new games like Shadowruns, Tyranny or D:OS2, and old ones such as Planescape: Torment and Fallout which weren't translated in our language at release).Lot of spanish, italians and portoguese don't even know what english is.
Can't speak for Spanish and Portoguese people, but while it's true that Italians generally are not very proficient in English, games like PoE are of interest only to a niche of gamers, and they had to learn English to pursue their hobby since a lot of not-mainstream RPGs are not translated (both new games like Shadowruns, Tyranny or D:OS2, and old ones such as Planescape: Torment and Fallout which weren't translated in our language at release).Lot of spanish, italians and portoguese don't even know what english is.
Now, of course if the new Uncharted or Assassin's Creed is not translated in Italian that would have a big effect on sales, but for a game like PoE? I don't really think it would.
Just FYI, D:OS2 was almost review-bombed by Russians because it lacked a Russian translation on release. It got it a week later and they were ready to explode.Translations cost money, but turning them into kickstarter goals is pretty stupid imo. If the translation will push enough copies to pay for itself, Obsidian can fork over the money themselves. If it won't, you're wasting backer money on something that an infinitesimal minority of players will ever get to see.
Especially to Russians who have somewhere among the worst rates of knowledge of foreign languages in the world.Just FYI, D:OS2 was almost review-bombed by Russians because it lacked a Russian translation on release. It got it a week later and they were ready to explode.Translations cost money, but turning them into kickstarter goals is pretty stupid imo. If the translation will push enough copies to pay for itself, Obsidian can fork over the money themselves. If it won't, you're wasting backer money on something that an infinitesimal minority of players will ever get to see.
Translations are apparently really important for some people..