What news about Russian Localization?
I don’t think anything changed: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/How-about-Russian-language/
I would like to have support for Cyrillic in chat and mail, though. Chatting with Russian friends who’re not that good in English via transliteration is so frustrating that it’s easier not to write anything at all. But I also see problems with it, since many Russian players are into offensive talk and there won’t be anyone who can “decipher” this stuff on ANet’s part if anything’s reported.
It might be not coming at all, like ever. They should consider the market etc. Russian market is quiet big, i believe, but it have it’s features, like Korean MMO’s were quiet strong there since the Lineage 2 times etc. And GW1 never was a thing there, it was somewhat popular i think, but died out faster than in Europe. There’s AA there right now, WoW traditionally strong, Tera release soon. So i dunno really how much people GW2 could attract there right now. Russian community used to be somewhat big in GW2, but since then a lot of guilds and people left.
A big portion of localization would have to be hiring people to work on that and to GM that for tickets, reports, etc. I have seen no word on whether they will or they won’t, but I do wish you luck.
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