Guild Wars 2

hi all!
How Arenanet has not in considered translation of the game in other languages?
Insert subtitles is not excessively expensive.
Many people do not play this beautiful game, because they know little English and are afraid of the idea of a game where they would understand little or no English.
More people are spanish, italian or portughese ( good part of Latin america).
A translation with subtitles attracts many player and, besides, relaunches the game.

In alternative Arenanet can furnish the language file we make free an amateur translation (as done in other games online).

It’s to do with the cost of doing the voice over. A Spanish version would be very odd if the text was spanish but the voices were still english

Spanish is already an option. (Along with English, French and German.)

They’ve been asked before about translating it into Italian and have said there’s not enough of a market to justify the cost (how they work that out I don’t know, I’ve never seen the details). I assume the same is true of Portuguese.

Azrael.4960:

It’s to do with the cost of doing the voice over. A Spanish version would be very odd if the text was spanish but the voices were still english

Not necesarely. People in latin america (at least) are used to watch movies subtitled, it woudln’t really be any shock to have spanish text with english voiceovers. Actually, I’d say that other than family oriented or animated movies, most of the movies that come to latinamerica on movie theaters are subtitled.

Anet decided to keep a standard of making text and voice over for every supported language.
GW2 have support for english, spanish, french and german besides the chinese client.
Maybe the game is not even prepared to have a different text/dialogue file from the voice over files, so just make sub-titles isn’t as simple as you imagine.
Besides all that, the languages that aren’t already in the game represent a very small market individually, so financially it may not seem a good option to invest time and resources.

Guild Wars 2 already supports text and voice-over for English, French and German. It also support text (but not voice-over) for Spanish.

And, of course, the new Chinese client.

So, yay! Part of your suggestion/wish-list has already been implemented! =)

We don’t ask a lot. We are satisfied with the subtitles.