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Regardless of resources spent in translating the game, or at least supporting an unnoficial translation, ANet should see it as an investment, and not useless spending. From a brazillian point of view, it is know that even though english is becoming increasingly more common in the country, the vast majority of the population here has little to no education in a second language, unfortunately. Targetting such a big volume of players and making the game more accessible to a big portion of the community could encourage a big flow of new playes, hence new payers. With a new expansion on the way, alongside HoT, LS, gemstore, etc., the potential income from these new players could be more than enough to cover the spendings with translations (considering that we are talking about Brazil, a country with a huge population on an advanced digital inclusion proccess).
I think that discussing this and studying the scenario is very important, and if numbers prove that it is not that viable, going for a subtitle only translation is a great option and a good start, and even if that doesn’t happen, at least giving the brazillian community a green light for an unnoficial user translation initiative could possibly pave the way for other groups seeking accessibility, as we currently are.

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