Guild Wars 2

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

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Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Profeus.9034:

https://newzoo.com/insights/rankings/top-100-countries-by-game-revenues/

So all things being equal, if ANet was going to translate into another language for the potential revenue, Japanese would be a far, far better first choice.

The translations are not/would be excluding, even there is the possibility of the two languages receive translation, the question is: Why not?

Because it’s enormously expensive and it slows down development. To change a simple item description, such as “this item is only used for collections” to “this item may be safely sold after unlocking the collection” currently requires translations into five more languages from the original English. Adding two more means hiring another set of people to translate and fixing text bugs or adding skills means waiting for them to finish their work queue.

If it were free to translate, of course they would do it. Since it costs time & resources, there has to be a good business reason. The evidence suggests that this is among many good ideas for which the costs outweigh the benefits.

I agree but… a translation would be “enormously expensive and it slows down development” but the subtitles would not have that absurd impact you describe. And it has very positive feedback from the community, after all, who does not like to have their community valued?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Profeus.9034:

https://newzoo.com/insights/rankings/top-100-countries-by-game-revenues/

So all things being equal, if ANet was going to translate into another language for the potential revenue, Japanese would be a far, far better first choice.

The translations are not/would be excluding, even there is the possibility of the two languages receive translation, the question is: Why not?

It would be really cool if we could have the game translated, either with the help of the community or at the initiative of the arena.net itself. It would certainly further excite existing players and new ones that are to come yet.