Guild Wars 2

- sorry, 4 my english -

I’m just another italian player, askin’ for a localization, cause even if all of u can understand english/spanish/whatever pretty well, english is troublin’ sometimes for me. And if for me is troublin, for all my friends is unaccettable in 2015 don’t have an Italian Localization, while even World of Warcraft has done it. I honestly can’t blame them, when i try to invite them in gw2 and they just answer me “sorry dude, but i prefer to play something that i can fully enjoy”. Now, i can understand that a service like this has a cost (i’d pay 5k gems if needed, but whatever…), and legal issues for a community doing it for free may be real (?), but when i played wow in TBC expansion pack, there was (there’s still tbh) a feature called “addon”, and thanks to this feature players were able to customize the UI. One of my favourite addons was the Italian translation…. Why gw2 can’t do something like this?

I can read english, but i can’t enjoy it!
Sorry, but this is true: i hate listening npcs speaking a language that i can barely understand… it’s more a disturbing sound, than a voice… And a lot of other italians (or at least all my friends) think the same as i do. They all say to me the same thing: “Gw2 has a cool graphic, a nice gameplay, and interesting features, but i prefer to play something that i can fully enjoy”…
It’s not all about ignorance…

It would be interesting to remove the other localizations and just leave the “english” language, and see the drop of players in a month or 2. Not because no one can understand Magg saying “We need to cross magmafield to find Magmacyte” but because is another game experience to listen “Dobbiamo attraversare il campo di lava per trovare la Magmacite”.

Don’t just imagine… try it. Play a Black Temple (wow) in english language, and play it in italian, and then tell me. It’s not about defeating a boss and dropping its legendary dagger. It’s an adventure, a final dungeon, a piece of story…

Once more, sorry 4 my english, but it’s not my native language, perchè nella mia quotidianità, nel mio lavoro, e nelle mie relazioni sociali viene richiesta semplicemente una buona conoscenza dell’italiano, e se conosco due tre cose di inglese, è per semplice cultura e fortuna personale.

GG.

I’m ok with my account name, and it’s ok for me to not change it. If i block a certain player, i don’t want that he evades somehow my block. What i don’t really like is to display that to other players. I mean, if i’m playing with Randomcharactername, i want they can clearly see it that name, and don’t call me with my account name.

If i’m in a random group, the first name displayed is my account name, instead of the character name! It’s ok for me if other players want to know my acco name, but i want that the first name they see, is my character name.

Also I’d like that my account’s name could be visible only by my friends (in Friend list)… maybe guild members too, maybe…

Sorry for the bump

lordkrall.7241:

Translating a game takes time and a rather large amount of money (especially since it would most likely also require voiced lines to be translated), and as such spending said money (and hiring new employees for that very purpose (since they release new stuff all the time they would need constant translations)) might not really be valid unless they can guarantee that they will earn more than it will cost.
Which is extremely unlikely.

Even if the italian population of GW2 would double, that is most likely still not enough money to actually earn more than it would cost.

I don’t really agree with this. Personally speaking, my friends left this game and joined WoW (and other mmos) due to the language. I don’t think that translatin’ only subtitles and items would have that great cost (and there’s a whole italian community that would do that for FREE). I love Gw2 and i can understand a few of the english language, but sometimes, when i see my friends in dungeons in their mmos, i really envy them when npcs can be fully understood.
Think of yourself playing a beautiful game (awesome graphics, mechanics etc) in Korean. Even if it’s the best game in the world, i think that u would leave it after a week or 2 for another game (inferior) with a language that u can easily understand.

Sorry if i bump this topic, but i think that this argument deserves more attention.