I dont think you know how the game switches languages. Typically every language represents different resource file and the game just loads up the one you have chosen.
So, the only work you have to do, to create a new language is to create a new resource file for it. That means copy paste the english one and just translate everything in there.
Team of translators should be able to do it in month or so, depending on how many of them would you hire. No matter what, it would not cost you milions of dollars as you think it would.
The problem of new languages is deep in the Blizzard intern policy. Due to its own rules, they can add a new language only if they add official support for it too. And thats whats the deal break here. Because that costs a lotā¦
Blizzard should abolish that stupid rule asap, because we dont need support in the language of the game.
Translation costs are not cheap. Dottie is correct. Even without the support aspect.
Itās not like you can just run it through google translate and copy paste. You need human beings who understands both languages to translate it all into coherent sentences to convey the same meaning.
Mate, if you read my post, there is nothing about google translator. As i have said, they would need a whole team of professional translators to do that.
WoW is extremely big game with tons of text and voice lines, It would take time to make it properly, but even if they spent lets say a year on it, the cost would still not be as high as you think it would. As I have googled now, typical translator takes about 27 000 euros per year. Create the team of 20 and you are at about 600 000 euros. Whats that for company like blizzard ? Nothing.
Plus you can hire good local translators from the country you want to translate to. They will take less money than the ones in the US or similar western countries.
Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian is not my language + I prefer English anyway. But my friends donāt speak English, they are not in school anymore and they donāt want to take time to learn it.
And I also know many kids, struggling with English and have no idea what anything means in wow.
Can you answer me how you came to the conclusion? - I did not make it up, it is the result of my ālogicalā thinking. It seemed logical to me that WoW would get more players, if there would be more language possibilities. Guess I was wrong. But as I can see from all the replies - cost is sadly too much and even many people would rather keep it in English. So I came to a different conclusion now = that it is not worth it for (so it seems) only 100 people.
The cost is not the main problem, Its really just about the Blizzard intern policy. For example W3 has nice Czech dubbing that everyone loves, because Its one of the rare cases, when its actually better than the original English one.
Blizzard has rights to use it, but they removed it because they dont have support team for us.
Isnt it great to learn foreign language, by playing the game. It was my motivation to play the WoW. We started to learn english when i was 14 in my country. Only some people were able to say something in foreign languages (except the russian, czech) until 1989.
You write nonsense. Almost every major AAA game has a lot of language support and you want to tell me that a game that costs a lot of money (the same as other AAA games) canāt have it? Nonsense.
I did not say you suggested google translator. I merely made the comparison that itās not like running it through a translation tool. To pay for that kind of service is not cheap.
I also very much doubt they will use a translator based in another country. I canāt speak for Blizzard but any company Iāve worked for that had translation work done used a reputable company in the same country as they are based. It means any contractual issues are sorted easily.
You expect a company that funded itās e-sports prize pool via the sales of an in game toy to invest in a minority of the playerbase. I just donāt think thatās realistic. Blizzard is putting all itās money into game development. It wasnāt that long ago they let a load of staff go and some of that is still going on.
You are free to demonstrate all the triple AAA MMOs out there that offer Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and Albanian language support.
itās not about mmo games, but about the price of the game itself,also include the monthly subscription per year. This is a lot of money, our money, we pay for it.
For example, hots, diablo 3, hs and any other games from Blizzard is translated into my language BUT wow not.
MMOs by nature have far more material in them that would need translating. It doensāt compare to non MMOs where there isnāt huge interaction, no big loads of quest text, npc lines, player lines.
Some games all that needs to be translated is some menus, a few npcs standard lines and little else it then no itās not a lot of work and a lot less cost. MMOs arenāt like that. They are story driven.
The choice of languages in WoW is not random. These are the most spoken languages in the world=> you get as much players as possible.
No game has Slovenian, Albanian language tbh. The reason? Not because they donāt like it. Its all about mass user. Slovenian, Albanian and Bulgarian are not that widely-spread languages as English or Spanish. Therefore its not profitable for any companies to localize their games into these laguages.
I can uderstand that desire to see the game in your own language but its commercial unseccessful and useless for a big company. Not worth all the effort and money.
Had a nice laugh when I read this. My first thought was this and I love it. I would support this just so I can laugh every time I read āBljeÅ”tavo ljeÄenjeā lmfao.
I was talking about only one language that most people from all those countries would understand. Not for each one of them, but for all of them together. They would just have to use the language that was most common in ex-Yugoslavia.
