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对于全球玩家

Aug 15, 2010 TANSHUAI link
我认为,对于全球玩家来说,为什么不推出中文版本呢??
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Aug 15, 2010 Maalik link
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Aug 15, 2010 FiReMaGe link
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Chinese Simplified, Recoded:
对于全球玩家

我认为,对于全球玩家来说,为什么不推出中文版本呢??


Google Translated:
For global players

I think that the global players, why not launch the Chinese version??


This isn't official word, but I believe there currently aren't enough resources to internationalize the game. The developers are full with other duties. The game may be in English and a little slow, but you're still able to play from across the globe.
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Aug 15, 2010 ryan reign link
1,324,655,000 potential new players?

+ A lot.
Aug 15, 2010 davejohn link
Well , thats 4 chat channels each. Aye, go for it .....
Aug 15, 2010 Alloh link
Internationalization have been asked many times.

If we had the all strings kept in an external file, and a simple language preference tag for client, it would be quite trivial to have community-provided translations.
Aug 16, 2010 look... no hands link
alloh, let me show you the problem with automated translations from english to chinese or vice versa.

http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html
Aug 16, 2010 Ghost link
With the android stuff going down, just take your smartphone to China. Bam, international version.
Aug 17, 2010 incarnate link
There was actually a PCC project to at least get a basic user guide translated to multiple languages.

Internationalization on the entire game is a big undertaking, mostly because we would have to redo how we render fonts and things. Worth doing, and on our list, but not like.. our biggest, most current priority.

It would be awesome if we could at least get the multi-lingual user guide though.
Aug 17, 2010 Alloh link
@Inc:
Any chance that you publish the basic user guide texts in PCC forum posts, OR the Community area, so native players provide a translation, and once cross-checked by another native, they make at least the website?

I do Portughese translation, and can revise spanish.

@LNH: I never thought of auto-translations of any kind.
Maybe only for a final cross-check, after revised...
Aug 17, 2010 incarnate link
Alloh: The project to make the user guide was also a PCC thing, and has seemingly died out. We don't have an up-to-date user guide to offer for translation. I would really like one, some kind of basic "quick start guide" that's maybe only a few pages of data, but well-written with good screenshot illustrations. Something to provide a basic introduction and help the new user get grounded in the game more quickly. Perhaps answering common newbie questions within (not as a FAQ style, but just written to cover some of those topics as well).

Every so often someone seems to start a PCC project to do this, or to update the manual, or something similar. We'd really love to see this happen, but the projects always seem to die on the vine after a few weeks.
Aug 17, 2010 Alloh link
Ok, should we put it outside PCC, like in "Community Projects"?
Maybe trolls won't ruin it. Maybe that nigerian email asking my bank account to deposit some money is true...

Inc, can you publish the tutorial missions' texts somewhere?

So, instead of a (to do) user guide, we could have localized web pages with "mission log" translations working as a "quick start guide", since all skills required are already written there (done).

We also had Translators Offers in PCC. Maybe a Wiki would be a perfect tool for this project...