Add Spanish to the language or subtitles PLEASEEE!!!

neferet3321

Hi, I speak spanish and a little of english but i'm not an expert and there's some linguistic expressions that i dont undertastand and it would be more easy to follow the story if i can just read some spanish things >.<

It is not my intention to offend anyone who speaks the English language or anything, I would just be simpler and I really like this game

Rohamad_Ali

Yes there is a huge Spanish speaking audience here and I have no idea why it was not included . So many in the world speak Spanish . It's really strange it's not here or a sub forum .

117Dios

I'm italian. I don't find any difficulty in understanding the game, besides some archaic words, but I have a lot of friends that like the game but are not so good in english. Some of them dropped it out of frustration because of it. I agree with OP. The game needs more languages. That will also lead to a bigger playerbase and higher revenues. I am fairly certain the population will have a significant increase if it goes through, and it is only a good thing for the game.

Rohamad_Ali

117Dios wrote: »

I'm italian. I don't find any difficulty in understanding the game, besides some archaic words, but I have a lot of friends that like the game but are not so good in english. Some of them dropped it out of frustration because of it. I agree with OP. The game needs more languages. That will also lead to a bigger playerbase and higher revenues. I am fairly certain the population will have a significant increase if it goes through, and it is only a good thing for the game.

Spanish is the second most common language in the world only just behind Chinese . English is 3rd most common . From a business perspective , that's missing the mark for a large audience for not including Spanish .

FloppyTouch

I speak English only and think it's weird they don't offer this in fact I never even thought about it bc it's just not an issue for me. Seems like a simple thing to add in Spanish or any other language subtitles to help out. I'm kind of shocked to find out it's not an option already

Schizoid-man

I think it's only available in English, French or German. But I agree, add more languages and you'll get thousands more players.

Rosveen

FloppyTouch wrote: »

I speak English only and think it's weird they don't offer this in fact I never even thought about it bc it's just not an issue for me. Seems like a simple thing to add in Spanish or any other language subtitles to help out. I'm kind of shocked to find out it's not an option already

Heh. "Simple thing".
The game is massive and translators don't work for free. It might simply not be a financially wise decision for them to add Spanish. Maybe, maybe not; I know nothing about the Spanish-speaking markets, so i won't be guessing.

anitajoneb17_ESO

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

117Dios wrote: »

I'm italian. I don't find any difficulty in understanding the game, besides some archaic words, but I have a lot of friends that like the game but are not so good in english. Some of them dropped it out of frustration because of it. I agree with OP. The game needs more languages. That will also lead to a bigger playerbase and higher revenues. I am fairly certain the population will have a significant increase if it goes through, and it is only a good thing for the game.

Spanish is the second most common language in the world only just behind Chinese . English is 3rd most common . From a business perspective , that's missing the mark for a large audience for not including Spanish .

The business perpective is precisely the reason why those languages aren't available.

From a business perspective, all potential customers are not equal. Raw population numbers are crossed with their respective purchasing power. There's no point translating a game for a category of population that will not be able to purchase the game. Chinese-speaking and Spanish-speaking regions are overall poorer than English, French, Japanese or German-speaking countries/areas. Which is why the game isn't available in Spanish, Chinese or Russian, even though there are huge populations using those languages. I'm not saying this is fair or anything, just that this is a fact.

That being said, they could at least provide subtitles/text translations. The voice-overs are the expensive part of localization. Maybe they expected the community to provide them - like the russian community does. Noone ever did an add-on for spanish subtitles/translation ?

andreasranasen

I hope this doesn't come off as harsh. But see it as an opportunity to learn a different language.

Im a born and raised Swede who moved to the United States alone when I was 19. I picked up the English language really easy when I was little by watching a lot of American movies, reading books and playing games.



But yes I do agree there should be an option for Spanish subtitles atleast. Voice-over may be a little bit harder to cover + it's quite expensive. But the game has been out for so long now that I don't think ZOS really cares.

Ermiq

Russian subtitles would be great too.
Although, Russian community have already done the main questline subtitles, translated all interface, some other quests, but it's too hard for a few fans to do so many.

oMrRust

Check through subtitle addons

ZunaRoath

Spanish here too. I wasn't very surprised that it was not added as language, but in my old guild many people had to install CervanTESO to understand the story (CervanTESO is an addon which translates the game to spanish). I can understand english well enough though. Myself I wouldn't use a spanish translation if it was here, same reason I don't use CervanTESO, I tend to like original versions of the game better than translations, and because I like english as language better than spanish (sometimes I forget to speak spanish right and say the english words <.<).

Many of my real life friends who like Elder Scrolls, simply don't play this game because it is not in Spanish xD Sad..

But yeah, I agree anyways, some official translation would have been nice, but we (you, spanish speakers who want to play it in spanish) have CervanTESO! http://cervanteso.org.es/

raidentenshu_ESO

English Master language


I would rather have ZOS use the money to fix bugs and glitches, and to further improve the game (I'm getting tired of the daily crashes) rather then to waste it on subtitles, and hire on an additional voice actors that speaks a different language.

Sorry guys but you gotta learn English

teladoy

The game is in German but not in Spanish. Seems to be a marketing decision, usually countries that speak Spanish are more poor and that's why all of them together don't generate the same benefits as Germany alone...

Usually for put another example these countries don't buy Windows, they have pirate versions installed everywhere and that rule can be applicated for everything, they play games that are free, can be pirated or at least pay as little as possible.

ZunaRoath

raidentenshu_ESO wrote: »

English Master language


I would rather have ZOS use the money to fix bugs and glitches, and to further improve the game (I'm getting tired of the daily crashes) rather then to waste it on subtitles, and hire on an additional voice actors that speaks a different language.

Sorry guys but you gotta learn English

As much as it hurts for my people and my friends, I've to agree. And that as people mentioned above, business. To be fair, English is important to have in your life.

For me at first in school it was very hard to learn English as the way they did it was not the right one, from my point of view. It was boring, it was just learning things from memory. But..! See the positive at this thing of ESO being in English =D You can learn English playing this amazing game. I learnt by watching films and TV series. Playing games in English and meeting people around all the world. And it is an amazing way to learn!

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Ermiq

raidentenshu_ESO wrote: »

English Master language


I would rather have ZOS use the money to fix bugs and glitches, and to further improve the game (I'm getting tired of the daily crashes) rather then to waste it on subtitles, and hire on an additional voice actors that speaks a different language.

Sorry guys but you gotta learn English

I knew they shouldn't have done English for STALKER, Metro 2033, World of Tanks... You gotta learn Russian, Ukranian and Belorussian.

Synfaer

I would prefer adding 'Wookiee' as an alternative language, a much more expresive and emotive language.

Ruh gwyaaaag

nn-rowr yrroonn nng rarrr!

Rhawk-Arrgh, rrrooaarrgghh

Huwaa muaa mumwa

Duiwel

I am not Spanish & I agree they should add this. Regardless of whether or not your game is in English or Spanish you will pick up English or be able to use translate tools such as Google translate to come by. Spanish is a global language and it should be included.

Everyone advocating English only is very intolerant of others, I am sure if a Spanish gaming company came out with a brilliant game and decided not to translate it you would appeal to their better judgement? Would you not?

Naturally you would, so why deny these people their right. After all we all tend to think in our mother tongue, we understand better, regardless of how good your linguistical understanding of another language is your mother tongue will always be dominant.

Also will it hurt you or in any way impose on your experience if he or other Spanish speaking people play their game in Spanish?

It most certainly will not

ZunaRoath

teladoy wrote: »

The game is in German but not in Spanish. Seems to be a marketing decision, usually countries that speak Spanish are more poor and that's why all of them together don't generate the same benefits as Germany alone...

Usually for put another example these countries don't buy Windows, they have pirate versions installed everywhere and that rule can be applicated for everything, they play games that are free, can be pirated or at least pay as little as possible.

Not all of us pirate stuff xD I hate pirating, I find it unfair and its thieving. I paid for the Imperial Collector's Edition Edition on launch, then bought myself another normal version, and I'm pre ordering the Morrowind Collectors Edition. Most of the time its not because people are poor, but because people (at least where I live) are a bit... "I want this free, and if its not free I don't want it". I am a developer, so you can understand too that I hate when people do that kind of stuff with my content.

In general, play the game, learn English, win-win =D. There are some other MMOs (I hate to compare, but SWTOR) which aren't in Spanish either. I don't find it weird.

Tonnopesce

raidentenshu_ESO wrote: »

English Master language


I would rather have ZOS use the money to fix bugs and glitches, and to further improve the game (I'm getting tired of the daily crashes) rather then to waste it on subtitles, and hire on an additional voice actors that speaks a different language.

Sorry guys but you gotta learn English

You know more people in the game = more money to invest in bugfixes


A lot of people is spoiled in italy everything is translated and some (many) don't know even how to speak italian, it will definitely help the sales of the game having subtitles

runagate

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/29/us-second-biggest-spanish-speaking-country

The Guardian wrote:

The report says there are 41 million native Spanish speakers in the US plus a further 11.6 million who are bilingual, mainly the children of Spanish-speaking immigrants. This puts the US ahead of Colombia (48 million) and Spain (46 million) and second only to Mexico (121 million).

41 million in Spanish speakers in the USA is a rather lot. With Spanish it's easy to find a translator - I could walk outside and find a Spanish/English bilingual person in 10 minutes. With German, French or Japanese there's essentially no chance I could do so without putting out an ad for a professional.

Naerri

From my POV (I am living in a small country and noone will ever translate into my language): all these translations into spanish, french, german etc. just make people too lazy not to learn english...For me its a necessity I had to learn to live with. Period.

anitajoneb17_ESO

Eremith wrote: »

raidentenshu_ESO wrote: »

English Master language


I would rather have ZOS use the money to fix bugs and glitches, and to further improve the game (I'm getting tired of the daily crashes) rather then to waste it on subtitles, and hire on an additional voice actors that speaks a different language.

Sorry guys but you gotta learn English

I knew they shouldn't have done English for STALKER, Metro 2033, World of Tanks... You gotta learn Russian, Ukranian and Belorussian.

Let's not forget the Witcher !! What if they had left it in polish, and told the whole world "gotta learn polish" !!

Joke apart, you should quit this "me me me" attitude @raidentenshu_ESO (just my opinion).

And joke apart too, when I played the Witcher, I wished I had learned polish, because even though the english there was excellent, such a rich lore deserves to be explored in the original language, so that nothing gets lost in translation.

And still joke apart, and back to ESO :
- I am french and the game is available in french, but the translation is horrible, more often than not. The voices are ok but the text stuff looks like it's been google-translated first, and then reviewed by some student trainee there.
- I guess the reason why ZOS didn't give the translations much love (for the officially supported languages), and also why so few localizations are available, is that they know that most MMO gamers don't care about lore / stories / dialogues, and just want to rush to competitive endgame. Any audience, in the end, gets what she deserves. A single-player game would have been better translated, in more languages (IIRC Skyrim was officially offered in Spanish).

This shows again the double-sided-coin of add-ons. Add-ons authors for translations are admirable, but game editors rely far too much on them, up to the point where they exploit them, for providing good translations while they (game editors) increase their profit margin.

PS : congratulations to the CervantESO team, not only for the huge volunteer work, but also for the awesome name

ZunaRoath

I can't agree more with @anitajoneb17_ESO

I think Addons here at least are amazing, so we gotta give that to ZOS, there are MMOs which are not in Spanish (or your language), and don't have addons, so you can't even get an addon for your language.

FloppyTouch

Synfaer wrote: »

I would prefer adding 'Wookiee' as an alternative language, a much more expresive and emotive language.

Ruh gwyaaaag

nn-rowr yrroonn nng rarrr!

Rhawk-Arrgh, rrrooaarrgghh

Huwaa muaa mumwa

do u kiss ur mom with that mouth! Where are the mods to delete such foul language.

WalkingLegacy

runagate wrote: »

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/29/us-second-biggest-spanish-speaking-country

The Guardian wrote:

The report says there are 41 million native Spanish speakers in the US plus a further 11.6 million who are bilingual, mainly the children of Spanish-speaking immigrants. This puts the US ahead of Colombia (48 million) and Spain (46 million) and second only to Mexico (121 million).

41 million in Spanish speakers in the USA is a rather lot. With Spanish it's easy to find a translator - I could walk outside and find a Spanish/English bilingual person in 10 minutes. With German, French or Japanese there's essentially no chance I could do so without putting out an ad for a professional.

Yeah but the majority of those are broken English and broken Spanish

Those south of the border don't even speak Spanish very well. What I learned in high school doesn't always translate to well when speaking with my neighbor. Que? Que? Que?

I live in AZ, so I can comment on that.

Simple solution is to learn English. Yes, I told my neighbor this too.

Vahrokh

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Spanish is the second most common language in the world only just behind Chinese . English is 3rd most common . From a business perspective , that's missing the mark for a large audience for not including Spanish .

There are 250M Italian speaking people in the world (close to how many Spanish people, but far more spread everywhere), far more than German speaking.

The reasons why a language is common in games and others aren't, is (sadly) because of the country importance, not the actual business value.

ZunaRoath

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

Yeah but the majority of those are broken English and broken Spanish

And this is another reason. Many of the people here where I live, they try to learn English, but they just will not. Generally (you can check in internet), you will not find many people who can speak English fluid in Spain, and I'm told many times in ESO about this, and people being surprised to find a Spaniard talking English "okaish".

Still, I agree with the OP.

Rosveen

andreasranasen wrote: »

I hope this doesn't come off as harsh. But see it as an opportunity to learn a different language.

Im a born and raised Swede who moved to the United States alone when I was 19. I picked up the English language really easy when I was little by watching a lot of American movies, reading books and playing games.



But yes I do agree there should be an option for Spanish subtitles atleast. Voice-over may be a little bit harder to cover + it's quite expensive. But the game has been out for so long now that I don't think ZOS really cares.

It's an opportunity, yes - but only if your English is already pretty good, so you can understand most of what you read, but also have a chance to learn some interesting new words and grammatical constructions. If your English is poor and you need a dictionary for every other world, it's just frustrating. This is a problem especially for people who care about the story, because you miss a lot if you don't understand the subtleties of the language. That's why some people prefer to read in ther native language even if they speak very good English.

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

And joke apart too, when I played the Witcher, I wished I had learned polish, because even though the english there was excellent, such a rich lore deserves to be explored in the original language, so that nothing gets lost in translation.

Something always gets lost in translation, even if you speak the language very well. Some cultural references are impossible to catch if you weren't raised in Poland. Heck, I was and I didn't recognize a certain song sung by Dandelion because it came out the year I was born.

jcaceresw

I am Peruvian (thus I speak Spanish language). I play this game in English in order to learn the word's pronunciation considering my nearly complete deafness. I hope they add those subtitles for the people who don't know much about English language or have hearing difficulty like me.