Subtitles in other languages?

prtpj1ub17_ESO

Hi.
I know the old TES games have only 3 languages as default (English, German, and French), but TESV and Legends came with more languages available (9 languages).

There is a official reason or answer why TESO isnt in any other language (besides English, German, and French), at least subtitles?

Or we, players, only can speculate?

(EDIT: I did a correction for better understanding)

MaleAmazon

Wut? I thought the german version at least, was in german. It´s a PITA trying to translate place names for them in groups.

EDIT: nvm, I didn´t see you wanted another language than german / french /english.

My guess is that, to be frank, most people who play computer games speak english or learn to rather quickly. And if you are going to interact with other people online like you do in ESO, to be frank I´m not sure it isn´t a good idea to shut people out if they can´t communicate in a common language.


Me: Don´t stand in red

DD:.¨å.¨å.¨å.ä.1'22+0+01

Me:DONT STAND IN RED

DD: ¨å-娨z¨å-§§¨å-¨åö娨åp

Me: FFS STOP IT

DD: ä'-'ää.'.ä.ä FU HEALER ä''ä,,öä'ä.

Me: *maybe I should post in the forum that we need more solo content*


Also it is a lot of text to translate.

Alienoutlaw

https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/650/~/in-which-languages-can-i-play-the-elder-scrolls-online?

prtpj1ub17_ESO

MaleAmazon wrote: »

Wut? I thought the german version at least, was in german. It´s a PITA trying to translate place names for them in groups.

EDIT: nvm, I didn´t see you wanted another language than german / french /english.

My guess is that, to be frank, most people who play computer games speak english or learn to rather quickly. And if you are going to interact with other people online like you do in ESO, to be frank I´m not sure it isn´t a good idea to shut people out if they can´t communicate in a common language.

Also it is a lot of text to translate.

Yes, I agree with you most ppl at least can read english, BUT for other some, dont. I cant speak for them explaining why.
But I know many ppl in my country (where learning english can be a little expensive) which would like to read things ingame in a way more confortable.
If a person know english, but isnt his/her native language, read long texts can be a little tiring (and TES have a lot of amazing texts/stories).

I wouldnt ask anything about that subject IF ElderScrolls games had keep only the 3 default languages, but since that last ones have more 6 languages options, I became curious about that "Why not ESO too??"

Audio in other languages can be very expensive (i believe), BUT at least subtitles would be simply amazing.

Ekzorka

MaleAmazon wrote: »

My guess is that, to be frank, most people who play computer games speak english or learn to rather quickly. And if you are going to interact with other people online like you do in ESO, to be frank I´m not sure it isn´t a good idea to shut people out if they can´t communicate in a common language.

I'm still surprising that people don't see the difference between communicate and quest reading. I really didn't saw most of words in chats that I regularly see in dialogues and books.
Please, understand that a text is more difficult, and it's not so easy and fast to start understand all of idioms, metaphors, jokes etc. So people are always happy to read in their native language for 100% understanding, no matter in what language they communicate in the chat.

idk

Japanese is supported by a client specific to Japanese and is only hosted on the NA server

Source: https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/38130/~/can-i-transfer-my-elder-scrolls-online-account-to-the-japanese-game-client?

It likely comes down to economics of what can reasonably be supported. Zos is constantly adding to ESO vs TESV was very limited in comparison. I have no idea about Legends that now appears to be defunct.

jircris11

MaleAmazon wrote: »

Wut? I thought the german version at least, was in german. It´s a PITA trying to translate place names for them in groups.

EDIT: nvm, I didn´t see you wanted another language than german / french /english.

My guess is that, to be frank, most people who play computer games speak english or learn to rather quickly. And if you are going to interact with other people online like you do in ESO, to be frank I´m not sure it isn´t a good idea to shut people out if they can´t communicate in a common language.


Me: Don´t stand in red

DD:.¨å.¨å.¨å.ä.1'22+0+01

Me:DONT STAND IN RED

DD: ¨å-娨z¨å-§§¨å-¨åö娨åp

Me: FFS STOP IT

DD: ä'-'ää.'.ä.ä FU HEALER ä''ä,,öä'ä.

Me: *maybe I should post in the forum that we need more solo content*


Also it is a lot of text to translate.

I ran in to ONE person so far who did not know english..or so they said...they perfectly insulted the healer when the guy died from standing in red

MaleAmazon

I really didn't saw most of words in chats that I regularly see in dialogues and books.

I was admittedly harsh. But I'll maintain that it *is* more of a problem in a game that relies on player-player interaction, when people don't speak a common language. Trying to explain mechanics to someone who doesn't understand you, so you don't have the last 30 minutes wasted, isn't always fun.

And if you are going to translate, it would seem weird to not translate everything. And that is a TON of text. Even just subtitles is more than you might think, what with the amount of side quests.

You also have the potential problem of expressions etc not being able to be properly translated. You also have the problem of some text being weirdly written and hard to understand even in english, like some of the dunmer stuff. Songs won't rhyme. You also run the risk of a poor translation which might draw ridicule and hurt ZOS' reputation.

All in all I guess it is not worth it for them. Lorebooks are available on the internet, and it is probably up to players if they want to translate them unofficially.