Hope this is the right place to post it.

Looking at others online games like this (i.e. Hattrick, Ogame and so on), you’ll find out that they’re translated in so many languages (Hattrick for example only have a .org domain but it’s translated in over 40 languages).

What about doing the same for Forumwarz?

IMHO it’ll help the game grown and popularity.

For start, i was thinking about 3 languages (excluding English ofc): French, German and Italian.

What do you think about it?

If they don’t already have other languages, that’s pretty suprising.

One problem that I see is, this games is depending strongly on the community of players. Even if the whole game is translated, all additional stuff like forumbuildr isn’t.

The question is: would a translated game generate enough new users so that the costs of the translation (if not done by users) and the on-going operations for server etc. are equalized?

Personally I think it’s a game for international users as target audience (outside north america)

Buzzeno Posted:

Hope this is the right place to post it.

Looking at others online games like this (i.e. Hattrick, Ogame and so on), you’ll find out that they’re translated in so many languages (Hattrick for example only have a .org domain but it’s translated in over 40 languages).

What about doing the same for Forumwarz?

IMHO it’ll help the game grown and popularity.

For start, i was thinking about 3 languages (excluding English ofc): French, German and Italian.

What do you think about it?

Good idea, if it hasn’t already been done, except I question your language choices. I would think Spanish and Japanese would actually reach more users than any others, although the three you listed and Portuguese would be the rest of the top six.

So yeah. CZ people, is this something that’s likely to happen?

Aldo_Anything Posted:

The question is: would a translated game generate enough new users so that the costs of the translation (if not done by users) and the on-going operations for server etc. are equalized?

This. The answer is clearly no. Forumwarz is by far not big enough for this.

However, if Evil Trout would be less fabulous persongy careless, he might notice that he could generate many new users if he wouldn’t focus his advertisement on US-focussed websites. I think about everybody here in Germany who finished school can speak English well enough to enjoy Forumwarz, and same applies for most other European countries.

FalCoN Posted:

The answer is clearly no. Forumwarz is by far not big enough for this.

I agree, bumuming translation wasn’t user-done, but the fact than many people are bilingual with English and one of those six I listed, I think user-generated translation would be perfectly possible.

Auser Posted:

English is the closest the world will get to a worldwide language.

True (see above), but that doesn’t mean it should be the ONLY language. It’s called WWW and not USA-W for a reason.

J-R-R Posted:

I’ll do it for BP.

This…

But I only know a little french. Log in to see images!

I think it will create such a mess..and what about forumbildr(someone talked about that also) or INCIT…Plus everyone knows how annoying it is when two people from the same country start speaking their language on a Local Chat(in our case..the only chat we have)..and you can’t stop them from doing that..

It might not ruin forumwarz..but oddly enough it will ruin the multiplayer part of it(just think 5 different INCIT posts in 5 different languages..and even if you divide this..there will still be people who won’t give a crap about it and most in their own language anyway)

and btw..USA is not the only country where people speak English..what about U.K?

Plus anyone who uses the web nowadays usually knows some English..or their Web exp would be quite limited(and I’m thinking off small countries mostly)

OrsonScottCard Posted:

I’m not seeing the upheaval/community problems, honestly. Can you elaborate?

INCIT and Forumbuildr mostly