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Reply To: Asmodee Germany stopping translation on another game

December 5, 2019 at 5:17 pm #1462483

limburger

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I’m always jealous of German gamers who at least have a chance to see (board)games localized. Dutch is too much of a niche to receive that treatment.

There is nothing worse than a game where only the core rules have been translated.
So yeah, I’m pretty sure that it will have an impact. Especially if people who are used to have games localised are less likely to buy into a game if they can’t be sure if any of its expansions will be.

IMHO this is always a chicken&egg paradox, because if there are no (reliable) localised versions then people are going import the original versions.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the beancounters at Asmodee saw this trend and decided to stop localizing completely.
It’s weird to see this happen to a franchise as big as Star Wars, because with dubbed versions of the movies being standard I’d assume people are more familliar with the German texts of the series.

@sundancer are the German localised versions good ?
I’ve seen Dutch translations and especially science fiction techno babble tend to have terrible translations.