Enough is enough

[Karadok]

Yes, i am saying that most of the information(not just for games but with everything) the french and the germans get in their own language they get after it has been released in english. And i also am saying most of them dont take much issue with that.

Please do prove me wrong.

^This.

German forum is dead anyway because of the lack of official presence. Most german speaking players are posting in the english section, because this is the forum where you will get answers, or at least some reaction from official site.

[Bibik]

tbh, as a french player, i consider thoses community letters/updates translations as a special luxury we kept since the old days. Since we lost our dedicated servers 2 year ago, remaining players have to know at least some basic english to fully enjoy the game...

And the part of french community, among the totality, is kinda depressing compared to what it was before the 2011 server merge. Just, look at the activity of french AoC official forums and you get the idea.

But in the other hand, having letter this week or the next week won't change anything about the delay of real content updates. Having the letter 1 week later is still 1 week less in the delay between content annoucement and content update

[Misiuggah]

Hey we finns don't have our language supported either! What is this madness ...like we all should be smart enough to learn english? That's crazy talk! It's only the language used in ...everything!

Looks like large part of community is "unsupported" (greetings from Poland)

Game info posted in English? Oh noes!111

[Tarib]

Every other company does that. and i am german. every tech company hands out infos in english first. for films, music and other products its everyday life. geez, even some german company talk english intern the whole day because english is the language of the world. and this letter wont be the first information thats made public by funcom in english first and deleayed in other languages.

you know tarib, if this would really be the first time funcom did that, this would be another story. but funcom didnt care about that the last 5 years, why now?

If you check the publish dates of every past official letter from an AoC game director (Craig or Joel), you will see that every time the information was published in English, German and French at the very same day. So you could indeed say that it is an official Funcom policy to do so.

[Misiuggah]

This letter better be good

[Zatochi]

I am CLEARLY! not talking about the letter only. I was talking about information. Like patch logs and stuff. and i am not even mentioning all the interviews in english with lots of information.

[Kaazho]

Absolutely. And the announced letter will cover these topics and shed some light on the plans. I don't know how many of you ever had the chance to meet Joel in person, like at a convention or something. But he really is one of the most open and upfront persons you probably can find in the gaming industry. Not putting any pressure on Joel here, but his word is worth the salt.

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But I also know many cool people in my guild that I do not want to lose...

[cristian29]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hWO4h2IoSI

[Tarib]

Interviews are made by language specific magazines or websites. So those are made available in the respective language.
A few Update Notes translations in the past had been published in German and/or French delayed, that is true. That was because the actual fixing of issues those updates included could not be held off because of translation tasks. But whenever possible, information is made available for all supported languages at the same time. I fail to see why this should be a wrong approach.

[Nusquam]

Some fairly big bits of the GD letter are covered here anyway. More details in the GD letter of course.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...-TSWAOCAO.html