Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
When I playtested the EQ2 Beta I thought already that it probably was
way too early to go commercial with the German and French version of the
game.
The reason for this concerns was the very unsatisfying state of the
translation of game content.
All players expressing these concerns got the same answers:
"We have our team working hard on this and soon this topic will be
solved."
Well....
The game is commercial now for about two months and what happened?
Nothing !
The vast majority of things in the game (items, npcs, text, voice) is
still in English
Even worse (and that is really a bad thing)...
There are many things that are sometimes German and often English so
that a player (especially those who do not have a degree in English)
often enough has to guess which English labed stuff he now has to earn
or hunt when he got a task or quest in German (or the other way round)
Even worse than that....
A lot of items (even community names !) got different translations for
one thing !
And I did not even talk about grammar yet.
In my opinion players start to lose hope and fade away from this
graphically amazing game.
If you do not want to support localized versions wholehartedly then stop
to try to give us a ludicrous translated game even months after its
release.
Either do it right or don't do it at all.
I am about to switch to the US-servers (and I don't think that this is
want you wanted to happen)
My English is good enough to play this game without any problem when it
is completly in English.
But it is a PITA to play this game in a mixture of German and English
when the translated parts are that badly done.
cheers
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