Rufous

{
  "post": {
    "title": "More language support for PoE 2",
    "selftext": "I believe that supporting more languages is one of the best ways to make the game more accessible.\n\nThough I always choose English for most games I play but I know many friends who are really bad at English. I've been trying to convince them to try PoE. However, since they are not good at English, plus the learning curve of the game is too steep, they just cannot get into the game.\n\nI think this is very unfortunate. I'm not a game dev so I'm not sure of how hard it is to support another language. \n\nTldr: I think supporting more languages is a very great way to attract more people to the game. What do you guys think?",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/19dy0oo/more_language_support_for_poe_2/"
  },
  "comments": [
    {
      "body": "More language support is always welcome but we don't know the ggg processes to it. Remember the game has insane amount of combinations for item names generation and a huge database of terms and texts, it might just take a large amount of time and more languages translations might be on their way.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "body": "Not to forget that stuff always changes, and how important wording is in this game"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "body": "For example Polish language is very descriptive and I would still stick to English, simply the item descriptions would be too long(im assuming the complexity might be close to poe1). One polish streamer had a chance to ask this question to Chris and Jonathan and they explained how much work needs to be done with each league, and you have to remember that they tend to change things close to release, so there needs to be strong financial incentive if you want to make it work"
    },
    {
      "body": "I was skeptical translating the game to german. Seemed like a \"waste of resources\" for me, because basically anyone from a german speaking country in the target audience knows enough english to play the game. Also it's so much more easier to find infos about the game, builds, guides etc. on the interweb if you google the english terms anyway.\n\nI have no clue how useful that step was. I rarely find someone on the trading site that has his ingame language set to german. But that's all just anecdotal info, ggg has the actual numbers.\n\nBefore the translation existed some people claimed it would be worthwile translating the game to german, because a bunch of people would play the game if it was available in german.\n\nNow you have some content creators that make buildguides in german on youtube, they have a decent amount of views. But i have no clue if it's just because those people are really charismatic or if 16k people (just a number i've taken from a random video) get all their poe info only from german sources. \n\nTLDR: We don't know if it's worthwile, only ggg knows, they have the numbers. But i assume to a degree even they have to add some guesswork, because if a new player joins and picks any of the new languages, you never know if that person would have played the game if it was only available in english."
    }
  ]
}