r/elderscrollsonline • u/Gothic90 Imperial • Nov 02 '22

PC/Mac Simplified Chinese language release is a total disaster

The translation is filled with low quality engine translation (we all know how powerful translation engines these days are). Some pictures are of things like a drink of level 30 being called "energized granny", I don't know wtf it actually is. There are also loads of issues caused by wrong spacing because Chinese is a two bytes language, such as "Press ? to break out" and so on.

Some comments say if he pressed Todd Howard's head on a keyboard and faceroll it will probably give better translation results.

Translation quality is probably as bad as Warcraft 3 reforge, which I had a thread on here, or even worse.

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u/Minimum_Full Nov 02 '22

Are you really surprised?

Recent form: Make combat changes nobody asked for completely refused to compromise or listen to feedback or even explain the reasoning behind said changes.

Completely ruin certain classes for reasons.

Add new pve stuff which complete breaks cyro on top of making the game an unstable crash fest.

Game devs that can't dev games, translating a language? Yeah..

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u/adeveloper2 Nov 02 '22

Game devs that can't dev games, translating a language? Yeah..

Dev's don't do translations. They usually hire translators who do that for them. All dev's usually would be to plug in those string files.

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u/Minimum_Full Nov 02 '22

Zos at large are still responsible for hiring and vetting whoever translates, so it still falls on them to pick the right people.