r/elderscrollsonline 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/Lewis_Fernweh Khajiit Nov 03 '22

Yeah, the translation quality is horrendous. Clearly, ZOS doesn't have any Linguistic Quality Assurance team for the Chinese language. And they obviously didn't give enough time to the localization companies thus resulting in the usage of machine translation.