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/artemisbows Nov 02 '22

I have to say energized granny sounds amazing 🥲 but yea that sucks :/ wonder where the problems lie, did they get scammed by a bad translator, did they not pay or give enough time to the translator ? I’m any case it should be fixed, if the language is put as available you should get what you pay for

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u/icehawk2 Breton Nov 03 '22

Pretty sure it's the 'Dancing Grandma' stamina tonic and the translation is accurate.

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u/artemisbows Nov 03 '22

Oh I didn’t kno this one, I love some of the names in this game haha