Aces High for 29$ on d2d?

[Bizman]

if HTC wants more players they have to provide the option for the users to talk and read the game in their own language.

Why should they do it? Even the big houses don't, so why should HTC bother?

Besides, this being a multiplayer game, what would you think would be the result, if everyone on Range radio channel talked their own language? Or typed on Country or 200 in whatever language they want to? The profanity filter for one would be in trouble, because of homonyms and homographs with the English language. See Rude Food Names for examples.

Also, a lot of invaluable information would be lost, if everyone gave hints and tips only on squad forums in their native tongue. Vai mitäpä olet itse mieltä tästä asiasta?

[Bizman]

would you play Aces High if it was only available in say Japanese, I would bet you wouldn't learn a new language just to play this game.

Japanese has never been a problem in gaming  . I'm not saying I could read or speak it, but their games have always been intuitive enough. As long as you can find the "Start" button, everything will be fine. Think about their major successes starting from PacMan and Mario...

[pervert]

I don't think it will matter a bit to any new non English speaking (and writing) players. In ROF we have such a multinational player base the text buffer is constantly filled with a mixture of English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Greek, Etc. I can't read anything bar the English, it doesn't matter, I just ignore the rest.

The big question is how you as the Aces High community react and adapt to this!

Will you just accept it and welcome these new paying customers? or will the little generals be demanding everyone speak English!

Sid it actually amazes me how few British and USA flags are on that 

[Lusche]

IL2 is supported in Russian and various other languages iirc, definitely Russian. To answer your question if you are nuts, not really you understand English its not really a problem, would you play Aces High if it was only available in say Japanese, I would bet you wouldn't learn a new language just to play this game.

In many countries, it's standard to watch US movies and TV shows in English, play computer games published in English and so on, particularly smaller ones like Finland or the Netherlands. I certainly won't start to ague that being available in the local language would hurt - I would actually like to see things like a German language sub-forum, a start page with German instructions an so on.
But some markets are so much used to the English language that publishing a game in English is not "nuts" but makes a lot of sense. Why increase your expenses by (insert arbitrary number) if you can hope to increase the revenues enough to balance it?

In case of a pure online game like AH things are even a bit more difficult, as it's just not the game content on the CD you have to translate, but you have to create a German language online environment, with all the follow up cost of maintaining it continously.

[Lusche]

Vai mitäpä olet itse mieltä tästä asiasta?

I once flew the Husky scenario with you Finns... scary experience 

[Melvin]

The big question is how you as the Aces High community react and adapt to this!

Will you just accept it and welcome these new paying customers? or will the little generals be demanding everyone speak English!

This is the point that I was getting at. 

[pervert]

Why should they do it? Even the big houses don't, so why should HTC bother?

Besides, this being a multiplayer game, what would you think would be the result, if everyone on Range radio channel talked their own language? Or typed on Country or 200 in whatever language they want to? The profanity filter for one would be in trouble, because of homonyms and homographs with the English language. See Rude Food Names for examples.

Also, a lot of invaluable information would be lost, if everyone gave hints and tips only on squad forums in their native tongue. Vai mitäpä olet itse mieltä tästä asiasta?

I couldnt give a toss if people want to talk in a different langauge on range  on 200...actually that would be great I couldnt understand their whining  I just want to put my bullets into their non English speaking plane and put them on the ground at the end of the day, the extra money they pump in will help me get all the yummy updates and additions to the game faster, so its purely selfish on my part 

Why should they do it, because they have a smaller market and need every customer they can get.

Japanese has never been a problem in gaming  . I'm not saying I could read or speak it, but their games have always been intuitive enough. As long as you can find the "Start" button, everything will be fine. Think about their major successes starting from PacMan and Mario...

OK well I can tell you right now that I wouldnt even attempt to go past the menu screen, let alone play it, I think being quite good in English and Finnish is making you quite short sighted on this subject. 

[Sid]

Sid it actually amazes me how few British and USA flags are on that  

There are in fact a lot of British and North American players in ROF, it's just we are such a small percentage of the total ROF community.

[pervert]

In many countries, it's standard to watch US movies and TV shows in English, play computer games published in English and so on, particularly smaller ones like Finland or the Netherlands. I certainly won't start to ague that being available in the local language would hurt - I would actually like to see things like a German language sub-forum, a start page with German instructions an so on.
But some markets are so much used to the English language that publishing a game in English is not "nuts" but makes a lot of sense. Why increase your expenses by (insert arbitrary number) if you can hope to increase the revenues enough to balance it?

In case of a pure online game like AH things are even a bit more difficult, as it's just not the game content on the CD you have to translate, but you have to create a German language online environment, with all the follow up cost of maintaining it continuously.

Did you read what I suggested Lusche, how would that be expensive. A simple text file that the game uses to change the options that is a user can edit and a new user to the game can download to convert the game instantly to their own language. This game has a very high learning curve as it is. Expecting a new player to then look at a bunch of jibberish and stick at it isn't gonna happen.

[pervert]

There are in fact a lot of British and USA players in ROF, it's just we are such a small percentage of the total ROF community.

I just noticed that the leaderboard is top 1000   

Yeah some tart in the WW1 arena wanted me to go join RoF looking at the graphics my crappy laptop wouldnt handle it, its obviously lucky enough for this 242Sqn_Wolf dude otherwise I would easily rape him obviously 

[Lusche]

Did you read what I suggested Lusche, how would that be expensive. A simple text file that the game uses to change the options that is a user can edit and a new user to the game can download to convert the game instantly to their own language

This is more like having a quick start guide in German, which to my best knowledge it already has.The actual game world would still be English too. Selling such a game as a "German version" would  have trouble following for the publisher - It still would have to be sold as an "English game", which would qualify as being "nuts" according to your initial statement

[GhostCDB]

Cool, haha. Didn't know it was for sale. . .

[pervert]

This is more like having a quick start guide in German, which to my best knowledge it already has.The actual game world would still be English too. Selling such a game as a "German version" would  have trouble following for the publisher - It still would have to be sold as an "English game", which would qualify as being "nuts" according to your initial statement

Just to clarify....I do think its nuts even selling it in a box version when its so easy to access over the internet   The game world will always stay English so long as people who only speak English play the game. That wont give the game more subscribers, I want Russian n00bs to shoot down, like I said HTC do not have to officially support any language other than English, the players will do the rest themselves.

[Sid]

Aces High has such a good coms text system, they could probably just add a "language" text channel. Just click on the drop down menu, instead of selecting ALL, Squad, Country, etc, select Cantonese, Portuguese, Rumanian or what ever.

This would at least limit it to those that want to read the "Cantonese text".

[wiskyfog]

i have found that if you really want to play this game, you are in for a long learning curve. Most people do not want a game that requires the skill level that is required (over time) to be successful in AH. There's no instant fix or help from the "software" that a majority of people need to avoid the frustration of "IT TAKES TIME" to be good in AH