If I were in charge of a highly visible platform like Discord, I'd sure as hell have terms that allowed for such a thing.
They've been running into problems. The current one is a lack of translator. They're looking at machine translation for now, but BlueCat isn't happy with the result so his supporters need to convince him to just do it and fix it later. Noones sharing the examples here, so we can't really comment on the quality yet.
I think we're all on Skummy's shit list.
I'm curious how BlueCat judges the translation when his apparently not comfortable with it so how would be able to judge it properly? I'm still in the camp of he could just translate it himself and it would be more than fine based off his English here and on patreon. Wouldn't even be a delay on newer updates if he did the next one or so himself since if his been working the past 18 months he would be plenty ahead anyway...
Only 5?! This is Bluecat we are talking about. The amazing man that has the writing skills of Tolkien, the love and compassion of Mother Theresa, more humanity than Ghandi, more intelligent than Stephen Hawking, more honest than a lie detecter machine, and more beautiful than any Peoples magazine sexiest man alive. No, no. This gem of a human being doesn't need 5 tanks, he needs 5 regiments worth. He deserves to be protected.
Just lying to myself lol. Trying to be optimistic
Ah, ok lol
A janky translation can always be fixed later, but if it's never released, then that's it. Personally, I rather get it out and hope for better later than just give up.
I'd agree but for the fact that it seems most devs rarely go back and correct language/grammar. At least in all of the games I've played so far. Even the completed ones. Unless the dev is good in English and grammar to begin with, I don't see it happening successfully, especially considering the sheer amount of text in some of more ambitious titles. The more content there is, the harder it'll be to comb through it all later. I'm sure there some out there that do correct them. I just haven't seen it yet.
Well, without machine translations the projected release window is "about a month after they find a translator willing and able to process an average sized novel every couple of months for a fraction of the money a regular translator would make". Which is to say... probably never.
Also since 'merges' are part of the plan, it gives them a reason to go back and touch it up later if needed.
Does BlueCat write his own patreon posts? Because some of the terminology used there I would think his fluent in it almost like I've said before but that's beside the point.
There's one or two that sound a little iffy, but as you said, proof readers will correct anything that needs it, and I assume the Alpha and Beta tests would cover that already. At worst, you'll need one person to make it sound consistent, but that seems like a smaller job when you don't have to translate everything as well.
It's "too much to translate in time". Whether that's due to non-committed translators or BC having a unreasonable deadline, that still actually sounds believable to me.
