- Sep 26, 2016
- 1,617
- 5,363
The problem isn't just the MTL. I've read whole webnovels with google translate and it was at least adequate. I'm old enough to remember text-hookers. The problem is that some of the shit posted here (this included), doesn't even fulfill the bare minimum to be called "translated". We are talking choice-based VNs with untranslated choices. Huge portions of the game left completely untranslated. UI, menus and settings in moonrunes, in games with actual gameplay (not pure VNs) like RPGMs. There needs to be some baseline on what is accepted.I'm going to ignore the rest of the comment because they are ramblings that lead nowhere and I'm going to answer with what I knew you were going to say.
You have made it clear, you prefer not to play a game if it does not have a fan or professional translation, it is something legitimate, it is something you do not want and no one forces you.
That's being too radical, everyone wants a good translation, the problem is that those good translations never appear and people don't have time to learn Japanese to play games, which is a language that even the Japanese leave school without knowing how to read completely and They are in their country.
I have never defended the MTL, I am just pointing out that if I want to play this game I only have two options, one is to learn Japanese and the other is to wait for someone to translate this. You don't know when, there is no news of anything or any interest from anyone for 8 years and I guess I have to wait another 50 years in something that never arrives
The MTL were born due to this inaction when it comes to translating Japanese games. Don't be fooled. If there were an activity or interest in translating Japanese games, the MTL would not exist.
Yes machine translated content is better than nothing. But an unplayable mess that has some parts of it machine translated, IS nothing. Unless you take steps to fill the huge blanks yourself.
It's like accepting games with their code only partially finished that give you an error the moment you open Renpy. Yes it has happened but they usually get removed from the uploads page.