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Skyway, please...

Discussion in 'General Gaming' started by Hamster, Apr 25, 2010.

  1. Hamster Arcane Patron

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    Even 24 missions is much higher than normaly accepted quanity today, when one shit campaign as a tutorial for multiplayer is a norm.

    They are not, they are just adapting to the market.

    I am not sure i would be so willing to accept Blizzrd's decision if not for the actions of the "bad guys"...
     
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  2. Awor Szurkrarz Arcane In My Safe Space

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    Hahaha. Typical pro-publisher propaganda. You can't copy cars as cheaply as games, so their prices will be dictated by stuff like prices of labour, materials, etc.
    Games are worthless. They have no utility, can torrented for free, etc. their value is completely subjective. You don't even need effort to create another copy of game in opposition to working several times more to buy it. They aren't losing anything by selling you another copy of a game, you are losing your work by buying them, so you should respect your work more than their games.
    If you buy a car, they are losing a car and can't sell it anywhere else.

    How do you know that more money goes to the translation team, not to the pockets of the Westerners? Maybe there are other factors involved?
     
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  3. Hamster Arcane Patron

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    Ok, games are worthless and should not be payed for. How is it related to the budget for localisation?

    Maybe. But given the positive example from movie industry i think budget is much more likely cause.
     
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  5. Awor Szurkrarz Arcane In My Safe Space

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    That you won't end up with a higher localisation budget because the sales will drop sharply and you'll end up with the same or lesser income because of that. The same reason why games in the west don't cost 150$ for a copy.

    So, are your movie translators earning the same money as German/French movie translators? And while at it are you earning the same as a person doing the same job in the West? If not, are doing a shitty work? Are you a lousy worker, Hamster? Do you intentionally hold back, counting that one day your boss is going to pay the same as in the West?
     
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  6. Hamster Arcane Patron

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    The idea is to rise the price gradualy.
    400 rubles in 2010
    500 rubles in 2011
    700 rubles in 2012
    etc.

    No, but i don't see the connection. What you are trying to say is that localisators should work just as good as western ones, but they are not, thats the problem. And the ones in the movie industry do their job well.
     
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    So far it's only numbers, you can't be sure how time consuming those missions will be. They could make 30 missions that will be on the same time consuming level like 10 missions. Time shows how it will be in reality.
     
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    So Hamster called Skyway out and got raped?
    Nice plot twist.
     
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  9. Hamster Arcane Patron

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    But it is acceptable to charge full price for 10 missions.
     
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  10. Hamster Arcane Patron

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    Wow, really? Link, please, i want to look at it.
     
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  11. Tails Arbiter

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    Then why you complain about DoW with ten/eleven missions? ;) My point was more about situation when those 30 mission will be time consuming like ten from first Starcraft. Somehow I'm not convinced that Blizzard is able to make awesome 30 mission campaign for one race which will take long time to beat.
     
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  12. Hamster Arcane Patron

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    I meant that 10 missions are acceptable for majority of gamers, not for me.

    Well, it will suck, but any game can turn out to be shit in the end. So far we have a promise of 30 missions and it is more than enough to charge 50$ for this game. If the content will not satisfy us, then we can be rightly nerdraged by it.
     
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    BRO SKYWAY WOULD BITCH IF HE WON FREE BLOWJOBS FOR A YEAR HE WOULD COMPLAIN THAT THE GIRL WAS TOO FAT OR HEW WASN'T USED TO WOMEN OR THAT UKARAINE WOMEN HAVE NO TEETH OR SOMETHING STUPID
     
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    Anyway, I find the more work for less games idea doubleunprogressive.
     
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  15. Hamster Arcane Patron

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    I actually would not object to having such device at home...
     
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  17. Hamster Arcane Patron

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    Yeah, localisations suck, everybody knows that, nobody asked you to prove this once again.

    The problem is that Blizzard started moving in the right derection - teaching people in Eastern Europe that to get the same service they have to pay the same price. Your answer was a usual angry rant. That makes no sense.
     
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    Oh, damn. I just realised something. If for skyway all games are shit then no such thing as improvement can exist for him. When i was proposing to pay more for better quality, from his point of view i was proposing to pay more for something that do not exist. Now it all makes sense, i should have understood that sooner.
     
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    You faggots are complaining about recieving MORE starcraft, ho ho ho, too funny.
     
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    Any thread on the codex with skyway arguing in it:

    :avatard:
     
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    if they're already choosing to buy games for 1/3 of the price intead of full price, you aren't going to "force" them to do anything. They'll just pirate and use private servers or something. By gradually raising the price, you'll just have gradually less buyers.

    Also, more budget doesn't necessarily mean more quality. You're assuming they'd be willing / able to use the budget wisely and not just waste it on vodka and 8 women, all called Natasha.

    There's also the (already mentioned) problem of there being like 5 actors in all of Russia, and paying them more won't improve their talent (and the field is probably not attractive enough to attract new actors, even if the payment gets better)
     
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    Why are you arguing about translations, you bunch of faggots?! There is a simple solution for that "problem": abolish all fucking translations. I always nerd rage when someone translates the interface of an app to my native language, sets it to default and has the audacity to claim it as a feature (I have to navigate through 5 fucking menus of jibberish to change it to English). When I have to work on a OS that had its interface "translated", I just sob quietly as I try to visualize the English interface and guess the commands, because the words on the screen make no sense whatsoever.

    English is fine. More than fine. It's great. It's de facto a standard of communication in civilized society. Learn to read it, learn to speak it! That's why we're having this "discussion" in English and not scribbling some hieroglyphs. Better luck in next wave of wars and colonization. English language won, let's just gg and not be dicks about it.

    Everything should come in English (and preferably English only). See the example of The Witcher. The Polish bitches commented at length how good the voice acting and writing is, but the translation was at best horrible. We wouldn't have had that problem, if it were written and originally made in English.

    I'd have all the faggy law makers that demand every piece of imported stuff and *especially* software be translated executed for dumbing down the population. You don't speak English? Well tough luck. Go get an education. You are probably too stupid to comprehend the media you're about to consume, so no loss there.

    Fuck them and fuck you for wanting "quality" translations. Not possible, never going to happen. Even if they, by some miracle, made a perfect translation, it would still be shit, because your stupid barbaric language is shit. And my stupid barbaric language is shit. It may be fine for our little in-talks and great for producing imaginative curses and obscenities, but it's generally shit. Just like your cars are shit. You can drive around in your 2 tonne Lada, read the little cyrillic manual for it and be vaguely satisfied, but deep down you know it's shit. And it'll always be shit. So finish you bottle of vodka and forget about this topic.

    Samuel, help me out BRO:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mDTLphIVY

    If not, go fuck yourself!

    /Skyway
     
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    English is filth, and the British Empire the worst disaster that has hit the world.

    That being said, if you aren't going to do a good translation, don't do it at all.
     
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