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Development Info The Witcher 2 - written in English first

Crolug

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Elwro said:
CDP had shown they can create very good translations if they put time & money to it
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You said it. Take Planescape Torment translation as an example.
 
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Tom Ohle from CDP just wrote me back and said that
In short, yes that's correct. We have a native English speaker on the team, so while the game is being written by Polish writer(s) it's being implemented in the game in English.
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Elwro said:
Tom Ohle from CDP just wrote me back and said that
In short, yes that's correct. We have a native English speaker on the team, so while the game is being written by Polish writer(s) it's being implemented in the game in English.
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So in short, it's translated and the original text isn't implemented?

Worst of both worlds?
 
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I guess the original text will get implemented later on, but now the primary goal is to put the English version of it into the game. In this way all the various translating teams will have an easier job.

For a while I feared they had a Pollack writing the English text, so for me the news is one of :incline:
 
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