Beg for adding Chinese language

[Dolagon]

Dear Game Boss/Admin/Developer/Manager:

 

Lots of my friends and i found this game a year ago, and we found so many interesting things that we never met in other POKEMON Online games.In less than a year, Chinese players of RO grew up so fast and now we have so many Groups outside the game which includes more than 1500 members and players in RO, we all feel lucky to find out such a good game and we even play together in the midnight without sleeping. :Sleeping:

We love this game, and all of us wish someday we can see Chinese language in the game so that we can attract more friends around us to join and play together.

We only beg for a chance to add Chinese language, and many friends and i will do our best job to translate the texts of our own free will.

We all love Pokemon and we can all be Chinese translation volunteers!

All we wish is RO becoming better and better! :Shy:

 

 

Yours sincerely fan,

New Year of 2017

[Shamac]

331923 Dear Game Boss/Admin/Developer/Manager:

 

Lots of my friends and i found this game a year ago, and we found so many interesting things that we never met in other POKEMON Online games.In less than a year, Chinese players of RO grew up so fast and now we have so many Groups outside the game which includes more than 1500 members and players in RO, we all feel lucky to find out such a good game and we even play together in the midnight without sleeping. :Sleeping:

We love this game, and all of us wish someday we can see Chinese language in the game so that we can attract more friends around us to join and play together.

We only beg for a chance to add Chinese language, and many friends and i will do our best job to translate the texts of our own free will.

We all love Pokemon and we can all be Chinese translation volunteers!

All we wish is RO becoming better and better! :Shy:

 

 

Yours sincerely fan,

New Year of 2017

 

Hello dolagon, first of all I would like to appreciate the devotion that you and your friends have been put into PRO over the course of time you have been here.

Now to the matter of this topic, it was already discussed in the past, as you can see in this thread.

Adding and translating other languages in game

 

PRO's main storyline will be kept English as the widely accepted "official" language in the game, even by bilingual players. Only minor things (menus, options, etc) will be translated; however, there is no estimated time frame for this, and it's considered very low-priority.

 

We've had many suggestions for community-submitted translations to be implemented. However, the community would need access to proprietary code to even think about translating parts of the dialogue, and we will never give out access to our code that way. Since that won't happen, players will just have to wait until staff is ready to start adding translations ourselves.

 

Another point that’s been brought up is a request for the community to be able to access dialogue scripts, rather than the actual code. However, this will still be denied. First, only a few staff members can access the code, and it takes time to collect the dialogue scripts line-by-line from the code, time that could be better utilized doing other things. Second, PRO is still in development. So instead of focusing on that priority, said staff members would need to divert time and energy away from that to collect dialogue instead, representing a waste of resources. Third, even with a community translation in place, there’s a huge amount of NPCs and story dialogue scripts in PRO that are always being edited and tweaked. Constantly having to update translations alongside these edits would represent a waste of time and resources. Finally, community translations do not guarantee quality control - staff members would need to recheck the dialogue translations after the community has submitted them (adding even more work, which is a huge burden considering the PRO staff already lacks human resources as is).

 

Instead of pitching these ideas for community translations, the best solutions are to learn English, watch Youtube guides with translations, or join a guild/custom chat channel with your specific language. In fact, this is a huge reason why guilds/custom chat channels exist in MMO games. Hopefully this helps further clarify our stance on translations.

I would like to add a resume of it, this doesn't mean that there will never be a translation change, it just mean that we aren't focusing at that matter in the time being, as we have other priorities around the corner.

Once again I would like to appreciate your devotion to the game so far and wish it will continue for a long time.

I hope this answer will explain everything. Also, a wish for you and for everyone that you hold dear of a great 2017 and that this year might be the best year of your life so far.

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