Update broke community translation

Zantai · November 17, 2023, 2:50pm

We gave community translators months heads up about needing to do this.

Hello Translators!

We are investigating the possibility of editing/adding some tags in the future, but that obviously becomes a problem for localization.

I imagine many/most of you are not very active any more, for obvious reasons.

The community’s generously supported other languages for Grim Dawn for years, but we can’t reasonably expect you guys to all come back and keep doing this forever, even if it’s for a few new bits of text.

As you know, we are now working with a localization company for Farthest Frontier, so we can do the same for the new Grim Dawn text. However, that would mean we need to add to the community localizations. Now the simplest solution would be for us to freeze community localization packs as they are now.

Those of you that are supporting mods would still be able to do so. You’d just have to download the latest language pack through the game.

If this would be an issue for anyone for some reason, please let us know here. You guys have been an important part of GD’s history and we want to make sure your contributions are preserved.

Future of Community Localizations

There is definitely an appeal to the personal touch the community can give. Though I obviously cannot vouch for the quality of the localizations we’ve had for Frontier as I do not speak all those languages, just based on the questions they ask throughout the process they do seem to care about context and tone. So there is that.

We would not retranslate anything that was already translated by the community, unless we have to change an old line of text significantly enough to warrant it.

For Grim Dawn, the community stepping up was the difference between the game’s text being available in other languages and it being exclusively in English. We were in a very different situation back then. There were more community volunteers translating the game than there were people in the entire company.

I’m not sure it’s fair to expect or even hope for such a commitment from the community in the future. V1.2.0.0 is going to need stuff translated, so hoping all the community volunteers pop back in might be a bit of a gamble, haha.