Its the fact that the community is abnormally small.

Plenty of communities that are small IRL have large representations in EVE. Hispanic communities don't.

You also may be surprised to learn that I'm half Latino and spent one third of my life living in various countries in South America.

Also, your average latino has much better english than your average american speaks has any foreign language. There really isn't much need for localization. In fact, most latino gamers I know refuse to play on localized clients, because translations tend to be ****.

Now you try the Zimmerman approach "I'm not racist because I'm Latino too"... meh If you don't want Hispanics to have their client that's your choice. But don't come here saying that there are more Japanese players than Hispanics players. That's just pure BS. We exist, we are here and we are quite a few. Do not belittle us.... expect us.

In the time it took you to write that troll, your country lost 10,000 IT jobs to India. :P

Sad but true.


BTW it's Mandarin, English, Hindustani, and then spanish. If anyone was curious.

Hindi has fewer speakers than Spanish - by a massive margin on a native language basis, and by ~10 million total.

Still, this discussion is sterile.

I expect CCP has precise information regarding the number of accounts created by country.

And I also expect that the number of Spanish accounts, plus the number of accounts from other Spanish-speaking countries do not amount for the necessary income to justify the Spanish game client.

Perhaps Dust would change that? The FPS genre has always been extremely popular in Spain, and perhaps it will trigger some curiosity towards CCP's intellectual property.

Still, your average Call of Duty player is used to translated and dubbed games and might not react adequately to a client in English, German and Russian.

Yo creo que si CCP nos lo preguntase amablemente podiramos ayudar con la traduccion.

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You're one dumb ************, aren't you.

Calling my stance racist now? Jesus H Christ this is pointless.

Calling my stance racist now? Jesus H Christ this is pointless.

Only - only - if they get their own server. Localized clients by default allows people who don't speak English to play the game; how do you expect these people to get along with the rest of the English-speaking international community that is EVE?

I don't want to be ransomed by legendary space pirate El Pollo Loco who doesn't speak English!

Jokes aside, separating and diving the player-base over localized clients is never a good idea.

Only - only - if they get their own server. Localized clients by default allows people who don't speak English to play the game; how do you expect these people to get along with the rest of the English-speaking international community that is EVE?

I don't want to be ransomed by legendary space pirate El Pollo Loco who doesn't speak English!

Jokes aside, separating and diving the player-base over localized clients is never a good idea.

You haven't been on Russian space haven't you?

Again, the same thing all over again... there are already multiple localized clients... russian, german, japanese... are you saying those were not a good idea? They are already there... nothing has broke because of it.

As I said, I don't care about a spanish client since I can manage myself quite well in english, but at least 2 friends of mine tried the game and left because it was in english.

Blame their lazyness or our schools but the fact is they would be playing if the game was translated to spanish.

PS: BTW... any pirate called El Pollo Loco must be flying a Zealot.

Yup I call you racist. Spanish Localization does not affect you or your game play, yet here you are advocating against it, spreading lies about the Hispanic population out of hatred and racism.

How many Hispanic players exist in game? Or more importantly... how many Hispanics *TRIED* the game and didn't subscribe because the lack of a Spanish Client? You don't know. Only CCP knows. You can only guess. You can say you don't know any. I'm telling you I know quite a few.

And again, the questions you keep evading... how many Japanese alliances you know? Yet there's a client for it. So, what's your problem?

And BTW... about Vera Cruz... the alliance influence map is wrong (here). If you were praising them because you thought they had the key to your ano (No joke, Test Alliance's back door entrance is a system called Y-2ANO), please check the ingame map because Vera Cruz doesn't hold that system, 99 Percent does.

This isn't merely about localizing the client. CCP would have to hire several Spanish-speaking GMs and community staff. They'd have to create Spanish forum sections and otherwise spend a substantial amount of time and money - this isn't something that can be done overnight. I also doubt that they'd want to promise anything because, well, CCP has a history with promises.

It absolutely affects my game play. You know why? Because it costs money and time, resources best spent improving the game. Good localization is not cheap.

This isn't merely about localizing the client. CCP would have to hire several Spanish-speaking GMs and community staff. They'd have to create Spanish forum sections and otherwise spend a substantial amount of time and money - this isn't something that can be done overnight. I also doubt that they'd want to promise anything because, well, CCP has a history with promises.

* What's the salary per hour of an English to Spanish translator? You don't know.

* How much text are we talking about (words, pages)? You don't know.

* How much text per hour can a person translate? You don't know.

You know nothing sir... you know nothing about nothing.

Now, let me enlighten you. I have work doing translations from English to Spanish for years (5 years on ATT alone). The average salary is around $10 dollars an hour. Most of the work is done using an automatic translator software (one click). The translator (the human person) then sits with both texts and reads side by side, making a few corrections here and there. A whole stack of cellphone manuals can be translated in a few days with time to spare.

PS: ...and after all, what "improvements" are you talking about? The unified inventory?

I disagree on the time and money thing because I've seen first hand how this is handled in corporate america. You don't hire a "Spanish only" customer rep. You hire a "bilingual" customer rep that can speak both English and Spanish. When there's a Spanish client on the Spanish queue, the bilingual guy gets it. When the Spanish queue is empty, he works on the English queue. Does he gets more salary? Maybe .25 cents an hour. I live in Florida, trust me, I know this.

Shameless, you do your cause no good by waving the "Racist Card" around like a sword.
Just saying.

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Just because you had a minimum wage desk jockey job monitoring an automated translation of a cell phone manual...

Funny, my roommate worked ....

Why cant spanish people learn english instead? Not that im against a spanish translation for those actually able to afford/use a computer.