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When EVE online in spanish?¿
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Richard Desturned
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#181 - 2012-06-14 07:19:39 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Shameless Avenger wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:

Creeme, no quieres que Riverini te represente.


Is "represente", not "representa".


depends on dialect, boludo de mierda.


nope, he's right

npc alts have no opinions worth consideration
Darius Brinn
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#182 - 2012-06-14 10:12:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Darius Brinn
Tenchi Sal wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:


Your average Japanese person has a much, much poorer grasp of European languages than your average Spanish speaker. The language gap is massive in that case, and a localized client is almost necessary.



actually thats not true. i've played plenty of games with native japanese speakers. they learn english as their second language and are quite good at it. way better then most in latin countries who dont have to learn english as a second language.


There are actually NO Spanish-speaking countries where English is not part of the system.

In Spain, Mexico and practically everywhere else, you are FORCED to take English lessons at school. It's compulsory. Mandatory.

Also, I have a PhD in molecular biology and most of the REALLY useful texts and books were in English, just as 99% of the major publications and magazines related to the field.

In Spain, most people have a terrible accent because of the phonetic structure of our language. Only 5 vowel phonemes, for instance, compared to the 20 in English. But still, most people can understand what you say.

This kind of thing makes us, curiously, specially adept at Japanese pronunciation, which shares the sound of ALL vowels (except the /u/, more or less) with Spanish > we are awesomesauce at it.

And back to topic: the Spanish client is not NEEDED per se. It's would just be, for some people, a nice detail. Just like the German or the Russian clients > it's added value, not a core element.

I'd also prefer those resources devoted to other aspects of the game, but find it hard to accept that the arguments AGAINST a Spanish client are based in half-assed racial remarks or concerns about hordes of Spaniards flooding Local with their heathen lingo.

Come on.
Princess Strawberry
#183 - 2012-06-14 11:58:39 UTC
A Spanish client might open up a new player base for Eve, since (except Brazil) everyone in South and Central America speaks Spanish, along with quite a sizable population inside the US. Would if course be good for Spain as well Smile I see the competition (WoW has both Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese clients, the Brazilian Portugues being very recent and presumably to open up a new market for Blizzard (specifically it is Brazilian Portuguese, which is different from what people speak in Portugal, but then Portugal has a population around 10 million and Brazil 190 million so I can see why they chose that).

Looking at the existing options, the Russian client serves quite a large population base given that in a lot of Eastern European states people also learnt Russian (although many didn't want to). The German client presumably only serves for people in Germany, Austria and part of Switzerland. But Russian and German speakers are clearly a big part of the Eve community.

On my own blog, I have 67% visits from English-speaking countries, about 9% from German-speaking countries (I'm including half of the vists from Switzerland there), about 10% from Russia/Eastern Europe (not all Russian speaking of course) but only 2% from Spain and no visits at all in over 3 years from any Latin American countries. http://eveonomics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/wo-sind-die-industriellen-donde-estan.html

Not that my blog should be indicative of the Eve player base, mind you. Besides anything else it's inherent biased to an English-speaking audience anyway.

That there are no visits at all from Latin America (an dfew from Spain) you can look at 2 ways:

  1. Spanish client a waste of investment because there are few players
  2. Spanish client would really help improve the player base in Spanish-speaking countries and is a business opportunity for CCP


That's my 2 isk.

http://eveonomics.blogspot.co.uk/
Hrothgar Nilsson
#184 - 2012-06-14 21:59:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Hrothgar Nilsson
Princess Strawberry wrote:
The German client presumably only serves for people in Germany, Austria and part of Switzerland.

Actually German is pretty widely spoken outside those countries. The former Yugoslavia, Turkey, eastern Europe all have sizeable populations of second-language German speakers due to historical reasons and the Gastarbeiteren program.

Scandinavia and the NL/BE have large numbers of German speakers as well, but English as a second language is more common than German nowadays. The German client however ought to cover most of the rest of those in NL/BE/DK/SE/NO that don't speak English, as well as a pretty big chunk of eastern Europe that isn't English-speaking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_of_German_EU_map.svg

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#185 - 2012-06-14 22:10:53 UTC
Need some more Spanish good stuff

brb
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#186 - 2012-06-14 22:23:09 UTC
As a non-spanish-speaking Texan, Eve is one of the few places I can escape it. Don't take that away from me! X

Blink

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
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