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Eve online in french?

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bloodknight2
Revenu.Quebec
#1 - 2012-10-25 14:41:34 UTC
I was in the french channel in Eve when someone said Eve was available in french in the beginning. I always thought CCP said that Eve would never be translated in french. So, did Eve was really available in french in the first years?

Thank =)
Jim Era
#2 - 2012-10-25 14:47:14 UTC
eve in french, would take out all of the seriousness

Wat™
Ravnik
Infinate Horizon
#3 - 2012-10-25 14:47:22 UTC
Try ganking a miner, then you will hear some french! Big smile

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Buhhdust Princess
Mind Games.
#4 - 2012-10-25 15:04:01 UTC
EVE Online in french is

"Le EVE Online"

That is all.
Smelly Frenchman
Doomheim
#5 - 2012-10-25 15:13:06 UTC
I like ze smell of that. Vive Le EVE Online!

Est-ce que l'odeur venait de moi?
ISD Suvetar
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#6 - 2012-10-25 15:18:55 UTC
I think we can discuss this without resorting to sweeping generalisations of an entire culture.

Thanks.

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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#7 - 2012-10-25 15:21:56 UTC
I can be wrong, but I don't recall ever seeing EVE in French.

/c

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ISD Suvetar
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#8 - 2012-10-25 15:25:36 UTC
Chribba wrote:
I can be wrong



I don't believe you Shocked

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Kehro Urgus
Dark Nebula Academy
O X I D E
#9 - 2012-10-25 16:07:38 UTC
The Gallente are planning a referendum on separating from New Eden unless all Quafe cans are redesigned to carry le langue Franglais.

Yeeee! 
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#10 - 2012-10-25 16:51:25 UTC
Quoi?

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12
Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#11 - 2012-10-25 16:55:55 UTC
Someone should buy these Americans some 'freedom fries' so they stop crying about the French (wisely) choosing not to follow them into the desert to chase invisible enemies.

"In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness." ~Miyamoto Musashi
CCP Falcon
#12 - 2012-10-25 16:56:57 UTC

At present, EVE Online is localised in English, German, Russian and Japanese.

We also have a Chinese client for use with our Chinese cluster in china, Serenity.

Localization is something we take very seriously at CCP to try and make the game more accessible to people who don't speak English as their native language.

Hopefully in future we will be able to offer even more options for those who don't have English as their first language.

Hope this helps! Smile

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Robus Muvila
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#13 - 2012-10-25 16:57:16 UTC
ISD Suvetar wrote:
Chribba wrote:
I can be wrong



I don't believe you Shocked


My word.

Was that a SICK BURN from a volunteer CCP Representative?

One does not approve... Bear

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black cree
Utopian Research I.E.L.
#14 - 2012-10-25 16:58:18 UTC
fétchez la vache!
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2012-10-25 17:01:10 UTC
A recent sisi build did accidentally include some french localization: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=149221

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#16 - 2012-10-26 00:31:41 UTC
CCP Falcon wrote:

German, Russian and Japanese.


uhh to be fair, French is an international language, those are not.

Although English (another international language) is harder to learn for a Russian or Japanese than for someone who speaks French.

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#17 - 2012-10-26 00:42:27 UTC
Vera Algaert wrote:
A recent sisi build did accidentally include some french localization: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=149221

How does one accidentally localize?

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#18 - 2012-10-26 00:49:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Webvan
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Vera Algaert wrote:
A recent sisi build did accidentally include some french localization: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=149221

How does one accidentally localize?

Half the French language is English...
...or is that half the English language is French.

Quoi?

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12
ISD Suvetar
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#19 - 2012-10-26 00:52:04 UTC
I have quite an interest in languages, so in the interest of fairness:

German is an official language of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and a recognised language in parts of Belgium and Italy.
German is also the most widely spoken first language in the EU.

Russian is an official language in 7 or 8 countries in Europe too.

Only Japanese isn't truly international in its strictest definition, Japan itself comprises over six thousand islands and has many dialects. Also if the game wasn't translated to Japanese, then by sheer evidence alone, it wouldn't have marketed very well there. As indeed it didn't until there was a formal Japanese translation done.

So whilst there's not a big 'spoken on both sides of the atlantic' argument, there is surely enough of a reason there for those localizations.

As an aside, to refer back to that atlantic comment; would such a french translation work for both the Canadian speakers and French speakers ? I'm not terribly literate in French but I understand there are big differences between those two dialects.
in reference to Quebecois vs Parisian french; there is even grammatical difference which causes more issues for translators, especially in technical contexts, such as one would find in EVE Online.

I'm not disagreeing though; it would be really nice if there was a formal French translation too.
Perhaps if enough people show an interest, then it might happen ?

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Heimdallofasgard
Ministry of Furious Retribution
Insidious.
#20 - 2012-10-26 00:53:53 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Vera Algaert wrote:
A recent sisi build did accidentally include some french localization: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=149221

How does one accidentally localize?


Well... one night I got really smashed... and I'm talking "going for the high score of drunk" smashed...

My friends took me to the local airport while I was passed out, 3 hours later I woke up on a flight to Ireland with no return ticket, no baggage and no phone...

Mastercard were NOT happy.
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