一般的な議論

(日本人プレイヤーの皆さんへ。このスレッドはCCP Games CEOのヒルマル・ピエトルソン氏へ日本語サポートの維持・改善を請願するためのスレッドです。2つ目のポストが公開状の日本語訳となっています。詳しくはEVEJapan Newsの関連記事をご覧ください。署名していただける方は画面右上からログインし、下の方の『Reply』→内容記入→『Post』でレスをお願いします。なお、署名は1人につき1キャラまでとしてください。複数キャラで多人数に見せかける行為はフォーラムルールにより処罰される恐れがあります)

(To foreign players who agree with the petition. I'm not good at English. Please forgive even if it's difficult to read. Japanese community is too small to petition to CCP on its own. It would be appreciated if you signed by posting.)

Open letter

To CCP Games CEO、Mr. Hilmar Veigar Pétursson

Dear Mr. Pétursson

First of all, we appreciate all CCP staff who gave us a great sandbox game EVE Online. And, we would like to celebrate that "Ascension" expansion has been a success. Everything seems to be going well, but Japanese community is concerned about the current situation of Japanese language support. The signers of this thread are petitioning you for improving Japanese support.

To be honest, the current state of Japanese support is not superb. Four years ago, when you achieved Japanese localization, CCP's enthusiasm was amazing. But since then, the scale of the Japanese support has continued to shrink. Some players feel afraid that CCP intends to terminate Japanese language support. For Japanese, English is a bigger wall than foreigners can imagine, so end of Japanese support means disassembly of the Japanese community.

The following is the current main problem.

First, out-game contents are in a neglected state. Things absolutely necessary like EULA are translated, but update of Help Center is stopped and in-game tutorial video is still in English completely. These are very useful, but in untranslated state, only a few Japanese players can use it. We don't say we want you to translate all blogs and news. We want you to translate only important parts of the game.

Next, there is a problem with communication with Japanese CCP staff. There is a "bug reporting thread" in official Japanese forum, but Dev has not reacted for more than 1 year. Fatal problems such as multiple different items with the same name are still ignored. At least, we want to know if threads are functioning or not.

Third, the quality of localization is decreasing. Clearly, some translators of Japanese client don't know EVE. For example, previous translator translated "Heavy Interdiction Cruisers" as "ワープ妨害型巡洋艦". This Japanese means "Warp disruption type cruiser". He or she understands game system, and this is a proper translation. However, current translator translated this as "補給線重爆撃型巡洋艦". This Japanese means "Supply line heavy bombing type cruiser". We can understand why current translater translated in this way, but this is not a translation that should be applied to EVE. In addition, there are some text that we doubt translater use machine translation. Some description is completely wrong. We hope that person who know EVE will be in charge of translation.

Fourth, official Japanese site gives a negative impression to Japanese people. Update has been stopped three years ago, and thanks to it, EVE looks like a dead game. The official EVE twitter account of partner company "NEXON" has not been active since two years ago. This can also be a negative image. We don't say that we want you to resume its update. We understand that it's difficult. However, we want you to delete the part that gives a negative impression.

Based on the above, we petition you that CCP declare continuation of Japanese language support. The current Japanese community is built under the Japanese language support, and any further deterioration in support quality will affect our survival. If you can't grant more resources to Japanese language support, please maintain the current support at the very least. Decent localization and GM who can speak Japanese is absolutely necessary for us.

The Japanese community is aware of ourselves being small and unprofitable. So we are very grateful that you have continued to support Japanese players for 4 years. We also feel that this petition might be rude. But now we want CCP to recall their words again..."At CCP, we feel that our community are of paramount importance."

For the survival of the Japanese community and further development of EVE Online, we will petition to you.

Best regards,
Japanese players and foreign players who agree with the petition

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