bizzyboy Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Probably for the large dutch and German population that plays the game. Honestly, have you ever seen players speaking in French in RS? Try a Canadian server. You'll see it sometimes, people from Quebec and (to a lesser extent) New Brunswic (provinces if you dont know canadian geography). since Quebec is offically the only french province and New Brunswic is the only bi lingual one. On any other server though no, you dont see french. Many of the peopel who speek those other languages also speek english, so its not a big deal for them. im quebecois , like ppl from france , almost every french speak or try like to to speak in english , so they can get more ppl with dutch im sure ... something to say about my english grammar ?!?!? , okay , but do it in french ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudismyname1 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Am I the first one to say this really? .. Hmm. . . Why marketplace, why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil_Ruler7 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I dont believe it was a necessity but german speakers do use the german world. I for one use it because it gives me extra practice with german. Im learning it in school and it can help me learn new words/phrases. So for me it works out, I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitzman2b Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 i agree with you. just the other day, a friend of may ( he became a friend) had to speak to me in spanish) why geman.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicrune007 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Chinese... ahhh gold farmers lol Hmm german? I really don't know. Hey Nicrune007 , Whats Your Username? 99 Ranged on 2/6/07 99 Hit Points on 9/5/08 99 Defense on 26/4/08 99 Attack on 14/2/09 99 Strength on 25/2/09 99 Slayer on 13/9/09\:D/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coenvg Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Probably for the large dutch and German population that plays the game. Honestly, have you ever seen players speaking in French in RS? Sure: gem rocks Shilo village :P And German people have something with RPG's, games like Gothic, and some less known titles are made in German and later translated to English, and other larger titles also sell for a very big part in Germany. I believe there are more Dutch people in the game than German, but the Netherlands are very small, and Germany is quite large, so there is much more need for Dutch people to learn German than vice versa, and I believe more Dutch people learn English either. Just because we are such a small country. And I don't know if this is right, but I've heard somewhere that it wasn't Jagex who made the German language pack, but it was an German voluntary guy, i guess I've read that when the German language update was on RS front page. Master of Firemaking since 10-11-2007 Yes, I QUIT! =] Master of Woodcutting since Christmas 2007Completed all quests - Completed all achievement diaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeke2006 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 so german people can play the game? maybe thats why. you sir are good, \ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbington Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Can someone answer me this. The top ten spoken languages in the world are... Mandarin Chinese English Hindustani Spanish Russian Arabic Bengali Portugese Malay-Indonesian French And Jagex makes Runescape German. Why the Hell Did they make it German. I understand that some of those languages aren't the weathiest countries and can't afford computers and etc. But Spanish, French, Portugese, Russian, and some Arabic speaking countries Your reasons why they SHOULD have done it are the exact same reasons why Jagex chose NOT to do it. Bringing a game into a whole new language raises many major issues: Will it be popular? Can our company support it? How do we go about future additions of languages? It was the first one the chose they needed a smaller yet important language that would take a while to build up in popularity, they needed to learn how much they need to adjust their company set up for the introduction of bigger languages. For example if they jumped in with Chineese and the game was swamped straight away they would not have the man power, servers etc to support the players and so thye chose german as they would have greater amount s of thime to react. But why german and not another smaller language? In germany there is a large and active gaming community with many many online players, however they are less likely than other nationlities to play games in a differnet language! so by attacking the german market they are opeing up to alot of player who otherwise would not have played. If you look at the dutch speaking countries however they seem very happy to play english games, as they are great at handeling the language.... it would not be such a sucsess to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Am I the first one to say this really? .. Hmm. . . Why marketplace, why? This thread was in the general, some mod moved it here, don't know why... Edit: huh? It keeps switching places from marketplace to general and general to marketplace rofl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul00 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I bet a Jagex person is/speaks German. 645th to 99 Agility. I'm always up for a good chat, feel free to pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwreeTak Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I think that the reason is that Germans have a bit hard to speak english, and that many of the RS players are from German. Add me if you so wish: SwreeTak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blosssom2581 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 that's called demand and supply (i know the demand and supply has a different sense when it comes to economic) - if you have a bunch of Dutch speaking players, you tend to favour them by doing this The competition is huge. Without this kind of stuff, they probably lose customers Currently taking a break from Runescape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romu000 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 have you ever seen players speaking in French in RS? I do when i meet some of my french friends and do you know what happen ? We are flamed because we use another language... from people who use 'netherlandish' language wich is not german. Amazing ! This may be a reason not to see us as often as we would love to. European servers are either in Holland or in Finland ! I guess it is mostly because of the economical situation than the population : membership = fee. Jagex tryied on the language they had servers on. Runescape forced me to keep my english (writen) warm and it is the greatest thing a game could do. Even if it would be nice to enable other languages, i still think on language is a good think as you need it to interact with people all over the world. Oh baby light the dark side... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudismyname1 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 This thread was in the general, some mod moved it here, don't know why... Edit: huh? It keeps switching places from marketplace to general and general to marketplace rofl lol, I wondered why it was getting so many hits in the marketplace. Edit:It was just in Marketplace, and after I replied it took me to General Discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyMcNabb Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I am still waiting for a server based in pig-latin. Ever been to burthorpe? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabbage_Boii Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Probably for the large dutch and German population that plays the game. Honestly, have you ever seen players speaking in French in RS? yes? i speak french sometimes, the chat i join randomly breaks out in french convo's. but i get what your saying, i see WAY more german speakers then french or any other. Let your yellow mellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babyshambles Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I heard somewhere that German is the most spoken language in Europe. Well i guess as a first language atleast. Remember, not just Germans have German as their native tongue. Other countries such as Switzerland, Austria and Leichtestein have German as an official language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will H Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I think that they chose to take on German first because they easily had enough German speaking man power whilst still working on the updates. I don't think they will take on Mandarin Chinese yet because they will be flooded by such a huge market. I know, they would get huge profits, but there is such thing as too much of a good thing. Maybe they will take on French or Dutch next? ~ W ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goobore Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Can someone answer me this. ..And Jagex makes Runescape German. Why the Hell Did they make it German. A couple of thngs to consider... 1) IIRC, English and German are both considered "Germanic" type languages. That means that the sentence structure is similar. Hence, translations from English to German could be relatively smooth. By comparison, Spanish, Portugese, French, and Italian are considered "Latin" languages. Latin based languages typically typically reverse the placement of words within a sentence, (compared to English), and hence, translations are harder to do correctly. But Spanish, French, Portugese, Russian, and some Arabic speaking countries 2) Well, did Jagex ever say that a German RS was going to be the only non-english speaking version? It might be that Andrew and Paul just flipped and coin and decided to do German first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epeeflecher Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Arabi Would be so sick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oropher Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Are there seriously that many Germans who play? Every time I walk around I see Como Estas? or Do you speak french (in french) HAHAHAHA Seriously, you obvioulsy don't know french if you think como estas is french. ("Parlez-vous fran̮̤̉̉ais?" would mean "do you speak french?".) Retired High Leader of the Great TitansDK: Dragon axe x55, Zerker x40, Warrior x44GWD: Bandos hilt x2,Bandos plate x8,Bandos tassets x3, Bandos boots x 2, Armadyl helm x2, Armadyl hilt x1, Saradomin sword x3Dragon drops: d chain x3, d left half x3, d legs x4, d skirt x2, d claws x6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_1134 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Are there seriously that many Germans who play? Every time I walk around I see Como Estas? or Do you speak french (in french) HAHAHAHA Seriously, you obvioulsy don't know french if you think como estas is french. ("Parlez-vous fran̮̤̉̉ais?" would mean "do you speak french?".) Como Estat - something about the United States? :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkduellord Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 chinese version for all the green farmers :D Tip.it's 2nd unoffical Go player sm3x; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babyshambles Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 chinese version for all the green farmers :D They're gold farmers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I doubt they did it for he biggest speaing countries. I imagine they did it like.. "Which country, apart from England, plays the most? Ooh, it's Germany!" So that's why they made German servers I guess... More are probably are on the way, but it's complicated. It's not all Copying and Pasting through a Translator.. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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