Runescape in Portuguese

[Cavi]

I'm portuguese.. They'll probably translate it to brazilian portuguese, which I hate <_<

 

Anyhow, even if they do translate it into Portuguese from portugal, I'll continue using the english versions...

 

 

 

Totally agree :thumbup: . I speak spanish and if Jagex makes spanish worlds (hard to believe) i would stick with english version too. I just get used to play Runescape in english and a spanish version would look awful.

[Suiku]

Why you say that! Spanish servers gonna need support to prove we are a lot and we deserve more servers, if you don't stick to spanish servers we gonna... :(

[Will H]

Most spanish speakers know how to speak english

 

 

 

English is such an easy language....

 

I've heard that it's quite a hard language actually. Anyway, even though a lot of people who speak a European language also know English, most would prefer to speak their native language, given the choice.

[Cavi]

Why you say that! Spanish servers gonna need support to prove we are a lot and we deserve more servers, if you don't stick to spanish servers we gonna... :(

 

 

 

Ya true, more spanish servers or a spanish version would be increadible and i would be shocked. We, the spanish community, are growing very fast, there are player in Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and obviously Spain.

 

Its not that i want to put other spanish speaker down, im proud of my language and my country, Español is FTW!

[Robert_de_Sable]

Does anyone else regard this as an incredibly stupid mistake?

 

Portuguese?

 

I bet about 3% of 'Scapers are fluent in Potuguese, probably less...

[jackjonson]

Does anyone else regard this as an incredibly stupid mistake?

 

Portuguese?

 

I bet about 3% of 'Scapers are fluent in Potuguese, probably less...

 

 

 

that is exactly the point, globally, brazil is on the rise with a more defined middle class, this means more expendable capital and more free time for millions of people. jagex sees this and is trying to jump on an expanding market.

 

 

 

 

Suiku_fv wrote:

 

Why you say that! Spanish servers gonna need support to prove we are a lot and we deserve more servers, if you don't stick to spanish servers we gonna... :(

 

 

 

 

 

Ya true, more spanish servers or a spanish version would be increadible and i would be shocked. We, the spanish community, are growing very fast, there are player in Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and obviously Spain.

 

Its not that i want to put other spanish speaker down, im proud of my language and my country, Español is FTW!

 

 

 

which is exactly why they do not need a spanish server, expanding this way is not meant to keep the existing community happy, it is to bring in a new wave of players

[CentriX_2]

It's called Portuguese, not Portugese for god's sake.

 

 

 

It's one of the most spoken languages in the world... There are a lot of Portuguese players on Runescape, and Brasilian players are appearing more and more and since their economy is growing fast, more people will have access to computers which means more people will play Runescape and eventually subscribe.

 

 

 

In my opinion it's a really smart move by Jagex, but I know that some items will have a strangeeeeee translation.

 

 

 

So stop whining and saying only 3% of 'Scapers are fluent on Portuguese, just because you're interested in having other language on the game.

 

 

 

~Cent

[m1le5y1eng5t]

Yeah, I sure hope they come out with languages that are spoken more frequently..

 

French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese... etc, instead of wasting their time with ?Portuguese?

 

it's the 6 or 7th most spoken language in the world...

 

 

 

Then shouldn't they be working on the 3rd-5th most spoken languages first?

[jackjonson]

Yeah, I sure hope they come out with languages that are spoken more frequently..

 

French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese... etc, instead of wasting their time with ?Portuguese?

 

it's the 6 or 7th most spoken language in the world...

 

 

 

Then shouldn't they be working on the 3rd-5th most spoken languages first?

 

 

 

 

 

no

[spyderownzyou]

Yeah, I sure hope they come out with languages that are spoken more frequently..

 

French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese... etc, instead of wasting their time with ?Portuguese?

 

it's the 6 or 7th most spoken language in the world...

 

 

 

Then shouldn't they be working on the 3rd-5th most spoken languages first?

 

It is rather simple, the point of adding new language servers is expansion

 

now even though there are more spoken languages still to be added, most of the time there second language is normally english, for example most european countries have many rs players (already on english servers)

 

chinese is pointless, because they have more advanced and popular mmo's in asia (WOW, among others) so the chance of expanding there is minimal, until they mass-improve runescape to a higher level, non-java based maybe?

 

now portuguese...many south american countries speak portuguese, for example brazil (it there main language) and they are expanding economically so therefore they have more cash, and free time than say 10 years ago, this coupled with the fact internet is becoming more accessable there and english is a less spoken second language there...this means we have a winner for expansion =D>

[Will H]

Yeah, I sure hope they come out with languages that are spoken more frequently..

 

French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese... etc, instead of wasting their time with ?Portuguese?

 

it's the 6 or 7th most spoken language in the world...

 

 

 

Then shouldn't they be working on the 3rd-5th most spoken languages first?

 

It is rather simple, the point of adding new language servers is expansion

 

now even though there are more spoken languages still to be added, most of the time there second language is normally english, for example most european countries have many rs players (already on english servers)

 

chinese is pointless, because they have more advanced and popular mmo's in asia (WOW, among others) so the chance of expanding there is minimal, until they mass-improve runescape to a higher level, non-java based maybe?

 

now portuguese...many south american countries speak portuguese, for example brazil (it there main language) and they are expanding economically so therefore they have more cash, and free time than say 10 years ago, this coupled with the fact internet is becoming more accessable there and english is a less spoken second language there...this means we have a winner for expansion =D>

 

I agree with you about the expansion thing, but the asian market is not a lost cause. I'm sure there's plenty of asians who would like to get at a MMO without all of the sometimes pricey accessibility issues that often come with these games, probably equally as much as Western gamers.

[spyderownzyou]

Yeah, I sure hope they come out with languages that are spoken more frequently..

 

French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese... etc, instead of wasting their time with ?Portuguese?

 

it's the 6 or 7th most spoken language in the world...

 

 

 

Then shouldn't they be working on the 3rd-5th most spoken languages first?

 

It is rather simple, the point of adding new language servers is expansion

 

now even though there are more spoken languages still to be added, most of the time there second language is normally english, for example most european countries have many rs players (already on english servers)

 

chinese is pointless, because they have more advanced and popular mmo's in asia (WOW, among others) so the chance of expanding there is minimal, until they mass-improve runescape to a higher level, non-java based maybe?

 

now portuguese...many south american countries speak portuguese, for example brazil (it there main language) and they are expanding economically so therefore they have more cash, and free time than say 10 years ago, this coupled with the fact internet is becoming more accessable there and english is a less spoken second language there...this means we have a winner for expansion =D>

 

I agree with you about the expansion thing, but the asian market is not a lost cause. I'm sure there's plenty of asians who would like to get at a MMO without all of the sometimes pricey accessibility issues that often come with these games, probably equally as much as Western gamers.

 

well i'm putting it in a strictly business viewpoint, jagex's main rivals are asian developers, and it would prove a more risky and costly affair to expand in there rivals' base of operations than a previosuly un-tapped area, where people would be more inclined to begin playing a totally free game until they decide to go members, unlike most mmo's where your trail ends and you pay a hefty fee if you wish to continue

 

maybe if jagex expand into cd-rom based mmo's they may stand a chance of making an effective expansion into the asian market, but i can't see them making enough profit back from a costly venture such as translating and mantaining new language servers at there current state

 

so therefore portuguese makes most business sense

[Oathkeeper]

off the next language note,

 

if you go to funorb there is already a French language option to go with the german one.

 

So could we be expecting it within a month? (even though RS is much bigger then FO, but the translation team has nothing else to do)

[mervinator_9]

Hopefully all other languages will be put into the game ASAP.

 

 

 

All? wont that take a while what with there being hundreds of them? :lol:

 

 

 

seems like a pretty random choose to me, i would have thought spanish next, but i guess alot of people speak it so it can only benifit the game,

[wildy58]

Portugal ftw! (Don't speak it but my fathers Portugese)

 

 

 

Christiano Ronaldo ftw?

[Wizz]

They just added atleast 1 brazil world, makes me think its quite obvious that portugese would be one of the next languages.

 

They added a Mexican world, that means it's going to be in Spanish huh?

[UserOnRS]

27 August 2008 - FunOrb French

 

 

 

This month, we have released FunOrb in its third language: French! Whether you're fluent in the language or just learning, you can give it a try by clicking on the French flag in the top-right of the website.

 

 

 

More languages are planned for the FunOrb website, so keep an eye out for similar announcements in the future.

 

So I guess French will be soon for RS.

[Peterblue]

The problem with the French server is that all of the monsters will run away. :P

[WhiteHorn]

27 August 2008 - FunOrb French

 

 

 

This month, we have released FunOrb in its third language: French! Whether you're fluent in the language or just learning, you can give it a try by clicking on the French flag in the top-right of the website.

 

 

 

More languages are planned for the FunOrb website, so keep an eye out for similar announcements in the future.

 

So I guess French will be soon for RS.

 

 

 

Moreover, the Parents Guide on http://www.jagex.com is available in French too. All links in this version of the guide takes you to the different parts of http://www.runescape.com/l=2, most likely the future url for French RS.

[Lider_V]

I'm portuguese, and I have to say that the addition of my language to RS, although seeming nice, it won't be THAT useful. That's not to say that other people wouldn't find it useful.

 

 

 

I've grown used to seeing RS in english that if I were to play RS in portuguese it would feel really wierd.

 

 

 

On top of that, there's the possibility of JaGex only releasing portuguese from Brazil and not from both Portugal and Brazil, since there are many more brazilians than portuguese. However, I hope they do release both types of the portuguese language.

 

 

 

^^

[Capone_Sabre]

Well they have now released FunOrb in Portuguese. I guess they will now concentrate on RuneScape.

 

 

 

I hope the French version of RS comes soon. I have not played since the Dec 10th updates last year. However if they released a French or perhaps even a Spanish version I would consider playing again. At least then it wouldn't feel like a complete waste of time.

[Serpent Eye]

Most spanish speakers know how to speak english

 

 

 

English is such an easy language....

 

 

 

English is far from easy to learn... it is one of the hardest languages to pick up, in fact.

[Wizz]

Ah they made FunOrb a nice Portuegese version, Teaser?

[Omar]

Serpent, I learned English from Yu-Gi-Oh cards...

 

Which doesn't mean it shouldn't be translated though.

[Zaaps1]

Serpent, I learned English from Yu-Gi-Oh cards...

 

Which doesn't mean it shouldn't be translated though.

 

 

 

Lol.

 

Pos Language Family Script(s) Used Speakers

 

(Millions) Where Spoken (Major)

 

1 Mandarin Sino-Tibetan Chinese Characters 1120 China, Malaysia, Taiwan

 

2 English Indo-European Latin 510 USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand

 

3 Hindi Indo-European Devanagari 490 North and Central India

 

4 Spanish Indo-European Latin 425 Mexico, Central and South America, Spain

 

5 Arabic Afro-Asiatic Arabic 255 Middle East, Arabia, North Africa

 

6 Russian Indo-European Cyrillic 254 Russia, Central Asia

 

7 Portuguese Indo-European Latin 218 Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa

 

8 Bengali Indo-European Bengali 215 Bangladesh, Eastern India

 

9 Malay, Indonesian Malayo-Polynesian Latin 175 Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore

 

10 French Indo-European Latin 130 France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa

 

11 Japanese Altaic Chinese Characters and 2 Japanese Alphabets 127 Japan

 

12 German Indo-European Latin 123 Germany, Austria, Central Europe

 

13 Farsi (Persian) Indo-European Nastaliq 110 Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia

 

14 Urdu Indo-European Nastaliq 104 Pakistan, India

 

15 Punjabi Indo-European Gurumukhi 103 Pakistan, India

 

16 Vietnamese Austroasiatic Based on Latin 86 Vietnam, China

 

17 Tamil Dravidian Tamil 78 Southern India, Sri Lanka, Malyasia

 

18 Wu Sino-Tibetan Chinese Characters 77 China

 

19 Javanese Malayo-Polynesian Javanese 76 Indonesia

 

20 Turkish Altaic Latin 75 Turkey, Central Asia

 

21 Telugu Dravidian Telugu 74 Southern India

 

22 Korean Altaic Hangul 72 Korean Peninsula

 

23 Marathi Indo-European Devanagari 71 Western India

 

24 Italian Indo-European Latin 61 Italy, Central Europe

 

25 Thai Sino-Tibetan Thai 60 Thailand, Laos

 

26 Cantonese Sino-Tibetan Chinese Characters 55 Southern China

 

27 Gujarati Indo-European Gujarati 47 Western India, Kenya

 

28 Polish Indo-European Latin 46 Poland, Central Europe

 

29 Kannada Dravidian Kannada 44 Southern India

 

30 Burmese Sino-Tibetan Burmese 42 Myanmar

 

 

 

http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html

 

 

 

Stands to logic they should develop those toward the top first. Although there may be ethnic/regional barriers that must be overcome. Still, I would love to play RS in my native language (Chinese).

 

 

 

That also raises the question of why Portuguese first before Spanish?