February 18, 200719 yr wow.. look what i found while reading old articles Last week, while commenting on Jagex's recent updates, I glossed over the possibility of the way being paved for RS3. Today I want to expand on my thoughts, and add in a few things I've thought of since. Of course, this being an editorial column, my opinions are just that ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ my opinions. You are at liberty to disagree with me, should you so choose and say so in the forum thread. There seems to be a theme behind a lot of the recent interface updates. In general, these have had the effect of reducing the amount of text in the various boxes and adding more pictorial icons. The emotes, for example, have all been replaced by icons. I've seen assorted comments on this ranging from people who love the new icons, to others grumbling about Jagex dumbing down the game for kids who can't read. I think it's a step towards foreign language versions of RuneScape. After all, the less text you have to translate, the easier it is to bring out a foreign language version. Given the large numbers of players in Europe, bringing out French, German, Dutch, Italian or Swedish versions of the game would be a very smart move. Other languages with different character sets, or different text-flow directions would be a whole new ballgame, but most of the European languages shouldn't be too hard to do. Of course expanding into foreign languages adds all sorts of other interesting questions. I expect there would have to be dedicated servers for the different languages ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ anything else would be too hard to implement. That would also allow them to improve the censor. One of the problems with the current language censor is that it blocks many non-English words which are perfectly decent, while allowing non-English obscenities to flourish. A French language server could have a censor customized for French obscenities, a Dutch one could be customized for Dutch, and so on. can any one say that this dudes a pyschic? OMG OMG SAILING IS COMING LOLOLOLOL!!!1111 b/c JAGEX GAMES STUDIO , ANAGRAM OF SAITO JUDGE X-GAMES TAKASHI SAITO= RED SOX P1TCHER... RED SOX = BOSTON, BOSTON = PORT CITY!!!! PORT CITY = SAILING
February 18, 200719 yr As you said it's an old article. The person who wrote it could have simply looked on Jagex's website and looked at their agenda.
February 18, 200719 yr Jagex have said about making the game into other languages for ages, it was on their job site like a year ago. [spoiler=My 99s (7)]9,638th to 99 Fletching ~ 29th January 2007 737th to 99 Hunter ~ 2nd July 2007910th to 99 Agility ~ 28th January 200859,467th to 99 Defence ~ 23rd December 200992,762nd to 99 Hitpoints ~ 26th June 2010102,704th to 99 Attack ~ 29th June 2010144,091st to 99 Strength ~ 29th June 2010
February 18, 200719 yr German is the world's second most commong language. Fact. Pretty much what Dragon said.Thread terminated.I guess that means I'm the thread Terminator? No Tip.Iters were harmed in the making of this post.
February 18, 200719 yr German is the world's second most commong language. Fact. No it's not. First comes Chinese, then English so it can't be 2nd. 8-)
February 18, 200719 yr Honestly, I don't think mandarin should be counted. Or Hindi. But anyways...the order is 1)Mandarin 2)English 3)Spanish ...... 10)German =;
February 18, 200719 yr Author err wtf english the game is alreaduy in english OMG OMG SAILING IS COMING LOLOLOLOL!!!1111 b/c JAGEX GAMES STUDIO , ANAGRAM OF SAITO JUDGE X-GAMES TAKASHI SAITO= RED SOX P1TCHER... RED SOX = BOSTON, BOSTON = PORT CITY!!!! PORT CITY = SAILING
February 18, 200719 yr actually it wasn't too hard to guess that the first translation of RuneScape would be to german...
February 18, 200719 yr actually it wasn't too hard to guess that the first translation of RuneScape would be to german... ya pretty much the best language choice to try out for their first translation of the game since german is pretty much the closest language to English. (they're both germanic languages, not latin-based "romance" languages such as Spanish and French) ***Info gotten from my uncle who is a linguist and translator for the US army and studies language*** When I Have It, It's the World's. When I Don't Have It, The World Is Mine.
February 18, 200719 yr Honestly, I don't think mandarin should be counted. Or Hindi. But anyways...the order is 1)Mandarin 2)English 3)Spanish ...... 10)German =; why not mandarin or hindi? is this some sort of prejudice you hold? :shame:
February 20, 200719 yr Hmmphh. You got me all excited. So not "Wow" worthy. ---Do not ask God for an easy life. Ask him for the strength to endure a difficult one.Pansy: a weak, effeminate, and often cowardly man. (Oxford English Dictionary)
February 20, 200719 yr German is the world's second most commong language. Fact. I dont know where you got that from, but as others said, mandarin/chinese would be first, than English, and then spanish or portugese, but Jagex picked German maybe because they thought they would get more players out of it somehow. Oh and how many countries use German? like 2 or 3. [spoiler=My 99s (7)]9,638th to 99 Fletching ~ 29th January 2007 737th to 99 Hunter ~ 2nd July 2007910th to 99 Agility ~ 28th January 200859,467th to 99 Defence ~ 23rd December 200992,762nd to 99 Hitpoints ~ 26th June 2010102,704th to 99 Attack ~ 29th June 2010144,091st to 99 Strength ~ 29th June 2010
February 20, 200719 yr Nabbagad, I think Jagex will have looked at their user-base to determine what language to beta test on. If you look at the top ten most widely spoken languags in the world, you will see that German is actually a pretty logical choice: 1. Chinese* (937,132,000) 2. Spanish (332,000,000) 3. English (322,000,000) 4. Bengali (189,000,000) 5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000) 6. Arabic* (174,950,000) 7. Portuguese (170,000,000) 8. Russian (170,000,000) 9. Japanese (125,000,000) 10. German (98,000,000) The number in brackets is roughly how many people speak the language. Now tell me, how many Arabic players do you know? German is quite clearly the logical choice here. They would do well though now, to release more German based servers, not necessarily in the German language beta-stage, to try and attract the German market. 99/99 Fletching, 99/99 Cooking, 96/99 Strength
February 20, 200719 yr eh, doesn't matter, jagex did german because it was a completely untapped resource for them, french or possibly italian is next i'm guessing. This guy made a smart prediction, but one that we all knew was coming. Click for mah Blog!- I'm not sure why you would though because i never update it Achieved 99 Thieving 3/10/07-992nd to it
February 20, 200719 yr German Close to english? I speak german, and sure there are TONs of cognates, more than in the Latian languages or Romance, but i can't agree it is close to english. Before I knew english well, arrr I was stumped. Though playing runescape did open some doors with words, and then having English friends correct me help make me speak it better. Oh here, try going to the german forum and see how much of it you understand? Well that is if you don't speak German or if you don't have translators... Well The Editor says German because its a common language in Europe, where Jagex is. If I could guess, like Dalcyte, I think French or Italian is next, then Spanish, then Sweedish, possably Arabic, and MAYBE Chinese. I say Maybe because Chinese - english human translators charge ALOT... Unless They got alot of friends willing to do it for them. Well thats my stand, err, oppinion.. EDIT: Just wanna say, yes there are tons of German speaking players in Runescape, but I'm supprized I didn't get asked... :P I'm always speaking German on Runescape. It's fun to confuse people. EDIT AGAIN: I actually find the languages on runescape (in order) are English German Spanish some French Some italian Some dutch English is my third language, but I am still trying.
February 21, 200719 yr You may notice that the most spoken language after English is German. Well, thats what I've noticed anyway. Pretty much all the non-English speakers that I've seen have been German. I've tried speaking back to some of them with the very little, broken knowledge of German that I have[/i]. And Frankie Ya, They didn't say German was close to English, they said it was the closest language to English. Which I would agree that it is.
February 21, 200719 yr English and German are sister languages. Easy to electronicly translate. Long since retired.
February 21, 200719 yr German is the world's second most commong language. Fact. It's actually 10th. Your way off mate. It goes... 1. Chinese 2. English 3. Spanish 4. Hindu 5. Arabic 6. Bangla 7. Russian 8. Portuguese 9. Japanese 10. German 11. French. There's no point in making stuff up, know the facts before you attempt to correct someone. Merry Crimbo!Click on my signature to see my NEW blog! Clicky here to see my YouTube videos! http://www.youtube.com/volkswagen99videos
February 21, 200719 yr German Close to english? I speak german, and sure there are TONs of cognates, more than in the Latian languages or Romance, but i can't agree it is close to english. Before I knew english well, arrr I was stumped. Though playing runescape did open some doors with words, and then having English friends correct me help make me speak it better. Oh here, try going to the german forum and see how much of it you understand? Well that is if you don't speak German or if you don't have translators... Well The Editor says German because its a common language in Europe, where Jagex is. If I could guess, like Dalcyte, I think French or Italian is next, then Spanish, then Sweedish, possably Arabic, and MAYBE Chinese. I say Maybe because Chinese - english human translators charge ALOT... Unless They got alot of friends willing to do it for them. Well thats my stand, err, oppinion.. EDIT: Just wanna say, yes there are tons of German speaking players in Runescape, but I'm supprized I didn't get asked... :P I'm always speaking German on Runescape. It's fun to confuse people. EDIT AGAIN: I actually find the languages on runescape (in order) are English German Spanish some French Some italian Some dutch I agree! Personally, i've never heard any other languages but german and english. I picked up French much easier than i did German. Many British and French words are shared. Merry Crimbo!Click on my signature to see my NEW blog! Clicky here to see my YouTube videos! http://www.youtube.com/volkswagen99videos
February 22, 200719 yr I agree! Personally, i've never heard any other languages but german and english. I picked up French much easier than i did German. Many British and French words are shared lmao! British and French words.... hmm... maybe you could give me some examples of British! words, unless of course you mean the language that they speak in Britain/UK/England/Whatever which is.... o yeah!... English! lmao srry dude, but ur comment sorta cracked me up. British not a language. When I Have It, It's the World's. When I Don't Have It, The World Is Mine.
February 22, 200719 yr isnt spanish more spoken on the world then english? but i guess in runescape its= Wannabe 1337>English>Dutch>German>Spanish>Scandinavian
February 23, 200719 yr German is the world's second most commong language. Fact. Than tell me where they speak it as an official language, outside of Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland ? Numbnuts.
February 23, 200719 yr And just to get other stuff straight. english is a hybrid language of old germanian, slavic, latin, and nordic. example : ship(english) --> schiff(german) --> skib (danish) biggus-shippus(latin) actually i made the last one up but the rest is true :|
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