spacheco Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 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 The emotes, for example, have all been replaced by icons.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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodfleshX Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabbagad Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon_lord Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wzzl Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 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-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Google90 Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Honestly, I don't think mandarin should be counted. Or Hindi. But anyways...the order is 1)Mandarin 2)English 3)Spanish ...... 10)German =; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacheco Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screech1992 Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 actually it wasn't too hard to guess that the first translation of RuneScape would be to german... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tru_vampire0 Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyMcNabb Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pansynator Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabbagad Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobgoblin11 Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalcyte Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie_Ya Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderhawkk Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Observer Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 The reason is is because they planned to do this before it happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximus Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 English and German are sister languages. Easy to electronicly translate. Long since retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Observer Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Hope they do French next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeader Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeader Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tru_vampire0 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon312 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 isnt spanish more spoken on the world then english? but i guess in runescape its= Wannabe 1337>English>Dutch>German>Spanish>Scandinavian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FooK-A-Ji Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FooK-A-Ji Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 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 :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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