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Comment by 1718627440

2 months ago

As a non-English native-speaker, I strongly prefer no localization to bad localization.

Yes, but you speak English and read the Latin alphabet. You can play the game without shitty localization.

Put yourself in the shoes of some kid somewhere in the world who does neither of those things, and just wants to play a video game. If the two options are 1. imperfect translation or 2. no clue what is going on, and no ability to enjoy the game; which do you choose?

The fun part about shitty localization in games for ESL speakers is that you don't have to use it.

  • When I learned programming, I did not. It still didn't want to use localized programming languages.