Hi everyone !
I want to talk in this topic about non-english speaking players, such as German, French and Spanish…
A lot of players on the forums feel like they just don’t matter anymore. Everything is happening here, and our dear CM are juste basically translators. Oh, wait…. they aren’t even translators, since they need to get an “official translation”, which takes way too long. I mean I’m still at school, and I’m sure I can translate the english dev posts faster than our CM.
To show what’s happenning, here’s an example with the Collaborative Development. In this forum, “Collaborative” makes sense, since devs are often posting and answering, explaining their choice and so on …
On other forums -spanish, french and german-, it seems like “Collaborative” means “Q&A”. We proposed our ideas and our topic. And then, 16 days later, we got this : german, french, spanish, with answers like “it’s not possible” or “it’s too hard to do.”
And that’s it. End of the collaboration for us.
So I have few questions :
- Who on earth needs 16 kittening days to translate a bunch of questions ?
- When devs are about to create a new thread, why don’t they give their text to the other CM in advance, instead of immediately posting on the en forum ?
CM would have time to translate it, and we could react at the same time than the other players, not days or weeks after.
- Why don’t we have more CM ??
I’m French, so I’ll take this example : we have 5 servers dedicated to France (and other french speaking countries as well) : VS, JS, AR, FR, As…. And only 2 CM. Why ??
Of course they’re overworked… We do our best to help them (like this topic), but it’s clearly not enough, and we miss lots of informations.
For example, no CM ever speaks about the Leaderboard reset… and it’s a huge change !
I don’t want to have an instant translation of everything posted here. I know it’s just impossible. But at least the major changes and the thread created by devs !
In summ, the other communities represent 13 servers (VS, JS, AR, FR, As, BB, Riv, Ko, AM, Dz, DL, Ms, ER). Which is 50% of Europeans servers, and 25% of all servers.
There are not only english speakers on Gw. Please give us more CM…
EDIT : good point, MastaNeenja
