[Suggestion] Ready Up & Point of Interest..... subtitles ?

#1 - June 26, 2014, 6:21 p.m.

I’m back with my favorite topic : the communication in GW2 !

I’ve already asked it several times, but once again :
Could you please add subtitles to the recordings of the RU and Points of Interest ?

I mean, not everyone speaks fluent English (hi german, french and spanish servers !), and even among those who do, a large amount doesn’t understand your “elegant” american accent.
So far, there were few new information during these streams, but with the concept of Point of Interest, it may change.

“Points of Interest, your source for all things Tyrian !”

To be fair, I wouldn’t care if we could find the things somewhere else (on this forum, for example), even several days after the stream.

But the fact is : if you can’t understand the stream, you don’t have access to information.
Your only choice, as a player, is to trust third-party websites, like Reddit, with a high risk of transcription errors or misleading translations…

A-net, a worldwide company, who sells games around the world, rely on amateur websites to communicate with its customers ? Really ?

Stephane Lo Presti

#13 - July 9, 2014, 5:20 p.m.

Hi everyone,

I’d like to bring a bit more clarity on this topic. Subtitling videos is something we usually do on videos such as teaser trailers or videos presenting game features (e.g., the Wardrobe) as they tend to reach a much broader audience. Furthermore, livestream videos tend to be more “familiar” in terms of what is said, the pace, colloquialisms, etc. and this would make subtitling a much harder task.

Although YouTube now offers better tools to subtitle videos (e.g., being to create them while transcribing), it is still a very time-consuming task to perform on a weekly basis and we currently do not have the bandwidth to do this. YouTube recently introduced to a limited number of channels the ability to let the audience create subtitles and we’ll be keeping an eye on this feature to see if we can introduce it.