Cities XL in portuguese.

[mchiareli 0]

Hey, does MC have plains to release a portuguese version of Cities XL?

[Sainty 0]

no. yes.

[mchiareli 0]

Originally posted by: mchiareli

Hey, does MC have plains to release a portuguese version of Cities XL?

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what means?

[EAGCE 2]

Originally posted by: Sainty

no. yes.quote>

Do you ever post anything useful?

[Ocram's Razr 963]

They have no plans to release in Portuguese. They are working on many other things right now (if you read the thread titles, many people find this game to have many bugs and problems). You can expect Portuguese after they release the game in at least one more major Romance language and a major Asian language. Spanish is the most likely because there is a FAR larger Spanish speaking computer literate population than Portuguese. China, Japan, and South Korea all (by themselves, not even combined) have more gamers than the entire population of natural Portuguese speakers in the universe that use computers or videogames (and possibly more gamers than the entire population of people with Portuguese as their first language).

[soltangris 42]

Likeseattle, I'd be more careful about such statements. You're forgetting that Brasil is a portuguese-speaking country, and is rapidly becoming very computer literate. There are plenty of gamers there, and although they're fewer than asian gamers, that's true, they're growing fast.

Also, China, Japan and S Corea all speak a different language. I don't know what they're gonna do about that.

You're tight about Spanish, though. A bunch of people in the chat of CXL are asking about spanish, so we might be seeing that first.

Also, I hate to correct little details, but it's Roman language, not Romance. By the way, Portuguese is also a Roman language, a major one at that.

[mchiareli 0]

I'm from Brazil, and I can say, "Sim" games are successful here because we have portuguese versions for all, if MC wants players from Brazil, they need to release a Brazilian version.

But MMO it's not so popular here, since it's the target market for MC, I don't know if them have interest on us.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

Mexico is a very fast growing country. I, admittedly, do not know about Brazil in this case but most of the major cities have a growing middle class with electronic knowledge and computer literacy. The problem is that most of the people I met there did not speak enough English to get by. It is very fortunate that I am very fluent in the language. About the languages Spanish would be the easiest with one of the biggest payoffs. Spanish has very easy grammar and 1/3 of the planet speak thew language. Portuguese and Italian are very beautiful languages but they are almost as complicated as English and the computer literate population of Portugal, Brazil, and the former Portuguese colonies in Africa is still less than the number of computer literate Latinos and Spaniards. Italy is pretty much the only country that speaks that language (It in my opinion is the best sounding language but I cannot learn it easily) so it is out. Now China, Japan, and Korea all have different writing systems (so the investment in translating is far greater) but if the game was translated properly, there would be a very big payoff. According to the line, only the east half of Brazil should have been colonized and all of Brazil would speak Spanish if the line was drawn a little bit closer to Europe and Africa.

I have nothing against Brazil; I think it is a very nice place it is just that there might not be a big enough gamer population to warrant translating the game into:

*Dutch

*Italian

*Portuguese

*Arabic

*Turkish

*Swedish

*Russian

*Ukrainian

*Thai

*Swahili

*Hawaiian

*Malaysian

or any other of the many minor languages

[soltangris 42]

I agreed that the game needs a Spanish translation first And concerning the other languages, most of the gamers in those countries get by pretty well with english, so there would be no need.

But mchiareli is right too, many of the major games are translated in Portuguese. Since I doubt the autors do all these translations, it's very likely that the distributors make some sort of independent contracts with them for the translations I've played Starcraft in Portuguese, and it was moslty good .

(by the way I live in Sao Paulo, Brasil)

[Ocram's Razr 963]

If you are Brazillian, why do you have a Spanish username? Sol means sun and gris means grey; tan is used to compare but when sol tan gris is put into the translator it says "sun so grey."

[MandelSoft 2,769]

I think IF CitiesXL get translated in more languages, I think these languages would probably Spanish and Japanese. After that maybe Portuguese, Italian, Chinese and Korean.

[soltangris 42]

Hihihihi , you're all wrong I'm a bulgarian (living in Brasil)

As for my username, it's derived from a book, it's not composed specifically.