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[Magic Carpet]

Psychonauts 2 got review bombed because it did no have russian language support. Unlike It takes 2 that supported tons of languages.
Politics be damned, spend money on your translations you lazy developers.

 

[westman]

If this releases in September the translation is already done, probably with lines being recorded as well if there was audio support planned.

According to this this Reddit post, Russian audio support was not planned as of December 2021 (i.e. before the Russian invasion of Ukraine). This makes it possible to do the translation closer to release, so I wouldn't take it for granted that they have a completed Russian translation at this time. Also, it's possible that they made an internal decision to cancel the translation (or suspend work on it) well before they updated the status on Steam.

 

[Wildebeest]

Unfortunate for people who can only understand Russian, but I'm sure Ukrainians would rather play in English than support a game which used localization services in Russia.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Virtue signaling?

Virtue signaling.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Zero fucks given.

 

[Flutta]

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Pootin won't know what to do!

 

[Portugeezer]

If Putin is hyped for Starfield enough, he'll end the war.

God bless Bethesda!

 

[Mr Reasonable]

I almost felt sorry for the Russians. I am sure a lot of them are innocent, don't want a war, or are being lied to but the war needs to stop and if this is what it takes to get Russians to stand up to Putin then so be it. Obviously I don't mean to suggest that Steam removing the language in a game is going to get Russians up in arms to overthrow the government but enough little things like this will hopefully eventually force them to try change the direction their country is going in.

Yes, it's been widely reported that there's strong opposition to the war from Russians.

I feel very sorry for both sides of this war, so much destruction and misery for one man's vanity project.

 

[mckmas8808]

Good.

You joking right? You gotta be trolling.

 

[MiguelItUp]

I don't think this has much to do with the war though, it's not logical, obviously language isn't constrained to specific country borders.

F.ex. both my two year old and my eight year old sons speak russian, and they ain't no russians by any stretch of the imagination..

Wouldn't it make sense to confirm an angle before running with it..? Of course, it wouldn't generate as many clicks that way, but still..


Edit: Forgot about localization services.. So it's of course not because they want to punish the russian speaking, but Bethesda might've been hit by sanction issues.

Exactly. I think it's hilarious that people see this and automatically kneejerk to such a thing, folks need to relax.

We don't know why it's a thing, lord knows there could be a number of reasons. Especially when Russian language support exists in other future titles. If they were ALL removed, well, then yeah, it'd look a bit more questionable.

 

[GymWolf]

Corporations dont care about that. They ban whatever twitter warriors and woke culture dictates. 40 years from now, if you're not part of LGBT, you are banned from society for being a straight trash human.

Am i straight if my dick has a small curve but i still like to fuck women?

 

[Mr Reasonable]

What does this achieve?
Russians will just hack the game, and do language support mode.

Microsoft, like many, many other businesses have halted business with Russia in accordance with government sanctions, it was quite big news last year. It may well be something that they have to be both seen to be doing and also are under greater scrutiny than other companies.

They're unlikely to be doing this as some sort of virtue signalling effort.

It might even just be a mistake or error if there isn't a reason for them to do it.

 

[GenericUser]

very good

 

[3liteDragon]

What a retarded move.

 

[Gudji]

Now I'm confident this might actually release in 2023.

 

[ssringo]

Asses are better.

I enjoy the journey and that starts at the legs.

 

[Valkyria]

Stupidity and double standards at maximum levels.

 

[badblue]

Unfortunate for people who can only understand Russian, but I'm sure Ukrainians would rather play in English than support a game which used localization services in Russia.

I'm sure the Ukrainian people would rather play the game in Ukrainian rather then English.

Lots of Ukrainian people out side of the Ukraine right now that could use the work.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

I don't think this has much to do with the war though, it's not logical, obviously language isn't constrained to specific country borders.

F.ex. both my two year old and my eight year old sons speak russian, and they ain't no russians by any stretch of the imagination..

Wouldn't it make sense to confirm an angle before running with it..? Of course, it wouldn't generate as many clicks that way, but still..


Edit: Forgot about localization services.. So it's of course not because they want to punish the russian speaking, but Bethesda might've been hit by sanction issues.

 

[demented waffle]

Seems petty, but whatever. Doesn't affect me.

 

[Goalus]

What do you mean?

I mean that MS is about to pay $60 billion in cash which might force them to be wary of their spending in other areas. Maybe they currently don't have someone available who is fluent enough in Russian to do the job.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I mean that MS is about to pay $60 billion in cash which might force them to be wary of their spending in other areas. Maybe they currently don't have someone avaible who is fluent enough in Russian to do the job.

 

[Chukhopops]

Microsoft, like many, many other businesses have halted business with Russia in accordance with government sanctions, it was quite big news last year. It may well be something that they have to be both seen to be doing and also are under greater scrutiny than other companies.

They're unlikely to be doing this as some sort of virtue signalling effort.

It might even just be a mistake or error if there isn't a reason for them to do it.

Finally someone gets it.

 

[Pop]

WOW so progressive Microsoft

 

[Max_Po]

Boobs

B00b5

In Russian

 

[Art The Clown]

the Middle East wants to know if English is in the game.

 

[Kvally]

 

[Neff]

Sucks for Russian-only speakers who aren't arseholes but I can completely understand why they're doing it.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

Yeah, let's punish all evil Russians, good idea.

/s

*EDIT*: It was off topic anyway, my bad, I forgot that human stupidity is like universe, infinite, well, Einsten was unsure about the latter.

 

[M1chl]

Based

 

[Germuso]

But they went to the moon first, before Rammstein

 

[Elog]

Why is everyone making politics out of this? Russians are not even allowed to use credit cards through Steam etc due to sanctions. It makes zero sense to invest anything into Russian language versions of games at the moment.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Am i straight if my dick has a small curve but i still like to fuck women?

You are straight but not SUPER STRAIGHT. Sorry.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

The war is over, thanks microsoft.

 

[Mokus]

I thought russians hate american made things. And even so, most likely they would have pirated it because of the sanctions.

 

[SolidQ]

I thought russians hate american made things

They hate USA

 

[JCK75]

Like.. can we stop punishing people for their horrible leaders actions?
I mean are we going to try to punish the people of North Korea next for being prisoners in their own country?

 

[UltimaKilo]

Ah, I know this game: the deepest level of stupidity...

 

[SoraNoKuni]

Cyka blyat.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

I mean, there are people in my neighborhood (in the US) who speak little English but primarily Russian.

Way to stick it them, I guess?

 

[PillsOff]

I guess it is pohui from me.

Учите инглиш

 

[Dr.Morris79]

I thought russians hate american made things. And even so, most likely they would have pirated it because of the sanctions.

Nothing can get in the way of a good virtue signal, nothing.

 

[Salty Popsicle]

I mean, there are people in my neighborhood (in the US) who speak little English but primarily Russian.

Way to stick it them, I guess?

Be a good neighbor and help them learn English?

 

[Chukhopops]

Like.. can we stop punishing people for their horrible leaders actions?
I mean are we going to try to punish the people of North Korea next for being prisoners in their own country?

Well… there are already sanctions on NK and they are afaik harsher than the ones on Russia/Belarus.

 

[Crayon]

I'll keep my nose out of the geopolitical strategies but the bandwagon of hate towards all things russian has been disgusting. Sickening.

Please enjoy a beautiful song in russian from our ultimate big bad enemy soviet union and tell me these people should be cancelled.

 

[Mokus]

I mean, there are people in my neighborhood (in the US) who speak little English but primarily Russian.

Way to stick it them, I guess?

OMG, the torture they have to suffer in that blasted country, better move back to Putin's dystopian Russia.

Imagine that I had to learn english in a non english speaking country (Romania) to be able to use the computer because there was no localization at al. And then was this guy who as a kid in the 90s wanted badly to play Civilization but it was hard to get a copy of it. When finally someone managed to give him one, it turned out it was the german only version. What he did? Took the dictionary and learned german enough to be able to play Civilization.

Is that horrible to learn a new language trough your hobbies for russians? After all today english is a very useful language in the whole wide world, not just in english speaking countries.

 

[PianistaMacabro]

Hahahaha is elon musk also running Bethesda?

 

[Draxon Gamer]

This move is confusing, didn't Microsoft just have a partnership with Atomic Heart?