Heyo, all. Derek French here. You might remember me from such things as the Neverwinter Nights Live Team and pretty much every BioWare PC title for the past many years. Let me see if I can answer some questions for Dragon Age: Inquisition and languages.
Now a word of caution. We are still working on finalizing these systems and some things may change between now and then, but my answers will be for how things either are or how we want them to be when we ship the game. For happy fun time quoting purposes, today is Wednesday April 23rd, 2014. ![=]](https://lvlt.forum.bioware.com/public/style_emoticons/default/sideways.png)
Here are the current languages we support in Dragon Age: Inquisition PC.
VO (voice over): English, German, and French
Text: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.
There are 2 parts to language selection that come into play. One is the the Origin language that the client defaults to the OS language. The Origin client will install the matching language for the game. At this time, all installed versions of Dragon Age: Inquisition will include English text, as well as your regional language. Language selection will be available in some manner within the game.
All text languages that do not have a matching VO language will get English VO. If you are in the Polish region, you will get Polish text, English text, and English VO.
What does this mean for VO? At this point, if you are in German or French regions, you will get your respective VO languages. What are your options for English VO right now? I don't know, but we are looking into a number of solutions. Also our language selectable will be dynamic, so it should offer you a choice from all discovered languages.
Now, onto the questions!
I'd really love to hear about them before preordering or buying this game.
Origin DAI store page currently has only two supported languages - Polish and Russian.
Are we going to have international English version available?
You will get English text as well, and English VO on your install.
After reading this topic I went to check on Origins and the only language supported is Portuguese, That's cool but i really want the English version, would be awesome if someone from Bioware could answer this.
You will get English text and VO and Brazilian Portuguese text. Text language selectable in-game.
Wait, what? I do have the Spanish version (from Spain, that's it) of DA:O and DA2, and the games aren't dubbed, they are subbed. The games use the original English voices, it's the subtitles and menus the ones which are in Spanish. Or did I miss some (terrible) news about the upcoming DA:I? I hope it's going to be just subbed, not dubbed.
For Spanish you will get Spanish text and English text and VO.
Err..it seems Origin has some problem with setting different languages for games . :s
I'm thinking of canceling my pre order , and just buy a material copy on Amazon.
I really don't want to pull my hair out on release date because I can't play the game in English , I never had to worry about this with Steam.
You only need to click on game property and select what you want.
It seems with Origins , you need to change the language for the client and cross your finger it works.
Purchasing the PC game via another retailer will not help you in this situation. You will still go through the install process via the Origin client based on your language and region settings. Purchasing a disc version is just installing from local media instead of downloading from the internet.
What languages are you concerned with? If I haven't answered your concern with the above information, please let me know.
This is one of my biggest worries, but it'll probably turn out to be nothing. I'm moving to Japan in July and I don't know if I'll be able to get a digital copy of the game in English due to region issues with Origin.
OMG Lady Shayna! How are you doing? Long time no see!
You shouldn't have any problems, as while the Japanese build would include Japanese text and English text and VO, I would suspect that you would leave your Origin client in English, thus you would get the English text and VO build of the game.
If there is anything I have missed, please let me know.