Over 350 million people speak Spanish in the world.
Just 100 million speak German, 55 million speak Italian and little more than 40 million speak Italian.
Despite this no game in the series Dragon Age or Mass Effect has been folded (VO) but this does not matter much what you really do not understand is that no Spanish forum.
Sorry if my English was not very good.
Guest_Aotearas_*
The harsh truth is:
call again when those 350 million people are buying those games.
And regarding no forum section for spanish speaking users:
Spanish may have a lot of native and second language speakers, but it's only the fourth most common language on the internet, after English, German and Russian. Combine that with the economical situation that other language speaking regions have a higher customer density and you got the reason for that. May not be sufficient in your opinion of course, but it is a reason.
Guest_DOJA_*
I'm Latino, but I prefer my games in English, and I never read a forum in Spanish (the most current information is always in English)
Guest_Aotearas_*
Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Heavy Rain ...All of these have excellent dubbing, but I am not asking for dubbing.How much money would cost to put a BioWare forum in Spanish?
First thing I'd do is ask our community manager, Jessica Merizan. Friend her and then send a personal message about it.
However there is one big practical problem ahead of everything else: even if BioWare would like to open a Spanish section on the BFN, who's going to moderate it? That's a good bunch of people they'd have to hire (or in case of volunteer moderators, finding decent ones) to keep the place up and running clean.
You can try and I wish you good luck, but I wouldn't get my hopes up prematurely.
I'm Latino, but I prefer my games in English, and I never read a forum in Spanish (the most current information is always in English)
I also prefer the English game but is a bit macabre that Mass Effect has dubbing into Italian or Polish before the Spanish
Guest_Aotearas_*
I also prefer the Spanish game but is a bit macabre that Mass Effect has dubbing into Italian or Polish before the Spanish
If you ever listened to those dubs, you'd be glad your language didn't suffer the same raping.
If you ever listened to those dubs, you'd be glad your language didn't suffer the same raping.
As I said Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Heavy Rain are good examples Skyrim a lousy example is one of the worst I've seen VO
I don't buy the economics argument. Spain is almost as populous as Italy, and despite recent economic problems, is not exactly poor. My wife is Mexican and I can assure you that Mexico has plenty of shops selling video games and consoles. I don't see why that wouldn't be the case in countries such as Argentina or Chile. I am sure that there are more gamers with Spanish as a first language than Italian.
(By the way, OP, "doblado" translates to "folded" when you're talking about paper, but "dubbed" if you're talking about voice acting.)
I don't buy the economics argument. Spain is almost as populous as Italy, and despite recent economic problems, is not exactly poor. My wife is Mexican and I can assure you that Mexico has plenty of shops selling video games and consoles. I don't see why that wouldn't be the case in countries such as Argentina or Chile. I am sure that there are more gamers with Spanish as a first language than Italian.
(By the way, OP, "doblado" translates to "folded" when you're talking about paper, but "dubbed" if you're talking about voice acting.)
Sorry my English is not very good so I ask also Spanish forum
Guest_JujuSamedi_*
You do realize that publishing the game in another language doubles the amount of dialogue recorded right? From a cost benefit analysis, they would have to see how big their market is in a demographic and make the decision to implement it. It is simply a resource management issue like most of the problems in game design.
It is odd, that the old bsn had the option of choosing ones language from the range of
Français
Deutsch
Italiano
Español
Русский
Polski
Čeština
Magyar
And yet the new bioware forum doesn't. 
A bit baffling, I should say.
You do realize that publishing the game in another language doubles the amount of dialogue recorded right? From a cost benefit analysis, they would have to see how big their market is in a demographic and make the decision to implement it. It is simply a resource management issue like most of the problems in game design.
Guest_JujuSamedi_*
I repeat, do not ask why I'm used to listening to Varric andCassandra in English but if it's a little weird that prioritize a language before the Spanish.
Well from their market analysis, I would argue that english is their most comfortable and largest language demographic. It makes sense.
Well from their market analysis, I would argue that english is their most comfortable and largest language demographic. It makes sense.
But prioritize German, Italian or Polish languages
Guest_Aotearas_*
It is odd, that the old bsn had the option of choosing ones language from the range of
And yet the new bioware forum doesn't.
A bit baffling, I should say.
That only changed the forum display language. BSN still didn't have a Spanish, let alone a Magyar (or 1337-speak (yes, that was an option you could select of you went to the forum settings!)) subsection.
Someone who wasn't comfortable with English then would have had the same problems trying to read the forum content as they have right now.
That only changed the forum display language. BSN still didn't have a Spanish, let alone a Magyar (or 1337-speak (yes, that was an option you could select of you went to the forum settings!)) subsection.
Someone who wasn't comfortable with English then would have had the same problems trying to read the forum content as they have right now.
Correct!
That only changed the forum display language. BSN still didn't have a Spanish, let alone a Magyar (or 1337-speak (yes, that was an option you could select of you went to the forum settings!)) subsection.
Someone who wasn't comfortable with English then would have had the same problems trying to read the forum content as they have right now.
Point taken, though its still a step above what is currently implimented. Still, this is probably one of those quarks that will just have to be accepted. Judging by the response of the thread, there's not a lot of support for having spanish incluced into the bioware lexicon.
Guest_TheDarkKnightReturns_*
I could say the same about Português. Even the DA wiki recently added Português Brasileiro. But I know it's probably just a logistics thing. Lo siento jorjori.
Postscript: In Spanish speaking countries we are not third world
Over 350 million people speak Spanish in the world.
Just 100 million speak German, 55 million speak Italian and little more than 40 million speak Italian.
Despite this no game in the series Dragon Age or Mass Effect has been folded (VO) but this does not matter much what you really do not understand is that no Spanish forum.
Sorry if my English was not very good.
You're complaining because the forum does not provide the language in Spanish? or the game?
My opinion is, the forums are ok in English language.
About the games, yes ... they should have more languages, this is just one step in the video game market, not "companies hate", video games companies are just expanding.
Before I was very sad to not be able to play a game in my language, today I can say that over more 50% of the most popular game titles on the market are in my language, There are more gaming companies in my country.
In a forum at Bethesda before launching TESO one moderator said it would be released in the language of my country, the game was released, and had not translated into my language.
Dragon Age inquisition official website supports my language, I was very happy and positive I that I can play DAI in my language, f it actually translate in my language
I thank Bioware.
You should not complain jorori22, Spanish is one of the universal languages ...
I seriously think that if EA saw a benefit to a spanish translation they would have done it. Companies like EA, flawed as they are, have all sorts of data that they use to determine what languages they translate into, what systems to develop a game for, and so on. If there's no spanish translation, then chances are that they don't get enough sales to warrant the cost to translate.
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