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2. Why conduct research?
• Understand what users value most
• Identify bottlenecks in the localization process
• Improve the image of localization vendors in the gaming
community
• Help you multiply profits, not just push files
4. All Correct at a glance
• 11 years on the global market
50 in-house translators, editors, and testers
One of the top 20 localization firms in Easter Europe (HQ in Russia)
In 2016 alone we localized 390+ game titles, translated 15.4 million
words, and engaged 350 translators and editors and 80 loc. testers
• GALA member spearheading development of ISO standards
for the translation industry (ISO 11669)
• We work with all languages that can make you money
5. Session Outline
Presentation
• Research background
• Overview of survey respondents
• Summary of responses
• Lessons learned & hypotheses tested
Discussion
• Questions, comments, suggestions, application scenarios
6. Why Russia and China?
• Russia is the 10th most lucrative market
in the world according to the IGDA*
• China… do I really need to explain?
*IGDA - International Game Developers Association
24. • There is untranslated text
• They find inaccuracies or
incomplete translation
• Fonts are poorly chosen or
illegible
• The translation doesn’t match
the original stylistically
The majority of Russian respondents will stop playing if:
25. • They find spelling, grammar,
or punctuation mistakes
• They encounter different
translations of the same term
And, finally, Russians have no
problem with profanity
But it’s not so bad from their perspective if:
26. The majority of Chinese respondents will stop playing if:
• The translation doesn’t match
the original stylistically
• There is a lack of censorship
(profanity is prohibited in
China)
• There are non-standard
abbreviations
• Fonts are poorly chosen or
illegible (same as in Russia)
27. Chinese respondents are more tolerant if
• They find spelling, grammar,
or punctuation mistakes
• They encounter different
translations of the same term
However, they will get
frustrated more quickly than
Russians and either switch to
English or stop playing
32. • Speech and intonations are
unnatural
• There is no way to switch
between original VO and
Russian VO
• The voices don’t match the
characters
• VO and subtitles don’t match
The most critical VO problems for Russian players
33. • Overused voice actors
The most critical VO problems for Chinese players
• There is no way to switch
between original VO and
Chinese VO
34. The following issues annoy all players equally:
• Unnatural speech and
intonations
• VO and subtitles don’t match
• No lipsync
However, as before, Chinese
players have much lower
tolerance for voiceover issues
42. Session Outline
Presentation
• Research background
• Overview of survey respondents
• Summary of responses
• Lessons learned & hypotheses tested
Discussion
• Questions, comments, suggestions, application scenarios
43. A Few Tested Hypotheses
• Players who play less are more tolerant of errors
– FALSE. All players are equally annoyed
• Younger people are more tolerant of errors
– FALSE. Players of all ages are equally annoyed
• Players with better English prefer the original version
– TRUE.
44. A Few Tested Hypotheses
• Females are more sensitive to gender-neutral address
– FALSE. Both men and women dislike it
• RPG players are less sensitive to abbreviations
– FALSE. Players of most genres dislike
abbreviations and truncations
– Most sensitive: simulation/tycoon players
– Least sensitive – arcade & puzzle players
45. Session Outline
Presentation
• Research background
• Overview of survey respondents
• Summary of responses
• Lessons learned & hypotheses tested
Discussion
• Questions, comments, suggestions, application scenarios
46. Summary
1. Players are ready to vote for good localizations with their
wallets
a) 52-62% will stop playing and tell their friends
about bad localizations
b) ~60% would pay more for better localizations and will
play older games in the same series with good localizations
2. 70-90% of players prefer localized games
regardless of their level of English proficiency
47. Summary
3. ~80% of players think that game content should NOT be
culturally adapted for target markets
4. Spelling/grammar/punctuation errors force
~16% of Russian players and
~27% of Chinese players
to stop playing the game or switch to the original version
5. Voiceover quality plays a major role in the user experience
48. What should we do?
• If you’re investing in localization, go all in! It’ll pay off!
• Fill out your LSP’s technical requirements doc (style guide)
• Give your localization partner more time (experts need time)
• Give your localization partner more context (builds, please :)
• Answer your localization partner’s questions
• Devs, go deep with localization engineering: language
switching, fonts, text resizing, and grammatical tokens
49. Let’s talk
Where should we invade next?
Comments, questions, and recommendations
What would you like to know about your users?
50. Let’s continue the conversation!
To get involved in research (provide input,
stay informed, etc.): send an empty email to
order@allcorrectgames.com with the subject line
“loc. quality research” or give me your card
Editor's Notes
We’re all here paid to do loc – probably makes sense to understand what loc quality is from the perspective of our end clients, not us?
We want to really help, not just push files
Who’s from game dev and game publishing?
Who develops software?
Who buys loc?
Who’s LSP?
Russia is big. There are stigmas about Russian market, but we actually pay. If you’re not localizing into Russian, you’re losing money.
China is 1.4 billion people, which is 40 Canadas and 4 USA
This project is almost 2 yrs old now and started as a small survey of 2K Russian players. After it was presented to GameQA&Loc Forum, people got interested and we decided to proceed (Nintendo, Ubisoft, EA, Wooga, Sony, Zynga, Bigpoint)
1st stab at Chinese market just finished and is presented today
In China 48% female, in Russia about 50%, but it’s harder to attract females to participate in studies
Age distribution similar, other than in Russia dominant group is under 18
This is interesting! I used to play to create and have fun. I loved building cities or kick my bro’s asses in NHL… but only 20% of people are motivated by it
Most prevalent for Chi and Rus is overcoming challenges by becoming fully immersed. FULL IMMERSION can not be achieved without high-quality loc. So if you want to invest in loc, you need to do it right, or it’s money to waste.
Russians like to fully immerse. That explains perhaps why they read all the texts… (We also just like reading)
For Chi to feel like you’re playing a character, you need to feel like it’s you. You can’t gender-neutralize a character, do a poor voice-over and speak out of context
One of the main hypotheses is the better your English, the more likely you’re to play original. It’s mostly supported by the fact that Americans play eng versions all the time ;)
About 30% of Chi respondents speak Eng very well, and about 30% don’t really speak it
About 10% of Rus speak Eng well, and about 60% don’t speak it.
Keep that in mind for future slides
Do you prefer original or loc version? This graph follows previous almost exactly. 30% of proficient Chi prefer English version, and only 5% of Russians. Around 30% and 74% want fully localized, which corresponds to # of people who don’t speak Eng well
This is dramatically different for 2 markets.
I used to think nobody cares about texts. But they do. 90% of Russians read most of texts!!! 50% all texts!!! Remember: fully immersted. WE’re also a reading nation.
About 40% of Chi read texts. But Chi – LEARNING NEW THINGS and play different roles. So playing itself is more important
Talk about culturalization. People ask me “can you do culturalization?” Can you fully adapt and rewrite and do all that?
Yeah, we can do it all. We’ve redrawn 500 avatars to make them look less Asian, when one of our clients ported a successful biz simulator game from China.
BUT: do you need it? 80% of both markets say you don’t. Remember: immerse and try on new roles!
Do you need to do culturalization? Yes, Chinese like to see Tibet as part of their country; so be aware. And don’t sell Hamburger Restaurant simulation in muslim countries and you’ll be ok. Just engage your LSP soon
Error type – consequences
Spelling, grammar, punctuation – you need to fire your LSP, but players don’t care as much
Various translations of 1 term – super bad. But not really.
Incomplete, inaccurate translation, untranslated text – bad
Style doesn’t match – a biggie. But harder to measure!
Fonts – something you may not think about right away when you think about quality of loc
Censorship – Russian gamers like a good f@ word
Chi – similar, but different.
Firstly, they lose temper quite fast and either switch or drop.
Non-standard abbreviations affect understanding. As English terms unlocalized. As unlocalized graphics.
Slang and memes are a biggie too.
Lack of censorship is a big and surprising one.
Again, various translation of 1 term – not so much…
Chi – similar, but different.
Firstly, they lose temper quite fast and either switch or drop.
Non-standard abbreviations affect understanding. As English terms unlocalized. As unlocalized graphics.
Slang and memes are a biggie too.
Lack of censorship is a big and surprising one.
Again, various translation of 1 term – not so much…
Russian – yes!
Chinese – No!
It used to be no for us too, but we’re more liberal or “westernized” now. China is less so as they’re naturally more Eastern
About 60% of Chi would like to provide feedback, half don’t know how.
About 70% of Russians would like too
It is likely that there’s not a lot of good quality voiceover, but it needs further research
Speech unnatural, Voices don’t fit, Subtitles don’t match
Anything that jerks you out of your immersive experience
Therefore it’s a problem you can’t switch
Chinese much more radical in their reaction to voiceover flaws
Aaron from Facebook asked me “can you measure impact of bad loc”? Yes, you can.
7-13% stop buying your games. Not just this one!!! All of your games! Think LTV
52% of Chi and 62% of Rus will take action
Again, users will take action. Russians are more radical in their behavior than Chi. But again, they like a good loc
If you want fast and cheap, perhaps you should spend on loc at all
Do we address the player formal/ informal? Are we directive or suggestive? Do we neutralize gender? Do we use strong language / soften it / mask it / rephrase it?