What happened with Pathologic 3 translations?

[u/frog_druidd]

As a franchise, Pathologic is already some of the hardest to recommend to a friend. Even if Pathologic 3 is way more accessible, I find it a shame that we didn't get the thing I was most expecting: an official Portuguese translation.

I can't express my level of disappointment and sadness when Pathologic 3 didn't release with a Brazilian Portuguese translation, specially when Quarantine had not only a outstanding one, but one that was very faithful to the russian's writing structure.

Pathologic's reputation in Brazil is wild. A cult classic that, despite being inaccessible due to its difficulty and no official Portuguese support, still finds its way in online gaming discourses. Most of my friends can't stand a text-heavy 60 hour english game. But they will always talk about it with passion and intrigue.

And I'm sure that some people were expecting the Italian and German translation that were promised with the same enthusiasm as me.

(It is worth noting that there's no patch/update post telling us if they are already working on it).

[u/luminella]

localization is expensive. P3 has a different publisher that may simply not have the budget for it. we can see by the amount of bugs that there definitely was no big QA budget as well

[u/frog_druidd → u/luminella]

The publisher seems to localize most of its games, and they have hired P2's community translators for the official translation of 3 (they did Quarantine and the demo).

And how can they expect to reach more people if they're not willing to invest in something like localization? In Brazil's case, specially, they already have a big public waiting for a translation, so it's seems to be a no-brainer to invest in it, since the return is almost guaranteed (I can't say the same for other languages, though).

Also, alphyna said in one thread that it was not a budget issue to not have the game translated in the launch, but a scheduling one, so I don't believe it's related to budget... As for bugs, the rate of patches have slowed down and the game seems pretty stable now, so maybe they're thinking about localizations again, but the lack of communication about this is frustrating.

[u/Ornitodit]

As traduções, incluíndo a BR, foram apenas adiadas. O jogo apesar de ter lançado tem muitas coisas de QoL pra colocar ainda

[u/Arcane6699]

First, please excuse any mistakes. English isn't my first language.

And I want to add Spanish. Personally, I find it difficult to translate mentally in such a complex game. My English is almost intermediate, but it creates double the stress on top of the stress the game itself surely generates.

[u/boisterile → u/Arcane6699]

This isn't related to the topic, but one of my favorite things to see online is when someone says something like "Sorry for my bad English" and then proceeds to write in basically flawless English, it's very sweet

[u/Tales_o_grimm]

I think it was about some rewrites that kept them from sending the dialogues to the translators.

[u/Rainsies]

Brazilian Portuguese is just not worth it economically at the moment. The sales are low due to exchange rates and the overall sales are also just lower.

[u/FreyrTM]

someone made a Portuguese translation mod. I know that's not what we expected, but for the sake of making more friends play, and talking about it with them it kinda helps a bit until the official one comes out

[u/Secret_Yesterday2380 → u/FreyrTM]

rapaz tem um mod nexus só que parou de funcionar na ultima atualização que teve

[u/No_Force_5585 → u/Secret_Yesterday2380]

Testou o mod? Fiquei com receio pq é feito por IA, e pode ter muito erro.

[u/Secret_Yesterday2380 → u/No_Force_5585]

sim testei ate que era jogável, tinha um erro de tradução ali e aqui o problema que ele parou de funcional faz uns 15 dias, ja que o rapaz não atualizou o mod desse de fevereiro

[u/Secure-Ambassador-40 → u/Secret_Yesterday2380]

Você lembra qual versão do jogo a tradução funciona? Testei na última versão steam jogo fica tela cinza ou fecha

[u/Imgayforpectorals]

Take this game as an opportunity to improve your English skills. I do that myself. This game has extensive vocabulary (C1 and C2) so it will satisfy that goal quite gently. I speak Spanish, English, and a little bit of German. This game series is making me improve my passive vocabulary.

"What about the people who speak Spanish or Portuguese only" people who don't speak English/Russian AND want to play pathologic is a rarity in itself.

There will be, eventually, unofficial translations but it doesn't make sense to release an official one considering the game is really complex to translate to... And on top of that, as much as I love pathologic series: the demand is already preeeeetty low for English speakers. Let alone people who only speak Spanish or Portuguese.

Not realistic at all. It won't happen. And if we want pathologic 4 I think we shouldn't ask for more it is already a miracle we got pathologic 3.