Hey,
There’s wording inconsistencies in every language of Gems of War and this is our fault as the original English files are inconsistent. This is something we’re currently working on fixing but Gems of War has more words than Sun Tzu’s The Art of War … and the game word count is multiplied by the number of languages we support - so it’s a HUGE long term undertaking which starts with us cleaning up the base language - English.
I know you’re frustrated with the Chinese translations, but it does take time for us to implement changes, we are a company and cannot make these changes on the fly or there’d be more issues.
Also, while we always take your feedback and send it to the translator responsible for your language for consideration, after discussion we may decide not to change it for many reasons, the main 3 reasons I can think of are:
- It doesn’t fit the style of the game and our creative direction
- We specifically don’t require our translators to do literal, direct translations of everything - we ask them to translate in a way which makes the most sense in the target language and in a way which is a better cultural fit. The best example of this is on our silly puns or rhymes found throughout the game.
- We may have plans to change that text in all languages or re-write entire descriptions in the future so changing it immediately would be double work.
We’re always very grateful to players who provide feedback on our translations and we do regularly consider and end up changing text based on the feedback we receive, however, please also know that no matter which translators we have, what the translator writes, or in which language, and no matter which game it is the text will never please everyone and we will always receive feedback on how poor the translations are and how it can be improved/fixed. In other words this isn’t a unique issue to Gems of War or to Infinity Plus Two - it affects every game ever translated anywhere.
We also get feedback about our base language, English.
I decided to post this lengthy reply to hopefully give you some insight into game localisation, although I understand you’re frustrated, we don’t ignore your feedback and we definitely don’t make changes slowly or not at all just to be difficult.
TL;DR
- Yes, we want to improve the consistency of the game text in every language
- We appreciate your feedback on the translations
- Changing any game files, including the localisation files may flag your account for hacking and incur an automatic ban.