Hey you, non imperial residents !

[General Ludd]

I don't plan to buy it.

[Nikolai]

You'll "aquire" it then?

[Alex]

He's probably making a deal with Yin: he will eat half the cardbox and Yin will eat the other half, and Markos will send them a copy for each one.

[General Ludd]

I wouldn't be opposed to that. Cardboard is good fiber.

[GAZ082]

I'll get it by any means possible. So, i wont wait!

[MxM]

It is funny how one can check the first option if it is written in English:
"I will wait, I don't read English, or I don't want to"

[M. le Comte]

Originally posted by MxM
It is funny how one can check the first option if it is written in English:
"I will wait, I don't read English, or I don't want to"

Actually, that was the joke...

I had never realized that France was the only country were almost every PC game in shops is translated. No imperial version available here.

Anyway, French people don't speak foreign languages. That's perhaps the reason...

[alva]

Noooo!!! Really?!!?

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by M. le Comte
I had never realized that France was the only country were almost every PC game in shops is translated. No imperial version available here.

No, also in Italy games are usually translated (or at least the manual is translated).
It's a long tradition we inherited by translation of movies: italian actors in dubbing teams usually do a good job - as long they are working on main movie / main actors. Budget movies sometimes got budget translation.

Originally posted by M. le Comte
Anyway, French people don't speak foreign languages. That's perhaps the reason...

In Italy ther is a mixed situation. Younger people usually have at least some knowledge of english, while french, german and a bunch of others language got less diffusion.

That said, AFAIK is not that in England and USA they really know a lot of foreign languages (well, spanish is quite common because of some large community of latin-american people, IIRC).

Probably our lazy friend try to dominate the world by economics, Hollywood and military just to force everyone into using english (just kidding - please don't flame the pianist )

[Proteus_MST]

Same goes for germany.
Most of the games (and nearly all of the movies) are translated.

English Versions for most of the games are usually hard to find.
The thing which Infogrames did with Civ 3, i.e. first publishing the Original Version and then, a lot of months later, the german translation, was rather unusual for a games publisher in germany

[alva]

It wasn't the distributor but probably the shop that imported American/English versions.

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by Nikolai
This is a pointless poll

but you voted didnt you...


I will wait

just remeber these words

"Warning Spoilers"

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by alva
It wasn't the distributor but probably the shop that imported American/English versions.

Not in the case of Civ 3.
Almost every shop hat the english version available in large quantities, even the large department stores, who normally don´t import english versions of games.
So I think it was rather a step taken by the distributor than something the individual shops did.

Normally, if you want to find the english version of a game, it is useless to look in large department stores, as you won´t find them there (even if no german version is available yet)

[M. le Comte]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST


Not in the case of Civ 3.
Almost every shop hat the english version available in large quantities...

hatten sie ?

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex



but you voted didnt you...

Yes, I voted banana. The nearest you can get abstain.