[2020] An Open letter to Rogue Planet Games and Day Break Games from the whole Russian community.

An Open letter to Rogue Planet Games and Day Break Games from the whole Russian community.

(sorry, lots of mistakes incoming)

Hi! We are Russian-speaking players of our beloved game Planetside 2. Lots of us conquer Auraxis daily for more than 8 years. Some play even from Planetside 1 (WOW). We believe, that our future in planetside will be bright, because of new RPG policy to listen to players. And it would be unforgivable to not use this situation to bring our pain to you. So, let's get it!

We ask. No. We demand you to add Russian (not only, if its possible) interface translation, same as other huge communities have it now (such as Germany, France, Italy, Spain). Speaking about Russian player base: it is more than 200-300 of prime-time players on Miller and Cobalt (and we believe it could be doubled by adding Russian translation) and more than 30 000 players, which was active around this game for last 8 years by social networks and our forums.

Here is why we think Russian language should appear now

1. The game is in it's another peak right now (optimization, reorganisation DBG with expanding resources, introducing huge content update, etc). Attracting a growing player base even more, adding different languages is a simple, cheap but effective way. It could bring new blood, that you wanted for so long now, especially in new events between outfits for server leadership. Also, it is easier to hire a translator for huge text now, before release, and add little changes in minor updates later. Inspired players right now are ready to make 95% of work for free.
2. As known Russian-speaking players are used to cancel the game they try if it has no Russian language. We took this info during an analysis of steam comments, forums, social networks and so on. We even had lots of comments after closing of Werner (Russian server, provided by Innova), that they love this game, but won't play it without translation. Our community found a solution by making custom russification(!)
3. We are ready and willing to grow. We have a strong, complicated and initiative community, that always take a part of whole Planetside events, such as ServerSmashes and other smashes, we have team, winner of SME, we participate lots of tests (even last one, without any information leak). Like other nationalities, we had our NationSmash team (despite of absence of Russian language, the only team that had no language in client). Now we fill inspiration and we finally welcome new Russian-speaking players and creating new outfits.
4. We are ready to translate the whole game or its parts for absolutely free. As we make it now, the same for roadmaps, twits and so on.
5. You may be not familiar with lots of Russians because we don't have enough English-speaking players and use other platforms that Reddit and Twitter to communicate. We use VKontakte (Russian Facebook), discord and pikabu (Russian Reddit). You also may not find Russian players in-game because a lot of us have to use a VPN and they play "from another country" because of our government's internet policy. So if you don't see our activity, it doesn't mean we don't have it. And it would be great not only to get translation but to build up a conversation.
6. Not only Russian language should be added. We have large communities, that speak Chinese, Polish, Slovak, Turkish and many others.
7. You already have some translations from Innova, we believe.

As respond to this letter, we want you not only to comment ideas above but answer some questions below:

A. Would you add Russian language at incoming huge updates? Are there any deadlines?

B. How can we help you and what exactly should we do?

C. Is it possible to assist us with local advertising campaign, that we thinking to launch by community resources?

D. If adding Russian language is impossible, we want to know why. There were several threads with the same questions, but they have no answer, as far as we know. Maybe we can do something with this

P.S.: For English-speaking community Planetside 2 (especially Miller and Cobalt one). We know that it wasn't always an ideal relation, but if you are willing to downvote this thread, please don't. We want RPG to read this. So add a comment, it will cause discussion, but at least for this time try to not being toxic about us. Thank you.

Here the outfits, directly participating in writing this letter:

Los Piratos [LPS], Red October [RO], First Order [IFOI], Werner United [WUTR][WUNC][WUVS], New Conglomerate Assault Team [NKAT], Zerg Russ [ZERG], Sons of Einherjar [S0N5], Russian Trash Squad [HOPM] and many other supporting us

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