Question to the Telltale
There is a two things that happen to a lot of video game developers, but for some reason not a single one of them wants to comment on the situation. Since they do not explain even why they do not want to comment - i can only keep asking new groups of developers same questions, and since Telltale have both problems in their games - i might as well try to ask here...
First problem - is russian translation. Telltale games wasn't translated on russian in the past, and group of amateur translators took care of that, delivering good quality of the translation. But here comes the new TWD season, and it has a russian translation! But... it ridden in mistakes, few sentences are untranslated, and some - got the entirely wrong, meaningless translation. And here is a thing i never could understand: why dev's keep paying people for terrible translations, when there is an amateur groups who were making good translations for free and probably will not ask much (if they will even as anything) for that work? When it comes to russian translation - professionals are usually who do job bad just because none of the developers care about that. Why?
Second - is the regional pricing. It makes no sense at all. For example, almost all games (including Telltale's) cost twice more in Ukraine than in Russia. But... Ukraine is poor country. Average month income here is a lot less than in Russia! So why exacly we have to pay twice more for the video game copy, that is anyway locked for all post-soviet regions?
People here rarely buy games from steam. They wait for someone from Russia to buy gift (and now, since it no longer possible - buy a key from local re-sellers) and sell it on any auction sites... And that will still be cheaper than bying it at 2x price. And same thing happens in many poor countries - developers charge insane prices, but for what reason? Why Russia is the only country that has reasonable prices on games, while others, a lot more poor countries have to pay so much more?
If you guys for some reasons can't answer my questions - maybe you could at least explain the reasons of not answering? Because i am already tired from trying to find out the truth behind this weird events, and i am wondering why not a single developer team wants to talk about it.
Comments
I don't know for sure, but a lot of times, when something costs a lot more in one country than another, it that country's government's fault. They add import duties that increase the price. When you use a code for a game bought in another country, you are technically smuggling the game in.
I really doubt that import duties are applied to on-line activations, and i doubt even more that they are worth 100% of the game price.
Well, seems like no luck with getting answers here also. I am now more interested why this theme is so taboo for all the dev's that they refuse to say anything at all, then in getting actual answers to my questions.