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MaxBorken · Jul 11, 2014, 02:55 PM // 14:55

Haha! Going off topic a bit, so I'll keep it brief. Extra letters? Au contraire.

ColoUr is the correct spelling. And fervoUr. And endeavoUr.
And jewELLEry. And AEROplane. And sulPHur.

And so on and so forth.

Max

Bristlebane · Jul 11, 2014, 02:58 PM // 14:58

But the mixed CaPs is not correct! (Ok, better get back to original topic)
*harkle*

Izzy Owns,
so do you need our help with the translation and correction? You have seen our qualifications in the most recent emails and we'd be happy to be of service.

Izzy Ownz · Jul 11, 2014, 03:41 PM // 15:41

I speak with the Community Manager in Spanish and the interview is entirely in Spanish at the moment, as i said, you can help improve the translation once i have the questions (more or less) translated and ready to post them here!

Anyway, this is just for Arenanet Team to revise the interview. After all i'll to translate the answers from spanish to english (no problem doing it!), was on my plans.

PD: my english is not that bad! (although it was better a few years ago). I can teach you Spanish, from Spain!

PD2: wordreference is my friend!

PD3: I have been translating interviews and articles from english to spanish for many years, but its harder the other way around! (spanish=>english)

MaxBorken · Jul 11, 2014, 03:55 PM // 15:55

Spanglish?...

Izzy Ownz · Jul 11, 2014, 04:05 PM // 16:05

Got another message from the Community Manager: It's not necessarily to translate the full interview, can be a little bit of the specific topic. [...]

Okay. What do you guys think? I'm hesitating between sending the full interview in English or only the topics of the questions, so they don't put any drawback.

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Originally Posted by MaxBorken

Spanglish?...

huh... what's that?

MaxBorken · Jul 11, 2014, 04:28 PM // 16:28

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Originally Posted by Izzy Ownz

huh... what's that?

Mixture of English and Spanish in the same sentence.

I think they'll be fine with your English as it is. There's no real need to translate anything unless you're being graded for an exam. Besides, in America there are lots of Spanish speakers.

Your English as it stands is perfectly fine for this. Don't knock your confidence. There are kids in the uk with far worse English than yours. In fact, it hadn't occurred to me that English wasn't your first language.

Max

**cosyfiep** · Jul 11, 2014, 04:28 PM // 16:28

that is a difficult one to answer...I would go for just the topics.

spanglish is a mixture of spanish and english (you get a LOT of that in the usa where the immigrants from mexico have settled)...we have also had engrish which is for the japanese who dont have a 'l' in their language so they tend to us the 'r' instead...and a few other made up names for language combinations that we hear people speaking. (edit: max beat me to it, but I will just leave this in anyways)

and izzy your english is better than most english speakers I have read (here even), so yes, you are doing a wonderful job! (it is pretty surprising that most european countries tend to teach english better than the native english speaking countries now...I know its a requirement in many of them to be bilingual if not tri or multi- lingual! And I applaud those who have fluency in more than one, while most of the rest of us struggle with just our native tongues).

ectogasm · Jul 11, 2014, 08:36 PM // 20:36

Strangely they changed "Councilor" in GW1 to "Councillor" in GW2. Just that one word.

Izzy Ownz · Jul 11, 2014, 08:57 PM // 20:57

#UPDATE 3 – Interview (English version) (hopefully British english xD)

Hi David.

1) Some may not know it, but before being Community Manager for NCsoft you were an active Guild Wars player. How was your experience in the game and with the community?

2) One of the last news we had was the development of a new website for GuildWars.com: "a new look and improved layout to stay up with everything that happens in the GW game and community." As you're a computer engineer, who knows if you won't finish just developing it! (laughs) What will happen at the end?

3) The Community Managers (and some developers) used to pass by Guild Wars Guru to be in contact with players, answer questions and move the players feedback to developers. Do you have plans to return to GWGuru again?

4) For ArenaNet the feedback from players has always been important. Currently the GWW feedback portal is closed, and players don't have another site. In this situation, How can players move their feedback to developers if it's not strictly a technical support case? Perhaps it's necessary the implementation of a new tool to contact you?

5) The last news we had from the Live Team were by the hand of John Stumme, the team was working on, literal words: more things that would leave everyone surprised. According to the little information that we have we know that they were working on Guild Wars Beyond: Elona, the Lunatic Court and big skill updates. Even more, some members of the Test Krewe revealed that there would be more content that was being tested. What happened with this content? Will it ever see the light?

6) Since automation system has been announced something happened that worried the players very much, the emergence of thousands of bots in both PvE and PvP. As well as the handling of HA, RA and GvG by some players (syncs and hacks) breaking the EULA. Since the reports inside and outside the game do not help much, what will the company do about it? Does this hint that the automation system is not solid?

(I haven't forgotten you, Cosyfiep: P. For not making a giant question, I left extra information in brackets about bot locations and Gold Sellers problem)

7) In recent times players have opened hundreds and hundreds of post in all the GW communities about a possible change to F2P. Why not convert Guild Wars to Free to Play (at least Prophecies) keeping the others campaigns pay to play to have the influx of new players and revamp the status of the game both PvE and PvP?

8) Why would that not be a good idea for ArenaNet and NCSoft seeing the huge success of the currently MOBA games (PvP)? Specially remembering that Guild Wars started as an e-sport and according to Arenanet the server maintenance is low.

9) David, many players would like to see new content for GW1! Last year the community made a letter about this issue: link (+250 likes). Why do not use a crow-funding model? to launch new content: instances, armors, weapons, campaings without taking economic risks, or launch pay content as you did with the Guild Wars: Bonus Mission Pack.

10) Formerly the Guild Wars team used to make events with prizes both inside and outside the game, and also collaborated with GWGuru as well as with others communities (supporting and providing prizes) for holding events together. Will we see more events like these in the near future?

11) Since we have been told on many occasions that you have no plans to do anything new with guildwars (outside of emergency updates), is there any hope that this will change in the future?

12) Next year will be guildwars 10th anniversary, do you have anything special in the works for that?

Many thanks from the whole Guild Wars community for granting the interview, David! We know the great work you're doing in the Guild Wars 2 community, but we hope to see you more around the old (and not for that less good) Tyria!

Do i have to make any changes to the translation?

PD: I think the interview is great

I ride my Pokemon · Jul 11, 2014, 11:52 PM // 23:52

13) Seeing how there was a shift between Guild Wars players to Guild Wars 2 (and also opposite movement from Guild Wars 2 to Guild Wars - mainly for Hall of Monuments) just out of curiosity do you have any specific numbers about the current active population on Guild Wars that still play on regular basis?!

Just one more.

ruk1a · Jul 12, 2014, 12:05 PM // 12:05

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Originally Posted by cosyfiep

Since we have been told on many occasions that they have no plans to do anything new with guildwars (outside of emergency updates), is there any hope that this will change in the future?

Next year will be guildwars 10th anniversary, do they have anything special in the works for that? (or does it also fall into the 'we have no plans to do anything with guildwars beyond emergency updates').

cosy took the words out of my mouth.

<3

Bristlebane · Jul 13, 2014, 11:08 AM // 11:08

I have to say this topic was a light in the dark, there's too much doom and gloom going around when it comes to GW. Thanks for keeping the spirit up :-)

tooburns · Jul 13, 2014, 12:36 PM // 12:36

i can translate everything in French is some of you request it.

Izzy Ownz · Jul 13, 2014, 12:53 PM // 12:53

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Originally Posted by tooburns

i can translate everything in French is some of you request it.

That would be great, tooburns!

If you want you can start translating the questions, and when i have the answers i can send them to you by private message.

PD: Any german, italian or polish speaker over here?

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Originally Posted by Bristlebane

I have to say this topic was a light in the dark, there's too much doom and gloom going around when it comes to GW. Thanks for keeping the spirit up :-)

Thank you too for participating in the thread

fadekill · Jul 13, 2014, 01:12 PM // 13:12

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Originally Posted by Izzy Ownz

That would be great, tooburns!

If you want you can start translating the questions, and when i have the answers i can send them to you by private message.

PD: Any german speaker over here?

Thank you too for participating in the thread

I could translate it into german if nobody else wants to. Would post it on wartower and the former onlinewelten forums.

Izzy Ownz · Jul 13, 2014, 02:32 PM // 14:32

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Originally Posted by fadekill

I could translate it into german if nobody else wants to. Would post it on wartower and the former onlinewelten forums.

Ok, you can translate it.

I'm making a list of the communities in which we could post the interview.

Bristlebane · Jul 13, 2014, 04:51 PM // 16:51

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Originally Posted by Izzy Ownz

PD: Any german, italian or polish speaker over here?

Sadly just Swedish. But if you ever need a Swedish translation, look me up!

Pulsedriver · Jul 14, 2014, 11:37 AM // 11:37

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Originally Posted by Izzy Ownz

PD: Any german, italian or polish speaker over here?

Here i am ^^
I can translate it and post it for the italian community

baal80 · Jul 14, 2014, 01:09 PM // 13:09

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Originally Posted by Izzy Ownz

PD: Any german, italian or polish speaker over here?

Hi Izzy, I can translate to polish, no problem.

I ride my Pokemon · Jul 14, 2014, 02:22 PM // 14:22

I can translate to Portuguese but the community here is long gone.

There are some people still nurturing the game at Portugal but most of them have moved on.