Why cant game developers get ARABIC right ?

"personally i despise my language and culture"
 
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if you mean "care out of respect", ofcourse they shouldnt give a fuck.   

I speak Arabic, and it really doesn't bother me.   
 
I play most my games in English or Japanese, and I heard enough arabic in my life time. 

who cares

Ubisoft is effin' awesome with this. The Italian in AC2 was more than decent, and it's the entire games worth. Not to mention that their Spanish is also really good.

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

"personally i despise my language and culture"
 
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if you mean "care out of respect", ofcourse they shouldnt give a fuck.   

Your lack of self esteem and respect for your own culture disturbs me. I'm not an Arab, but dude you don't need to slam on your own culture for us to respect your point. "

 better question is who the fuck cares...
 
stupid forum trolls

You think you've got it bad...you should hear what they do to American.
 
 
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I can't understand it.
 
I don't care if the letters aren't connected. When I was playing MW2 it really wouldn't of bothered me if they were all saying "durka allah muhammed jihad, ah durka durka durka". Probably make it a better experience, cos i'd crease up.

" @natetodamax said: 

" Is it incorrect when someone yells "GRENADAAAA!" in Call Of Duty? "

It's been a while since i played CoD, but arent the ones shouting "grenada" russian ? if they're arabs, then yes we dont call it a Grenada.. its called "qonbola" which you might've heard in Battlefield 2 
 
@Axxol said:

" Hahaha... I doubt they care if it's accurate. "

if you mean "care out of respect", ofcourse they shouldnt give a fuck. but they should care in a "we want our game to be as realistic and accurate as possible" way 
 
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That's weird, you'd think it wouldn't be all that hard to find someone who can tell you how to speak/write a language, and not even to learn, just to translate it. Huh. I can't say I'm surprised, but it does seem like an easy thing to take care of during development.

" That's weird, you'd think it wouldn't be all that hard to find someone who can tell you how to speak/write a language, and not even to learn, just to translate it. Huh. I can't say I'm surprised, but it does seem like an easy thing to take care of during development. "

@Ahmed: It does rub me off the wrong way some times

Hello.
 
Try being German.
 
Goodbye.
 

dont you have a war to fight???  

" @Meowayne:  so you're saying German is done badly and inaccurately in games? "

It's a common rule in sound design for movies, games, etc. not to make something sound like what it actually sounds like but to make it sound like what most people believe it sounds like (which is only occasionally the same thing). 
 
That's why most helicopters sound like Huey's, why just about every silencer in a movie or game ever has a "peww" sound, etc.  
 
It's not important to get it right for the small percentage of people who would know, it's important to give the majority of the audience what they're expecting so it doesn't pull them out of the experience by seeming wrong (even if it's right). 
 
There are a million things movies and games get "wrong" but it's for the sake of visual and audio "flow", trying not to break the experience for the majority of the audience who don't know any better.

" @ShaneDev said:

" If you despise your language and culture then why do you care if the language is spelled properly or not. "

the video game industry aspires to be as realistic and accurate and perfect in every way and in all aspects, right ? 
 
@kermoosh said:

" i know its a proper arabic, many people who speak arabic have different dialects, so even if you know arabic, you might not understand the proper arabic or whatever "

thats a good point, but incorrect arabic is incorrect. 
 
@HandsomeDead said:

" Do Arabs even play video games? "

just...... just Fifa 10..... and some Vice City .....     *cries* "

 why just about every silencer in a movie or game ever has a "peww" sound

" @JokerSmilez said:

 why just about every silencer in a movie or game ever has a "peww" sound

Well that's pretty much because a silencer has no sound.  They make a sound for it in movies and especially games to make the audience aware something is happening.  Same with night vision goggles in games.  Real night vision goggles don't emit any light(it defeats one of its purposes).  In games, of course, that could be a problem because it can cause you to lose sight of where you are, hampering gameplay. So, they just slap tiny green lights on the lens to give the gamer an area of attention. "