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<blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 6471920" data-attributes="member: 40810"><p>According to Wikipedia the englisch version (The Dark Eye) was in 2003. Before that there were versions in French, Italian and Dutch in the mid-80s. All foreign language editions have been officially stopped in 2008, but I think they pratically stopped with new foreign releases quite some time before officially setting it in stone</p><p></p><p>A practical use for DSA for all German RPG players is using it as a meassurement how the German market is doing. During it's heyday they sold 50k+ copies of their major boxes. Nowadays they are happy selling 5k-10k with all competiting systems selling significantly less units (be it in German or English).</p><p></p><p>When WotC out of the bluw dictated their new expectations to their current partner who had already done the first few 4e books and was quite happy with the results (after paying translation costs and then current fees to WotC) and already planning the next few books, they honestly told them that it just couldn't be done on the German market. Then WotC just dropped them without giving any chance to reach a different agreement. </p><p></p><p>WotC then went canvassing from door to door with the few other Germany RPG publishers who could handle D&D and were just laughed at when they explained their expected number of units to be sold and that was the end of decades of there being a German translation, which even in this day and age is still very important to recruit new players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mirtek, post: 6471920, member: 40810"] According to Wikipedia the englisch version (The Dark Eye) was in 2003. Before that there were versions in French, Italian and Dutch in the mid-80s. All foreign language editions have been officially stopped in 2008, but I think they pratically stopped with new foreign releases quite some time before officially setting it in stone A practical use for DSA for all German RPG players is using it as a meassurement how the German market is doing. During it's heyday they sold 50k+ copies of their major boxes. Nowadays they are happy selling 5k-10k with all competiting systems selling significantly less units (be it in German or English). When WotC out of the bluw dictated their new expectations to their current partner who had already done the first few 4e books and was quite happy with the results (after paying translation costs and then current fees to WotC) and already planning the next few books, they honestly told them that it just couldn't be done on the German market. Then WotC just dropped them without giving any chance to reach a different agreement. WotC then went canvassing from door to door with the few other Germany RPG publishers who could handle D&D and were just laughed at when they explained their expected number of units to be sold and that was the end of decades of there being a German translation, which even in this day and age is still very important to recruit new players. [/QUOTE]
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