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<blockquote data-quote="Muso" data-source="post: 8900250" data-attributes="member: 6787914"><p>Now I understand better what you mean, thanks. In fact I think the erosion of trust or at least how much one appreciates a certain product is very subjective. Your list in message #58 is somewhat similar to mine but somewhat different. Precisely for subjective issues of personal stories and different origins. In Italy, for example, the translation of the manuals into Italian had been entrusted to a company (Asmodee through GaleForce9) in which the historical translators of D&D work and who have translated all the past editions starting from AD&D2E. They were doing a great job. At some point the WoC revoked Asmodee's license and decided to publish their own translations of the manuals. The quality of the translations has plummeted to embarrassing levels. Despite the protests of the whole community we only got very vague standard answers and the release of errata that did not cover all the issues entered. Things like that in the Monster Manual beholder is translated as "beholder" and in other manuals it is translated as "onnivedente" (that can be roughly translated as "all-seeing"), in some manuals the bugbear is translated as in past editions, i.e. "bugbear", while in others it is called "urgoblin ". This is just to give a few small examples. But this has caused a significant erosion of trust in the Italian public.</p><p>Going back to the topic of the topic, I think a lot of people had their confidence eroded in different ways but not yet to the point where they passed a certain threshold. This OGL scandal has overstepped many who were only partially disgruntled. Indeed, the WoC behaved as if it wanted to saw the branch it is sitting on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Muso, post: 8900250, member: 6787914"] Now I understand better what you mean, thanks. In fact I think the erosion of trust or at least how much one appreciates a certain product is very subjective. Your list in message #58 is somewhat similar to mine but somewhat different. Precisely for subjective issues of personal stories and different origins. In Italy, for example, the translation of the manuals into Italian had been entrusted to a company (Asmodee through GaleForce9) in which the historical translators of D&D work and who have translated all the past editions starting from AD&D2E. They were doing a great job. At some point the WoC revoked Asmodee's license and decided to publish their own translations of the manuals. The quality of the translations has plummeted to embarrassing levels. Despite the protests of the whole community we only got very vague standard answers and the release of errata that did not cover all the issues entered. Things like that in the Monster Manual beholder is translated as "beholder" and in other manuals it is translated as "onnivedente" (that can be roughly translated as "all-seeing"), in some manuals the bugbear is translated as in past editions, i.e. "bugbear", while in others it is called "urgoblin ". This is just to give a few small examples. But this has caused a significant erosion of trust in the Italian public. Going back to the topic of the topic, I think a lot of people had their confidence eroded in different ways but not yet to the point where they passed a certain threshold. This OGL scandal has overstepped many who were only partially disgruntled. Indeed, the WoC behaved as if it wanted to saw the branch it is sitting on. [/QUOTE]
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