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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 3486762" data-attributes="member: 18832">Exactly. Language and culture make a big difference. Most Europeans I've known read, write, and speak English very well, but the appeal of translated works is always there (assuming the quality is respectable).There's also population to consider. Germany alone has more than four times the population of Australia, and German-speakers in other European countries just add to that market.Compare Australia to the Anglophone world, especially the U.S.; the whole of Australia would make up only the third most populous American state, behind California and Texas, and we're the same size as the contiguous states. Any Australian game company has to compete with American, British, and Canadian companies, and economies of scale mean it's extremely difficult to be competitive on the international scene; it's expensive to ship product from Australia (and having distribution partners in North America and Europe just adds to your costs). North American game companies tend to print in Canada, too, and we just don't have that option - book production here is expensive.</blockquote>