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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7637940" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>Spanish is kind of a special case. Unlike Italian(76% of native speakers are in Italy), French(60% of n.S. Are in France), Russian (96% of native speakers are from Russia), and German (78% of n.S. Are in Germany) only like 9% of native speakers of Spanish are from Spain. In contrast, a third of the native speakers are from North America and a half of native speakers are from South America, yet Hasbro and other game (and videogame) companies insist on using exclusively translations made in Spain. (And Spain's Spanish is quite particular with a lot of idiosyncrasies compared with the Spanish of everywhere else) This is a factor in the lack of penetration of D&D(and Pathfinder) in Latin America. Only Argentina has a strong enough RPG community. </p><p></p><p>I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a Spain's Spanish version of D&D, but there should be at least another Spanish version if WotC really wants to go after the other 91% of the Spanish native speakers. (One done in Argentina or California/Florida)</p><p></p><p>I'd also like to bring up evidence D: Portuguese D&D. Companies rely primarily in Brazilian Portuguese to do their products, and D&D has good penetration in Brazil (The biggest country with Portuguese native speakers) they even had their own homegrown high profile RPG a few years ago, and there are a lot of companies that could produce their own and support localization of D&D.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7637940, member: 6689464"] Spanish is kind of a special case. Unlike Italian(76% of native speakers are in Italy), French(60% of n.S. Are in France), Russian (96% of native speakers are from Russia), and German (78% of n.S. Are in Germany) only like 9% of native speakers of Spanish are from Spain. In contrast, a third of the native speakers are from North America and a half of native speakers are from South America, yet Hasbro and other game (and videogame) companies insist on using exclusively translations made in Spain. (And Spain's Spanish is quite particular with a lot of idiosyncrasies compared with the Spanish of everywhere else) This is a factor in the lack of penetration of D&D(and Pathfinder) in Latin America. Only Argentina has a strong enough RPG community. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a Spain's Spanish version of D&D, but there should be at least another Spanish version if WotC really wants to go after the other 91% of the Spanish native speakers. (One done in Argentina or California/Florida) I'd also like to bring up evidence D: Portuguese D&D. Companies rely primarily in Brazilian Portuguese to do their products, and D&D has good penetration in Brazil (The biggest country with Portuguese native speakers) they even had their own homegrown high profile RPG a few years ago, and there are a lot of companies that could produce their own and support localization of D&D. [/QUOTE]
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