That’s not unsubstantiated, WotC announced in February that they will no longer be translating D&D or Magic: the Gathering products into Portuguese.A for other languages, I've heard (unsubstantiated) that Hasbro/WotC has ended localization efforts & sales in Brazil.
Eh. The only report I had was from one of the D&D streaming panic-mongers. Not someone I consider credible. Nice to see the actual official references.That’s not unsubstantiated, WotC announced in February that they will no longer be translating D&D or Magic: the Gathering products into Portuguese.
I've read and been told many times, that Das Schwarze Auge/The Dark Eye is much more popular than D&D in Germany and the Benelux countries and D&D 5E sales of the German version consequently suffer as a result. DSA is supposed to be popular in France, but it gets more competition from other TTRPGs there and the French version of 5E is apparently popular too....What about the localization of D&D in other non-English speaking countries?
They said openly on their social media accounts that they were no longer working with their Portuguese translator.A for other languages, I've heard (unsubstantiated) that Hasbro/WotC has ended localization efforts & sales in Brazil.
Does anyone know how D&D compares to home grown titles like Goblin Slayer RPG in Japan?
I think there's a conflation in some of the posts here between "popularity of D&D" and popularity of RPGs in Japan. RPGs are very popular....but maybe not D&D itself. Call of Cthulhu is incredibly popular, the #1 translated RPG in Japan last I checked. There are a lot of homegrown RPGs over there, some of which (such as Goblin Slayer) have been localized in English here, but tend to be sold alongside their manga inspirations rather than in game shops.
I'll need to check Sword World out. Do you know if it was localized in English? Hmmmm I guess I can be a good internet person and search around...I think Goblin Slayer is just a flavored Sword World, i think. could be wrong.
By the by, i liked it. Loved how characters are generated