IIRC WotC / Hasbro has a fairly large translation team of their own in-house; it seems as if they intend to do it all in-house.
That wasn't my understanding for WotC. Heck, a lot of what they do already is done by freelancers.
Now, that might be the case for Hasbro. However, I've been under the impression that Hasbro is fairly hands-off where D&D is concerned, with comparatively little corporate oversight for the actual game itself; rather, they're focused on IP-branding across various media. I can see them translating some D&D media materials themselves, but not the actual game.
I guess in the interest of fairness, until WotC makes an official announcement, we must assume that your local translator misunderstood Ms. Fridrich actually saying that WotC merely has nothing to announce at this time.Our local translator got in contact with WotC representive Veronica Fridrich (I might butchered her nam, I'm translating back to English) according to her WotC decided not to offer translation licenses to local companies and that the decision is a strategic decision by WotC and won't be changed by the OGL announcement at the start of 2015 and that it's unlikely that they will reconsider this decision in the future.
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Yep, and the last translated rpg books were the three 4e core books. 5e is distributed exclusively in Europe via Pegasus Spiele without any plans of translating it.Just one other thing .. none of the WOTC Boardgames got translated to German (except Magic the Gathering of course).
Which is a pity. I know more people who would buy a german one than people owning the english original. Perhaps when 5E is a bigger success as wotc has planned, they change their view on translating the books.Yep, and the last translated rpg books were the three 4e core books. 5e is distributed exclusively in Europe via Pegasus Spiele without any plans of translating it.
I'm not 100% on what you're getting at. But unless there's something unusual about HJ's customer/business relationship that I'm just not grasping, I'm pretty sure it's HJ who is losing face by informing their customers they won't be able to purchase the product they want. (You can see this same standard in effect every day when shopkeepers lie and tell you that the product you want will be in soon, so as to avoid doing exactly what HJ is doing.)