Quebec Demands "French-First" Videogames
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You have to understand a lot about Canadian history to really understand the whole english/french issue here... it's an issue that's older than the country itself.
Kind of funny that one of the "intolerable acts" that prompted the American Revolution was the fact that the British government allowed the Québécois to be citizens and hold public office.
Kind of funny that one of the "intolerable acts" that prompted the American Revolution was the fact that the British government allowed the Québécois to be citizens and hold public office.
Everyone in Canada hates Quebec.
EVERYONE. We're actually looking to trade them for Alaska, I'm talking to you Obama. You can use them for target practice.
EVERYONE. We're actually looking to trade them for Alaska, I'm talking to you Obama. You can use them for target practice.
To make it worse, this means that the game developer has to go out of their way to offer an NTSC French version of a game: France uses PAL. This means special packaging for Quebec and Quebec alone, if they choose to apply the "well, you made a French version" excuse. Sure only 10% are primary English speakers, but I'd lay good odds that it's a higher percentage among those who play video games. To enforce French and French only instead of simply demanding French is almost unbelievably dicktastic. This right now could KILL the used games market in Quebec.Khell_Sennet said:
Otherwise, unless a company goes out of their way to offer a French Canadian version like Epic did with Gears, it may translate to companies not bothering and French versions simply not being available (Unless, again, Quebec pulls the "you made one for France!" bullshit). France is entitled to get French games on some level, obviously, not least because they have 10 times the population of Quebec.
Well, this is going to kill game sales in Quebec, but then again, they did thrust Celine Dion and Jacques Villeneuve on the world, so they clearly deserve it and them some.
Although to be honest what they really need is an invasion, by Canada, who should start asserting the country's proper laws instead of lettin Quebec pull all this regional governance bs...
Although to be honest what they really need is an invasion, by Canada, who should start asserting the country's proper laws instead of lettin Quebec pull all this regional governance bs...
Isn't that «douchesacoise»?PedroSteckecilo said:
*facepalm* I can't believe I missed that. Here I was trying to figure out how it was translated into French... :lol:bikeninja said:
I swear that only around 10% of Canadians even speak French and French alone.
Well, bugger me sideways, I was beaten to it.Khell_Sennet said:
Living in New-Brunswick, which has a pretty healthy population of francophones (about a third of the population speaks French, including myself), and being an Acadian on top of that, I've still gotta shake my head at this. It's just unnecessary. I don't need some dumbass "French first" law to protect my culture.
I'm a Quebecois myself and I find this law absolutely stupid, silly and uncalled for. The only thing that will happen is that people who make up the sales for the retailers will get their games online instead of waiting months before a French version is released. French voice-acting is usually terrible compared to the english one anyways.
I live in a society of morons.
I live in a society of morons.
I find that in general, laws "protecting cultures" are universally bad things.Milkman Dan said:
Because they tend to lead to this. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany]
Or, for the Francophones, this. [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troisi%C3%A8me_Reich]
Or, for the Beowulfs, this. [http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsi_%C3%9E%C4%93odiscland]
This is what happens when you cave into the whiners.....
That wouldn't be that much fun. If they're so insistent on being french, they'd just surrender straight off.DamienHell said:
I think you just pulled a trilingual Godwin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law].TheBluesader said:
Regardless I agree with your intent: this law is fascist and discriminatory, and will do significant harm to the culture and entertainment of Quebec.
Personally, I hope the advocates of such a law choke on their own fascism.
I love how people don't know what they're talking about ... Ubisoft is a French company, all of their NA games comes in English, French and Spanish.bikeninja said:
Adding French to the NA game version isn't longer or harder to do when it's done from scratch, believe me, I know!
This is true, but for other developers they don't always have the framework to provide french NTSC games like Ubisoft does. It ends up costing more money and more time.WickedChris said:
Anyways, being in Montreal myself the language laws ARE stupid. Most of the Quebec's biggest companies are predominantly English anyways, most French people I know prefer seeing their movies in English anyways and the same goes for video games.