pikzen
commented
4 years ago So, one of the issues with this is that PoB uses the english wordings to understand mods. (i.e., reading something like '25% increased lightning damage' is what lets it know what kind of damage it increases, and by how much).
Additionally, this whole process would require importing the tree in other languages, using the english one to parse mods, and remapping both ways (an amulet anointing a notable in French would need to have this name taken, find its english-data equivalent, parse the mods. )
The UI elements might be translated, but at this point it's barely a few percent of all the text you see in PoB. Other devs can have a look at it, but I think this is impossible with the current architecture of PoB.
PatapoIIIa
mlzzen
POE is not friendly for beginners. For many players, English is not the main language. It is difficult for them to understand the names of skills, characteristics of things, and so on. Even the game itself has been translated into several languages.
I know that adding multilingualism is a very complicated and voluminous job. To support translations, you can use i18n.lua The translations themselves can be performed jointly on crowdin.com (free for open source)