Haven & Hearth Advertising

[vasyat5]

Developers, I'll ask you a question. How much effort have you made to advertise the game? The game was good and I wanted more people to play it. If you are on the homepage of the Haven & Hearth website, look at the list of countries online, you will see that there are a lot of players from the CIS countries and this is very important. Why do not you create a built-in Russian language in the client? To play new players in Russian, you need to download outsiders, I wanted it to be easier. I would, in your place, add Russian and make a good advertisement for the CIS countries in Russian. How do you feel about this and is it worth it? I apologize, translated through Google translator)

[shubla]

Hurr, durr.
Localization system that loftar would be okay with would probably take a lot of their time to develop. Time that could be used to actually develop the game, instead of adding localization for single purpose of getting more russians to play the game.
I agree that it would probably bring in more players though. There are lots of potential players in big countries (like russia and china) that dont really play games in other languages than their native language. I guess people in Finland and some other countries with language that has less speakers are very used to play everything in english, so localization would really only have to be made to few languages.

I think that if devs would only want more players, they would have put the game in steam and translated it to some other languages (Russian, Chinese, Korean) already, and maybe advertised it in some active ways.

I also think that the title is a bit misleading.

[azrid]

I thought theres a custom client already for this.

[jorb]

Localization can be done as a custom client implementation if players truly want it.

Developing a system for localization, and centralizing all text strings in any way resembling something nice, is a very invasive operation.

Maintaining the totality of the text mass of the game is already ardous, and adding additional language support introduces multiples to that task.

We have no ability to provide accurate translations to Russian or Chinese, or really much of anything, and would have to rely on external support.

All in all, we would, in implementing localization, be working to increase our future workload, for the unclear and unproven benefit of perhaps gaining more players from specific countries.

All in all, never going to happen unless Haven becomes something larger by orders of magnitude than it presently is, and even then I'd be extremely skeptical.

As far as advertising goes we have a mild social media effort going, and that seems sufficient considering the present state of the game. If the game is good enough I see no reason why it shouldn't spread by word of mouth.