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Asgard’s Wrath 2 had added Chinese subtitle recently! It is a good news for Chinese players! I hope that more games can add Chinese subtitles like Batman: Arkham Shadow in the future. As Asgard’s Wrath series and Batman: Arkham Shadow, they are the games that was a GIFT for promotion to all new Meta Quest players and all labelled as 3A game!! No Chinese subtitle is very unbelievable! I can say that, no matter of PC games, console games, mobile phone games in nowadays, most of the 3A games MUST have Chinese subtitle!! Even for PC VR games!! But Chinese subtitle for Meta Quest games are not common so far. It is very weird as Chinese society is a huge market. I hope that Batman: Arkham Shadow can add subtitle and please concern of Chinese society in the near future!
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Hey @Konia1234 it may be a while before Chinese gets commonly supported in Quest games. As of today, the headsets aren't officially sold in China and Meta's social media platforms are banned there. Towards the end of 2023 there was talk of an agreement with Tencent to allow that company to be the exclusive seller of Quests, no doubt with a custom OS that satisfied the Chinese governments requirements but that agreement seemed to have fallen through earlier this year.... I can't find any confirmation of what the current situation is, only that the headsets aren't officially sold there as of today.
Anyway, the Quest does include Chinese (simplified and traditional) language support within its options but of course that's different from game subtitle support.
Game devs will tend to follow userbase figures when deciding what features to include and I think Chinese subtitles will depend to a large extent on headsets becoming officially available in that territory. Taiwan is a supported country but I don't know how big of a userbase is there.
PC games (on the whole) and other consoles aren't banned so language support will definitely be better.
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Thanks DaftnDirect, I agree with your comment. In reality, even there are no licensed products in China and Hong Kong, but I knew that many people had bought Meta Quest products! I even joined a chat group of no.10 in China. That group has 1992 out of 2000 people! (I do not know how many chat groups, but at least, 10000+ people had bought or concern on Meta Quest!). So you can imagine, there are more than hundred thousands of people who had bought Meta Quest already and what I am talking is China only (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and the Chinese live around the world are not counted!). Therefore, even Meta's social media platform had been banned in China, but it is not banned in Hong Kong! That's what I am saying, Meta can release licensed products in Hong Kong just like the other consoles! So it is talking about millions and millions of Chinese people around the world but the 3A games do not have Chinese subtitle. That is weird for that. The game developer may think whether Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese subtitle to add in the game, but never be a reason of social media platforms are banned and nobody will buy or play Meta Quest in those regions. Honestly speaking, I knew many Chinese people or friends and their English is poor! They would definitely buy the games just if the game has Chinese subtitle only! For example, the game of Asgard’s Wrath is about myth, Chinese may hard to understand or enjoy that game with no Chinese subtitle! So, it is not saying to increase thousand copies of the games. I am saying to increase over millions copies of the games just if Chinese subtitle is added as many Chinese people would concern Chinese subtitle of a game is one of the main criteria to buy or consider. No matter how good of your game, no Chinese subtitle is hard to play in gameplaying! I hope my voice can transfer to Meta and the game developers and more Chinese subtitle games can release in the future.
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Yeah, agreed, the userbase is probably quite big around the world at this stage. Do you think Quest users in China/Hong Kong are using VPNs? that may affect dev’s decision making if it skews location data significantly.
Check the ideas section of the forum, if there’s already a post requesting Chinese, add your like and a comment to it. It all help, at least for games that Meta have an involvement in the development.
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Thanks mate! But let me confirm of an important point. Only Chinese in China need to use VPN if they need to activate the Meta Quest. But Chinese in Hong Kong are free to surf Facebook, YouTube, or else and no need to use any VPN. Therefore, the userbase is quite big as what you also agreed.
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Perhaps the answer lies in how many users have set their headset default language to Chinese, rather than user IP addresses.
Game devs won’t necessarily listen to you and me, or visit forums and discords discussing this. The bean counters allocating coder priorities love hard data.
Maybe that’s what could be suggested in the ideas section. Make the headset language use numbers available to devs (if they haven’t done so already).
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