Comments on: All video games in Québec to be avalaible in French

By: Rey Micheal

Rey Micheal — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:35:26 +0000

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By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:58:15 +0000

I live in Quebec … I think they are taking it too far.. a lot of people dont really care and whats the problem with having both languages.. I personally like better my games in english and I don’t want to wait sometime for the game in french.. Anyway I find this law stupid..they are really taking it to far! I want my games in english .. no need for this crap law.. loss of time ..find something else to do with it
I mean..cmon

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:12:56 +0000

Even when the translated games are available in French, stock issues can cause delays in getting it to market. I visited three stores today – Wal-Mart, Future Shop and Toys-R-Us in the attempt to purchase Rock Band 2 (Xbox version) for my kids for Xmas. I was told at Future Shop that they had about 25 in stock a few weeks ago which were sold out immediately. Toy-R-Us had none and all three stores couldn’t tell me when they’d have it in stock. I finally ordered it on-line from the Toys-R-Us Canadian website which has the English version on stock in their warehouse. This law is causing merchants to lose money and clients like myself a good deal of lost time in trying to track down an item which has plenty of English stock available while the bilingual version is short on supply. I see nothing wrong with the Quebec government seeking to provide its French speaking citizens with products in their own language, but natural market forces (Quebec being a small market) will continue to produce delays in getting games to consumers and create financial loses for retailers especially during the holiday season which is their peak sales period.

By: Enalung

Enalung — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:06:17 +0000

As someone who’se first language is french and who lives in the province of Québec, I agree with Jay. When I can, I always play my games in english. The main reason is that translations are usualy done very poorly. Even someone who dosen’t speak a word of english will notice and I know many who are not nearly as fluent in english but will play english versions for that reason alone. Also, I speak almost always speak french in everyday life. Like anything else, you can lose very quickly something which you don’t practice. Playing english games as well as a few other daily activities I have help insure that I stay fluent in english.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:07:14 +0000

Some games will be forbiden for sale in in Quebec is the games companies choose not to translate. It could also mean that English games can not be sold at all in Quebec. Today if a company refuses to provide French instructions or bilingual boxes, it cannot be sold in Quebec. I don’t want to play games from France, because I might be forced to play on European servers instead of American servers (where the rest of Canada plays on)!

By: Video Games » All video games in Québec to be avalaible in French

Video Games » All video games in Québec to be avalaible in French — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:27:35 +0000

[...] Mike Fahey wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptCBC reports that the provincial governement and the Entertainement Software Association of Canada have struck a deal, which will force video games companies to release all video games titles sold in Québec to be translated in French. … [...]

By: Heri

Heri — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:42:00 +0000

Fred: I have nothing to add, I guess everyone agrees. FIY, the agreement has been “officialized” today

http://technaute.cyberpresse.ca/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,092007,1379968.html&ref=rss_technaute

the article has details on how video game companies are going to do this in Quebec.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:46:26 +0000

I am a proud french canadian. But this new law is stupid. Like said previously this will mean

less games in quebec
more pirated games

I sent an email to the minister which was not answered and basicly said I was going to buy all my games via an ebay store in the states. I also asked sarcastique questions like. Are all the movies presented at the montreal world film festival available in french? please ban the small movie producers who aspire to a career by showing there movies in cheap festivals only in english. Ban them.

I really think the goverment should put there efforts in showing kids french in our great scholl system(more sarcasm)

Whats next lets ban Rolling stone magazine or why not ban the NY Post from being sold here.

One last thing. Why the hell would I want to play John madden football in french

By: Heri

Heri — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:58:15 +0000

Hi Jay,

I am not sure that as an english speaker, you have to worry.

Most video games, when sold as the french version, have also the english and other languages localization.

But I believe (as I previously said) that the only problem is there be less video games sold in Québec

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:31:31 +0000

Here is what i think is going to happen there going to translate all the games in french and get rid of the english games or make it very very hard to get, thats what these people want. i have been living in quebec all my life and ive been seeing rights being trampled on the english speaking population over and over!! i just hope they find it in there hearts to make both versions avialble to english or french speaking people. I believe in EQUAL RIGHTS and i think its great that you have the CHOICE to CHOSE weather you want a french or english version of the game, just dont force people to buy the franch version and say your “protecting the french language”. THATS MY 2 CENTS