German Localization Ruined Mass Effect

If you thought the english version was bad, look at what they did to the GERMAN version of the game So the english version uses inclusive language, like they/them, right? Well, that's nothing compared to what they did to the German localized version of the game. In this forum post (https://maniac-forum.de/forum/pxboard.php?mode=message&bid=18&msgid=5422479), the project manager for all localization brags about how he and his team applied fully gendered German language to the game, both written and spoken text. What this means? Let me explain: There is no singular "they" in German. So what the German localization team did was to use so-called "neo pronouns", pronouns that didnt really exist until trans-activists made them up. So now the game is full of the neo pronoun "hen" and at the end of nouns there is an -e attached (imagine in English there's a guard, then with German gendering, it'd be "guarde". And if that wasn't enough, theyre also using stuff like the gender star * and the double point :. Heres an example if this were applied to English: "Hen is a capable fighter, but the leader*ess of the troupe is not a reasonable personess." No option to turn this off. A hundred million dollar project self-saboted by political activism. Reminder: The vast majority of German citizen is against this sort of language. There was ZERO need for it. But A let it happen anyways. As a German, the worst part of this is that I have no hope for Mass Effect 5 now ... There's no singular "they" in English either. The correct third person singular is "it." People don't like to use "it" however because they feel it is dehumanizing. This truly sounds horrible.

A forum screenshot shows a long complaint about a German localization allegedly adding invented gender-neutral pronouns, noun endings, gender stars, and colons to a video game. The joke is the exaggerated mock example “Hen is a capable fighter...” and the commenter’s deliberately provocative claim that “it” is the correct singular pronoun, turning a localization argument into culture-war satire. EN: A forum screenshot shows a long complaint about a German localization allegedly adding invented gender-neutral pronouns, noun endings, gender stars, and colons to a video game. The joke is the exaggerated mock example “Hen is a capable fighter...” and the commenter’s deliberately provocative claim that “it” is the correct singular pronoun, turning a localization argument into culture-war satire.

• @dustinthehead / 23244 2024-10-31