CK2 Elit Commentarius #LXXXI - Lingua Deos

[rageair]

Salvete!

Today we will be talking a little bit more about our upcoming CKII translations plans. Until recently our four core languages of English, French, Spanish and German have been enough to cover most of our player base however we are seeing a pressing need for a fifth supported language: Latin.

Latin is a language over a thousand years old with literally hundreds of speakers around the world. It is truly an incredible oversight that we have not already translated the game into the official language of the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Now we know exactly what you are thinking: ‘Why are you translating the game into contemporary Latin and not Medieval Latin?’ Believe me, this has been an ongoing discussion within the team for weeks, factions formed, friendships were lost but eventually it was decided that to reach the frankly vast community of Latin speakers around the globe it had to be contemporary Latin.

At over eight hundred thousand words translating the entirety of CK2 is no small feat, luckily we have acquired the help of several Latin experts who surprisingly had nothing more pressing to be doing. Assuming this translation is as popular as we imagine it will be we also have plans to translate the game into Medieval Hebrew and Ancient Norse, if these prove successful we might even go so far as translating the game into Swedish...

We hope you enjoy these changes, or should I say "Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem delendam esse".

 

[ChosenChaos]

The fact that the options were either medieval or contemporary Latin reveals this to be an April Fools' joke - if this was serious, the post would have said Classical Latin...

Edit: Nice job in channelling your inner Cato the Elder, too.

 

[Horowitz]

Dat April Fools' joke kek

 

[Greeny7]

Seriously, it would be awesome to play CK2 in latin. Quite sad it's only a joke

 

[Meneth]

The fact that the options were either medieval or contemporary Latin reveals this to be an April Fools' joke - if this was serious, the post would have said Classical Latin...

Edit: Nice job in channelling your inner Cato the Elder, too.

We're making a serious Medieval game. Classical Latin is simply not relevant.
Sadly, we had to sacrifice Medieval Latin in order to make it approachable to modern audiences. I strongly argued in favor of Medieval Latin, but I can't deny the arguments in favor of modern Latin.

 

[TerrorSnail]

Would actually legit pay for that

 

[Dracko81]

luckily we have acquired the help of several Latin experts who surprisingly had nothing more pressing to be doing.

The only believable part.

 

[Thure]

Nice! Finally I can play in Latin!
But I hope the Medieval Latin mod will come fast, because I too prefer Medieval Latin!

 

[DiogoCosta]

april fools

 

[carlleach99]

Ok real talk: I get that this is an april fools joke but as a Latin student and enthusiast, I'd gladly pay $5 for Latin Language DLC.

 

[Silversweeeper]

Deus vult!

 

[Thrake]

"Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem delendam esse".

Roma II ratus

 

[frolix42]

But what have the Romans ever done for us?

 

[Rags17]

Forget Latin, if you want to reach everyone in the world then why not translate into the world's one true universal language - Esperanto ?

 

[vukica]

What about Klingon, the language of modern... scholars? Wouldn't that be a better choice than Latin?
Or is the lack of UTF8 support the only reason why klingon can't be implemented?

 

[nogluten]

I know it's antiquated, but no Classical Latin? Surely like twenty people spoke it in 769!

nogluten joins the Classical Latin faction

 

[Afinati]

It happened. I was fooled. -_- I'm disappointed in myself obviously ... and you guys for not going through with this.

Priority no. 1!

 

[Matihood1]

So we have Latin but not Greek? No love for the eastern christians :/

 

[Kapitalisti]

I'd prefer a High Gothic translation but I guess this will do...

 

[treb]

it had to be contemporary Latin.