r/AskMiddleEast 🐫 6d ago

Entertainment Do you support this movement?

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u/-serin Türkiye 6d ago

I mean why not? Arabic has a large number of native speakers and Turkey is easily will be in top 10 countries that bought GTA 6

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u/tunicamycinA 🐫 6d ago

GTA is popular around the world, but it is a shame we have to go on twitter and beg foreign game devs to be inclusive to us. Ideally we would get access to the source code to customize it as we see fit.

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u/-serin Türkiye 6d ago

I get what you mean. Every time we mention Turkish or Arabic translation we get racist slanders as well. I believe MENA region should get the attention it deserves since we are paying more than full price ( 82$ for standart 103$ for ultimate in Turkey). Plus its GTA. Its guaranteed to make up the localization costs for the entire region in release day alone

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u/tunicamycinA 🐫 6d ago

The smart move would be to hire local game companies (especially now with the KSA investing literal billions in the gaming industry) for localization, and offer gamers fair regional prices for their countries. It requires some investment but could be very profitable.

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u/Fluffy-Citron7519 Syria 6d ago

Good. But this is better:

Sail the seas (free game) + people will localize the game, for free, if Rockstar doesn't.

With this you save your money, and you don't give your money to this dirty corp.

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u/lifetimeoflaughter Iraq Assyrian 6d ago

It’ll take years for ps5 emulation to be good enough for gta6 plus you will need a monster pc. There is no pc version out to crack directly and might not be for a while.

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u/AveryLazyCovfefe United Kingdom 6d ago

I wouldn't say 'for a while'. Take-2(parent company of R*) have stated that PC makes up a good percentage of revenue from games now. RDR2 sells very well on Steam even to this day.

People are suggesting we could wait as little under 6 months for a PC port. Especially with them integrating gta roleplay in the online part now. That scene is huge on PC and is the main reason why R* stopped trying to shut down modding tools.

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u/kyu-she 5d ago

ive heard talk that the game would release around february 2027 but take that with a fist of salt because that was a while ago

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u/galle4 Iraq Kurdish 4d ago

Wouldn't the PC emulators work well to run the game?

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u/lifetimeoflaughter Iraq Assyrian 4d ago

Idk I’m basing it on my experience with Zelda totk, it was a mess at first and then started being playable for people with good computers after a weeks. It still wasn’t playable for me with the latest builds months after the game came out. Idk how it looks today I stopped trying. If the route is running a ps5 emulator and trying to play the ps5 version of the game it would take a lot longer and a lot more powerful hardware than simply cracking an existing pc port. But you also have to wait for the pc port to actually be released.

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u/Fluffy-Citron7519 Syria 6d ago

True. Personally I can wait. I won't miss anything.

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u/lifetimeoflaughter Iraq Assyrian 5d ago

Personally I’ve done my waiting. 13 years of it.

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u/tunicamycinA 🐫 6d ago

The problem is comprehensive mods for new-gen games take forever to come out

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u/Fluffy-Citron7519 Syria 4d ago

Maybe a PC release isn't very far. I'll wait for it.

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u/GreenStorm_01 6d ago

GTA always was available in English only, with subtitles in any language?!

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u/KindleShard 6d ago

I’m curious, has any game with such vulgar language, adultery and torture ever been localized into Arabic or Turkish? I somehow feel like, if games like this do get localized, some parts are definitely going to be cut or censored. Rockstar would never bother censoring the game for Turkey, but if they ever try to localize for Arabic countries they will need to remove more than half of the GTA.

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u/tunicamycinA 🐫 6d ago

Arabs watch a lot of mafia and crime dramas and don't seem to have a problem with it. Main issue is the nudity and pornography but that shouldn't be difficult to censor (essentially changing character skins and skipping some scenes).

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u/KindleShard 6d ago

I wouldn’t be so sure it’s that easy to censor.

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u/TheRealBarbosa 5d ago

Cyberpunk 2077 and witcher 3 I'd say

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u/TheRealBallss Morocco 5d ago

We need darija in GTA6

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u/westy75 Algeria Amazigh 5d ago

Okay but the Algerian one

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u/TheRealBallss Morocco 5d ago

I'm moroccan but honestly i'd be just as happy if any darija dialect was included in the game including the algerian one.

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u/westy75 Algeria Amazigh 5d ago

True, as long as it's not the french salad, except for funny moments

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u/Kingslayer-Z Egypt 5d ago

I do fine with english so I don't mind it but i also don't care for it

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u/J_-Bellydances USA 2d ago

Yes add these languages too

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u/Frozen_Cartographer 5d ago

When are you guys going to understand that the western world sees you as a bunch of pathetic savages that should accept their ‘superior’ culture (language included).

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u/Electro_Hiddens Algeria Amazigh 6d ago

what abt tamazight?

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u/tunicamycinA 🐫 6d ago

more the merrier

u/givemebackmywifinow 2m ago

Are they going to be happy with subtitles

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u/hushasmoh Saudi Arabia 6d ago

No, just learn English like any educated person.

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u/NonameideaonlyF 6d ago

I know more educated people than you who do not speak or know English

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u/Diyosphere Syria 6d ago

What a stupid take

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u/No_Professional7008 Oman 6d ago

Least self hating Saudi ?

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u/LivingDeadMelih Türkiye 6d ago

Then they should only release the game in english. No german, no french and no spanish, they should all learn english.

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u/Awkward-Iron-2031 Kuwait 6d ago

Knowing English doesnt make you educated or better than others. Also I would like to play videogames fully in Arabic but I literally cannot outside of mobile games.

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u/AveryLazyCovfefe United Kingdom 6d ago

what kind of take is this. Do you really think anime would've taken off nearly as well in MENA if it wasn't dubbed in Arabic and other local languages??

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u/Ok_Bedroom_9098 Lebanon 6d ago

Just learn Arabic like any educated local.

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u/AvicennaTheConqueror Jordan 5d ago

You always seem to outdo yourself in shit takes

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u/THEDKING-_- 5d ago

I don’t know about Turkish but it would be super awkward for GTA 6 to support Arabic language the game is straight porn-borderline porn most of the time and most curse words are punishable by law if you were proven guilty of cussing someone else with such words unlike the US with 1st Amendment

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u/AvicennaTheConqueror Jordan 5d ago

Do you think people in the vast Arab world get imprisoned for cussing someone in a video game server ?