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That would mean those of us who play games in multiple languages as a means of language study would need to buy each game multiple times.
by zeta0134 7y ago
That would mean those of us who play games in multiple languages as a means of language study would need to buy each game multiple times.
- okcando 7y agoAny means of price discrimination is likely to have some user-hostile effects along the edges. It is, in essence, DRM and if an authorized user interacts with it at all, it won't be pleasant. Or, in other words, any strategy of region-locking (even an unsophisticated one like unbundling languages) is going to stymie some legitimate use cases.
- em-bee 7y agoyou could let the higher price versions include the lower ones. so if you buy an english edition you get russian and chinese for free included, but you don't get finnish or german, whereas if you buy the german one you get english and all the languages that english already includes.
- kgwgk 7y ago> play games in multiple languages as a means of language study I've been studying all night, mom! Seriously, those who read books in multiple languages as means of language study need to buy each book multiple times and nobody used to find that surprising...
- OJFord 7y agoOr you just choose one? If you're at the level where reading a book can help you learn more or practice, I wouldn't have thought you'd much want a second copy in your native tongue.
- kgwgk 7y agoIs an exercise common enough for bilingual editions to exist (intended to help learning a language, not to better understand that particular book).
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