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Steam Translation Community Slaving Away

Posted by timothy on from the in-their-air-conditioned-galleys dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Steam has decided to build a community effort to get its Steam platform and game files translated by the community, but here is the catch: Translators do not get paid. Millions could be saved by Steam by making the community work for free. The article describes basic estimates on how much is saved by Steam in translation costs."

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  1. Hopefully not prone to abuse by The+Archon+V2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or people in some country are going to be wondering why everyone keeps telling Gordon Freeman that their hovercraft is full of eels.