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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. Re:Oh the irony... by creat3d · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're obviously from Uranus because that's where your head seems to be... his objection is to doing work for free for an entity you're giving your money to.

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  2. Re:Oh the irony... by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slashdot makes me post goatse links.

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