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Brilliant. What really drives me nuts is that in spite of the fact that French-Canadians are such a small minority, ALL games sold everywhere in Canada have both a French manual and French slip-cover attached to the game box. What a HUGE waste of paper. And an lame extra cost to publishers. And once you factor in the French population that is also fluent in English, it gets even more ridiculous.



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Words Of Wisdom said:
Poor Quebec.

 

let me fix that for you

 

there we go ;)



Whathe...damn...I live in Quebec..

Quebec already sucked...but now...



canch said:

I don't understand while some parts of canada are french speaking when its a english speaking nation.  Laws like these are silly because it will affect business in the long run.

Why would a company make a game which they know will sell 500k or less spend money to make it french when maybe only a few hundered french speaking people will buy it.

 

Well we are 6 000 000 here in Quebec and we all speak french...but english too!

Well, in fairness, French and English are the two official Canadian languages, so I do think that things should be in both languages, but they're kinda dicks about the language laws in Quebec.



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I live in Montreal, Quebec. By the looks of it, it seems that our government wants our economy to suffer, & this is during a recession.

I think i'm going to cry ;(



Jerk007 said:
That article is wrong. Games that don't have a French version available anywhere else can and will get released in Québec. The law is just to ensure that French (or multilingual) versions of games will be available in Québec if they are made.

The same goes for movies and computer softwares, yet you don't hear anyone cry over those.

 

Quoted because  people seem to be ignoring this and Wyldrage's post.

If a French version is available, this law requires that it be released in Quebec. If you can't be bothered to make a French localization, you can still sell your game in Quebec in whatever other language.

Or, you could keep freaking out, if you really must.



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Ugh, Quebec politician's are so stupid.



way to go Quebec.

I may have been born there but your giving me few reasons to be proud.



It's ridiculous the lengths they're going to try to force people to keep speaking the French language.