Halo Infinite is finally set to release for Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles later this fall, and the Halo Arab community has launched a campaign to bring the Arabic language to the game when it arrives.
This campaign appears to have originated on Twitter using the hashtag #ArabicHaloInfinite, where it has been picked up by lots of Halo fans, also drawing the attention of popular Xbox community member Klobrille.
The hashtag has been picking up a lot of steam over the past 24 hours on the social media platform, although there's been no kind of acknowledgement from Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries or Microsoft as of yet.
According to numerous fans, this Twitter movement actually started appearing as early as last year, but the campaign has only now started generating major attention, even trending in Saudi Arabia for a period yesterday.
What languages do you want to see brought to Halo Infinite? Let us know down in the comments.
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I want it to be in Klingon
Surely Arabic is classed as a major language with it being spoken throughout the Middle East so why wouldn’t games be in Arabic, especially a big budget game like this. #ArabicHaloInfinite
At this point you'd think most games — especially AAA titles — would aim to have subtitles for the top 10 to 15 most commonly spoken languages, and then another 5 to 10 less-common languages that are spoken by large consumer populations or emerging markets.
Edit: Now that I've looked at it more closely I realize it would be quite the undertaking, although presumably there are companies that specialize in this sort of thing. To cover the largest markets in addition to emerging markets with the potential to be significant, you'd want subtitles for English, Spanish, Standard Chinese, Japanese, German, Hindi, French, Italian, Russian, Korean, Malay, Standard Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Western Punjabi, Swahili, Hausa, Turkish, Dutch, and possibly a few others. It would be interesting to see if expansive language support would increase sales enough, and make enough inroads into other markets, to make it worthwhile.
Everyone should be able to enjoy Halo..
Translated text seems like a fair expectation. Although probably quite annoying for the devs when they realize just how many languages they might similar demands about.
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