I see that you are onto something and it does kind of makes sense. Keeping it in the original language reduces the risk of piracy but again reduces their customer base. I agree piracy is wrong but not everyone can afford it, and we all have to agree if it wasn't for piracy we wouldn't even know about these creators.
Definitely especially the sites because that's how I found these people but also. It's a weird mood because like you mentioned it cuts off a customer base but it's also weird because they're also assuming then that the majority of the pirators are American. Because what I'm thinking is is that they're thinking if they don't translate it that even if they pirate it. There would still be another step for Americans to read the comic because then they would have to find someone to translate it.
Hello, how are you? I've been busy these past few weeks. I don't have a specific place to post it yet, as I'm doing it for free. Despite the fact that the whole process takes quite a while, I'll probably soon get around to continuing with the translation of Chapter 8. It's also been a while since the original author of the work hasn't posted any new updates. Thank you for your question, and I hope you're well.
Indeed, I agree with you, in my case, I usually look at the works of zis or ytsnow but it's been a while since they have translated their work in an original way, in fact, I would also say that those translations are not done by them, but, as in that case that I am continuing to translate at least that comic, it is unfortunate that there are many works in Chinese that are really good in history and graphically but because they are not translated they become quite limiting for English-speaking consumers, but for the rest of the world, that takes away a lot of visibility, which I believe that despite the piracy of their works, that would generate good publicity and obviously more profits with many more subscribers.
I'm fine and thanks again for the translations. I don't know if you saw my other comment from a while ago. But I was also wondering why do you translate them I've been down I'm assuming it's to mimic the already existent text. And if that's the reason I get it because it can be hard to read at times. Have you thought about just covering the already existing speech bubble and translating the text left to right
Yeah. It's something that I find pretty dumb especially on Snow's part just because of how far he is willing to go because anyone who has red snow stuff knows he has jump through many Hoops in order to try to stop people from pirating. Even though I'm pretty sure more than 50% of him and zis customers are people that found their stuff on free sites. Because I can definitely tell you as a American the type of content they make you don't see a lot nor gets a lot of attention. Which is kind of weird for me because at least from my times of following them neither of them have fallen in hard times to wear. At least for me it would warrant them being super stingy on trying to get every nickel and dime. When ultimately the more eyes that see it the more subscribers will come from it
Oh right, an apology, the truth is I forgot to reply to your comment but to be honest I do this translating it for the love of art hahaha, I just liked the comic a lot and so I decided to do it since I didn't see a clear translation by the author nor did I find one anywhere, for the text I only relied on translation tools to do it, let's say that it's the best way that the dialogues can be translated, more than anything so that it doesn't take up so much space and take away the grace of the images themselves, if it were up to me of course I would normally do the text from left to right but more than anything because of the issue of spaces since from Chinese to English there is a lot of difference so it is complicated to put the text in a way that is understandable, I found no other option than to put it like you see it haha
Exactly, in fact it is much better for them that more people know about their works, whether paying or for free on different sites, in the end it is advertising for them, in this way people who see it for free can be encouraged to pay for their content in an original way and thus they can ensure that those people stay subscribed to their content because they really like it and not just to unlock everything, save it and the next month they no longer subscribe.
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Oh really. Then do you think he makes or Alters the image when he translates it on his own. Because I did have a feeling you didn't want to take up I guess more space than the original translation. Where I will at least say I wouldn't necessarily have a problem just under the idea that the way that I imagine it it would just look like how he originally translated it. Unless there is alterations with the original image. Cuz even the funnier thing is is that I think a week or two ago I read something I was translated. And I could actually see the original text box behind the speech bubble but it was like very very hard to see cuz they just turned down the opacity I think LOL
Because even now as someone who has recently came in to more money lately has been thinking about possibly subscribing to some of their stuff but also at the same time. Now I feel morally opposed because it's like why are you doing all this to stop this. Cuz there is just some people like me who when they get into more money or at least get a bigger check that they may be more open to subscribing. And kind of bigger than this I don't think this really applies to zis but more snow it isn't like every month at least in the time to be monitoring their uploads you're getting a new comic and I don't know how much their subscription comes to American dollars cuz I haven't looked into it yet but. You're also relying on these people that are going to do something it's going to take time to make the monthly loss of money you are giving to them worth it
Yup, in fact what happens in many pages or at least in the case of the author zis is that he usually puts a lot of context and well, although in Chinese it seems quite a lot in English it becomes more extensive, so let's say that I don't get so involved in the issue of editing or wanting to change the text box from its original form because, in some way I feel that I am changing the original concept, my only objective is to translate as is although perhaps not all the text fits in some times in the dialog box, but well, I also didn't want to make the text very small that in the end it will become almost impossible to read or at least I feel that it would be somewhat uncomfortable for whoever reads it
Sure, I know what you mean, it's complicated since it's very true that paying for the subscription doesn't guarantee that you'll get at least one monthly content or several as perhaps at some point the author could have been provided with for x or y reasons, perhaps if he's very active then it might be worth it, but, at least what I've seen with zis is that he's been missing for quite some time without any publication other than at the beginning of the year when he published a small preview of a few images but that's the kind of thing that makes us a little wary of paying for this type of content even if we're willing to do it
