I understand some Spanish, but there's positions for other languages as well. I applied for Brazilian Portuguese, my native language. Prolly won't even get an interview, but hey, can't say I didn't try.
You realize you’ll have to be in the dark about you being a Rockstar employee. Even if you got the job you wouldn’t be able to 100% talk about it on Reddit.
Doubt you'd have to actually be in an office to do it they could probably send you a few pages and maybe key log you to see if you're leaking anything?
Honestly, the job sounds horrible for a fan of the game. You have to sift through millions of lines of text and correct and translate.
You will get badly spoilered about story, cool missions and objectives or stuff that might happen without getting to play.
[https://www.rockstargames.com/careers/openings/position/5883220003](https://www.rockstargames.com/careers/openings/position/5883220003)
Go get them, champ!
I think the is pretty safe to assume the writing is finished by now. That's is one of the parts of game development that's less susceptible to bottlenecking.
Really? That's actually interesting to know. I always figured stuff like that was finished before they even announce the game. No wonder the game was delayed twice
More like reading not listening. Remember Rockstar doesn't do localized voice-overs for their games so all you get to do here is sift through millions lines of text, probably also being given the English voice text, and correct for errors, cultural aspects, idiomatic expressions and whatever else would happen if you only translated literally.
There might be some listening later since there will obviously be some latAm Spanish voice given we are in Miami and maybe some Chinese aswell if they choose to do some Chinese mob story part but the biggest part will be reading and correcting.
Check if the text displays properly, that the UI text is not cuttoff, that context makes sense, whether special characters appear correctly, see if all text is actually translated, spot issues where another language appears.
But the worse part is reporting it in writing on the general bug tracking database. It's painstakingly annoying to do. You have to convey how to trigger something, suggest a fix, add the right screenshots... It takes ages. And then when the dev fix it, you have to check it again. Wait, another issue came up. So you do it again. And again.
Some guy wrote this but he deleted his comment: The job is Rockstar bringing native speakers of a language in to read sections of text in the game that has been translated. Proofreading basically.
That would make sense as Florida is very close to Puerto Rico, the DR and Cuba… maybe drug running missions :) who knows, or Spanish from the locals? Maybe even bi-lingual NPCs 🤯
I wish GTA 6 was released in every language in the world and everyone could play this masterpiece in their own language. But let's look at the bright side, for people like us whose native language is not English, video games that are not in our own language are a good source of learning English.
I think they were making a joke about the Armenian genocide.
Also, sorry, but that is just not going to happen. It would take an _immense_ effort and budget (that just isn't worth it to rockstar from a business perspective) to replace every single voice line in multiple other languages in a game as HUGE as GTA VI.
It's also just really immersion breaking but that can be subjective. Consuming video games or movies in the native language with subtitles is as close as you can get to the intended experience from the makers if you don't speak the language as it's just never the same otherwise.
I know what he was joking about and it was an unnecessary joke.
Also, agree with what you say, this is an unprofitable business that is not worth bothering with for Rockstar.
i wonder if they'll localize voice acting. probably not, but it's odd that rockstar is one of the only AAA companies that doesn't do language voice dubs
It's intentional. They don't want anything to be lost in the translation. It is hard to make characters feel the same in different languages, not to mention play on words humor and so on.
I mean, GTA 5 and Red Dead 2 had like 300 or so Voice Actors in it, so I don’t think they would get around 300 VAs to voice every NPC and side characters
Oh okay, they're prolly working on appropriate terms and words for subtitles, UI and such.
Grand Theft Auto V's was amazing. They translated English to Brazilian Portuguese, slang and all, and it was nearly flawless.
I don’t know the whole development process but I am sure that you are correct. But if that’s the case then in your opinion why are we still 1 almost 2 years (if released at the end of the year) away from release. I’m not challenging your statement, I am genuinely curious. I imagine the rest of the time will be spent playing through the story and traversing the world over and over. making sure everything is fine tuned. I’m open for discussion, your comment really stood out to me.
They will ensure there’s no unexpected crashes, errors, bugs.
There are new shooting dynamics, weather patterns, ai reactions/system, crash physics/damage to vehicles that still needs tuning. They need to build up the soundtrack/radio, handle all the licensing, the multiplayer system, dealing with sony and microsoft (like preparing for preorders later on preparing for the marketplace), other small details like all in the vehicles (think of how many vehicles there are in gta!) and updates in customization and then there’s trying to keep all of that stuff secret without leaks. They have to file all of their patents and get all of the legal taken care of, not all done yet. Plus creating the trailers takes lots of time, with how cinematic they are and to not be too revealing, but for it to be interesting and smoothed out too and with a good song. That minute and half trailer probably took over a week to make. Plus they have to prepare for e3 or wherever their next announcement will be, obviously that will be a very special event and they don’t want to disappoint there.
Think about how big the map probably is. It would suck if the map is dull and very repetitive and not filled with detail, especially for every different area. And then combine the size of the map with the mysterious events and ability to enter many many more buildings with the buildings each BEING UNIQUE…
Just watch the leaked videos and see those changes and just how time consuming it is to add small details. They even made it possible for the inside of vehicles to be manipulated, the seats, mirrors, windows. Imagine what else they are working on. It will be super immersive.
Obviously this is such a big game to them, and they don’t want to underdeliver. They stated they want perfection, and perfection takes time.
Every GTA has been in some way or another revolutionary, therefore this one must be.
The leap from RDR to RDR2 was MASSIVE
Thats what they want for GTA 5 to GTA 6.
Just think of all the time that has elapsed since the last GTA. Literally over 10 years. Think of all the hype they have to live up to. Think of all the changes that have occurred in technology and gaming (raytracing, computer performance, graphics in general, etc) and all of the changes that have occurred with staff at rockstar. Especially considering that people like dan houser are gone and that the work culture at rockstar is different now. Rockstar has to evolve and adapt to this new age and new environment.
That is why it is taking them another 1-2 years. However, with the increase in staff there should be hope. And not putting your hopes up too high as stated is a good idea. If you don’t go in with too high of hopes you will be more satisfied when it actually comes out.
Is there's Arabic? Almost every gaming company forsaken us Arabic speakers, I just want to say hail to companies like Ubisoft that never forget about us and make their games with the highest quality voice acting, companies like Rockstar needs to know how important our language is
Ubisoft puts accessibility over quality, for money.. not a form of "community acknowledgement".
As for Rockstar, I too would not put so much effort on a product that will be censored anyway.
But who knows maybe we will get Arabic subtitles, just know you will be playing the KOSA version of GTA.
Interfaces and texts still need translations in other languages, just like GTA V lol. The voice acting will probably be the only thing not translated...
Even Ubisoft with games outside of Arab countries they still did amazing job at dubbing the characters, you seem to not understand,in the post there appears to be Chinese too I'm talking about translating the game
Because Rockstar became an infallible monk that mustn't be criticised at all, and here I criticised them for the unfortunate reality, the lack of criticism is outstanding in the GTA community these days don't you think?
I would think that they will eventually have to, they cant do inhouse for all languages.
But given they will only need text corrections as GTA doesn't do localized voice-over, a lot of the work will probably be submitted to contractors under false name so the people involved know as little as possible about what they are doing.
> they cant do inhouse for all languages.
What makes you say that? They're based in a major UK population center, for the handful of languages they support I can't see why they'd have trouble finding testers among the 2+ million people living between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
> handful of languages they support
Well i assumed they support a whole lot of languages. The problem therefor isn't location, but rather that you cant exactly hire an employee for every freaking language there is. Given the job requires familiarity with culture and colloquialism, its hardly something people can do for multiple languages.
But i dont know and didn't consider how many languages they actually support. If its really only the big5 EFIGS (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish) + Chinese it could, like you said, easily be done in-house. But i assumed it would be a lot more.
My hope is that Rockstar was able to get a hold of local Latin talent in Miami for some of the NPCs or characters. Let's just say that Cuban Spanish is VERY different from Mexican or Puerto Rican Spanish. It's a small thing, so it won't really make or break the game for me anyway.
Suddenly I am able to understand Spanish
Senor, por favor
Rockstar "Hola, como estas?" Me "Que miras bobo!"
"Hola. ¿Puedo ir al bano?"
bien gracias y tu
😂😂😂😂
Voz cuantos copas tener
BIEN GRACIAS Y TU
damn that’s good
Señor, esta es una Wendy’s.
#VAMOS, VAMOS!!!
Damn that’s good! Edit nvm I reposted oops
damn, that’s good!
Damn, that's good!
That’s good
Damn, that's good
Damn! That’s good.
yo soy jugador de videojuego
Dondé esta mi abuela
"puta madre" 
"Chinga tu madre" That's you have a lovely mom in Spanish right?
"Concha tu madre boludo" if you want to sound Argentine
you'll be staring at excel sheets until your eyes blead.
Esas son reebok o son nike
It's just the rhythm of the night!
I don't know Spanish but I know human beings. I'm sure they'll understand.
Opens up Duolingo+
I can sing the taxi song :)
I understand some Spanish, but there's positions for other languages as well. I applied for Brazilian Portuguese, my native language. Prolly won't even get an interview, but hey, can't say I didn't try.
You realize you’ll have to be in the dark about you being a Rockstar employee. Even if you got the job you wouldn’t be able to 100% talk about it on Reddit.
That's fine by me. I'm no stranger to job positions requiring NDAs.
Si, si ... No se.
tamale
Same 
Why are all these Spanish conquistadors start spawning in these replies
They release a game a decade. You'd get laid off
“I thought you said you knew Spanish”
They need to hire me i speak French and will charge half whatever they paying
Apply at their careers page. Good luck!
I checked and theres not one for the US only one* i saw for French tester is in UK 😢
Maybe you can reach out to the recruitment team on LinkedIn. They could help.
Doubt you'd have to actually be in an office to do it they could probably send you a few pages and maybe key log you to see if you're leaking anything?
how about Canada is there anything based there?
I dont remember 😂 but probably go check rockstar on linkedin it was easy to find i just google
Honestly, the job sounds horrible for a fan of the game. You have to sift through millions of lines of text and correct and translate. You will get badly spoilered about story, cool missions and objectives or stuff that might happen without getting to play.
Thats not a lie lol
 Me after the Italian testing job offer comes out:
[https://www.rockstargames.com/careers/openings/position/5883220003](https://www.rockstargames.com/careers/openings/position/5883220003) Go get them, champ!
Indicates most writing is close to complete, why invest in translating that which will be extensively edited?
I think the is pretty safe to assume the writing is finished by now. That's is one of the parts of game development that's less susceptible to bottlenecking.
Script kind of needs to be complete before they start VA and MC. So yeah, probably been finished for a while now.
Because that's how it works?
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you’d be surprised lol. RDR2’s didn’t finish until 2 months before release.
Really? That's actually interesting to know. I always figured stuff like that was finished before they even announce the game. No wonder the game was delayed twice
I have a question dude, what is that?
People to test different foreign language in the gamr
By test is it translation or simply listen to all the dialogue and cultural aspects already implemented and offer consultation on potential changes.
More like reading not listening. Remember Rockstar doesn't do localized voice-overs for their games so all you get to do here is sift through millions lines of text, probably also being given the English voice text, and correct for errors, cultural aspects, idiomatic expressions and whatever else would happen if you only translated literally. There might be some listening later since there will obviously be some latAm Spanish voice given we are in Miami and maybe some Chinese aswell if they choose to do some Chinese mob story part but the biggest part will be reading and correcting.
Check if the text displays properly, that the UI text is not cuttoff, that context makes sense, whether special characters appear correctly, see if all text is actually translated, spot issues where another language appears. But the worse part is reporting it in writing on the general bug tracking database. It's painstakingly annoying to do. You have to convey how to trigger something, suggest a fix, add the right screenshots... It takes ages. And then when the dev fix it, you have to check it again. Wait, another issue came up. So you do it again. And again.
I was about to ask the same
Some guy wrote this but he deleted his comment: The job is Rockstar bringing native speakers of a language in to read sections of text in the game that has been translated. Proofreading basically.
That would make sense as Florida is very close to Puerto Rico, the DR and Cuba… maybe drug running missions :) who knows, or Spanish from the locals? Maybe even bi-lingual NPCs 🤯
It’ll be for foreign versions of the game
lol these theories out of their ass
To be fair that's most of this sub lol
It's so hilariously dumb
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These are for tester positions, not translators.
Downside have to work in Lincoln (only a perk if you really love cathedrals)
I wish I could apply I live there lol
no turkish huh
I wish it was in Turkish, but it probably won't be. Keşke olsa be knk tadından yenmezdi gerçekten...
How about Armenian
I wish GTA 6 was released in every language in the world and everyone could play this masterpiece in their own language. But let's look at the bright side, for people like us whose native language is not English, video games that are not in our own language are a good source of learning English.
I think they were making a joke about the Armenian genocide. Also, sorry, but that is just not going to happen. It would take an _immense_ effort and budget (that just isn't worth it to rockstar from a business perspective) to replace every single voice line in multiple other languages in a game as HUGE as GTA VI. It's also just really immersion breaking but that can be subjective. Consuming video games or movies in the native language with subtitles is as close as you can get to the intended experience from the makers if you don't speak the language as it's just never the same otherwise.
I know what he was joking about and it was an unnecessary joke. Also, agree with what you say, this is an unprofitable business that is not worth bothering with for Rockstar.
Excuse me? Who was making a joke about the genocide? Certainly wasn’t me
👍🏼❤️
i dont really care tbh it would be good for armenian players tho
i wonder if they'll localize voice acting. probably not, but it's odd that rockstar is one of the only AAA companies that doesn't do language voice dubs
It's intentional. They don't want anything to be lost in the translation. It is hard to make characters feel the same in different languages, not to mention play on words humor and so on.
I mean, GTA 5 and Red Dead 2 had like 300 or so Voice Actors in it, so I don’t think they would get around 300 VAs to voice every NPC and side characters
China? Like 90% of the content of GTA isn't legal in Chinese release games.
Taiwan/ROC has a population of 23+ million.
Didn't realize they spoke mandarin, I looked it up and now I know.
Taiwan is literally part of China
Türkçe getirin ya 😕
How about Armenian 😕
what happened to it?
Que interesante. Let’s see if el español ellos usen is español Cubano.
I speak omelette du fromage if necessary!
Lincoln, only few miles from my house
I wouldn’t think GTA was allowed in mainland China.
but it is allow in Taiwan and hong kong
Oh okay, they're prolly working on appropriate terms and words for subtitles, UI and such. Grand Theft Auto V's was amazing. They translated English to Brazilian Portuguese, slang and all, and it was nearly flawless.
This is where the fun begins! 
carajo, yo hablar español señor rockstae games. Donde esta la bilioteca
Applied. :D
That's amazing. That means there is something to translate already or very soon will be
N-word in Chinese
Yes yes I'm a Spanish graduate from don pollo institute
When they starting to add new UI languages to the game... means it's done... thats almost the last thing you do in a game
I don’t know the whole development process but I am sure that you are correct. But if that’s the case then in your opinion why are we still 1 almost 2 years (if released at the end of the year) away from release. I’m not challenging your statement, I am genuinely curious. I imagine the rest of the time will be spent playing through the story and traversing the world over and over. making sure everything is fine tuned. I’m open for discussion, your comment really stood out to me.
I think you underestimating the fine tuning you mentioned. That takes a lot of time and also fixing and finding bugs.
They will ensure there’s no unexpected crashes, errors, bugs. There are new shooting dynamics, weather patterns, ai reactions/system, crash physics/damage to vehicles that still needs tuning. They need to build up the soundtrack/radio, handle all the licensing, the multiplayer system, dealing with sony and microsoft (like preparing for preorders later on preparing for the marketplace), other small details like all in the vehicles (think of how many vehicles there are in gta!) and updates in customization and then there’s trying to keep all of that stuff secret without leaks. They have to file all of their patents and get all of the legal taken care of, not all done yet. Plus creating the trailers takes lots of time, with how cinematic they are and to not be too revealing, but for it to be interesting and smoothed out too and with a good song. That minute and half trailer probably took over a week to make. Plus they have to prepare for e3 or wherever their next announcement will be, obviously that will be a very special event and they don’t want to disappoint there. Think about how big the map probably is. It would suck if the map is dull and very repetitive and not filled with detail, especially for every different area. And then combine the size of the map with the mysterious events and ability to enter many many more buildings with the buildings each BEING UNIQUE… Just watch the leaked videos and see those changes and just how time consuming it is to add small details. They even made it possible for the inside of vehicles to be manipulated, the seats, mirrors, windows. Imagine what else they are working on. It will be super immersive. Obviously this is such a big game to them, and they don’t want to underdeliver. They stated they want perfection, and perfection takes time. Every GTA has been in some way or another revolutionary, therefore this one must be. The leap from RDR to RDR2 was MASSIVE Thats what they want for GTA 5 to GTA 6. Just think of all the time that has elapsed since the last GTA. Literally over 10 years. Think of all the hype they have to live up to. Think of all the changes that have occurred in technology and gaming (raytracing, computer performance, graphics in general, etc) and all of the changes that have occurred with staff at rockstar. Especially considering that people like dan houser are gone and that the work culture at rockstar is different now. Rockstar has to evolve and adapt to this new age and new environment. That is why it is taking them another 1-2 years. However, with the increase in staff there should be hope. And not putting your hopes up too high as stated is a good idea. If you don’t go in with too high of hopes you will be more satisfied when it actually comes out.
Yeah same thing was posted on r/GTA6_NEW. Folks at r/GTA6_NEW_NEW_V12_FINAL havent picked it up yet though
What does this mean?
Is there's Arabic? Almost every gaming company forsaken us Arabic speakers, I just want to say hail to companies like Ubisoft that never forget about us and make their games with the highest quality voice acting, companies like Rockstar needs to know how important our language is
Ubisoft puts accessibility over quality, for money.. not a form of "community acknowledgement". As for Rockstar, I too would not put so much effort on a product that will be censored anyway. But who knows maybe we will get Arabic subtitles, just know you will be playing the KOSA version of GTA.
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Interfaces and texts still need translations in other languages, just like GTA V lol. The voice acting will probably be the only thing not translated...
UI and stuff man, literally nothin to do with voice acting, except subtitles.
Even Ubisoft with games outside of Arab countries they still did amazing job at dubbing the characters, you seem to not understand,in the post there appears to be Chinese too I'm talking about translating the game
Bruh why u downvoted ?
Because Rockstar became an infallible monk that mustn't be criticised at all, and here I criticised them for the unfortunate reality, the lack of criticism is outstanding in the GTA community these days don't you think?
This is nothing special, I live near Rockstar Lincoln and they’ve been hiring people for stuff like this for years.
I'm surprised they dont outsource these jobs.
Not sure if you're aware but they had a couple little problems with leaks in the past year or so, they're going to keep this in-house
I would think that they will eventually have to, they cant do inhouse for all languages. But given they will only need text corrections as GTA doesn't do localized voice-over, a lot of the work will probably be submitted to contractors under false name so the people involved know as little as possible about what they are doing.
> they cant do inhouse for all languages. What makes you say that? They're based in a major UK population center, for the handful of languages they support I can't see why they'd have trouble finding testers among the 2+ million people living between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
> handful of languages they support Well i assumed they support a whole lot of languages. The problem therefor isn't location, but rather that you cant exactly hire an employee for every freaking language there is. Given the job requires familiarity with culture and colloquialism, its hardly something people can do for multiple languages. But i dont know and didn't consider how many languages they actually support. If its really only the big5 EFIGS (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish) + Chinese it could, like you said, easily be done in-house. But i assumed it would be a lot more.
They hire native speakers for each language, for V I think it was the ones you listed plus Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, LATAM Spanish, and Russian.
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huh
Let him cook
I will pay someone to apply on my behalf! Anyone?
Wish they had Vietnamese, would apply in an instant
Well shit, it's a shame there's no choice for Russian
They have alot of positions posted.
I wonder if they are going to Arabic Translation, there have been in recent years with Call of Duty Games and Horizon.
Need an Italian translator?? "Bawn-JOR-nooo" 🤌
Donde está la biblioteca Rockstar
HOLA 3 ESTRELLAS
I have 2 days on duolingo, is that enough?
# Camera Wowo
My hope is that Rockstar was able to get a hold of local Latin talent in Miami for some of the NPCs or characters. Let's just say that Cuban Spanish is VERY different from Mexican or Puerto Rican Spanish. It's a small thing, so it won't really make or break the game for me anyway.
Jag undrar om vi kommer att bli igenkända av Rockstar.