Just a whining post against the lack of multilanguage support of Gog games. It's clear that Gog team don't care at all, obviously the team is used to not have games in their native languages.

The trouble is other languages exist for the Baldur's Gate series and Gog put no effort in supporting/buying them. With current sale I could get them for 2/3$ both but won't and will stick to the remake.

Not all publishers retain the intellectual property rights to all language masters. GOG can only supply language packs that they are provided with or are legally allowed to. To say that GOG don't care shows your ignorance, nothing more.

That's just simply not true. Sometimes GOG puts tons of effort into gaining multi-language support and it all comes through. Sometimes it doesn't.

There are ways to get some Frenchness into your game. Here's a post (and collection of posts) you may wish to see:

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/multilingual_gogs/post100

As if you know it better, lol. The point is gog don't put any effort into supporting any other language than English. Obviously when they start negotiate other languages are out of the exchange except when the publisher push them to do it.

The evidence is totally obvious, I can admit some gog wouldn't be possible because of too complex rights for other languages but there's just too many gog only English to make this arguing valid. Moreover when looking for some illegal EN to FR patch for Icewind Dale 2 I realized gog version is a special one with just one merchant added, and few pict duplicated, ie just crap, but enough to make it look a bit new and not compatible with an EN to FR patch. It shows gog orientation.

No, it just shows your Francophone orientation. You know nothing.

I had already found this url before post OP and it is full of dead download links... But that you quote it made me look it closer and quote that all url are dead but the last at bottom. So thanks but I'll skip it. I already own CD versions or DVD I don't remember. I generally buy gog for 2 reasons, discover a gog (which too often is crap for me like recently Crusader No Remorse, a game among those with the worst controls I ever seen) or get a digital version quick to install. Obviously the lack of language support is a killer for the second reason, this is tempered when there's a Mac installer. Clearly for BG series it's a bad bargain for me as the remake (that are quite cool for me unlike for some other whiners) do the job, quick install+French support+Quick Mac install ie perfect. Lol it shows more you don't care at all and have no clue of what games was released in French or not so you don't realize the arguing of rights impossible to manage fails.

I suggest you not debate about something you don't know ie French versions of game, this will avoid you wrote some counter sense post and contribute to reinforce some Myth.

You're right: I don't care about your whining. Now, did you have anything useful to add?

Et tu crois que j'en ai quoi que ce soit à braire d'un rosbif crétin? Pff. Va coucher et te mèle pas de ce que tu ne connais pas abruti.

Il délire complètement!

Not another one of those, my language isnt english and i dont complain that they dont translate it.
Ok my grammar isnt very good but I understand the language You want to be hated on purpose or is it just ignorance?
This idiocy makes me want to move to england if i had the money since there they have there own region where most of the things are english only so I dont have to wait months and motnhs on games because there are people to arrogant to learn english so they have to traslate it all wich I dont care about.

You have no idea dude. There are plenty fan-made patches to translate the game. If I wished so, I could play in spanish easily due to these free patches. So instead crying that GoG doesn't spend more money in having more languages, do a simple google research.

Translating a text intensive game like BG is a massive amount of work. It's just not commercially viable for GOG to do it in a multitude of languages, even if they were able to.

Plenty of games are released in other languages and never translated to English. There's some very good Chinese/Japanese RPGs I'd like to play, but cannot for that very reason.

This is funny. I have considered buying the BG games on GOG just to avoid having to play them in German again. But maybe this thread just speaks to the quality of the french localization in contrast to the german one (Which at least for the first game is kind of infamous.).

Can you name one digital download service where Baldur's Gate is available in languages other than English? Because if you can't, the problem probably isn't that GOG doesn't want localizations but that no one else can get rights for the bloody things either.

This is the prime issue. It's hard enough keeping D&D games on a download service -- they appear, then mysteriously disappear and move to another service. Even BG:EE disappeared from Steam a few weeks ago, only to reappear a few days later, after a dispute with one of Beamdog's "publishing partners" (read: Atari. It's always Atari.)

Also, the current rights-holder for the Baldur's Gate series is a French company. Quelle ironie.