Just installed a game from gog and it's in the wrong language.
Because my system (that was sold together with my PC) was in that language too.

And the devs are so short sighted about that they can't be bothered have an option to switch that in the menu, nooooo I need to find a config.ini file somewhere to change it...
This is tedious and unnecessary and I loathe it.
In a world that loses its monolingualism, programs shouldn't simply guess your language. There is no harm in asking once, is there now? Maybe I want to play that specific game in Swahili though my system language is Inuktitut.

I'm curious, which game are you talking about?

And yes, it annoys me too - a lot.

There have been a few threads about this in the Divinity: Original Sin forum: it seems the choice of downloader was being overriden by OS settings when people installed the game, and some even reported that the game's LanguageSetup.exe wasn't changing the settings correctly. I don't know offhand whether that's been fixed.

I have the Steam Version (sadly) so I didn't have problems with that. But I bought the new Space Run. But thankfully I found out that AFTER making a Profile and AFTER starting a campaign you can change the language from some in-game menu.

Man, I remember Spore doing this. Usually it's not a problem here because almost no games are localized into Danish, but Spore was, and set the language automatically based on, not the OS language, but the keyboard input language. So because I have a Danish keyboard, Spore insists on using Danish language. The only way to change it is to overwrite the Danish language files in the game folder with the English ones.

I wonder why?
Are these devs strong believing monolinguists or do they simply think we users are to stupid to change our language ourselves?

Localized text/audio forced on without any option to change it is something that greatly annoys me too. I suppose some devs think that it's great to present a game in the players' native language automatically, but the naivety of the implementation boggles my mind. As if multilingualism or expats didn't exist.

I am using an English Windows version, and everything is set to English standards except my actual location (which is in Germany) and some minor details like date/time formats. All software is installed in English. Yet I have some games which insist on running in German, with no way to change it - I don't know where they are pulling the language information from. Even my Steam language (which some games seem to default to) is set to English.

Sometimes I can change the language by specifying command line arguments or by changing ini files - both of hich is ridiculously complicated given how common it is to prefer playing games in English while not currently residing in an English-speaking country. But sometimes even that does not work, and in some cases I found no better way than manually renaming files and folders so that the game _thinks_ it loads the German language data, but gets the English data that I want.

Yeah, that's what I had to do with Spore to play it in English.

I've had a similar issue with the PS3. Both my son and I greatly enjoy the Sly Cooper games. On the PS2, language selection was done in the game. The PS3 versions have no language settings in-game, but set the language to the system language. For some stupid reason the language setting on the PS3 is system-wide rather than profile-specific. Since my son preferred to play the games in Danish and I prefer to play them in English, whenever I wanted to play the games I had to go and change the system language to English, play the game, then change the system language back to Danish afterwards so my son would understand the interface the next time he logged on. Fortunately, his English has improved enough by now that he actually also prefers to have GUIs and games in English, so now our PS3 system language is permanently set to English.

I had the same thing in Dungeon Keeper, all the voices and such were in Dutch.
Not sure if I fixed the configuration or if I simply installed the DOS version.
Even worse was Jagged Alliance 2 Gold, where I found out that the version I bought had only the Dutch voices.
I returned it the same day and they completely understood why when I mentioned it only had the Dutch voices.

For Uplay games, you have to go in the registry to change it. Perhaps it works the same way.
http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/734578-How-to-change-language-Forums