It's more a way to allow people not confortable in english to actually participate. The french speaking regulars are now flocking here 'cause it's new, but they will probably stay mostly in the bigger english forum. But more people will come, who would have been excluded otherwise :)

C'est d'avantage pour permettre aux gens qui parlent mal anglais de participer. Les habitués francophones sont venus en masse parce que c'est tout neuf, mais ils resteront probablement en grande partie sur le forum général plus important. Mais d'autres personnes viendront, qui auraient été exclues autrement. :)

No need for anyone to be excluded - and thats my point.
Edit: would rather see people posting in french on the general forum as it was, than in here. Seperately. Segregated. Not together.

Wow that's a bit extreme, don't you think ?

No, it's not segregating, it's a way to reach the french people to GOG community, that's a good thing.

CD Projekt is polish, but they don't force you to speak polish to enjoy GOG, so if french people don't want or can't speak english, at least they have a place in GOG forums now.

I'm french, and I regularly visit GOG forums, and having french forums now doesn't mean I'm gonna leave the english forums. I'll visit both, depending of the game I'm playing.

Merci GOG !

Vienne de rajouté le francais sur la fiche d'aliens vs predator.Je le redl pour verifier.

Super et merci :)

Même si l'anglais ne me dérange pas (j'ai joué à pas mal de jeux non traduits...) c'est toujours agréable de voir sa langue maternelle prise en compte :)

Ce serait bien qu'ils mettent Far Cry 1 & 2 en français, parce qu'après tout ce sont des jeux faits par des francophones aussi.

sa va arriver à mon avis ils ont fait le prince of persia apres va etre les farcry,splinter cell et pourouoi pas les rainbow six.

Ah, OK. I understand. But you might be overlooking something.

You're probably a native english speaker, so you don't have this problem, but speaking in a language in a forum heavily dominated by another language can feel awfully lonely. Esp if people won't respond to your post, 'cause it is drowned in english topics. And especially if everyone else speaks english (even the french people). Basically, you'll understand nothing of what is already discussed by everyone else, will be forced to create your own topics about every subject you feel like discussing, and will get the impression that you speak to yourself and nobody is listening. It will be very unwelcoming.
Look at the general discussion board. How many non-english topics do you see? And most of them are populated by peole that are bilingual, but chose to talk just this once in their language mostly for effect, not necessity. You'll find exactly zero regular who doesn't speak english, simply because you become a regular by speaking to the other users, by participating in ther discussions. That are in english.
People ARE exluded from the general forum "as it was".

Imagine yourself registering on a chinese forum, where everybody speaks chinese, where you don't know what they are talking about, and then trying to participate by creating your own topics, which will be pretty much the only ones that will be in english. Not very entertaining, right? And you have a fair chance to be understood by most other participants, even if they don't speak english when talking to eache other. A french/chinese/spanish/portugeese/german who doesn't know english has no such luxury.

By having this place, a french-only speaker will see people speaking in his language, he will understand what they're talking about, he will be able to actually enguage in discussions

Other problem : Many "communities" full of jerks that will insult you if you try to speak french. Youtube comments (also known as the tenth circle of hell") are especially notorious for this obnoxious behavior. Of course, the GOG forum is better, and people don't get verbally assaulted here by talking in another language, but... How would a non-english-speaking newbie know this?

AAAAND... That's an awfully long wall of english text for a French forum

Désolé, tout le monde. Je me suis emporté, et j'ai un peu la flemme de tout retaper en français ^^

I think French language support for the site as a whole is great, but a seperate forum is segregation of the community. Given the option, I'm sure there will be many new users who never venture out of this forum and meet the wider community.
I'd rather people just post in whatever language they use under one forum.

Merci beaucoup!

Ah ok, I know what you mean, and I agree...I hope that people (english, french etc.) will try to visit other languages forums as well ;-)

For now I see this frenchization as a fun gadget, and nothing more. But, basically, yeah, my sentiment is mostly Sachys'. I'm not too fond of splintered forums (thematically or linguistically). I doubt many french speakers will lock themselves in there, but some conversations that might interest everyone will be hidden here. Case in point, Catpower could have launched a discussion/giveaway about "when did your ignorance of english hinder you in a game" in the main forum, instead of here. The answers would have probably been more diverse and more numerous. I think it will be the case with most discussions that will take place here (if any does).

And yeah, subforums stem lil' subcommunities. Not a process I'm hugely fond of.

But for now, it's too new for me to see it as much else than an amusing little happening.

You´re right, that part of the rework isn´t a good idea...

Merci beaucoup !