Print On Demand and other languages

Dunno if this should be posted here or in the General Discussion forum...

While VTES was in print, it was occasionally proposed from the playerbase that VTES be published in languages other than English. Back then, this idea was unfeasible from a business perspective, given the need for entirely new printing plates. With Print On Demand, there's no need for the printing plates (correct?). Perhaps it's now more feasible to have VTES printed in foreign languages. It'd still be a lot of work, given the need for translations, templating of wording in other languages, typesetting, layout, etc.

Thoughts on this? I don't believe the idea is currently in the works, but it might be worth looking into.

Maintaining cardlists / Rulebook / rulings / etc in several languages in going to be extremely difficult. If such a thing is done, I will need tons of volunteers.

Also, as far as I know, since V:tES has been printed and played with English cards, many players use the English cardname.

Translating names (with correct references to what they .. refer to) is going to be a hassle. Check Russian players, for example: Would they drop "миньен тап" ?

As far as I know, French players wouldn't play "Contrôle de la Terre" (Earth Control), "Conduite Bestiale" (Freak Drive), "Carna, la Sorcière" or "Appel à la Grande Bête" (Call the Great Beast). Simply because we're used to the English names.

Translating keywords is going to be extremely difficult, as we don't really have that many keywords.

translating the cards, names... isn't a good idea. Even if someone is not familiar with english, he learn the names and basic keywords from another players.

I used to be a fan of non english cards in mtg, butcin vtes even cards you see often needd wordimg checked sometimes. And english is technically the language you have to at least know some of to play the game, so english only still works, far as i can see.

The obvious translations would be those languages with wide usage around the world, Spanish, French, Portuguese. Maybe at a stretch something like Chinese but that would become a real hassle since you would need to then maintain almost an entire website in Chinese (and I don't think the game is particularly strong in China).