A campaign launched on social media to launch GTA6 with Turkish localization became a hot topic again over the weekend. So, can Turkish language support be added to the game through a campaign? It is definitely possible if we can make our voices heard to Rockstar…
The issue of localization continues to be a bleeding wound for Turkish gamers for years. While some game companies, as if out of spite, support even less spoken languages in countries with a much smaller population than Turkey, they do not support Turkish for a reason we cannot understand. This situation broke out once again before GTA 6 and Turkish players started playing the game. Turkish language support He started a campaign to bring it in.
The campaign, which was first brought to the agenda with a post by Konsolum X on March 30, was created by the popular game content producer and founder of Phew Phew Games. Enis Kirazoğlu and the company behind the Turkish translation of many popular productions such as League of Legends, Valorant, Fortnite. LocpickIt grew with the sharing of Ali Barutçuoğlu, co-founder of . The campaign, which became trending with the shares of popular names about a week after the first post, is currently approaching 1 million views.
The campaign could help Rockstar realize the potential.
As you can guess, this campaign has no binding obligations for Rockstar. Turkish voice acting in GTA 6 Or whether there will be a subtitle option or not? Rockstar and it will depend on the decision of several executives at Take-Two. Still, if campaigns like this can really get Rockstar’s attention, they might be enough to get executives’ ears off the ground.
Let us remind you for those who don’t know; Tesla didn’t think it could sell too many cars in Turkey until it started collecting pre-orders. After the sales started, he started to hire additional personnel for the Türkiye department as there was much more demand than he expected…
The first tweet shared for the campaign was as follows:
Dear Rockstar Games, we are very curious about GTA 6 and we sincerely hope that you will include Turkish language support in this game.
We are ready to provide all kinds of support for this, we wholeheartedly believe that you will not let us down.
What you need to do to support:
First of all, I should point out that this event does not have any financial purpose. I turned off monetization on both Instagram and Twitter.
To support, all you have to do is leave a comment and tag Rockstar Games’ social media accounts. Please do not spam, participating 2 times at most and tagging your friends will be enough. You can also provide support by RT and FAV.
We also share the same message in more detail on our Instagram account named Konsolum, please participate there as well.
Enis Kirazoğlu’s post was as follows:
Dear Rockstar,
Congratulations for GTA 6. We know you will do a great job! However, as a Turkish player, please consider adding Turkish subtitles to your game. Especially the PC version will be sold much more in Turkey than in many other countries. I’m not sure how you evaluate the gaming market in Turkey. But Türkiye is very strong, especially in computer games. I guarantee you that if GTA 6 has Turkish subtitles, sales will exceed your expectations when it is released. We have very high quality localization companies here that can do this job properly. I’m sure they are ready to support you in everything. I hope you hear our voice.
Ali Barutçuoğlu’s message of support for the campaign was as follows:
Turkish localization has an incredible impact on sales in our country, as it is the only language spoken fluently by most of the population. My company Locpick would be happy to share some data and help localize GTA6.