You are losing millions. The Polish community in EVE Online is a sleeping giant

Council Of Stellar Management Assembly Hall
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Dear CCP,

I am writing this because I am tired of seeing how you ignore the potential of the Polish gaming community. I have personally tried to get into EVE Online ten times and each time the story is the same. The game is brilliant but the lack of Polish language turns it into a grueling second job with a dictionary in hand.

You are looking at a skewed data set. You only see the “survivors” who stay despite the language barrier. You are ignoring the massive global Polish diaspora. We are not just 38 million people in Poland; we are millions more in the UK, Germany, USA, Norway, and Iceland. We are a global force. In April 2026, the Polish forum EVE Centrala peaked at over 7,400 users online simultaneously. With a Polish localization, this is just the beginning.

Here is a realistic revenue projection over the next two years, accounting for a 25% growth in the Polish player base every 6 months as the community mobilizes and invites more people:

Months 1-6: 10,000 players x 20 EUR = 1,200,000 EUR

Months 7-12 (Growth to 12.5k): 12,500 players x 20 EUR = 1,500,000 EUR

Year 1 Total: 2,700,000 EUR

Months 13-18 (Growth to 15.6k): 15,625 players x 20 EUR = 1,875,000 EUR

Months 19-24 (Growth to 19.5k): 19,531 players x 20 EUR = 2,343,720 EUR

2-Year Grand Total: 6,918,720 EUR

You are leaving nearly 7 million Euros on the table. This is a massive business failure based on a lack of vision.

We Poles have a history of doing the impossible. When the world was in darkness Polish mathematicians cracked the Enigma code. When the skies over England were burning the Polish pilots of Squadron 303 achieved the highest kill rates in the RAF. We took Monte Cassino when others failed for months. We do not quit.

If you do not realize how important Poland is to your own country then leave your office at Gróska (Bjargargata 1) and walk 10 minutes to the Hólavallagarður cemetery on Suðurgata. Look at the monument for the Polish sailors from the ship SS Wigry who died in 1942 while bringing vital supplies to save Iceland from hunger. Today Poles are the largest minority in Iceland. We make up 5 percent of your population. We build your houses and run your economy every single day. We have been your allies in the real world for decades. Why treat us like strangers in New Eden?

One of our greatest writers Mikołaj Rej once wrote: “A niechaj narodowie wżdy postronni znają, iż Polacy nie gęsi, iż swój język mają.” We are a proud nation and we deserve to play in our own language.

Stop making us fight the interface. Let us fight in New Eden. Give us the Polish language and we will show you what a real Polish mobilization looks like.

Fly safe,

For the Hussars! (Za Husarię!)

A Polish Pilot

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They aren’t going to jump through hoops for a Polish gaming population that is smaller than my hometown…

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Have you considered volunteering to translate EVE into Polish, and continuing it after each update??

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I would imagine, like any other language that isn’t English, there are probably quite a few words that simply aren’t going to translate. For example, how do you say superheterodyne in Polish?

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@Saxom_Aivo
Everyone i know is actually using the english client since EVE is a multinational online game in which a localized version is hindering your communication on just so many levels that it becomes impractical using it at all…it is all about communication with other players…

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Bear in mind that with LLMs, doing localisation is cheaper than ever. And the new models are genuinely good at it.

Not a lot of people will use a Polish client, I should think. But it’s worth a try.

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You’re as bad as the schmucks who go on every Steam game forum “demanding Turkish language support”. The Chinese do it too, but at least the Chinese actully have the numbers to be legitimate in their whining.

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In a multilingual world, we chose English, largely because of the influence of the US and its idiosyncrasy in learning new languages. Globalization requires learning English. Let go of it and learn, stop complaining.

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Idiosyncratic?

English Spanish speakers here are a dime a dozen.

Forgive us for learning the only languages that are actually useful in any given context we will ever experience.

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The first website suggest one could volunteer with ISD

https://volunteers.eveonline.com/
Dead link

Second website mentions a volunteer localization team

Not sure if this third website displays anything but I suspect it too is a dead website/link

The LOC team provides volunteer support for the EVE Online localization department across various community projects. If you are a linguist or a communicator at heart and want to make EVE Online more accessible to players in your language, please apply here!

I am unsure if these programs are still running but we still have ISDs so I’d say maybe-ish.

It may be in your interest to create a support ticket to ask more about volunteer localization projects for polish speakers. Hope this helps.

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@ISD_Drew links for volunteers??

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https://volunteers.eveonline.com is working for me, not sure if it got fixed already, but re-echeck.

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Thank you ISD Drew!

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Notice as soon as soon as you let them know they can do it themselves if they want it so bad, they disappear.

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You think?

I’m quite sure @Saxom_Aivo will be back and instantly pick up the task once he notices. His introduction opener was so impressive, with the history of doing the impossible and that he will show what mobilization can be brought if needed and all that.

So i am readily standing by to see how the glory unfolds.

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​Globalisation is dead, thanks to how the US treats everyone nowadays.

​The author was right: there are over 40 million Polish-speaking people. It is also a well-known fact that multiple game developers at Fenris (formerly CCP) are Polish.

​Many of us don’t struggle with the game because we speak English to some degree, or we simply had enough willpower to get through the gameplay. One guy said it straight: we have LLMs now, and they can translate everything you need in minutes. If Fenris decides to go this route, all they have to do is ask. We, the Polish players, will send feedback about any language issues if they happen. Fenris forgets that there are thousands of loyal, Polish-speaking players out there.

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I’d like that and i NEED that. I’d preffer to hear “Napęd Warp Aktywny” Instead of Warp drive active. Polish localization is important, would bring in more people to the table, and for current players it will be a great upgrade. !

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Big Compandys got total rid of the translation departments and doing this with trained LLVM.
You just need to have a Quality check or very very good trained LLVM for this.
You could still do 90% via LLVM and the last 10% with actual humans.

But who am i to explain who the big world is acting “right” now.
And don´t come with the poor translation people…

It is a language… just simple rules nothing special oder overrate it.

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I’m not sure if this will be received well if you call their language “simple” and “unspecial”. Let’s see how that goes.

Also you are factually wrong - Google says that you have ignored the first “L” in LLM:
Many languages are effectively inaccessible to LLMs. Out of over 7,600 living languages, an estimated 2,000 “Invisible Giants” spoken by millions remain virtually absent from digital ecosystems. The AI industry faces a data scarcity bottleneck.

LLMs tend to focus mainly on english as the dataset is the largest. The LLMs for other languages are far from being on the same level and broadness.

Example:
Javanese, a language with 68 million speakers, yields negligible results on platforms integral to Large Language Model training. In contrast, Icelandic, spoken by 350,000 individuals, possesses a substantial digital footprint.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11557

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LOL, i meant every language is simple to translate if you have good trained AI, KI, Whatever…
If i read you post.. you don´t want a translation you want to be right.

Either you pay people ot translate everything.
They easy stuff and the hardstuff or you let damn computer make the easy stuff and than you check the last 5% of they hard stuff by humans.
Which still means you only need to pay 5% instead of 95% translation.

If Cyperpunk and the Witcher made it from Polish into English.. you can do the same backwards.
Can´t be that hard.

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Use DeepL for highly accurate, natural-sounding translations. For conversational text or to customize tone, use Gemini, ChatGPT, or Claude. For live conversations or meetings, JotMe or Google Translate are top choices

Do we really need to invent the Car everytime new… for everything.
There are options and they could if they want to.

But as we players need to request it they didn´t want to do it.
So we ask for it and suggest.

PS: I believed for long time voice actors get tons of money… they don´t.