I mean sure they are saving money, but probably with the wrong thing. QA is such a major aspect of this and QA will get neglected in this. This will result in translations that are disjointed from the plot, or straight up really bad quality, because double checking is where costs are saved here probably.

[–] reddthat@reddthat.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. There are plenty of fan subs out there that use machine translation (google) and sometimes it's close, other times ... it's beyond nonsense.

If it's a same day release they are not doing QA... Short term money grab. I wouldn't be surprised to see their subscription prices increase in 6-12 months after all their regular subs leave after bad translations

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

If it's a same day release they are not doing QA... Short term money grab.

Even if they are doing QA, that's still a short term money grab imo. QA should be one of the final checks, not one of the first. And how the QA process is, is also important. If they only look at the translated version, then they can easily miss the actual mistakes made, because sentences could flow fine, but be entirely wrong. If they have the original text and have to compare, then they probably might as well translate the entire thing themselves, so it's likely the former process. I wouldn't be surprised if QA would be less motivated too if what they had to check, was machine translated.