Stale Translations Pass Automated Checks but Mislead Players, Developer Finds

A developer of the game Myriad Immortal Sect found that automated checks on its nine translated languages missed errors that native readers caught. The most common problem was stale translations, where English text was edited after translation but the translation was never updated, leaving some lines with different meanings. Inconsistent terminology also confused players, with one stat sometimes labeled under several names and one term shared with an unrelated mechanic. The team responded by adding a drift-detection report, enforcing one name per term per language, and standardizing the register of address used. Some languages also contained punctuation and characters carried over from Chinese source text, which were corrected.