Arabian Adventures
Posted in Business on 06-06-2009 4:06 p.m. | 2427 Readers
Until a few months back said the name Maktoob me nothing, to this website Arab approached us to Online Football Manager in the Middle East to launch. Since that time it went fast. Daily we get over 2000 players that the Arab OFM within the shortest times the greatest football management game in the region will make.
Maktoob is the 146th site of the world, and thus still significantly larger than Facebook for example. Who Maktoob visit the Arabic language must be powerful, because the site is entirely in Arabic. This was also one of the conditions that this group, based in Jordan, said in working with us, we would OFM entirely in Arabic to translate.
This brings us to Game Basics energetically went to work. By translators to recruit under the existing group of players we knew within two months the majority of the site to translate. Then had two more challenges to be overcome. The fact that Arabic from right to left had to be made already for an additional complication. But even though our databases had to be adapted to the characters of the Arabic alphabet to process. This process has caused many a sleepless night.
Besides breaking down the language barrier had more investment. More servers, additional staff and a larger hosting contract for example. Such measures should aim to ensure we can keep global growth. For this we need to go deep sometimes internally to create the best conditions and the resources needed to scrape together.
The result however is that we have a few weeks growing fast in the Middle East. Online Football Manager shows are extremely popular in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and other countries in that region.
Funny thing is that I now sometimes I totally illegible Arabic messages get in the game. I beb there was a translation by a computer removed, but then it is not immediately obvious:
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته و بعد
هل تخدمني خدمة?
أنا مشترك بهذه اللعبة اليوم ولا أعرف فيها شيئ
وسؤالي هو كيف نباري فريقا آخر?
شكرا
Returns:
Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings, and after
Is Tkhaddmni service?
I shared this game today and I do not know what
My question is how Nbari another team?
Thanks
The doors of the Middle East are open, but while we not resist. At this moment we are in China our wings and we are on the verge of a major deal with the largest social network in Europe .
I predict a million players for Online Football Manager will be achieved, within two years.
