What about translation mods?

[Rolder50]

"Please don't use mods"

"We can't scan your computer"

"There are people who don't care that it doesn't affect them, they will report if they see it so don't broadcast the use to the public".

Now, you born with a brain and you were given critical thinking. After reading those three quotes, surely you can work something out for yourself, can't you? It's really not hard and I don't understand this need to try and get SE to give the green light to something they've never officially given one. Even graphical enhancement mods like Reshade got a 'use at your own risk" statement.

What if a Russian streamer, wants to broadcast to their Russian audience, using the aforementioned mod to translate the game into Russian? Are they just not allowed to stream now?

[Absurdity]

What if a Russian streamer, wants to broadcast to their Russian audience, using the aforementioned mod to translate the game into Russian? Are they just not allowed to stream now?

According to SE's rules they would be in violation of the TOS if they used a 3rd party tool to change the text to a russian translation, so yes.

[Rolder50]

According to SE's rules they would be in violation of the TOS if they used a 3rd party tool to change the text to a russian translation, so yes.

And that is why their TOS and their interpretation of it is garbage.

[RitsukoSonoda]

According to SE's rules they would be in violation of the TOS if they used a 3rd party tool to change the text to a russian translation, so yes.

May fall into how it's done. I know some titles where modders figured out how to modify the actual in game text. These ran risks of tripping flags since it was file alteration. Most cases the translations were done by a community and in some cases they'd have to fix it after just about every patch update to the game title.

I've seen others however that look like it just places an additional overlay on the display that reads text on screen then autoruns it through something like google translate then places it on screen similar to subtitles or closed captions.

[Absurdity]

May fall into how it's done. I know some titles where modders figured out how to modify the actual in game text. These ran risks of tripping flags since it was file alteration. Most cases the translations were done by a community and in some cases they'd have to fix it after just about every patch update to the game title.

I've seen others however that look like it just places an additional overlay on the display that reads text on screen then autoruns it through something like google translate then places it on screen similar to subtitles or closed captions.

Either of them would still be in violation of the ToS, doesn't matter if one method is more invasive than the other.

I'm not making a value judgement here, if you need to use a 3rd party translation tool to play the game in the first place then who am I to stop you? Nobody is probably ever going to find out. But going strictly by what the ToS allows you to do then no, unofficial translations of the game are not allowed.

[SenorPatty]

What if a Russian streamer, wants to broadcast to their Russian audience, using the aforementioned mod to translate the game into Russian? Are they just not allowed to stream now?

They're allowed to stream. That's not against ToS. Just don't run the mod. Those are against ToS. Or run it but hide anything that could ID you on stream.

The whataboutisms are making me facepalm harder every days this goes on.