I don't see what is so mysterious... misspellings and grammar are:

A) Not what they would be passionate about by default (they are programmers/designers/etc. I doubt many of them are passionate writers/editors)

B.) Not going to be noticed much by the majority of customers.

C) Polishing GRAMMAR produces 0$ for the company. 

D) Does not significantly impact gameplay. 

While it would be nice to see some cleanup, it is hard to make a business case for them fixing this. To be clear, I don't want to discourage you from speaking up... and I hope they read your message... I'm hoping to "demystify" the issue for you.

They are catching some of them - for example - on the IGN game review site the political screen misspelled dissenting - yet it's spelled correctly on Stardock's site.

luceo non uro

If you see actual typos IN GAME please report them.  We have cleaned up a lot of typos.  

Again, Frogboy, it would be nice if we had a public version-control system where we (the community) could raise issues and provide patches for this stuff, since it's almost as simple to do it yourself as submit a ticket.

It would save StarDock a lot of work.

That's why I went out and created it myself, but it would be better if we had a "blessed" DVCS.

Honestly, I don't notice any typos anymore, but you folks don't ever seem to get around to updating the tooltips and interface notes when you make balance changes, so most of that text is REALLY stale and misleading.

I gotta be honest, I actually thought this was a joke/parody topic when I first read it.

I'm not saying typos belong in ANY game, but, "OONLESSS DEY LUK LEIKE THEESEE", then it deserves nowhere near the seriousness that the OP gave it.   While Draginol is doing cool things with the AI, I spot a person complaining about whether it's "Breakdown", "Break-down", or "Break down", and he's........actually serious.

I mean, this is major back burner level stuff here, just saying.

Im kinda seeing the point of the op. If we really look at this almost every book written would have the same problem. Most books get rewritten before you see them. This is also why we have a first, second, and third draft in english. There is a field for creative writers to proof read. Books otherwise would have the same problem.

Text files are located in

base game - Galactic Civilizations III\data\English\Text

Crusade - Galactic Civilizations III\DLC\EXP2_Crusade\English\Text

Thanks for the information!

I was not complaining about a phrase being written as a word. I was talking about yet another misspelling of a word. FYI, "breakdown" is a word, "brakedown" is not. Besides, any spell checker worth its salt would catch something like this. I don't see this as adding a lot of work to the writer's job. It is the job.

Richard

Damn, I could have sworn the job was programming and developing a working, and fun game.  I guess it's actually slaving over whether they wrote a word slightly wrong, or made a very difficult to catch typo somewhere.

And yeah, I remember when "Off Course" broke FF7 for me, so much fun could have been had playing it, but then I read that typo, and lost my fucking mind.  It ruined the experience man.  Or that time I played Mega Man 6, I had to stop playing because Wily/Mr.X said "Faild" instead of "Failed", it broke the game, man.  Then there was that time I actually beat Ghosts and Goblins, only to have my moment RUINED by "Congratulation" and "Happy End", all that sense of accomplishment doing what few gamers would ever do?  Gone, because typo, it broke the experience.

Again, I'm NOT saying this is of ZERO importance, but you are making Mount Everest out of a back yard clump.

And yes, people DO joke about these things, but what they DON'T do, is rage quit the game, and talk about how it ruined their experience.  Or, at least, so few do it as to not be worth worrying about.  And they're far worse typos than what you're complaining about.