Dear Bethesda Softworks

We are your loyal Russian fans and we're writing this petition to inform you of our concern. It has recently come to our knowledge that a company called "Strategic Music" is going to translate and dub in your upcoming game "Fallout 4".
As your loyal fans we wait with passion for your amazing game to be released. Most of Russian players tend to play games in foreign languages with subtitles. To some it doesn't matter if the game has a Russian dubbing, and some see a special charm in playing games with originally intended sound design. 
Apparently, "Strategic Music" have decided that they should translate "Fallout 4". In our opinion, this company is non-qualified and it poorly satisfies any of your loyal fans. The most vital reasons for their failure are listed below.

1. The quality

We can judge their ability to translate and dub games by the previous project of "Strategic Music", which was a failed attempt to do a Russian dubbing of Dota 2. It was rejected by Valve due to the poor quality.
Their unofficial voice acting of game "World of Tanks" is a demonstrative example too.  They were using already voiced phrases from the other game, “Ground War Tanks". It goes without saying that development company "Wargaming" refused to use their work.
They've recently released a trailer of their upcoming voice acting of "Fallout 4", and we're seriously concerned about their work. They are obviously incapable of re-creating an atmosphere of the original game. Moreover, their translation of figures of speech is undeniably poor. They rarely pay attention to the context, and their translators are obviously unprofessional. Furthermore, they reply to criticism with impudence and reject any accusation of their inability to translate the game correctly. 

2. The cost of the project

What really brings our blood to the boil is the company's idea to finance the translation with the cost of your loyal fans. They claim that they're eager to translate and voice act your game, yet they refuse to finance the process by their own means. Surely, it's based on crowdfunding, which is not forceful, but gamers from Russia are shocked by the outrageous impudence of the company that wouldn't even take the fans’ criticism into consideration.
The cost itself is 3,200,000 Russian rubles, which is 50.800 dollars. This sum will not be used for hiring professional dubbing actors; instead it will be used to hire non-professional dubbing actors with poor quality voice. The first reason to such an accusation is previous experience of "Strategic Music" who've hired bloggers, friends and even a wife of the company's leader to dub Dota 2. Earlier "Strategic Music" was engaged only in translation or voice acting of mobile and browser games (officially). Secondly, we are absolutely sure that "Strategic Music" will not complete their localization with such a little budget, because Russian language is very complicated one and 111,000 lines of dialogues will be multiplied up three times at the minimum.

3. Copyright issues 

As we mentioned before, "Strategic Music" are doing their self-proclaimed "job" poorly. Name of the game and in-game titles were translated literally, and this translation is horribly wrong from the very start. Moreover, it is apparent that this company is creating a bootleg fanwork, and collects money from the unsuspecting fans of your brilliant game. Therefore they're violating your copyright.
They don’t have all the texts and they don’t know the total amount of work, though they are still attempting to do their own work no matter what. Developers of this project are trying to get money for its own production, which is based on the materials of "Fallout" games. One can find proof of that on their webpage "planeta.ru".

https://planeta.ru/campaigns/rusfallout

These products are misleading, at first glance they seem to be related to "Fallout" games (such as titles of the rewards for their supporters – «The thunderstorm of wasteland», «S.P.E.C.I.A.L.») and these cases are clearly well-known symbols of "Fallout", but inside of these rewards are autographs, posters and magnets (which are undoubtedly produced without any kind of a license). That may mislead people to invest much more money to this self-proclaimed localization, even though there is no evidence of this localization to ever be completed.

4. The reaction of countless disappointed gamers

At the moment, there is much speculation amongst Russian gamers. Most people with evident and clear arguments completely want to stop "Strategic Music" from their unofficial act. As a result, numerous discussions occur on Russian forums about the undeniable right of gamers to save the legitimacy of "Fallout 4" localization in a way developers want us to see it. Developers, who spend great amount of time, energy, and finances to create a marvelous Fallout game. 

These are the vital reasons why Russian gamers and your fans are against this idea. This is our personal request for "Bethesda" to intervene and resolve this misunderstanding by whether interfering in working process of "Strategic Music", or assisting them in creating a truly high-quality and orthodox Russian localization that could satisfy both sides of this confrontation. 

Yours Sincerely, Russian Fallout Community