Those of you who speak FR/IT/DE/ES: is it necessary to localise "XP" as in experience in games?

Yes (tho I'm portuguese I use XP, I use to listen spanish saying/wrting XP)

I guess wherever you are from: You don't get arround these two letters if you ever played online :P

In English, I believe Exp is far more commonly preferred over XP- with both EP and XP both being fairly common in English as secondary options (though I believe primarily used on things like mobile games, were abbreviation length matters).

I've played enough German, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese online games [non-localized, but intended for international play] that utilize the familiar mix of abbreviations above- so it does seem to be fairly widespread in recognition.

German here. The German word for experience is "Erfahrung", so XP often are written as "Erfahrungspunkte" = EP. But probably anybody (especially gamers) understand and use XP and Exp.

I personally prefer using the term XP or Exp.

edit: I just checked. You may know the ARPG series "Sacred". These games are made in Germany. In Sacred 1, it says "Erfahrungspunkte" = EP, but in Sacred 2, the game refers to it as XP.

it's always xp in spanish

Italian here, I've seen both of them and tbh they are both ok, I guess ESP for (punti - points) esperienza should be more "localized", but I prefer XP

German here. Sometimes, it's referred to as "EP" instead of XP/EXP. I wouldn't know how often that happens though since I play all my games in English.

Even in Dutch I hear a lot of gamers just say XP. The Dutch word sounds so dull...
Everyone I know plays their games in English, because Dutch really makes us cringe.

In spanish ESP as XP is an error, since the word EXPERIENCE in spanish is EXPERIENCIA and not ESPERIENCIA.
ESPERIENCIA is an incorrect form, the correct form is with "X" not "S", ergo ESP is an incorrect form too for XP.

http://www.como-se-escribe.com/experiencia-o-esperiencia/

With the access to a multitude of different games and the excessive use of some sort of experience-system in all sorts of games, I assume that a lot of gamers are already used to different terms for the word "experience". I would assume that it is more important to make clear, what an experience system is and how it works.

I do not think that it is important to worry too much about abbreviations like EXP,EP,ESP or XP - if the experience-system is not clear, those terms are then - independent of one's first language - all equally confusing for a beginner. From the top of my head I couldn't tell how "XP" is called in Neptunia, Skyrim, Witcher or Borderlands - still those have some sort of experience-system. What I remember is that Dark Souls uses "Souls".

Edit: Talking about confusing: Having a qustion in the header that differs from the one in the poll is not a good idea, here. The poll results are bound to be skewed.

XP is XP in portuguese.

The word is the same in french ("expérience") so what works in english works in french.

Finnish. Officially "kokemus", or "kokemuspisteet" for xp points, but most people would just say expa and write xp.

I'd say in spanish it's EXP, not ESP (totally wrong, as pointed by RATT78), neither XP.

Spaniard here and I use XP

When I hear XP, I can't help but think of "Windows XP".

I am German, but play everything in English. So I don't know for sure how often 'XP' is used. But I know it's used in at least some of the games.

Swedish here. In older games you got an unholy mix of terms, but "erfarenhetspoäng" (EP) was often used for localized games, and domestic made ones. These days we just don't bother with localization and I don't think there's any modern Swedish game that has a direct counterpart.

Literal translation to Russian is completely different, but everyone just say "expa" for convenience.

In spanish is either XP or EXP (Experiencia), but it depends on the translation. For example, in Fallout, it's PE (Puntos de Experiencia)

It's latin word, so the answer is pretty much yes.

Ignoring differences in spelling, all latin languages have it though the EP would be the more universally compatible option. That said I prefer EXP or XP to that and don't play games dubbed to ESP or ITA unless that's the language they were made in. I play moslty in ENG.

I believe the XP monicker originated as a wait to differentiate experience from energy points.

As others have said, in french XP will be understood by quite everyone. EXP would be better, but XP seems fine to me.

XP or EXP both options are right.... and wrong muahaha

Ben oui xp (exp) = expérience, ça se dit comme en Anglais :)

The correct in spanish would be: P.E (puntos de experiencia) or EXP, but i guess that almost every spanish gamer would relate the XP to the experience :p