When you unsuspectingly roll on a random EU server
Posted Jun 20, 2019, 8:21 PM UTC · locked
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Do you not speak german ?
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Or what?
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Don't ask or what. The Germans tried to show us twice.
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and failed twice.
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Damn straight!
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Dont provoke him, it already almost happened twice
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Do you not have phones to translate everything?
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Biggest first languages in europe:
- German ~ 95 million speakers
- French ~ 80 million speakers
- English ~ 70 million speakers
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What does this prove at all?
English is not my first language, yet I raid in a British guild and am fluent in English. I should totally count as an English speaking player, yet I'm not on that list. That applies to MOST of Europe. If you count players that interact with other in English, compared to German and French, English will be by far at the top.
I don't agree with the decision by Blizzard but I have no idea what this list has to do with anything.
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This list shows that there are other major languages in europe.
Yes, there are players who like to play on an international server or even prefer it. But it is not hard to find lots of players, who want to play in their own language with others that speak the same.
The topic of this post are unofficial language realms, and of course there will be unofficial realms implied there will be more then one server.
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I mean its kinda like europe irl right? a massive melting pot of sexy sounding languages? i agree tho this is wack for an online game
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Let's not ignore the massive discrepancies in English proficiency you find in Europe. Generally speaking, there are countries that are absolutely hopeless and others that are 10% away from native level English. So you roll the dice, if you end up with say, Scandinavians or Dutch, you're fine. If your server is majority Spanish/Italian, you might as well be speaking mandarin.
Certain European countries are simply incapable and unwilling to communicate in English and we need separate servers for some of these.
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Yeah, but when English becomes a technical minority, suddenly some form of other language will take the lead.
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People communicate in other languages, that's the world for you. It's become such the English thing to complain about other people not speaking English no matter where you are.
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Data doesn't have to prove something. It's interesting related data to be digested.
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This list is native speakers. If you look at the most widely spoken languages in Europe then English wins hands down
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There's over sixty million people living in the UK alone
Where on earth have you got these figures from, there are much much more Europeans who speak English than any other language
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As I wrote this is the list for native speakers. Of course, a lot of people can use english as a 2nd language. But there is a difference between use and want to use. For a lot of Players Wow is a graphical Chat Client. Yes, you can play the game but the social contacts are more important.
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You could add the whole maghreb that could flock to French servers aswell.
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Don't you guys have google translate ? /s
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This is hilarious and real but I just can't help but feel sorry for this poor dude every damn time I see him in a meme.
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Bavarian only servers confirmed
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Im looking forward to meet my guildmates irl. Need to get 2 weeks off because of traveling tho.
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You realize that without worrying about Russians the land mass size of all of EU is much smaller than NA.
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But.. Why not? What was their reasoning? Seems dumb to me.
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Really curious, how is everyone going to decide what realm to choose when classic live hits?
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Can't wait to unknowingly join the Turkish server, and have no fucking idea what anyone is talking about and be 2 hours behind the entire server where all the guilds start raiding whilst I'm still at work.
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Cyka Blyad!
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People legit make problems out of everything, every god damn thing.
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Yea these servers are pain... There were Unoficial Polish server, unoficial Czech server... Good luck with English on these realms. Players chose them, because they mostly cannot speak English or they wanna be in their own communities...
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Ja servus grüzi liebe Freunde! Worst idea Blizzard ever had. Almost. Okay, not even close but still stupid
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I can already see it. Newbie areas will be like "sind sie deutscher?"
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"Do you guys not speak german?"
"Yeah, you guys all speak spanish, right?"
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“You have a duolingo subscription don’t you?”
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They just announced not to provide separate language realms.
Yes, most EU players are proficient in English. Most.
But there absolutely will be people who only want to communicate in their native tongue and they WILL flock to specific realms and there WILL be unofficial [language x] realms. And if you didn't get the notice - realm transfer off your unofficial French realm are only 15€, what a bargain!
Also think about trade chat. When you link items in WoW, it uses your client's language. So if you're looking for that sweet 4str 4stam leather belt, be sure to look out for "Cintura di Cuoio Silvano", "Ceinture sylvestre en cuir", "Waldledergürtel" and of course "Cinturón de cuero de bosque" respectively.
I get this all the time in retail with random dungeon groups. Nine times out of ten there is someone who's DBM is reporting in a language other than English.
Why are you speaking in murloc tongue, boi
Okay, without looking it up, tapping into my college German classes... "Forest Leather Belt"? I'm guessing there's a more idiomatic translation.
https://i.imgur.com/g9M5vzX.jpg
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actually, you are wrong. they designers said they were considering putting them in since it was present. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_4YwvfEls4&t=8m
Please source on this? I'd love for no realm transfers to be a thing (for character responsibility), but I've not heard this is confirmed and would like to see a source.
My bad, I misremembered. They actually said that it will probably come.
www.wowhead.com/news=291757
Then click on the item and get it all translated in your client's language.
NA has Spanish and French only speakers as well. More so in spanish.
I think that chat thing could be fixed with addon.
Hilarious. Only ever having played on US realms I had no idea this was going on. We only had to deal with a small amount of Brazilians asking "u br?" In groups
If you link it in chat, others will see it in their client's language on click.
EU wide servers is the worst of all changes that could happen.