I think that would just slice-up the community. There would be germans, french servers, and (to the rest) english servers. Players like me won\'t be able to go up to many of these, as I can only speak English (and German a bit). So what about us and others: polish (polack), slovak, hungarian (like me)
Should we all have sub-servers??? That is not a good idea.
The world is not just: french, german, english! But as english is the most accepted language on thr Net, we in the eastern part of Europe have to learn this.
Again, this would only slice-up the community.
I absolutely agree that at this early stage of developping it would be an error to split people because of their native languages, we wouldn\'t have this wide pool of ideas, and as many points of view to confront.
However, once the game is released I would LOVE to have a French server. Not that I don\'t like other languages (if I did what would I do here reading english all day long ?
). But roleplaying demands a perfect use of the language, what if someone gives you a task that you even don\'t understand ? Even on these boards I spend much time looking for missing words in my dictionnary. Furthermore speaking for a long time in another language is REALY tireing (needs more brain effort than naturally speaking in your mother language).
And to finish with, since it\'s open source, anyone can translate into any language
even you elminster, just team up with other English-speaking Hungarians to translate the game !
But most of the time the reason why we only have French/German/English translations is that those languages are the most spoken in western countries, and that countries speaking those languages are the ones that can make devs make the more money. It is sad to say so, but pay-to-play games are only interrested in money...
So instead of criticising a possible French translation, tak the chance that it is open source to translate it into Hungarian ! The first Hungarian-speaking MMORPG, I\'m sure you would have a great success ! (and this is NO irony)
