French french french french... Why do french people thing they own the world with them and their silly little language. Take a much bigger language like spanish. If I\'m not really mistaken there are QUITE at few more people who speak spanish, or at least understand it. Let me mention a few countries I can think of without hurting my head too much.. Spain, of course, argentina, brazil, portugal, and some countries sorrounding these... Or what about chinese? I mean, if chinese isn\'t more used than french is, then someone, please slap me. My point? French people are, in general, very selfish. Try thinking of other people, and learn some other language than your own. Please. Same goes with spanish people whom I don\'t really like either.
As I said, What I\'d like is to see every language represented, but unfortunately I can\'t speak for spanish people, who are definitely more than us, because I\'m french, sorry about that.
Now you\'re absolutely right on 1 thing : French people are lazy and selfish, and most of us don\'t know how to speak English, and that\'s a shame (I agree with you, and was not offended because I\'m one of those who can speak English, at least enough to post on those boards). But anyway, the fact is, playing the game for a few hours, I saw 2 french guys lost because they didn\'t understand anything, and not one guy speaking spanish... maybe french pple are more attracted to this game or, more likely, spanish people can speak English.
So my point is, why wouldn\'t some Spanish speak Spanish (even if they could speak english) ? you know, just for roleplay (ok ok, I\'m advertising for my post lol). I think it could either :
1- Totally ruin the game, with communities of gamers playing only with each other because they speak the same language, and ignoring the others.
2- A world war, each country creating it\'s own guild, and different countries fighting each other through guild wars.
3- Add something really fun and interesting to the game, with different communities working together, using interpreters, and progressively learning each other\'s language while having fun.
1 would be a total failure, and 2 would be fun for a time, but it would eventually become boring, and internet is not supposed to divide countries. But I\'d like to believe that if we have good proportions of people from each country, with a few pple who speak 2 or more languages, and of course a vast majority of english speaking players, and if everyone is smart enough, and capable of a little roleplay, it\'s possible for all these communities to co-exist.
a french guild in the game, so that french users would be able to talk and play with other french players, and get help from the ones who also speak English who would act as interpreters.
That was definitely a bad idea, since it would encourage my scenari No 1 and No 2. I had a look at the BISM website last night, and I think we need something like that : an association of non-english players who would help each other, while encouraging everyone to join a guild, integrate to the community, and maybe even learn english.
As I said on the other language thread, I don\'t really WANT everyone to speak their own language. and I\'m not the one who started this. But you have to admit that people do want to speak their language. on this thread for french, and
that one for german (btw, it\'s true they should stick to english in the forums... oopps, my sig :-)). Besides, most of them don\'t read the forum, they just download the game, connect, and whine because they don\'t understand what everyone is saying.
Now that we know that we do have some guys who will play using their language, we have 2 solutions I can think of :
-we forbid that, shout \"English please\" when we hear french or german, and wait for them to get tired of it and find a french/german only game.
-We accept that and try to make it part of the roleplay.
Of course, this would only be a temporary solution, and a test. After all, both the game and the community is in pre-alpha testing, so if we want to try these kind of things, we should do it now, not when the game will be finished.
And if it doesn\'t work, non-english players will eventually stop playing, play in english, or try to make their own servers.
