Consider adding cyrillic alphabet
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This forum supports it, B. Lion supports it, Auction supports it, yet the vital chat does not? O_o An yet the chat supports Kanji, which is even more unreadable than the Cyrillic fonts, if one does not know the language… O_O
And yet you sold the game quite officially via online resellers for RU audience… (and, honestly, B2P is the only model as of now that can be potentially very good for RU audience). Even in terms of purely business standards there is a disturbing lack of common sense.
Plus the fact that the fonts can be found in half the system already suggests that there is no technical problems with adding them. Even if you will need to order and create missing letters it is still a very small job, compared with the rest of the stuff.
P.S. As for the notorious “abuse by the unknown language”, well, Finnish and Serbian people for ex. can do it in Latin, and these languages are not the most well-known by the general audiences in Europe and beyond, therefore there is a little substance to this argument.
And as fo the “RU are more likely to…” well… Polish people, they say, have quite a nasty reputation too, and they use Latin. And I do not see banning Latin in the chat because of that. Plus, as Polish is a bit closer to Russian, it will land in the abovementioned argument quite nicely too.
(edited by Niak.3846)
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We need Cyrillic !
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we need it. thanks
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We need Cyrillic
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It would be nice to see native characters…
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We need Cyrillic
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I need cyrillic
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That would be great. And we don’t even need Cyrillic in map chat. Only private, guild and party, yes.
P.S. Btw, there’s no need for translate the whole game, playing GW2 in English is a great way to improve language skill.
(edited by zapgrinda.5174)
I can’t speak any language that uses the Cyrillic script but ofc i support this. It’s a widely used script.
I don’t think any argument against introducing Cyrillic in game based on players potentially abusing others is valid considering that atleast on European servers there’s already a huge range of languages people speak. The script doesn’t matter in this regard.
Further, any argument claiming it will result in unnecessary spam that native English speakers can’t understand is also not valid because people can and do speak non-English languages that use the Latin script in game which the majority of English speakers (being spoilt in a way due to English being the predominant lingua franca) don’t understand.
There is no excuse for it to not be supported.
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ArenaNet we love your game! Plz add Cyrillic for your community!
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Seems like pretty nice perspective. Just as zapgrinda.5174 says – only for non-public chat needs.
+1 Don’t underestimate russian community. We have a lot of players who loves mmorpg, you can clearly see that on WoW experience.
+1! Please add the Cyrillic
Helloes, ArenaNet crew! I’m Sergey, leader of the iddQd [iddQ] guild (EU Seafarer’s Rest server).
iddQd is a biggest russian community in the Guild Wars 2 game. At the moment we have arround 400 active players. and the only thing is holding us from growing even more is 500 ppl cap.
Currently, we are trying to involve more players from russian speaking gamers, but unfortunately much of them aren’t interested in it much at the moment. And the reson is not Guild Wars 2
has no russian localization, its just people can’t communicate well in chats because chats doesn’t support cyrillic. Communicating using english letters for russian words is so much pain…
We don’t ask you to localize the game, we clearly understand it will take a lot of resources you certaintly just can’t allow to waste for it for now, we just ask you to implement cyrillic font support for guild and party chats (just for these two, not whole the tabs).
By doing that, you will attract a lot of people, who just can’t decide for now.
This issue is a high-priority for every iddQd member, and we hope you will not ignore it, as far it’s critical at the moment not just for gamers living in Russia itself, but for peaople from like dozen of countries throughout the world.
I’ll ask iddQd members to leave a comment in this thread, something as like “+1 for cyrillic” if they intrested in implementation of cyrillic support for guild and party chats.
Sincerely yours, iddQd PvX Guild, Seafarer’s Rest server.
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+1 for UTF-8 or cyrillic.
a to tak pisat’ nadoelo ((
please be wise
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/w me for russian language lessons
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+1! Please add the Cyrillic
We need cyrillic!
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Best alternative for cyrillic is write like that:
6e3 KupuJIuIIu ugpa goBHo!
KupuJIuIIa PyJIuT EIITa Hax!
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