First of all, I apologize for making another forum post about adding cyrillic alphabet.
I do know that similar topics appeared on forums before but most of them were one-sentence-long and didn’t express the importance of the matter.
Dear ArenaNet and NCsoft. On behalf of russian-speaking community, I’m asking you to consider this very important for CIS players request.
Since unity of the guild members plays a big role in the game (and with “Flame & Frost: The gathering storm” update it will become even more important), we are very upset that we can’t properly coordinate our actions and efficiently communicate in game.
Inability to write in native language in guild, party and personal chats slows down progress of the guild as well as all of it’s members. Social aspect of the game is losing its attractiveness because of inability to properly communicate with other members of the community united by players with same language, culture and interests.
We understand that adding cyrillic letters into the game may cause some issues, and we will accept any reasonable restrictions for cyrillic letters, if there would be any. We even suggest adding cyrillic letters only to aforementioned chat channels or making optional cyrillic-blocking chat filter.
We are not asking for such complicated and time-consuming things as full localisation of the game, even though hundreds of thousands of russian players are waiting for it.
We are asking to add this feature into the game, which, we believe, is possible for such a talented team of developers as ArenaNet, who more than once proved that they care about their players.
For obvious reasons, majority of russian-speaking players can’t support this topic in comments or even find it on forums but implementation of this feature will make a lot of people from CIS countries happy and we hope for a positive response from developers.
Thank you for your attention.
I’m not even a Russian player and I agree with this post. It is completely unnacceptable to release a game to a country without fully coding it’s alphabet into the game beforehand. I have no idea whats going on in the anet administration but this is one thing they should have absolutely taken care of from day one.
+1 for Cyrillic
Another Russian player here. I usually have no problem chatting in English, but trying to read/spell Russian words with Latin letters makes my head ache. It’s really uncomfortable. Within my guild I want to chat with my friends in our native language.
It would make my Russian guildies’ lives so much easier. And, even as a non-native speaker of the language, translit is much harder for me to understand for some reason.
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Mono-linguist English speaker here. I fully support inclusion of Cyrillic characters on the condition that I can filter the map channel. Support for those whose first language isn’t English is absolutely important, and should be implemented, but having spent time on tf2 trade servers, I beg for an alphabet filter for the map channel of chat. That is all, I wish you all the luck in the world, native speakers of Russian and other Cyrillic languages.
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I vehemently oppose to have Cyrillic on international servers since English is the international language. It would be hatefully frustrating to join a team in a dungeon only to see:
I vehemently oppose to have Cyrillic on international servers since English is the international language. It would be hatefully frustrating to join a team in a dungeon only to see:
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I have seen what Cyrillic killing communities in other mmo’s.
As an alternative I would support the Russians on getting a separate server with Cyrillic implementation.
Sounds like a full delirium. According to your logic Anet should remove all alphabets except English. In addition, other non-english speaking players do absolutely the same you’ve said
