Guild Wars 2

Currently the language toggle (keeping the right right Ctrl key pressed by default) seems to toggle from the game’s language and the operating system’s language (or maybe to english if neither of them is english).
Please change the target language to the system’s locale, like it seems to work in GW1. If the game’s language and the locale are the same, take english as target language.

I play the game in english on a german server in a german speaking guild, where lot’s of people play on a german client. Previously i had a german windows 7 installed, but my HDD died and i had to install windows again, in english this time. Before that, the game toggled to german, but now it doesn’t anymore. It’s a pain to communicate with my guildies now, especially when talking about places on the map, and knowing the feature is there, but doesn’t help due to an oversight.

Huh … that also seem a bad idea , should be able to select language on the installer or launcher (in case we cant already).

Having the game language attached to outside game things make little sense.

I really wish we could select a secondary language for the right ctrl.
It would be so useful when playing with people who have their game in a different language.

argh, yes, of course
the best option would be just to add a “Toggle Language” below the already existing “Text Language” and “Audio Language” options

After some people said that it should be possible to be able to toggle between english->german I searched around and found that it has to do with some obscure settings in one of the numerous Windows language settings.

the suggenstion should be to
NOT use Windows APIs at all for language toggle

Instead let users configure in the game client how they want to have their language toggle set up.

As this SuperUser-Thread shows the Windows APIs for language settings are completely kittened. up. I need to have Region Settings set up to United States so that I don’t go completely nuts with programs throwing unpreferred languages at my face. So I cannot change it.

Actually, I’d say, why make language toggle depend on anything?… just let people chose between all available languages and be done with it.. there are so many situations where someone might want to play in a different language than either OS or location that I don’t think it’s good needing some obscure workaround to select a different one.