Guild Wars 2

Can you allow players to create their chracters with different languages? GW2 has always been a global world.

Ryudnard.2587:

Can you allow players to create their chracters with different languages? GW2 has always been a global world.

You can already create characters using different languages, e.g. in theory, you could have George & Jorge & Georg. You can also toggle your language settings, so play in English as George and swap to Spanish for Jorge.

Was there something else that you had in mind?

I’m guessing the OP means using different alphabets? At the moment we’re limited to the Latin alphabet, with some ‘special’ characters like accents on letters. But you can’t use Cyrillic or Arabic or Japanese or any other alphabet.

(Oh and the Chinese version allows Chinese characters obviously, but that’s entirely separate.)

Unfortunately that’s unlikely to happen unless they add full support for different alphabets – allowing players to write in them in chat, have the NPC dialogue, menus etc. use them and so on. And they’ve said they’re not planning to do that because it’d be too much work for the benefits it’d bring.

Kawaii Neko-chan.
See? you can even make a japanese name!

If they did have names in other alphabets how would everyone else who doesn’t use that alphabet type that name in chat or into friend’s/ban list search line?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

If they did have names in other alphabets how would everyone else who doesn’t use that alphabet type that name in chat or into friend’s/ban list search line?

That would be the other problem. You could still right-click people’s names to select them but it would be a lot more limited.

I was going to add knowing how to say them in voice chat, but that’s a problem already.