Guild Wars 2

The idea with Megaservers and PvP matchups from all of EU are all a good idea on paper, but can’t you make it so that SP servers only match up with SP servers etc? The people playing there did choose a “Spanish/French/German Speaking Server” for a reason right? They might not understand English for instance.. or simply don’t want to speak it for whatever reason. Putting them in an “international” environement all of a sudden kinda defeats the entire purpose of a “this language only” server does it not?

Ok sure, some just prefer to play on a Spanish server, but have no issues with understanding or speaking English if called for, so maybe not a complete block but make it an option? Atleast in areas like PvP where team communication is a lot more important than in PvE areas?

When queuing up for PvP: “Willing to speak English?” Yes/No.
Yes gets queued with anyone. No gets queued only with other people from the same language selection.

They may not completely separate them, but they do factor in language, so when you’re all together, it’s because there wasn’t enough.

SPvP is really the only one where they might think about a clear separation for teams, but doing so would greatly increase queue times. It also wouldn’t actually change anything from an English perspective, because language is not based on server, it’s based on what the player chose, so people would just switch to English for shorter queues.

I can’t speak for people who play on those servers, but judging from the rants that come out of some when they’re politely asked to type in English since people can’t understand them, I’d say those individuals would probably be willing to wait a few minutes extra.

Najten.2418:

I can’t speak for people who play on those servers, but judging from the rants that come out of some when they’re politely asked to type in English since people can’t understand them, I’d say those individuals would probably be willing to wait a few minutes extra.

What’s to stop them from taking the shortest queue then going ahead and using whatever language they want once in?

Chad.6104:

Najten.2418:

I can’t speak for people who play on those servers, but judging from the rants that come out of some when they’re politely asked to type in English since people can’t understand them, I’d say those individuals would probably be willing to wait a few minutes extra.

What’s to stop them from taking the shortest queue then going ahead and using whatever language they want once in?

Nothing will prevent anyone from typing whatever language they want, I could start typing in Swedish if I wanted.. I just prefer it when people understand the information I’m trying to relay. The choice would be there for those that DO NOT, under ANY circumstances, WANT to speak anything but Spanish/French/German, but still want to be understood. They can still join “international” if they wish, but would atleast have an option to stick to their preferred language..

They wouldn’t have that option, though, as the matchmaker would usually not be able to pair them with anyone. Remember, that for this to work there would have to be not only enough people that chose the same language option in queue at the same moment, but also enough people that chose the same language and are within close MMR range.

Besides, considering how low those numbers would be, it would be too easy to game the system by changing your language settings and queuing at the same time, thus getting a full team in a game mode that allows only solos and duos.

Yeah I guess the MMR thing would be bad, and making a “premade” makes sense.. Too bad

In theory there would be no need of any language servers, if mankind would be able finally to create some kind of working translation system that is able to mostly instantly translate whatever you either have written, or spoken in teamspeak, to all others who read or hear it, what you have written/spoken into your native language, like as of you have some kind of personal translator in your ear, these prsons that translate for people live in TV shows while somebody says something, so that all others in the room that don’t speak that language can understant the person.

When people can translate instantly live, then it shouldnt be that huge problem as well i think to create some kind of computer program who should be able to do that as well for you.
Yes, natually not for all languages mixed up at the same time – that would be to complex and impossible, but if the player can simply choose out, which language exactly should be live translated for him in text and sound and this with the perfect quality of a translator/interpreter so that you can understand directly what has been written/said and that with correct grammar ect.

Then there would be absolutely no need for any language servers.

Then I I could play the game simply with everyone together, regardlss from where they come…as long a person who wants to speak with me knows from where I come from, he would be then able to communicate with me through the live translator.

Lets say I’m standign in lions Arch, and i want to talk to someone there, from who I know, is a French Person, but I am prsonalyl in regard of French a total 0, can#t speak/write it at all, cause never learned and removed it from School directly after the 1 year, because I rather wanted to learn somethign else, lets say Spanish instead.

Now I write into the Whisper Chat with Live Translator activated and set up to “French”

“Hallo, möchtest du mit mir vielleicht leveln gehen gemeinsam?” (German)

and that person would see then instantly live translated in his Whisper Chat this

“Bonjour, voulez-vous que je level commun aller avec moi? (or similar, not 100% sure here lol if I got it right now, but should be just an example to let you know what I mean)

Its kind of depressing to see, what mankind has reached in the last couple of hundreds of years in regard of technology, but we seem to be unable to overcome with all our technology the language borders to a high quality standard, even to the point that we poke fun at sombebody/something when we see, that it has been “translated” by “google” when we realize that the grammar ect. is totally wrong.

Can this be really our quality standard?
We talk always about “World Languages”, like English, Spanish, French ect., but only because of the amount of people who speak it on the world.

Personally for me can we speak only about 1 single true World Language, if we bring all countries of the world to it to teach over multiple generations all their children just one and the same language ONLY.
If mankind could do this over multiple generations with their children in all countries of the world, then we would have a world where even not translators are needed anymore, because then we would have finally a real World Language, where everyone speaks the same!
Maybe this is total ideology, but would have had this world not any ideologists in its history of mankind, then we wouldn’t all be now, what we are today.