First and foremost, this topic might come off as racially and ethnically charged. You might view me as "ignorant", "xenophobic", or at worst, "racist." I frankly do not care about your opinion of me or my preferences or beliefs.
I'm first of all curious as to the lack of English speaking, American players on US based time-zone servers. I understand for some Americans, English is not their native language. My feeling in that, is that it is less embarrassing and more polite to atleast make an attempt to communicate in a regions adopted, standard language than it is to use your native language in world channel, current channel, party channel and guild channel. Broken English does not offend me, and I am more than happy to help or work beside someone who makes an effort to use English than someone who is speaking Indonesian, Portuguese, or Arabic.
Secondly, I'd like to know why all these players seem to flock to servers that are at best eight hours out of their time zones and at worse twelve or more. The memory leaks from flash are bad enough without the incessant ping issues that must occur from playing from halfway across the world on a west coast, US based server.
I'm curious to know what R2's official Terms of Service policy is on language usage in game is. I doubt it is based on server region, but it really should be. What isn't considered offensive to some players, might be considered highly offensive to others. I consider it highly offensive to be using arabic in world chat given recent circumstances and developments here in the states. I don't like to stereotype, but I can't read Arabic, and it goes far beyond the boundaries of annoying, such as the case would be with people using Indonesian in chat. I don't know if two people talking to one another are discussing a plot to bomb a shopping plaza when they're typing in Arabic.
Are there any US based servers that are populated primarily with American, English speaking players? I feel like the minority on my server, which is a recently released one. I feel that I shouldn't have to be a minority on a server based in my own country of origin. I feel like Indonesian players should be playing on southeast asian servers, and Arabic players should be playing on European servers (I highly doubt any gaming business would locate any server in a region so volatile right now).
These are the kind of things that weigh on my mind whenever I think of recharging. The game provides enough content, it's engaging enough, but whether I put in a long term investment into this game will depend largely upon it's community of players. When you see so little English being spoken, and as an American you are caused to feel anxiety, alienation, and separation from the players on your realm because so few of them connecting are actually playing from the United States, it makes me re-think my order.
It makes me think, "Why would I spend ANY money at all on a game that makes me a minority on a server based in my own country?"
I'm first of all curious as to the lack of English speaking, American players on US based time-zone servers. I understand for some Americans, English is not their native language. My feeling in that, is that it is less embarrassing and more polite to atleast make an attempt to communicate in a regions adopted, standard language than it is to use your native language in world channel, current channel, party channel and guild channel. Broken English does not offend me, and I am more than happy to help or work beside someone who makes an effort to use English than someone who is speaking Indonesian, Portuguese, or Arabic.
Secondly, I'd like to know why all these players seem to flock to servers that are at best eight hours out of their time zones and at worse twelve or more. The memory leaks from flash are bad enough without the incessant ping issues that must occur from playing from halfway across the world on a west coast, US based server.
I'm curious to know what R2's official Terms of Service policy is on language usage in game is. I doubt it is based on server region, but it really should be. What isn't considered offensive to some players, might be considered highly offensive to others. I consider it highly offensive to be using arabic in world chat given recent circumstances and developments here in the states. I don't like to stereotype, but I can't read Arabic, and it goes far beyond the boundaries of annoying, such as the case would be with people using Indonesian in chat. I don't know if two people talking to one another are discussing a plot to bomb a shopping plaza when they're typing in Arabic.
Are there any US based servers that are populated primarily with American, English speaking players? I feel like the minority on my server, which is a recently released one. I feel that I shouldn't have to be a minority on a server based in my own country of origin. I feel like Indonesian players should be playing on southeast asian servers, and Arabic players should be playing on European servers (I highly doubt any gaming business would locate any server in a region so volatile right now).
These are the kind of things that weigh on my mind whenever I think of recharging. The game provides enough content, it's engaging enough, but whether I put in a long term investment into this game will depend largely upon it's community of players. When you see so little English being spoken, and as an American you are caused to feel anxiety, alienation, and separation from the players on your realm because so few of them connecting are actually playing from the United States, it makes me re-think my order.
It makes me think, "Why would I spend ANY money at all on a game that makes me a minority on a server based in my own country?"
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