Alexri
06-21-2013, 06:51 PM
Playing on the EU servers can sometimes be an epic nightmare. German and French versions of the game are being sold, but for some reason Trion failed to do what most MMOs do and actually put those players on their own servers.
Most of the time you can get by fine with players who can't speak English, but those moments where you can't are big problems. The obvious example would be arkfalls where people do things like kill skitterlings, because at least on US servers you know that what you write in chat is understood.
A bigger problem is however bugs, especially in coop. I just did a motherlode run where the boss bugged and didn't extend the four final crit points on his back, which makes him unkillable (how is this bug still there after several months!?). I told everyone that he was bugged and that everyone dying would fix it. One person responded that he understood, the rest just continued shooting grenades at the thing for some reason (how you can be EGO 3k+ and not realize something is that bugged is beyond me).
I then went on Google Translate and translated "bugged - suicide" into french and german, and pasted that. Still nothing. Started killing myself, and the two group members who were oblivious ran around and ressed the two of us who kept killing ourselves. Again, how it's possible to be that high EGO and not understand that when someone blows themselves up with grenades in front of you that there's a reason for it, I don't know.
I was group leader, and eventually just had to kick the two people who didn't take the hint. OFC the game started putting people back in, and what do you know, more people who apparently don't understand English, French, or German. Eventually got everyone killed or kicked, and it reset. The same people from the first time came back in, bugged it again, and repeat the entire process.
At the end there was just me left. Killed myself, it reset, entered, made sure not to blow the first two crit points too quickly, and voila, it didn't bug.
This has happened before, and it will happen again. People who can't communicate with one another have no business playing together in an MMO, the very notion of it is absurd. There should be dedicated servers for each language of the game, and people who don't speak any of the supported languages have no business playing the game.
Oh, and before anyone jump on me for being an ignorant native English speaker who doesn't understand the difficulties of learning multiple languages,; I'm bilingual. The very idea of using my native language in an online game is beyond ridiculous, and I wouldn't even think of playing an online game in a language I don't understand.
Most of the time you can get by fine with players who can't speak English, but those moments where you can't are big problems. The obvious example would be arkfalls where people do things like kill skitterlings, because at least on US servers you know that what you write in chat is understood.
A bigger problem is however bugs, especially in coop. I just did a motherlode run where the boss bugged and didn't extend the four final crit points on his back, which makes him unkillable (how is this bug still there after several months!?). I told everyone that he was bugged and that everyone dying would fix it. One person responded that he understood, the rest just continued shooting grenades at the thing for some reason (how you can be EGO 3k+ and not realize something is that bugged is beyond me).
I then went on Google Translate and translated "bugged - suicide" into french and german, and pasted that. Still nothing. Started killing myself, and the two group members who were oblivious ran around and ressed the two of us who kept killing ourselves. Again, how it's possible to be that high EGO and not understand that when someone blows themselves up with grenades in front of you that there's a reason for it, I don't know.
I was group leader, and eventually just had to kick the two people who didn't take the hint. OFC the game started putting people back in, and what do you know, more people who apparently don't understand English, French, or German. Eventually got everyone killed or kicked, and it reset. The same people from the first time came back in, bugged it again, and repeat the entire process.
At the end there was just me left. Killed myself, it reset, entered, made sure not to blow the first two crit points too quickly, and voila, it didn't bug.
This has happened before, and it will happen again. People who can't communicate with one another have no business playing together in an MMO, the very notion of it is absurd. There should be dedicated servers for each language of the game, and people who don't speak any of the supported languages have no business playing the game.
Oh, and before anyone jump on me for being an ignorant native English speaker who doesn't understand the difficulties of learning multiple languages,; I'm bilingual. The very idea of using my native language in an online game is beyond ridiculous, and I wouldn't even think of playing an online game in a language I don't understand.