So I don’t play nearly as much as I use to and I think I figured it out as to one of the main reasons wow seems more dead to me then ever: The language barrier.
NO one seems to understand what is going on or can even attempt to communicate what is going on because English severs get qued up with Spanish speaking severs and it makes the whole thing feel empty. Look people don’t chat ingame as it is but if I type:
Stand out of the fire
and the other person has no idea what that means and sees
☌⟒⏁ ⍜⎍⏁ ⍜⎎ ⏁⊑⟒ ⎎⟟⍀⟒
Which means GET OUT OF THE FIRE you have a problem.
So chop chop, work on an ingame language translator that detects languages based off preferences or sever. Its not my job to make it work so I don’t care how hard it is, its your job to make it work.
You heard the monk, guy.
you have your orders. get to work.
@Sairse:
what is the deadline for this project?
I came into this thread thinking it would be about faction languages in game.
With cross faction guilds on the way, it’s time for that language barrier to come down as well.
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There is one universal understanding, stand in fire characters dies. I think we can agree everyone knows what that means.
You’ll be hard-pressed to handle every single typo, shorthand, slur or otherwise that can come up with a fairly lengthy list of comments/accusations/mechanical discussions that can happen between portugeuse, spanish, english, french and otherwise.
Linking specific boss mechanics is possible… but dynamically evaluating everyone’s text in terms of intent, dealing with typos, mis spellings, etc… That’ll be fairly difficult.
