Europeans in Wow, why?

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Don’t forget to toss in a Cajun. When I first had moved to NOLA I could barely understand a single word spoken by the locals. I got that one down now, easy peasy.

My first conversation in New Orleans.

Me: Do you have any maps in this store?

Clerk: Yaw wanna map en Nawlins?

Me: New Orleans.

Clerk: Itsum over yer.

Me: (looking in pointed direction, see map that says ‘New Orleans’ on it, grabs map)

Clerk: Itedbe 5 dyonders.

I hand him $5 and thank him leaving, he didn’t stop me, so I must have got it right.

I love New Orleans, but understanding the locals takes skills. :rofl:

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Because most of the lore in WoW is based on European myths.

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Um… people that live in the states have different accents? Like I don’t understand the point of this thread.

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Op, for flavor ,you will get bored with the same tone beside each culture does have a different dialect makes it seems realistic to me.

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I had the opposite reaction. The Louisiana type accent of Sindragosa really threw me off, lol.

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She has an accent?

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Forums are, or at least should be, a place where people say what they want to say.
It’s that pesky free speech thing.

Yeah I know, it’s the companies property, etc, etc, etc.

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What do you mean, we got the mole people this patch

They got an American accent and smell bad, it’s flawless

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Cause it sounds classy, adds some character to your speech, and makes you sound like you know what your saying even if your declaring exterminatus on Alderaan.

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Do you really want rural Alabama accents in the game? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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Wow is for the world, not just americans, which by the way includes south america and canadian accents.

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I was gonna say something about the Maine accent along those lines myself. I would, but I’m from here lol.

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If the setting was set in the Wild West with settlers, cowboys and the Pony Express then yes, having American accents would be the norm. But WoW’s setting for Gilneans is a Victorianish setting, and medieval for other humans so to reflect it they ran hard with the “European” accent.

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I’m not even sure I follow this line of thinking at all. Does that mean that all Asian MMOs aren’t allowed to use different accents in their character voiceovers?

It makes the game feel more immersive. Lots of fantasy uses different accents for different races or regions.

And yet it’s existed since Vanilla.

And now you’re insulting Europeans? Really?

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York County was my home through high school, and I spent too much time and money at Cumbys. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Didja get your Boone’s Farm there? lmao Waldo County here, born and raised - moved back after the Army and a stint as an Air Force wife. Technically, the same town has been my home since I was born.

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That, and Mad Dog 2020 hehe.

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Better than Fireball and Allen’s Coffee Brandy. :nauseated_face:

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I haven’t thought about Allen’s coffee brandy in decades! My mom used to buy that as well as whiskey sour mix. She’s enjoying her retirement in Augusta now, and the rest of my family is in the SE area. I’m living the dream in Arkansas as of earlier this year.

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Because a quest giver going:

“Oh my goowad… go on ovah theyah and kil dem dawgs for me and I might tell my auntie in DragonYonkers that you’se a good boi and to sort youse out wit some coin, ifyaknowwhattamean.”

would get really old really quick.

Besides - WoW has Americans. They’re called Goblins.