I don’t really see why this isn’t standard at this point but why are servers not separated by language?
This is a practice that has been the industry standard since… I want to say 2005 so why isn’t it implemented in wow? What is the point of having a community divided by a language barrier when all it would take is a single server cluster to fix?
While I don’t feel one way or another about what you’re proposing, I wanted to point to a counter example in the industry as well: Elder Scrolls Online. There is an NA Megaserver, EU Megaserver, and a Test Megaserver. Whether it works for those communities or not I leave to someone else, as I don’t play that game.
For the EU region if Blizzard doesn’t designate server languages, then the playerbase will very likely unofficially do so I suspect.
Which just creates another “lose the server lottery” scenario where somebody can end up on a server where 90% of the playerbase speaks a language they don’t understand.
UK will finally feel the ms struggle when they come play on the NA servers.
It’s time for segregation!!! Kappa
That happened to me back in 07, I ended up getting to level 27 or so before I realised i ended up on the unofficial Turkish server. The realm (Zenedar) was advertised as ‘English’.
It’s what inspired me to make a US account.
Yes here we have the South America countries but the language barrier is so much worse on EU realms if your main language is English.
That’s racist. Thread locked.
It’s not even that big of a deal. I never noticed any problems and I was active on US servers from TBC-WoD
Nah, I’d imagine it isn’t a big difference. Moreso a running joke NA players have had to deal with while playing on… cough
It’ll be nice to see more UK players on NA.
Being in Europe I prefer to run on OCE servers because it lets me raid. NA raid times are the middle of my nights.
German Server: 500 people
French Server: 500 people
English Server: 1000 people
Spanish Server: 500 people
One server: 2500 people.
Its about expected population, not language ignorance.
There are currently over 70 german realms and nearly 40 french realms on the crap called BFA, tell me that it’s impossible to fill 2 servers for both nations.
A reddit post explains quite clearly what’s the problem with international servers : https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/c37u22/my_take_on_national_servers/
I understand the issue and sympathise, but Blizzard’s thinking is clear. They’re less optimistic than us.
Personally I think they should provide the same breakdown of languages with 1 PVE and 1 PVP for every language. And if they see that there’s more need, they can expand.
Speak American or GTFO.![:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:")
This is a major issue indeed. It’s already happening. The major language groups are already creating ‘let’s all group together on one server’ threads.
This really sounds like irony. I’d say quite the opposite : since I left that game (Cataclysm) I felt every expansion was worse than the one before. I wouldn’t trust Blizzard’s current vision to provide a good experience. I feel nothing but distrust toward people like Ion Hazzikostas - Whoever think BFA has any kind of value is part of the reason I left this game I loved so much.
I thought with Classic, I was safe : the game’s there, I know how it works, I know the content, the rules, etc. But how could I expect things such as no RP-PvP nor localized realms ? To me, their were obvious, but Blizzard surprised me and managed to screw again.
Fixed that for you 
Don’t forget a Latin server. Tons of people speak it in WoW. Unless… they just make those guild names up to be edgy but that’s silly talk.
To be fair, Spanish/Portuguese Guild names sound really F’ing cool. A lot of Spanish words are WAY cooler sounding than in English (although I’m sure some of them may think the same about English words who knows).
I got a solution for them, use their layer system for different languages on one server. Then they can still have all the cross layer multiculturaly love junk they wanted while still letting the languages be separate.