A pretty simple change that's mostly for
Europe, but might be useful for Asia as well (I am not familiar with the
problems over there, but I would be very surprised if there were only Chinese
and Korean players).
As things are now, only the localized versions
of the game get their own servers (and the appropriate support). However, in
areas (especially in Europe) with multitudes of different language groups
without their own language version of the game, the following tends to happen:
·
People are forced to play on the next best server options despite them
not having a decent command of the language (as it happens with
English-speaking realms in Europe).
·
People of a single language group take the most obvious solution: they stake
their claims into a single server or two, which tends to draw in more of their
compatriots, which in turn alienates the players who speak another language
etc. - practically creating single language-realms not labeled as such.
The most obvious (and often-demanded solution)
would be that Blizzard simply drops its practice of only allowing servers for
localized versions of the game and instead finally embraces what players were
doing anyway by making it official: labeling certain servers as language
X-server for players (without offering language support); and offering free
transfers to those servers or away from them.
This would have the positive effect that
players who speak that language would know where they could start; while players
who don't wouldn't accidentally pick them.
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