Silverfox, a Bridge Investor

[Skam]

Originally Posted by Nupi

She stays a cute puppet heh guys? :-)
hehe. :-)

*logs into PE, walks over to society-terminal*

Nupi... hmm.. Degrade? Lactarius will be higher in soc then her then.. muwahahhaa..

[Machman]

Originally Posted by wanda

A couple of factors to consider;
1. Mindark never made any large advertising campaigns in Europe or the US.
2. The population of Asia/China is huge.

big advertising + huge population = massive influx of new players (very few of which speak any english, swedish, french etc).

Logistics of servers and support are one issue which I'm sure has been discussed at length, but how will it affect everyday players who could very easily find themselves waking up in a chinese speaking game one morning.

No worries there from me, I think that would be great, the more languages the better! - however the official ie written language would always be English.

this in spite of the fact that Mindark is a Swedish company

[The Mighty]

Wanda, you seem to be disagreeing with me, when what you've said is in line with what I said, and then the 2nd point about Chinese is annoying.

I said that perhaps MA should be advertising in Europe and the USA.

The population of Asia is huge... approx. 1/4 of the total world population, but thinking that this could all of a sudden become a Chinese speaking game is just silly... not only that... "so what?" if it does. There are plenty of French, Swedish, Dutch and even some Russian speaking people in the game already. MA states that support cases are in English. All their information on the client loader and all text in the game is in English. If someone from Asia that speaks Chinese can actually create an account... they probably have a good enough understanding of the English language to be able to speak English as well. Also, I don't see PE having support for the Chinese alphabet anyways....

[wanda]

but if the majority of players becomes non-english speaking overnight, mindark would have to accomodate them

[Crys]

on second thought, many 'foreign' students are required to learn english. such as in japan. english is the official language of the medical community, the scientific community, etc. cuz none of the oldskewl romance/glyphic languages are conducive to modern technology. english probly wouldnt be a problem. ive always admired oriental culture, especially that of japan.

the language thing probly wouldnt be any more of a problem than it is for any other players of whatever nationality. so its all about the numbers. as i said, a tenfold increase in the amount of non depositers does NOT get me wet. ill pass on that. can the game support so many more ppl, whether they deposit or not? i dont think pe is ready for that kind of traffic. marco, pls delete silverfox's email address and mobile fone number, and take another vacation, the last vu WAS pretty good =D

now would be a good time to distract us with tidbits about hte next vu.

[The Mighty]

Crys.... you missed something in my original post....

If you increase the number ten fold... even if 90% of them are non-depositors.... you're still making PE a viable option as an advertising medium.

Have 1 million active players, and you'll see Microsoft, Coca-Cola and a couple big names start taking interest in the possibility of putting their advertising within the game... (I am not for cheesy advertising, but some well thought out - futuristic looking billboards would be good. Like you wouldn't want to be advertising Windows XP in PE, and also not Windows 3000, but more like a plain "Microsoft" advert.)

[wanda]

maybe MA will come up with regional servers like battlenet where you log on to a specific server by your location in the world. That would lead to server hopping though if for example asian servers were dropping items in loot etc.

I spent many hours on asian battlenet and found not only language to be an issue but also culture - what people found amusing in europe was greeted with hostility in asia.

[The Mighty]

Originally Posted by wanda

I spent many hours on asian battlenet and found not only language to be an issue but also culture - what people found amusing in europe was greeted with hostility in asia.

I have to say this....Please grow up (and I mean it in the nicest way possible). The world IS getting smaller, and this narrow minded thinking is what brought about Apartheid in South Africa. Learn to live with other people even though they are different to you!!!!! Next you'll be saying you want to refuse anyone from a different country, entry in to your country because their culture is just too different from your own... and you can't get over that "issue."

Pah !

Edit: Excuse the outburst, but I get quite passionate about "issues" like this.

[Etopia]

Originally Posted by The Mighty

There are plenty of French, Swedish, Dutch and even some Russian speaking people in the game already. MA states that support cases are in English. All their information on the client loader and all text in the game is in English. If someone from Asia that speaks Chinese can actually create an account... they probably have a good enough understanding of the English language to be able to speak English as well. Also, I don't see PE having support for the Chinese alphabet anyways....

the suport was suposed to use the main game langage this year :
english , swedish , french , german , and maybe other.
the clien loader is allready in french and in swedish for shure.

but this is not the main problem , i dont think...

but with good game , advertise come alone.. no need to make it.
the island drained tons player.
but lots of them run away due to the game it self... bug,lag ( yeah remember uge lag because som more player)....

[The Mighty]

Originally Posted by Etopia

the suport was suposed to use the main game langage this year :
english , swedish , french , german , and maybe other.
the clien loader is allready in french and in swedish for shure.

but this is not the main problem , i dont think...

but with good game , advertise come alone.. no need to make it.
the island drained tons player.
but lots of them run away due to the game it self... bug,lag ( yeah remember uge lag because som more player)....

I think the reason they all joined so quickly was after Deathifier bought TI, there was a big amount of publicity around that. This publicity pretty much stated that you could make money playing PE. When those people who were purely playing PE to make money realized that making money in PE is hard work, they left....