SEA Winter Updates- Dark Falz Loser

[emeraude]

Let that PSO2SEA enjoys its last glorious moment. It'll die soon in the way which many other games died in AS's hand. Remember Ragnarok 2? It died literally after 6months regardless its huge fanbase, those who still play it are just whale.
*wipes tears* *goes into corner and laugh* Fuck AS

I'm laughing so hard, RIP SEARO2. At least they gave the option to migrate to the main server. But that localization crashed and burned so hard.

Might have 20% do so for economy and content reasons, that's legit reason, not traitors.

Well, if I'm not having fun playing a game, why would I continue playing it? Hell I don't even play EQ Star Online 2 JP as much as I did anymore.

Sorry you guys got showoff douchebags though. If you ignore them they'll just come back to JP eventually. I've nothing against the SEA playerbase, it's just really sad comparing the handling between SEA and JP (no idea re: TW and TH).

[seilent]

Remember Ragnarok 2? It died literally after 6months regardless its huge fanbase

this
i like that game so much though. the dramas i mean

[Meteor Weapon]

The problem with SEA is it is using english as the main language of the game, and considering english is like the most well known language on the face of the planet, terrible usage of language became so obvious there's no point in hiding and defending it and the fact IP blocking gave so much trouble to an entire region, it wouldn't have became so loud if it was only blocked on one country. We pretty much ignored with whatever is going on on Taiwan because they don't mess with people's life with IP locking and it was only for their own country using their own language. Once you go english, you are exposing yourself to the world that you can't just reject it no matter what and Asiashit doesn't even realize this.

[TaigaUC]

From Google:

Language Approx. number of speakers
1. Chinese 1,197,000,000
2. Spanish 414,000,000
3. English 335,000,000
4. Hindi 260,000,000

I guess English is just the more common language amongst South East Asian countries?

The initial changes to SEA already sounded like it would implode in so many ways.
Everything basically panned out as expected. Especially going by AsiaSoft's past record.

[Z-0]

The above is native speakers, rather than all speakers of a language.

There are more speakers of English than any other language (counting L2, L3, etc... languages) since it's the lingua franca of the world at the moment, much like how it used to be Latin in the past. Mandarin is catching up, though, although it's still only like 50-75% use compared to English in total.

[TaigaUC]

Oh, I see. I just Google'd "most spoken languages in the world".
Thanks for clearing that up.

[KLMS1]

much like how it used to be Latin in the past.

That was mainly the educati and (Catholic) clergy though. Although I recall reading of a whatwasitnow, 18th-century English traveler or somesuch being rather suprised by being able to communicate with a Hungarian innkeeper in Latin...

But yeah, people need some kind of common "trade language". Before standardised modern official languages it was perfectly normal for people to be at least trilingual - besides whatever they gabbed with their neighbours with (and local dialects were often nigh mutually unintelligible) they usually needed to know another to deal with their rulers and the representatives thereof, plus the regional lingua franca typically used by travelers and merchants. Some would also have at least some grasp of whatever scriptural language(s) the local major religions might use to boot. Inhabitants of port cities and busy traffic junctions naturally tended to be even more polyglot.

Which is also why former colonies have tended to retain the old adminstrative languages of their erstwhile masters. The assorted technical specialists that keep states running they inherited were trained in those to begin with, and those provide a reasonably neutral middle ground the often quite diverse and varyingly antagonistic ethnic groups within the borders can more or less agree on without too many ruffled feathers.

Seeing as how the SEA region had at least three-four different colonial empires (much of Indonesia belonged to the Dutch, of all things...) plus the odd independent state here and there it's not particularly surprising if they default to English for regional interaction.

[isCasted]

Esperanto was supposed to become the universal language. Given how unpopular it still is (people do use it, though), maybe it's not really necessary.

[KLMS1]

You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men. And the field was already saturated anyway. It's a little like how back in the day many a king was under the illusion major centers of trade could be ordered into being; not so, those grow organically out of circumstances or not at all. (My home city is a case in point.)

As a rule of thumb what becomes the lingua franca, in a particular field or more generally, is the vernacular of the group most widely influental in that field at the time assuming it isn't excessively inconvenient to learn or something. (Which is a major strike against Chinese becoming more than regionally influental for example.)

[Maenara]

You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men. And the field was already saturated anyway. It's a little like how back in the day many a king was under the illusion major centers of trade could be ordered into being; not so, those grow organically out of circumstances or not at all. (My home city is a case in point.)

As a rule of thumb what becomes the lingua franca, in a particular field or more generally, is the vernacular of the group most widely influental in that field at the time assuming it isn't excessively inconvenient to learn or something. (Which is a major strike against Chinese becoming more than regionally influental for example.)

Reading this out of context, I was beyond confused.