Good evening everyone
i was wondering if blizzard has intentions to make world of warcraft fully support arabic just like french or english clients , because lets be real arabic comunity in wow came a long way these pas years and we would like to see something like that happen in the future.
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No there is not enought people who speak arabic.
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no there actually a lot; but we’re afraid to speak arabic to be judged.
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Also if you will get arabic client you will get consored client.
I don’t think it’s a bad idea, but like always going into an “uncharted territory” as far as it comes in the gaming market always comes with the risk of failure.
Adaptation into Arabic would cost money: translation, voice acting, Arabic forums, moderation, customer support, community managers etc.
If this investment is to fail then it’ll be a loss for Activision Blizzard. This is the risk required to do something like that.
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Was in a PUG for HC Sire (was absent for my own guild run), had to join Discord. Threw me for a loop when the lead started talking Arabic, think he was Turkish, to his guildies. 
There is also a huge technical challenge since Arabic is a “right-to-left” language as opposed to European languages. All interface elements have to be reversed. This is not as simple as adding another European language.
And speaking of myself as an Arabic speaker, and someone who relies on Addons in game, even if Blizzard offers a good quality Arabic translation, and handles the right-to-left issue nicely, the addons would be messed up since they are all designed with left-to-right direction.
So it’s also a massive effort for addon Authors, and many wouldn’t bother with the switch.
So even if there is an Arabic client, I would stick with the English client until these massive problems are solved. Especially that I don’t have problems understanding or communicating in English.
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Considering we have seen a number of threads suggesting that there was an issue for Turkish players being able to pay the sub and that it should be reduced… not sure that Blizz are going to be rushing to roll out specialist services that cost a lot more money…also I suspect Blizz will have some metrics for how many players there are in Arabic countries.
Do you have any authoritative evidence for that claim?
i’d rather not say; we get a lot hate, or uncomfortable vibes. lets just lurk in the shadows.
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Fair enough, however I’m fairly sure if Blizz reckoned there was sufficient demand and financial reward to be gained from an Arabic set of Servers, then they would roll them out… think Grendiser made some good points.
Turkish and Arabic are very different languages. The Arabic speakers in Turkey are a very small minority.
They do know (roughly) how many players are in Arabic countries. Things like IP address, battle.net account info, the issuing bank of the credit card help identify the players’ country.
But some Arab countries have more foreigners living in the country than citizens (For example Qatar has 12% citizens and 88% foreigners according to Wikipedia). Many of those foreigners are from South and South East Asia (non Arabic speakers).
Best thing you can do is send blizzard a message about it asking people on forums will not really help all that much. So try the support page
It will definitely happen in the future. Don’t listen to the people saying otherwise. The Middle East and North Africa are the next markets to be capitalized by gaming companies. Ubisoft is already working on it, EA too and I believe Activision as well.
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Apologies, my mistake.
Does that mean they would be logging into Server accounts based in Korea?.. not sure this builds a case for the development costs of Arabic servers
Why dont we make a client for ALL languages then?
Swedish. finnish,norweigan, danish and so on. I bet we have more people playing in Scandinavia then Arabic people playing. So no.
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Most players living in Arab countries play on European Servers. What I meant is that even when a player is logging and playing from an Arab country, there is a high chance that he is a foreigner working and living there, and is actually a non-Arabic speaker.
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Ok, so that presumably means the actual demand for an Arabic set of servers, is probably going to be considerably lower than the number of players logging into European accounts, from those countries?
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Yes, exactly.
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Do you have any sort of basis for a claim like this?
A market, is not the same as a financial justification for a dedicated set of language servers, especially in countries which have one of the larger European language demographics already widely in use…particularly where this circumvents the issue of multiple localised language groups, within one country.