After changing the battle.net’s client language to simplified Chinese I was able to enter the game which was then all in Chinese. However, upon clicking to enter any realm, i received the following message: “The language of the server you are trying to log in to is different from your WoW client.” (message was presented in Chinese).
NA players are able to play the game in Chinese. Why can’t EU players do the same? Is this intended or a bug? If it’s a bug, is anyone fixing it?
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I imagine it’s due to the fact we have servers separated by language e.g. English, German, Spanish etc.
I could be wrong however, but that seems the most likely cause.
You could have your game in French, but still be able to play on an English server. Only when it’s Chinese you can’t. That’s the issue.
On a side note, you can type Chinese ingame right now, even if the client is in English, but it wont let you have the ingame text in Chinese.
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Maybe try changing it ingame, rather than on battle.net?
can’t change to Chinese ingame. Only on the battle.net client game settings or via the config file in the WTF folder
Oh I could have sworn there was a language setting in the interface settings. Must be a bug then.
There is a language option in the interface setting, but Chinese doesn’t appear there. Other languages do
Well then I don’t know what to tell you. Hope you get it sorted soon!
Thank you. Am hoping to get an official response on the matter and see why NA players can play in Chinese and EU can’t
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Just remember that the NA and EU clients are slightly different games (best known example is the wolpertinger from Brewfest), which is also why you can’t region transfer, so it could be something as simple as they didn’t make a chinese copy of the text.
As stupid as it sounds but you never know 
bumping for blue attention
I seriously doubt you’ll get a blue response here.
Your best plan is to open a ticket
GM only told me that different regions might have different restrictions, but never really answered to the point. And I don’t remember how he said it, but he basically told me to post on the forums. Don’t really know what else to do. Only that this is really unfair and annoying. There’s another post about this down the 1st page of this forum as well
Chinese client can’t play on EU servers. Never has been able to in the 15 years I’ve played.
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And yet, NA players can. So I’m asking, why EU can’t? Not only does this seem unfair, but it’s only a request to play in the language I prefer.
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I don’t know. Nobody knows. You just can’t. I don’t know why Blizzard is asking you to go to the forums with the question. 
I didn’t know there was any restriction for chinese language today. Originally the languages were separated by regions, for examples is what not possible to use french or european spanish (before latinamerican spanish was included) in NA clients.
Other language with known restriccion is russian, you can’t use russian language on non-russian realms and you can’t use non-russian languages on russian realms.
They tell you to post on the forums to get rid of you because there is no official answer or they’re not allowed to give the reason.
So sending to the forums removes the problem from support.
You can try raising on Customer Support forum as Blues do reply, but it’s very doubtful you’ll get a reply that answers exactly what you want.
It was always a thing, I agree its stupid as EU is the only Region in wow with client side language restrictions.
Chinese/korean/russian clients are banned on Non-russian EU servers, only Russian clients can be used on Russian servers. I get them not wanting English people to spam Russian servers and vice versa, and that restriction is probably beneficial to Russian servers but especially for English servers I dont understand it, most people playing on EU servers from Asia can also speak English even if they prefer to play in their native language.
How is it unfair? Imagine the amount of gold sellers there would be if the chineese were allowed on EU servers. It’s a blessing in disguise