The truth is, when playing in the EU region, you can change your HOTS client to Chinese, you can change your OW client to Chinese, your Hearthstone client to Chinese. What you CANNOT do is to change your WOW (BOTH retail and classic) client to Chinese. I’m wondering why.
We really expect you guys to remove the language restriction, that would improve a lot the Chinese players’ gaming experience.
OP is chinese, playing in EU servers () and wants the game to be played in Chinese localisation? Meaning quest text, voice, etc? Or actual suport meaning he can contact Blizzard in chinese and someone in the European Blizzard’s HQ will talk to him in chinese aswell?
The first part, sure don’t see why the game wouldnt allow you to. The latter part, that would be the most dumb thing I’ve ever read on this forum. It’s like if me and another buddy are portuguese, go play on the chinese servers for God knows why and demand that they speak portuguese to me because “You have to respect me”.
Not trying to bring politics into this discussion, but this whole topic is reaking of chinese imperialism
This issue has been bugging me for about 10 years or so, and I’ve posted several times before about it.
In late 2000’s i used to live in South Korea for a couple of years with my KR wife, and was in a similar situation with not understanding Korean well enough to thrive on the KR client. However, in Korea I was able to log onto the KR servers with the English client, and it was a relief to be able to log on with English, but still play with my Korean friends. To those saying “Just learn the language”: Sure, I wish my Korean was better so I could’ve played in Korean, but there’s a difference between “just learn the language” and be able to quickly read and write a lot of the grammar that WOW uses, which is definitely NOT your basic/average Korean talk/grammar.
Anyway, I’ve relocated back to Norway now with my Korean wife, and while we use the English client here, my wife is in a similar situation as the main poster. It would have been great if Blizzard would allow us EU players to access the KR/Chinese wow client, especially since THEY’RE ALREADY THERE!
As for arguing that by allowing this, Blizzard would then somehow have to commit themselves to localize the game for all of the EU languages since a non-EU language “already got it”, that’s BS. The Korean/Chinese client IS ALREADY AVAILABLE. The game is huge in those countries, and Blizzard decided to localize the game. Or whatever reason they use for when deciding to localize. But completely regardless of that, it’s entirely solely Blizzard’s PREROGATIVE as to which countries gets localized.
It’s like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The game can be played in English, several European languages, and Japanese (and maybe more, i forgot). So being a EU player, i don’t get locked out of Japanese. Why would I?
The Battle net account even let you mix it up, having text in one language is speech in another. Why won’t Blizzard let us choose the language client that we’d want, when it’s ALREADY AVAILABLE?
There are probably more chinese players in the US. Also in europe there are way more languages than in the usa. Its might just be them focusing more on as many european languages as possible while in the usa they mostly just need it to be in spanish and english for most people
) and wants the game to be played in Chinese localisation? Meaning quest text, voice, etc? Or actual suport meaning he can contact Blizzard in chinese and someone in the European Blizzard’s HQ will talk to him in chinese aswell?
besides, many english people cant even speak english. reference: chav.