There are comparatively very few people in the world who even knows the cyrillic alphabet and what the letters mean, compared to the Roman alphabet.
Thank you for showing how BG chats would look like if you were to be mixed in with the gigantic EU matchmaking pool while on the same team though.
Just don’t expect everyone to understand what you just said. This is the English forum. E-n-g-l-i-s-h, comprende? I’m sure you Russian realms have your own dedicated WoW forum that’s hosted by Blizzard.
By the way, your name using the Roman alphabet would look something like AXNrnNny. Just by going off of the very minimal of resemblance there is. Yes, cyrillic letters have very different pronunciations, but to expect the rest of Europe to accomodate to your tiny alphabet is beyond stupid.
AXNrnNny is how your name would be called out, if anyone would even try to.
Have fun trying to pronounce that.
Genuine question though, would you even understand people are talking to you if they try to address you by using that visual interpretation of your name, in an in-game chat? Either via voice chat or text chat, doesn’t matter.
By the way, to EVERYONE who doesn’t believe similar alphabets plays a big deal, then check out this thread:
If you truly believe that, then you wouldn’t have a problem with Persian symbols in people’s names and in BG chats and so on, RIGHT?
Kanji symbols, Chinese symbols, Korean symbols, Greek letters, the list goes ON AND ON.
If you truly believe there’s no problem with entirely different alphabets, then you’re obviously ok with all of these receiving language support in the game client for EU as well, right?
If you care so much about fair treatment, then I’d say it’s very unfair to discriminate against all of the other various alphabets that only very few people on this side of the globe can read, like the Persian alphabet for example.
So if you’re saying it isn’t right to exclude Russian realms for practical reasons, then obviously you also think the same for the Persian alphabet, right?
So on and so forth.
Sure, it isn’t practical to provide language support in the game client to so many different alphabets in a game where you work together in PvP and the ability to communicate with each other impacts heavily on teamwork and the enjoyment of the game itself, but BnEKnOK definitely thinks it’s not right to exclude them. Right?
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that we in fact have a HUGE variety of multilinguals in the EU as a whole.
So there’s no reason to not allow them to use the alphabet they feel more comfortable with in their characters’ names, which is supposed to represent who they are, when things have already gone this far.
So to summarize, you either accept there is a problem with mixing different alphabet groups, like for example the Roman alphabet group and the cyrillic alphabet, or the cyrillic alphabet and the Persian alphabet -
or you accept there is no reason to exclude language support for any alphabet in the world for player names.
The language type chosen still determines the UI’s language and the NPC’s language used and so on, of course.
There is no inbetween here. You either recognize there are issues with unintelligible letters/symbols that doesn’t resemble the Roman alphabet enough for it to be sounded out normally for communications purposes, or you by default agree that they need to provide much more extensive language supports for player names and in-game text chats to enable all kinds of alphabets and symbols.
Imagine seeing a player named نام خودمانی in a BG. (copypasta from google translate)
The reason why you can’t say “only cyrillic is ok”, is because the same reason why cyrillic would be ok, can be applied to any other alphabet or symbols in the world, because Europe as a whole is a place with a lot of varied multilinguals. Why should cyrillic be ok, but not everything else? Anything that isn’t using the Roman alphabet as a base, creates problems when in a game like this if they aren’t separated properly.
The ability to premade larger than the limit in AV is just another reason why they should cut off the matchmaking pool entirely.