Said in the 8december chat log that...
Portugal/Brazil don't have portuguese district because there are more spanish around the globe speaking spanish. Ok, gaile is correct.
BUT....
1. Chinese (Mandarin) / 1,075,000,000
2. English / 514,000,000
3. Hindustani1 / 496,000,000
4. Spanish / 425,000,000
5. Russian / 275,000,000
6. Arabic / 256,000,000
7. Bengali / 215,000,000
8. Portuguese / 194,000,000
9. Malay-Indonesian / 176,000,000
10. French / 129,000,000
Portugal has more people speaking portuguese than french and german and ITALY! that dont even apear in top 10.
I really dont get it.. we have so many portuguese playing the game, but still we dont get a portuguese district.
Italy is always empty.. How the heck they have a district and we don't? Explain me Gaile. I will shut up if you give me the reason.
It's sad. And by the way... Spanish district would be alot fuller in america.
I hope to see a awnser. A straight one.
Gaile Gray said that...
TiNkLeR
KamikazeChicken
Try and find the sales information seperated by region, and that might give you the answer.
FrogDevourer
It's a conspiracy. I'm telling you.
Hand of Ruin
It's not about world population... it's about sales. If there were enough sales from brazil/portugal to warrant a district for them, they'd open one. But obviously there hasn't been, so they won't get a seperate district.
Gli
As far as I know, there are only districts for languages that are supported by the client. Portugese isn't one of them.
Darcy
Regretfully, while Brazil has a large Portuguese-speaking population, only a small percentage of them have either internet access or discretionary income to spend on a game.
noir0
There may be more people who speak portuguese in the real world, but i doubt more portuguese speakers play guild wars than the french or even the germans do. Thats why they warrent there own districts. If more portuguese speaking people played the game, i'm pretty sure anet would open up a district for them. (Then again for all i know the portuguese speaking people outnumber the french or german speakers, my post is mostly speculation really..)
HolyHawk
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Originally Posted by Darcy
Regretfully, while Brazil has a large Portuguese-speaking population, only a small percentage of them have either internet access or discretionary income to spend on a game.
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Gregslot
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Originally Posted by Darcy
Regretfully, while Brazil has a large Portuguese-speaking population, only a small percentage of them have either internet access or discretionary income to spend on a game.
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Guess someone who only studies national history and national geography knows what he is saying.
I guess that you know that São Paulo (wich is a state, you also know that) is bigger then any country from western Europe and all of them speak portuguese. And as you know, like in every country, some people dont have acess to internet or just simply dont care about online games, like as you know, our favorite hobby here in Brazil (wich as you know its spelled Brasil in here) is also our favorite sport, soccer, and not Guild Wars.
And that our capital city is Brasilia, and not Rio de Janeiro, but of course, you know that.
For that, you know that what you said is a complete nonsense.
You know what happened to Orkut, or what happened to Fotolog, right? ^^
I think its a good idea to create a portuguese version for GW, this might influence the ascending number of players in here to buy GW, since they could understand perfectly
MegaMouse
Like someone said in this post earlier. One reason a country gets it's own district is because the number of players in that country. If the player base warrants it then yes A-Net and NC-Soft should look into giving Portugual it's own districts. But until that happens you will be stuck with the European districts for now.It's not about how many people speak a language but the number of actual players within a region.
Although China is gonna get their own district due to politics and not player base, but that is the only way that A-Net and NC-Soft can apease China and get a foothold there.
Mega Mouse
Although China is gonna get their own district due to politics and not player base, but that is the only way that A-Net and NC-Soft can apease China and get a foothold there.
Mega Mouse
Divinus Stella
Add a district for every language, Welsh District 1 would have more people than italian districts do surely.
Deleet
More districts = more empty citys = bad.
Remove all unused dicstricts and join everyone up in international (also americans!)
Remove all unused dicstricts and join everyone up in international (also americans!)
disarm76
Brazilians are in American server (I think) and portuguese are in European Server...
See what I mean?
<-- look at my country. lol
See what I mean?
<-- look at my country. lol
Thalion Galad
hi all
is common that ppl from the americas to think that portugal is part of
spain...LOL
Enfim... o que fazer....
is common that ppl from the americas to think that portugal is part of
spain...LOL
Enfim... o que fazer....
Lynxius
We Portuguese are everywhere! ^__^
God if I start thinking about how many Portuguese people ive seen around.
I do like to stay in the english Districts and would stay even if they made Portuguese ones (I want to improve my english
), but i tottally suport the idea, its only fair and ive seen quite a bunch of us out there.
Plus dont forget theres alot of tuga people ( thats Portuguese people
) that dont really know english very well (yes blame our education system and Ministry )
No further Comments.
~Lynxius
God if I start thinking about how many Portuguese people ive seen around.
I do like to stay in the english Districts and would stay even if they made Portuguese ones (I want to improve my english
), but i tottally suport the idea, its only fair and ive seen quite a bunch of us out there.Plus dont forget theres alot of tuga people ( thats Portuguese people
) that dont really know english very well (yes blame our education system and Ministry )No further Comments.
~Lynxius
LagunaCid
Its a conpiracy!
Unimos, irmãos!
Oh wait, Im living in Canada now ^^
Unimos, irmãos!
Oh wait, Im living in Canada now ^^
ericdanie
Brazil has now an official reseller, Level Up Games. At least they say that they have made a deal with NCSoft.
I've never seen an official announcement on Guild Wars website about this.
When I'm playing Team Arenas I always see some brazilians/portuguese gathering for a group.
My current dream is to see a Portuguese (Brazil) and a Portuguese language option, not necessarily with districts, but that would be lovely too And yes, I am brazilian and we are currently experiencing a Guild Wars "expansion" as it has an official reseller now. I've played since E3 for Everyone/WPE/Early Access from Prophecies, and I had to import the game, so it costed me twice the retail price.
I've never seen an official announcement on Guild Wars website about this.
When I'm playing Team Arenas I always see some brazilians/portuguese gathering for a group.
My current dream is to see a Portuguese (Brazil) and a Portuguese language option, not necessarily with districts, but that would be lovely too
And yes, I am brazilian and we are currently experiencing a Guild Wars "expansion" as it has an official reseller now. I've played since E3 for Everyone/WPE/Early Access from Prophecies, and I had to import the game, so it costed me twice the retail price.
ChaoticCoyote
I've spent quite a bit of time in Brazil on business and pleasure.
A couple of points:
Brazillian Portuguese is different from European Portuguese. The Brazillian form is based on an older dialect.
I worked for tech companies, and quite a few people were WoW addicts. None had heard of Guild Wars until I showed it to them.
Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the Western hemisphere, and they do have a modern tech industry.
ANet might want to consider this emerging market.
A couple of points:
Brazillian Portuguese is different from European Portuguese. The Brazillian form is based on an older dialect.
I worked for tech companies, and quite a few people were WoW addicts. None had heard of Guild Wars until I showed it to them.
Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the Western hemisphere, and they do have a modern tech industry.
ANet might want to consider this emerging market.
dgb
Clearly Polish language support is the key!
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kumiel
If ANet gives one country/language their own district, everyone will want their own one. Then everyone will be split into countless districts and making a group will be hopeless. I remember before the separation when everyone was in the same district and everything was fine...
Indian
hell ya
I want Indian District!! ^___^
I want Indian District!! ^___^
ericdanie
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If ANet gives one country/language their own district, everyone will want their own one. Then everyone will be split into countless districts and making a group will be hopeless. I remember before the separation when everyone was in the same district and everything was fine...
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Remember, most games have totally separate servers, and GW allows interaction between any part of the world. Districts allow us to have a feeling of being in our country, and the party-formation system would allow us to have a feeling of globalization of the districts (countries).
HolyHawk
I understand that, but the point was made a while back, GW does have a large portuguese speaking comunity, it's not that rare portuguese/brazilian guilds meet each other in gvg. I'm suspect to be saying this, but Brazil is quite a large country, it would be interesting to have a portuguese language support, for both the portuguese languages (considering game vocabulary, it won't matter which portuguese they pick if it is just one, very little will differ in the end).
TiNkLeR
Dudes.. just take out Italy server and name it Portugal server. Its simple.
Gaile?
Gaile?
Cassandra
Italy has a district cause the local distributor had a deal with anet and supported (and still supports) the costs of translation and adaptation of the game.
Get someone from your countries to do the same, instead of bugging other ppl.
Get someone from your countries to do the same, instead of bugging other ppl.
Yanman.be
I say you should have an option to join international districts by default.
Also, French/Spanish/Italian people do not always speak English( and some refuse to simply learn it ), which is why they have their own districts.
There's hardly anyone is spanish/italian districts. During holiday events ( when you have 40+ of the English, German and French districts, they have only 2 or 3 ) Go figure.
Also, French/Spanish/Italian people do not always speak English( and some refuse to simply learn it ), which is why they have their own districts.
There's hardly anyone is spanish/italian districts. During holiday events ( when you have 40+ of the English, German and French districts, they have only 2 or 3 ) Go figure.
duncan99
Holland should get his own district, every pug i get in got around 2-3 dutch ppl in it.
The english dis is dutch dis rly.. :P
The english dis is dutch dis rly.. :P
makosi
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The english dis is dutch dis rly.. :P
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Kay84
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Holland should get his own district, every pug i get in got around 2-3 dutch ppl in it.
The english dis is dutch dis rly.. :P |
Noam12
They should put up an Israeli server 
EricG
/agreed on Dutch server, much easier if we can just speak Dutch :P
electrofish
I think they should look into the asian servers too while they're at it as currently there are not enough people in the TW/HK servers to warrant their own territory... maybe merge them with either EU or American server and rename the international district to chinese? We're all aware of the state dorknar's international is in anyway :P
Amity and Truth
[X] Vote for european (!) language districts. Come on, don't seperate us.
Lavindathar
I think maybe it would be better if Portugal did get their own server.
I meet lots of Portuguese. And italian/spanish districts always empty (French theres people milling about).
But no point in a Dutch district. I meet loads of Dutch players, but they always speak perfect english lol.
I meet lots of Portuguese. And italian/spanish districts always empty (French theres people milling about).
But no point in a Dutch district. I meet loads of Dutch players, but they always speak perfect english lol.
pappayaponta
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Originally Posted by KamikazeChicken
Try and find the sales information seperated by region, and that might give you the answer.
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taffette
Might be nice to have conglomerate districts though, say Scandinavian or Eastern European or some such. Most of the English districts have more of those two in them than English lol!
Alex Weekes
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Originally Posted by Gli
As far as I know, there are only districts for languages that are supported by the client. Portugese isn't one of them.
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vdz
Why do you want you own district anyway? Like said before it will only result into empty districts, which is very annoying. I play on the European server and i find it very annoying.
Don’t see why the German, French, Spanish and Italian people got their own districts, guess partly because the refuse to speak another language besides their national language or are not able to speak English.
It is easy to say as a Dutch though because we learn English on a very young age and we don’t synchronize every English spoken movie/television program (like in Germany and France, god so annoying)
Ide like to see one big happy family!
Don’t see why the German, French, Spanish and Italian people got their own districts, guess partly because the refuse to speak another language besides their national language or are not able to speak English.
It is easy to say as a Dutch though because we learn English on a very young age and we don’t synchronize every English spoken movie/television program (like in Germany and France, god so annoying)
Ide like to see one big happy family!