Canadian servers

Some countries in Europe get their own servers, why not Canada?

Actually, they don't, they just have different language districts due to the number of distinct languages spoken in Europe, it's all on the same server. Canada for the most part, speaks english, just like the US.

Actually, I was thinking of suggesting something like this; add a French and a Spanish districts to the American districts. The French district would help guilds from Quebec, the Spanish districts would help those people i see wandering around in the American districts trying to see if anyone else speaks Spanish.

I really would appreciate Spanish American districts.

People from South America keep going into europena servers, and they lag like HELL.

They should stick to the servers that are near them, and use the international districtos to tlak with same-language friends from other countries. Like americasn and english people can do.

/signed for Spanish/French districts on our side for South Americans/Central Americans/French Canadians, etc.

I see enough people in American districts looking for help in Spanish to validate this.

We could add Italian too because we can find some of them in the america server, no?

As A canadian, would be quite fun :P

But theres really no use to it.

The French/Spanish district make much more sense.

And sorry francis, don't think theres enough people that speak italian in the amrecain serverto merit its own district

/notsigned
As mentioned, the nations of Europe DON'T have different servers. They have different districts. Big difference.
"Amercian" refers to North America (not just the US). Thus, everybody in the western hemispehere is (by a.net's definition) American.

I don't think A.net doesn't sell enough games in hispanic countries to justify it. Most people in Quebec learn English anyway (since they have so many English speaking neighbors). If you could find significant stats to prove that enough of a.net's North and South American customers need this, then I'd support this. After all, I know several people who are natives from other countries and don't speak English, or learned it as a child. Just because of their existance in the United States, do we really need a Greek or a Polish district as well?

The only way I see it is by Canadian district.Latin America district and then US district all on the American Server.There are some who think the American Server is only the US.

It could be like European.

European Common, then one per language talked by at least 2..5% of the players.

(By the way, tthey should bring back the english along the common ones)

Then, if you want to talk only in one language, you go to that district, if you don't care about that, you go to common.

I think "American" should also include South and Central America. By strict definition, they are also americans.

Nice double negative there. Do you mean they do sell enough games to warrent spanish districts? Cool. I have absolutely know clue as to how many units they sell in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Columbia, Honduras, Ecuador, etc. I don't think you do either.


That's just plain wrong. Recent census information indicates that more than half of Quebec's population speaks French only. So saying "most" is not only misleading, it is false. A lot are bilingual, but by no means "most."

Quebec is also not the only French speaking province in Canada. New Brunswick has a healthy sized French population, and there are even some Francaphone communities in rural Ontario and British Columbia. Nor is Canada the only home to French speaking people in the Americas. There are the Cajun and Creoles, and French Guiana just to name a few.

And where is any player going to get those "significant statistics"? The only people with that kind of information are PlayNC and Arena Net. And we know how often they share that kind of info... They don't even announce how many players there are, only units sold, which is not the same thing. Not that i'm complaining about that. They are under no obligation to release that kind of info to anyone (who doesn't own shares).


In the end, I'd support Spanish and French districts (even Portuguese districts) if the sales and/or community are there to support it. Only A-Net is capable of having that kind of info.

I don't support the idea of Canadian servers. This would only serve to spread the game's population even thinner. My own guild holds three Canadians, three Australians, and the remaining 19 are from the USA (as far as I know). I'm sure there guilds with a Canadian Majority, and guilds that hold only people from the USA, but I suspect that the number of Canadians playing spread across the 6 time zones don't warrent a separate server.

It's not going to happen. And really, there is no point. Canadians, Americans and Mexicans all share the same timezones, why would you need separate districts?

Australia and New Zealand are a bit different of course, but at the end of the day, GW2 is removing this mechanic, so I doubt they'll continue splitting up the districts.

I'm on 56k. I noticed that typo the instant I posted it. I tried to edit it, but it takes like 5 miniutes to load anything on this website, so I just gave up.

Also, I included South and Central America with the phrase Western Hemisphere in the second paragraph.

Pointing out flaws in grammer on an INTERNET FORUM doesn't exactly matter.

...Uhm... well... I think a Spanish dist and... French (<.<) dist would be useful....
But, yea, an Italian dist would be a little much....
With Kurzick players making up a bunch of German names, maybe a German dist should be made, eh? No....
Spanish 'cause Mexico plays... French because of Quebec. But no place in No. America that's commonly Italian or otherwise.

The question is, are there enough non-bilingual people in Quebec that actually play guildwars to justify a north american french district. IMO, the majority of non-bilingual people in Canada tend to be above to typical age that plays the game

Just because people living another province speak french, doesn't make it a french speaking province. Quebec is the only official french speaking province in Canada. As for these francophone communities in BC, being from BC myself, I'd love to know which communities you speak of

How would you define a player? People come, people go, people come back again. Does that mean they'd go from player to non-player to player?

Well... you could ay so for, for example, Polish.

English and German speakers are by far much more than Polish.
But Polish exists, because Polish is an official language.
That's all GW needs. The data is already there.
If they let people choose language, why not letting them choosing to gather with more people using the same language?

Communication is my top priority in a team. I left the Americain server because its always chatting in English in the local (with some exceptions and I was tired about that.

I dont want to offense any of you but I wish the Americain server has different language districts too, that could help some players too in communication.

I have always wondered why the American side does not get district languages like Europe. With the astounding number of hispanos and spanish people in America, not having a spanish district does not make sense. A french district would make sense as well with the francophones being everywhere in America, including USA. Many francophones do not or barely speak English and do not dare playing such an online game like GW because of the language barrier (English). I've been insulted as well a few times in the America server for not speaking English, "Speak white" I've been told, as if one can't be white and speak another language than English. At least, in the other languages distrist, if they were to be added, we could discuss in peace and not be insulted by the Anglophones.

I would love to see French- and Spanish-speaking districts on the American server. It fulfills a dual purpose in providing native speakers a common meeting place as well as sheltering them from the xenophobic and racist commentary which is unfortunately ever-present.

I suppose that nearly all the arguments for and against bilingual education could be applied here; however, bear in mind that GW is a computer game. People come to it seeking fun, not social justice.

And more important, Many spanish and french speaking players from that timezone come to european serversm when they could join better frind with their same timezone if they knew there are servers for they same language speakers.

With the zone change limit reset, they could go back to their timezones and save some lag to us european players. It makes no sense having them connect to us, when must of us are not connected at the same time as them.

no, i don't think that Canada should have their own district, because in Europe the countries don't have their own districts, they are split into districts by language. What I think they should do for the American territory is add a French district and a Spanish district, because not everyone in North and South America speak English, I see people from French Canada speaking French trying to find other French speaking Canadians, but most of them just go to the French district in the European territory, as with the Spanish speaking Mexicans and South Americans, this makes it unfair with the Gods favor, because the people who should be playing for America are playing for Europe.

But the problem is most of the people already in the European servers would not realize that the American servers have been changed, so there should be an advertisement at the log in screen telling the people about the change for about 4 weeks and there should be a message in the user talk that tells them of the update, similar to the way guildwars informs the people of new updates.

No, the question should be, are there enough people playing on the American Servers (not just North America) who would feel more comfortable speaking French to warrent a French district. I can stand on my head. I can probably do so while playing Guildwars. But it's not comfortable (just as some french speakers can speak englsih, but it's not comfortable).


Ok. Perhaps I can choose my words more clearly. My intention was to indicate that Quebec is not the only home to French speakers (francophones).
New Brunswick is "officially bilingual". That means that it is Officially an English Speaking Province. It aslo means that Officially it is a French Speaking Province.

"While the passing of time has diluted the use of the French language in British Columbia, it is still heard on the streets and in the homes on the south slope of Coquitlam." - Wikipedia


http://www.ffcb.bc.ca/main/por_statistiques_e.php

Granted, 64 000 isn't a huge number to some, but it is enough to fill a small sized city. They just tend to be living in small pockets that you probably haven't noticed. There are also close to 40 Francophone schools in British Columbia (not french immersion, full-on french schools). Do they make up a large portion of BC? No. Should the be completely disregarded? No.


So, to get to the root of my point, with out all the bluster and what not: Quebec is not the only home to French speakers in Canada, and Canada is not the only home to French speakers in the Americas.

Is the French population on the servers large enough to warrent their own district? As I stated earlier, I don't know. Nor does any other player. The only people who can possibly know that kind of information are working at Arena Net. Anyone else who claims to have such knowledge is about on par with someone playing pin the tail on the donkey: They might have hit the ass end, but I've seen a lot of donkeys with tails pinned to their eyes.

Who knows, maybe there are far more Spanish speakers on the American servers than French speakers. There are certainly more Spanish countries in the Americas than French ones (or English ones for that matter). Maybe we might see a Spanish district some time in the distant future.


I don't make that definition. As I said earlier, the only people who can make an informed decision in that area are Arena Net. The OP made a suggestion (though servers/districts was probably a misunderstanding on their part - possibly even due to translation issues), and that's what this forum is for. All the people here saying "no way, don't do it, no one needs it" are just ill informed folks who shoot down anything they don't understand.

A suggestion has been made. As with most suggestions, it will only go as far as A-Net feels it has use. That about sums it up.

Edit: It would seem there are enough French speakers in Canada to warrent sales of a French version of Guild Wars in Canada:
http://www.amazon.ca/Guild-Wars-Eye-...440717&sr=8-11

European Polish players are less than Canadian French-speaking players.

So amount is not a problem.