How is it on US servers?

I understand most people on Guru are from the US, I myself am from Europe, and we have several servers like English district 1-15, spanish, french, and probably more.
I dont play GW hardcore, I just play with my gf and usualy in team arena we get into a team of two other french or spanish, which leads to misunderstanding and losing of course. As example I was in a team with french who spoke french only and when I kindly asked him to speak english he said "no".
While being able to switch from one server to another is a nice idea, merging servers from different nations is something I really dislike.
How is it on US servers? Do you guys get to play with players from central and south america as well?
Maybe I'm just gonna buy US import

Well I don't mean to be rude, telling people to speak english is just plain nasty to them. Thats like some guy saying you gota start speaking Korean right now because I said so. I happen to like being with diffrent nations on the same server, if it really bothers you that much you can always e-mail ANET/NCSoft

With the server says America that doesn't mean the USA, people get those too mixed up a lot. America is like North and South America. Like in North America it's Canada and the United States of America, Greenland or whatever else.

I have only played with English and Korean people so far on GW, however I enjoy playing with people from other nations, even if I cannot speak to them.

I'm not sure if it's the same for Europe, but in the America version you can access internation servers, so if your main one is Europe then go into international and pick America.

There are a lot of language problems on the America server as well. There are many different languages. You have English (which is a minority), then you have LEET, SPAMGLISH, NOOBISH, OMGWTFHAXXOR, a special psychic language only W/Mos can see, PWNZORS, and URMOM-LISH. It's no walk in the park.

on the euro servers if you didn't already know the disctricts are set out so there are several for english speakers, several for german, several for spanish, etc. It annoys me when people are in the english one speaking another language but then again I'm sure there will be people in the spanish ones talking english.

lol...saving this somewhere...bash here i come

LMAO...Only because it's SO true.

My favourite ever was "Como estas?", which immediately prompted "How come I always see frenchies on the American server?"

The American Server is more or less a speak whatever language you want server. But in my experiences on the European Server, its more or less limited to English,French, and German...I was in the European English District 1 a while back, and some people out of nowhere started speaking French, of course I joined their convo...being a polyglot may help you in GW. If someone says something not nice as in a racist comment in another language (other than English) and you understand what they said you could report them or join in and be a racist bastard.
Now, this was said before, but I think that the American Server includes both the Central/South American countries and the North American Countries.

"A special psychic language that only Wa/Mos can see."--- That has to be the funniest thing I have ever read on this forum.

And then I realized how true it was. I spent my first six months in GW as a warrior and now that I have some other chars I find myself shaking my head in utter disbelief at some of the stuff that they do....

And blame me and others for their own mistake.

Yep, "American" more accurately refers to the Americas rather than solely the United States of. That doesn't stop all the "Ohmegad it's amurrka speak english!!!11", of course, which is always good for a laugh anyway. One thing I noticed when I picked up the game a week after the full release was the huge volume of Spanish and Portugese speaking players, relative to Anglophones. It might have just been a fluke, but for a couple of weeks encountering another English-speaking player was rare for me.

Excelent advice. Since the cumulative IQ of whatever group I'm in typically doesn't seem to add up to even my shoe size, I've stopped using chat almost completely. The only times I typically end up speaking now is to either call a condition/hex/cast/target or to call BS on someone I see trying to run a scam. I must say, though, that my favorite quote to date has been:

"OMG! ur on a american server!!1! TALK AMERIKCAN!!!1!!1"

If you don't get it, re-read it a few times until it sinks in...

EDIT: Please don't tell me I'm the only one who finds the stupidity of this quote absolutely halarious

In Arenas, you can meet people from all europe countries, not only yours. I was in english servers, and when I changed to french server, I saw the same person in some teams...

I don't mind people speaking another language than english on a dedicated server as long as they don't spam the local chat... And by the way Anarki, not all french people are arrogant and I guess you can apply that to spanish people as well.

There is a big difference in TELLING someone to speak a certain language and ASKING them to. For example english and bad english is all I can speak. If I got stuck with a group (and it has happened) where they were speaking some other language. I would probably ask as well if they spoke english and could speak it. There is nothing rude about that at all. Now having said that. The only time I see another language is when I am playing in an international server with my European friends. On rare occasion I have seen fench on the american channels... and some rude person did tell them to speak english because this was an american server. The person was an obvious tool who had no idea that not all americans are english.

I will also agree... local chat sucks. Now if your into the immature vulgar stuff then feel free to leave it on.

The only arrogant person in this story is the one that assumes their own language should be spoken by others.

Just to stick my neck out here ...

I do believe the OP said he kindly asked them to speak english, to which they said no. This is completely different than telling someone to speak it.

I tend to agree with the OP, while not leaning too far in the direction of "this is America, speak American!"

I don't mind at all if people speak other languages, except when (like another poster mentioned) it's spamming local chat. Well, hell, lets be honest: there are people that speak English that spam local chat with stupid stuff, but I tell those idiots to stop as much as the ones that aren't speaking english ... (I always wonder if they're talking bad about me, though ... I saw my IGN in someone's spanish the other day ... )

Coming way back roundabout to the OP's question: it's nice on American servers, and I would say there are proportionally more people speaking English on the American servers than on the Euro's ... but like others have said: be prepared for alot of leet-speak and gibberish, and keep local chat off most of the time

Agreed Lexar, I've played with a variety of French guys in the American server...They didn't know what the heck i was saying and i them but we still fought well and beat our mission.

True American Server is mostly for americans so ppl can all understand one language (cept for LEET, OFGWTFHAXXOR, and the like) but it aint illegal for a french, korean, german, dutch...to enter the American Servers cuz they wanna try somethign new.

Things might be more difficult since they don't understand our language and us theirs, but if its what they want then thats fine-they have the right

Well lets not forget not everyone on the american severs is American.

I am Canadain for one. French speakers in Quebec and other parts of Canada are the reason some people on the American servers speak french. Some Amercians can't catch this.

Me: So can I join the guild?

American: Well you have to live in western america

Me: I live in western Canada is that ok?

American: YOU HAVE TO B IN AMERICA SO WERE IN DA SAME TIME ZONES!!!111

Me: Dude Canada is north of America

American:.....

Me: I think I'll find another guild

america = iway
europe = less/no iway

I'm canadian as well so I'm well aware of there being french speaking americans/canadians.

Now I'm still canadian but I live in Alaska... its a part of the states but 4 hours behind where I lived in Canada. This puts me 4 hours behind most americans I play with lol. Good thing the guild I am in doesn't care about timezones... I don't think there is an alaskian guild.