Oh, to hell with that localisation crap!
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Posted on: 2010-01-27 07:35 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I feel your pain Samuel. Well not so much with this game but I can't play freaking Ghostbusters with English Subtitles and menu screens...they don't even give me the damn choice! To hell with localisation!
(I know, not so much to do with the topic but still a thing that frustrates me to end and seems more common nowadays(I'm looking at you youtube!).
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I will start accepting criticism about my country from Americans when they can consistantly find us on a map.
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Ok, this is actually really annoying, why can't we access the US website anymore?
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Yeah, seriously, if I wanted the EU website, I'd type the correct address manually. I mean, I get that funneling new people towards the local version of the site seems logical, but to us EU players who've chosen the US client, it's a real annoyance.
Couldn't you set up a cookie or something? Let us choose which page we want to see per default, and then funnel the cookie-less users towards their local sites? It'd solve both issues: The new players would get shown their local site, and the old players will be happy to continue on as usual.
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Did anyone put this up in Tech Issues/Bugs?
Not that it affects me, but this stinks.
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Did anyone put this up in Tech Issues/Bugs?
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
We are the Americans. Existence, as you know it, is over. We will add your characters and your servers to our own. Resistance is futile.
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Wait-wait-wait.... so are you saying......... that this game.... COH.... IT WELL BE GONE TO THE AMERICANS?????!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
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Really, until NC fixes this, your best bet is to use a proxy to access the US site. It's clunky and it's sometimes slow, but that beats no access, I suppose.
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I live in the EU to and I also play on the US servers. It generally works for me if I choose the american version of plaync a couple of times. Maybe I'm in luck but I have not experience the OP's problem with the site. If it jumps back to EU I just reclick it to US and it stays on the US site.
They should really merge...
That's a real pain Sam. Luckily they haven't done the same to us Oceanics, not that I don't like you guys in the EU, but I play the US version so would be in the same pickle. Bookmarking an alternate page to the mainpage of the US site seems the simplest work-around, a proxy service would work too, but seems over-the-top.
Ya know Sam, sometimes it's the little things, right?
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If theres one merge I would ever call for, it's the website to be merged.
I mean, since the get go the US version of the site has been BETTER. Not 'It looks better' (Well, it did...) or 'It works better' (Again, even though it did..wait) it had more info, better layout and ALL the things needed to know...except for EU related stuff.
Just make it www.cityofheroes.com and MERGE them so that EVERYONE, like on the forums, gets ALL the information and updates in one go, rather than *someone* (invariably Europe) getting the shaft.
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Seems likely things will head that way, I mean, one of the benefits of the internet is allowing access to information for people from any place on the globe. Why go mess with that and call it localisation? Admittedly I'm sure some businesses benefit from it, but this one...I'm not sure how.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
If theres one merge I would ever call for, it's the website to be merged.
I mean, since the get go the US version of the site has been BETTER. Not 'It looks better' (Well, it did...) or 'It works better' (Again, even though it did..wait) it had more info, better layout and ALL the things needed to know...except for EU related stuff. Just make it www.cityofheroes.com and MERGE them so that EVERYONE, like on the forums, gets ALL the information and updates in one go, rather than *someone* (invariably Europe) getting the shaft. Plzkthnxbai |
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None of the flags work on the english EU page. If you wanted to see the French or German versions you're just sent back to the english one. Not that I can read either one, but it smacks of a very poorly implemented idea.
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Originally Posted by Supafunkadunka
As another option for my European brothers, you can become Canadian. We're like America, only without that bitter American aftertaste!
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As all americans aside of the Native American where original from Europe. And Canadians and South Americans the same. All come from Spain, Ireland, Portugal Italy, French etc.
It would be waay more handy to just have that whole continent become part of Europe and be done with it.
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Well the flags on the EU site work..but they just change the language of the website itself. There needs to be an option to get to the US site, because when I go to the server status page I only see the EU servers there...which isn't helpful to me because I play on the US servers. |
Originally Posted by Heart Attack
None of the flags work on the english EU page. If you wanted to see the French or German versions you're just sent back to the english one. Not that I can read either one, but it smacks of a very poorly implemented idea.
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It would be better if NCSoft merged the EU and US sites as someone mentioned earlier....
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Well, shouldn't we all (Europeans included) just become part of Africa then? Last I knew that was where the brainiacs said original man hailed from... |
Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
I have a better idea...
As all americans aside of the Native American where original from Europe. And Canadians and South Americans the same. All come from Spain, Ireland, Portugal Italy, French etc. It would be waay more handy to just have that whole continent become part of Europe and be done with it. |
As for Canada, I will admit it's nice... But we Americans do tend to keep our backyards neat and tidy after all.
Arg. Put me in with the group of people screwed over by this. My wife and I started playing back in the States, but we now live in Israel... How annoying.
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Um...yeah... well, there are actually people that have come to the Americas (some of them becoming American citizens) from countries all over the planet and not just from Western and Southern-western Europe - including some of my ancestors.
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Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
I have a better idea...
As all americans aside of the Native American where original from Europe. And Canadians and South Americans the same. All come from Spain, Ireland, Portugal Italy, French etc. It would be waay more handy to just have that whole continent become part of Europe and be done with it. |
Merge all the websites, forums, and game servers into one giant site/server.
We'll call it Pangea.
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What I was meant to say is that I am comletly for merging the whole website part.
I cant understand why it was splitted anyway to start with. One site with several translations. Working flags to switch language and news for all regions at the same time. Server status including all servers running COX.
Like the one forum. That still has a splitted part for the accounts. I have my account at NCSOFT. And I am completly oke with that account to be merged with the US account. removing the need to add NA or EU choice on top of this forum. It would be one step further up the road to one server list available to all. Something I have been fighting for for years now.
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