Oh, to hell with that localisation crap!
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AegisWolf,
Posted on: 2010-01-27 07:35 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by AegisWolf
It's solved? Mmm, strange, I still have this problem (maybe I only need to try later)...
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Getting past your hate for us EU people, I had no problem accessing the US version of the site by using this link: http://www.cityofheroes.com/en/|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
OK, OK... I'll do my best to breathe deep and not use the kind of language that will get me banned off the forum for all times, and just restrict myself to exclaiming: This blows!
Let me explain. I live in Europe, but I've been a subscriber to City of Heroes since before there was an EU version, so I never switched over. As such, I still play the US version of the game, and would very much like to be routed to the US versions of sites pertaining to the game. Now, it's bad enough that the PlayNC store insists on routing me to the EU store every time, constantly trying to trick me into buying EU booster packs that won't work for my game. That I can deal with, since they're labelled as So and So (Europe) and a "US version also available) link in fine print still exists. It's annoying, it's insulting, but at least it's manageable. But what the HELL happened to the main City of Heroes site? Why the FFF does it forcibly redirect me to the European version of the site? Yes, it has the little flags up top, but they DO NOTHING! I knew it there was something odd about it today, but I didn't think much of it. Well, today, I can't connect to City of Heroes (likely a connection problem) and I go to check server status. I go to News -> Server status and... What the hell?!? Defiant? Zukunft? Vigilance? What the... I don't care about these servers! I CAN'T PLAY on these servers, why the HELL would I care if they're up or down? I want to know whether Victory and Pinnacle are up or down, but I can't! Only then does it dawn on me what site I'm actually looking at: eu.cityofheroes.com. What? No! That's not what I want! So I do the obvious and go to www.cityofheroes.com, but in the back of my head, I know what's going to happen. And it does. As soon as I hit enter, the URL shifts to eu.cityofheroes.com and it loads the EU site again. Luckily, we only have one set of forms now, or it would have probably shunted me over the the EU boards to. Well go to hell! I HATE HATE HATE localisation of sites! HATE it like you wouldn't believe! I don't CARE about local variants of the services I'm ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR! And I really, REALLY do not enjoy being locked away from sites just because a crappy localised version of it exists, especially when it GOD DAMN DOESN'T HAVE WHAT I WANT! Argh!!! Look, at this point, I'm willing to cheat. I'm about ready to flip PlayNC a birdie and just somehow cheat my way into the site for the game I FRIKKIN' OWN! Is there something I can change about my settings, like my location in Regional and Language settings or some such that would make me appear to be in the US? Is there some way I can make an exception for a particular site? I pay real money for this game each month, and I DO NOT APPRECIATE being routed to sites that ARE NOT FOR MY GAME! Is there anything, ANYTHING I can do to fix this? |
Then again, I'm on Firefox, not on IE. That might be your problem?
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Or perhaps Avatea posted that the issue had been resolved approximately 12 hours before you posted this?
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
Getting past your hate for us EU people, I had no problem accessing the US version of the site by using this link: http://www.cityofheroes.com/en/
Then again, I'm on Firefox, not on IE. That might be your problem? |
@Roderick
Can we go back to picking on Canada now??
(though I do have to thank them for hockey... And the ballet...)
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Typing http://www.cityofheroes.com/ still takes us into the english EU site, BUT the flags now work so you can get to the US, French and German sites.
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Originally Posted by AegisWolf
It's solved? Mmm, strange, I still have this problem (maybe I only need to try later)...
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Ah ok, then I just need to correct the bookmark.
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Originally Posted by Heart Attack
Typing http://www.cityofheroes.com/ still takes us into the english EU site, BUT the flags now work so you can get to the US, French and German sites.
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Sorry, but I can't help you with that. Don't pick in my own.
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Originally Posted by Caemgen
Can we go back to picking on Canada now??
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@Roderick
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OK, should have been more explicit: I frequently hop between both and never had any problems previous to Avatea's intervention or after it. Might be because of Firefox, or might be because I didn't go there yesterday when it wasn't working.|
Originally Posted by Roderick
Or perhaps Avatea posted that the issue had been resolved approximately 12 hours before you posted this?
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That better?
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Man, this reminds me of Kotaku Australia. I don't care what it's like now, when it first came out it was a terrible segregated, inferior site that nobody used and I felt insulted.
A bit of a trawl through the thread gives me this:
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What hate of EU people? I live in the EU, how am I supposed to hate EU people? I don't think I hate myself |
Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
Getting past your hate for us EU people, I had no problem accessing the US version of the site by using this link: http://www.cityofheroes.com/en/
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And, yeah, I've seen that link. It's still a significantly more problematic solution since it requires me to access a page within a site directly, rather than just going to the site. Since I don't use bookmarks for sites with names I can recall off the top of my head and which Firefox autocompletes for me, having to hunt down a bookmark in my messy list and do my best to not accidentally hit a porn bookmark with people sitting around me is not superior to typing www.c
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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lol nice.
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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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Enjoy your day please.
Sam, did I not see you thank them for fixing the issue? 
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that sucks guys, sorry to hear that, and glad they do not have localized Canadian servers. (yes I'm aware that it's a continent thing...)
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Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
lol nice.
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lol yah that was win.
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I don't recall doing that, as the issue isn't exactly "fixed." Not in the same sense that the PlayNC store was fixed, which basically added big signs on all their products saying "European Version! Run away!" The base City of Heroes site (that is to say, www.cityofheroes.com) HAS been fixed to where the flags actually matter, which actually does a lot better job than keeping a bookmark. I still wish I could make the site remember my preference, though.
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Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Sam, did I not see you thank them for fixing the issue?
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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"Thank you, but there are still issues such as the PlayNC Store. Remembering the website preference for US/UK/etc. would be convenient too."
I'll say it for you.
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It's solved? Mmm, strange, I still have this problem (maybe I only need to try later)...
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"The Natural Earth" (Part 1, ID 69759), "The Homecoming" (Part 2, ID 125110), "The Cult of Kren'Goras" (Part 3, ID 435191), "The Mind Thieves" (Part 4, ID 522497)
Each arc can be played separately