Racial languages

What would you guys and girls and everything else in between and beyond, think of each race having their own language, that you could select in your chat box.

The idea would be that other players of the same race would see the message appear properly and readable, while everyone else would get something akin to absolute freaking gibberish. If you must draw a source of inspiration and comparison, think of the language barrier between Horde and Alliance in WoW.

This, in my opinion, would further reinforce the decision of what race you're playing. And while not restrictive as an opt-in check in your chat box, it could definitely add to the immersion and sense of racial belonging when races are so diverse.

Maybe even have some algorithm modify languages of one race, to make it read as if having a weird accent to the other half of your race (Empyreans vs Py'Rai elves for example), or as lore requires.

Would this be something interesting to you? How would you expand it or modify it? How can it break the game and how do we avoid that?

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latisullivan

In 2021, you would need to think of a complex, tidy system that includes a bunch of stuff like "ability to recover relics/learn skills/acquire items" special to certain race, mixed with a "linguistic" profession that you can learn to learn languages of other species (or maybe as a normal character, you learn 1 language max besides yours, and a polyglot can learn several) to make it worthwhile. I say "in 2021" because everyone is already on discord or use guild-chat. And if you make it so in guild chat different races can't read each other, is not only restrictive in game for no reason, makes everyone go to discord or a call software even more.
The social aspect of mmo's as they were before is kind of dead and it has shifted. So there are a lot of things that back in the day were super amazing, today they wouldn't work or just be avoided/ignored.

Vhaeyne

BlackBrony wrote: »

It's a regional server, so multiple languages are the norm?

Not going to be the case in NA, which is what I am mainly concerned about. It might be different in other regions. While I practice other languages in my spare time, I don't want to deal with other languages when it's game time. Unless they want to make a classical Latin server. Which is extremely unlikely.

Asgerr

Vhaeyne wrote: »

BlackBrony wrote: »

It's a regional server, so multiple languages are the norm?

Not going to be the case in NA, which is what I am mainly concerned about. It might be different in other regions. While I practice other languages in my spare time, I don't want to deal with other languages when it's game time. Unless they want to make a classical Latin server. Which is extremely unlikely.

Yeah in EU servers you usually have people speaking German, French and Spanish no matter what the "official" language on the server is (strangely most Italians never speak Italian in chat).

Many people like the game text to be in english, as it feels more "authentic" somehow, but then don't wanna speak it, or can't.

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