Now, before someone comes here and drops the discrimination card or something, I suggest that only European players take part in this thread. Unless, of course, hordes of Russian players also dwell on American servers.
I should make it clear at this point that it's not about cheating (which Russians are, allegedly, notoriously doing) or the people themselves - it's about chat spam.
I've heard of countless F2P games that are dominated by Russians, but have only experienced this in APB: Reloaded or, as I began calling it after a while, APB: Russian.
I'm pretty sure it's
not like 90% of the game's players are from that country, but when you look at District chat, that's the impression you get.
Russians dominate the chat with their crazy Cyrylic alphabet and after a few weeks no one even bothers to type anything in English. Both European APB:R servers have essentially turned into Russian servers, leaving little for us non-Russian folk to comfortably play on.
I don't mind people from different countries playing on the same server as me. Hell, I'm often ashamed when I see how my fellow citizens act in some games. However, Russian players are a very unique force in F2P games and I dearly hope most of that, should there be any language restrictions on some servers, they will prefer to play on their own ones.
Maybe the Cyrylic alphabet could be disabled only on Global and Local channels (anything publicly available), but enabled on /tell, /squad /platoon, /outfit etc. This stops their inevitable spam, but still allows Russians to both play on European servers, but also form their own outfits and play in squads.
The point is, I don't want the Russian
people to be effectively banned from half of the European server, I just don't want to see their unintelligible spam everywhere.
What are your experiences and/or thoughts on this?
2011-09-25, 01:54 PM
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