Originally Posted by Trolltaxi
As a hungarian PS player I have to refuse your arguments! Language barrier really is an issue, but there is no refusal to use forign languages because of poor associacions of former russian rule... It is always lack of personal language skills no matter what they may try to reason with...
And about netiquette. It's not about "recent internet penetration" - as it has penetrated at the same time as in the rest of the world, or with a 1-2 years delay. It's about the fact, that there are a lots of inmatures gaming but way fewer matures. An average eastern-bloc gamer is way younger and we all know how a young gamer can behave (or rather: can't behave himself).
I don't apologise for them - actually I blame them for being a dick - but the world is not that black/white (or red/white) that you may presume anymore.
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Rar. True, true. Though I can't tell how high a percentage of the populace has access to pc's/internet in Balkan countries. Of course, also not sure how the distribution of games been done there. World of Tanks is of course a Belarussian company iirc and may have focused more on eastern European localization and distribution channels.
Was a pretty interesting discussion on it on the World of Tanks forums though. Of course in World of Tanks it's also more prominent since there's only ONE chat window that both enemies and allies can use (no /t, /o, /s or /p, just /comallfriendlies or /comalleveryone). That makes the minority heard more of course.
EDIT: Here is one of the more interesting threads on it:
http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.p...and-who-cares/