Curse

Banditda · Aug 05, 2007, 09:05 PM // 21:05

no, i don't think that Canada should have their own district, because in Europe the countries don't have their own districts, they are split into districts by language. What I think they should do for the American territory is add a French district and a Spanish district, because not everyone in North and South America speak English, I see people from French Canada speaking French trying to find other French speaking Canadians, but most of them just go to the French district in the European territory, as with the Spanish speaking Mexicans and South Americans, this makes it unfair with the Gods favor, because the people who should be playing for America are playing for Europe.

But the problem is most of the people already in the European servers would not realize that the American servers have been changed, so there should be an advertisement at the log in screen telling the people about the change for about 4 weeks and there should be a message in the user talk that tells them of the update, similar to the way guildwars informs the people of new updates.

countesscorpula · Aug 06, 2007, 10:55 PM // 22:55

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Originally Posted by dargon

The question is, are there enough non-bilingual people in Quebec that actually play guildwars to justify a north american french district.

No, the question should be, are there enough people playing on the American Servers (not just North America) who would feel more comfortable speaking French to warrent a French district. I can stand on my head. I can probably do so while playing Guildwars. But it's not comfortable (just as some french speakers can speak englsih, but it's not comfortable).

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Originally Posted by dargon

Just because people living [in] another province speak french, doesn't make it a french speaking province.

Ok. Perhaps I can choose my words more clearly. My intention was to indicate that Quebec is not the only home to French speakers (francophones).

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Originally Posted by dargon

Quebec is the only official french speaking province in Canada.

New Brunswick is "officially bilingual". That means that it is Officially an English Speaking Province. It aslo means that Officially it is a French Speaking Province.

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Originally Posted by dargon

As for these francophone communities in BC, being from BC myself, I'd love to know which communities you speak of.

"While the passing of time has diluted the use of the French language in British Columbia, it is still heard on the streets and in the homes on the south slope of Coquitlam." - Wikipedia

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Originally Posted by La Francophonie en Colombie-Britannique

-Nearly 64 000 British Columbians are Francophone.

-The Francophone community of BC is the third largest outside Quebec, after Ontario and New Brunswick.

-Approximately 270 000 British Columbians can speak French.

-The Francophone community of BC has grown for the last 50 years.

http://www.ffcb.bc.ca/main/por_statistiques_e.php

Granted, 64 000 isn't a huge number to some, but it is enough to fill a small sized city. They just tend to be living in small pockets that you probably haven't noticed. There are also close to 40 Francophone schools in British Columbia (not french immersion, full-on french schools). Do they make up a large portion of BC? No. Should the be completely disregarded? No.

So, to get to the root of my point, with out all the bluster and what not: Quebec is not the only home to French speakers in Canada, and Canada is not the only home to French speakers in the Americas.

Is the French population on the servers large enough to warrent their own district? As I stated earlier, I don't know. Nor does any other player. The only people who can possibly know that kind of information are working at Arena Net. Anyone else who claims to have such knowledge is about on par with someone playing pin the tail on the donkey: They might have hit the ass end, but I've seen a lot of donkeys with tails pinned to their eyes.

Who knows, maybe there are far more Spanish speakers on the American servers than French speakers. There are certainly more Spanish countries in the Americas than French ones (or English ones for that matter). Maybe we might see a Spanish district some time in the distant future.

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Originally Posted by dargon

How would you define a player? People come, people go, people come back again. Does that mean they'd go from player to non-player to player?

I don't make that definition. As I said earlier, the only people who can make an informed decision in that area are Arena Net. The OP made a suggestion (though servers/districts was probably a misunderstanding on their part - possibly even due to translation issues), and that's what this forum is for. All the people here saying "no way, don't do it, no one needs it" are just ill informed folks who shoot down anything they don't understand.

A suggestion has been made. As with most suggestions, it will only go as far as A-Net feels it has use. That about sums it up.

Edit: It would seem there are enough French speakers in Canada to warrent sales of a French version of Guild Wars in Canada:
http://www.amazon.ca/Guild-Wars-Eye-...440717&sr=8-11

MithranArkanere · Aug 07, 2007, 01:51 AM // 01:51

European Polish players are less than Canadian French-speaking players.

So amount is not a problem.