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Cracko · May 17, 2006, 04:36 PM // 16:36

I'm Dutch myself and i see LOTS of people talking Dutch in English districts, I think it's time to put up a Dutch district because when i see the people in Italian and Spanish districts, theres like 2 people tops (in normal outposts) so why not a Dutch district? it'll be more populated than Spanish and Italian. Probably even more than France

PS. Yes, i know this is mainly an American forum, but i'm sure theres a lot of European guys out there. Thanks

Aera · May 17, 2006, 04:40 PM // 16:40

Yup, I'm Dutch as well and it would be cool

For some reason they think "that little country doesn't have much players anyway" -- they're terribly mistaking and probably don't even know the Belgian peolpe also speak Dutch :/

/signed

broodijzer · May 17, 2006, 05:18 PM // 17:18

I am Dutch too, and a dutch district would make sense. But I wouldn't use it, since most Dutch people I play with are a lot more arrogant than the other people that use the English district...

/signed anyway.

Renegade ++RIP++ · May 17, 2006, 05:20 PM // 17:20

not signed wouldn't use it anyway

Dougal Kronik · May 17, 2006, 06:02 PM // 18:02

I'm not on the European Servers, but if there is a French, Italian, and Spanish District I don't see why they can't have a Dutch District.

/signed

hyro yamaguchi · May 17, 2006, 06:13 PM // 18:13

/signed

Let me tell you why;

I can walk into a random town, start talking dutch, and have a 99% chanche of someone understanding what I am saying.

Today I went into random arenas and got into a 3/4 dutch group.

7/10 times there is someone else from the netherlands in a PUG in PvE

And it seems to me there are more dutch guilds than english recruiting.

OscarMik · May 17, 2006, 06:43 PM // 18:43

Well, i'm Dutch but i normally speak English, Dutch is soo boring :P, It's true, Guild Wars has alot of Dutch players (comparing to the amount of Italian and Spanish players :P), but i don't think a Dutch district is neccesery..

hyro yamaguchi · May 17, 2006, 06:51 PM // 18:51

Well yes all dutch can speak proper english, but I disagree on the dutch is boring part; you can express yourself much better in Dutch, and I tend to speak dutch as much as possible, since I am, what we would call a "taal fetishist". But I honestly do not know the english word for that.

Hmm nu nog een Frysk district en dan ben ik tevreden

jummeth · May 17, 2006, 06:55 PM // 18:55

/notsigned
Because there will be more people in the English districts xP

Plus you guys speak better english than half the english people I know.

Yanman.be · May 17, 2006, 06:58 PM // 18:58

Esperanto District PL0xxx

(I'm Belgian, I'm sure Dutch Disses would be filled, so /signed )

Wyrmdog · May 17, 2006, 09:59 PM // 21:59

If it happened I'd miss out on yet another group of people so I'd be disappointed to have you all go. Still, I can't begrudge you a language-specific district. Best of luck!

Carth` · Oct 09, 2006, 05:37 PM // 17:37

/signed

I want to know Anet's reasoning behind there being no Dutch district. (Gaile?). There are far more Dutch players than Spanish or Italian, yet they have districts, usually with only 4 players in. And then in the English districts you get half of the people talking Dutch.

Anybody who wants to speak English or play with English players can still do that - I play with French, German, Spanish and Italian players all the time because they were in the English district, but the important thing is they were speaking English, and if they want to speak their own language, they have somewhere to do it.

So yeah, make a Dutch district please so that I don't have to feel like I'm already there.

Rathcail · Oct 09, 2006, 05:47 PM // 17:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carth`

I want to know Anet's reasoning behind there being no Dutch district.

Of the different language districts they have so far, they also have the whole game translated for that language. Text, voice acting, everything. The language choice in the menu will default you to that certain district, but then the whole game uses that language.

So what language you use for the game and districts are linked. I don't see Dutch district happening unless they add Dutch language support for the game.

the_jos · Oct 09, 2006, 08:10 PM // 20:10

I want all those country districts to go away and just Europe 1, 2, ....
That will make it somewhat easier to find a team, instead of switching between English, German and French.

Do the US servers have districts for every US state?
Or is there just US 1, 2, .....

And, not all Dutch do speak English, but most of them can communicate enough in the language to play the game.
Most of the time I see little more than "glf monk", "lfp". "<profession> lfp",
"noob" and that sort of language.
After searching for a monk a few times on the various servers, I can ask for them in English, German and French. Just check how others do that and repeat