As the title says, regions such as EUW are only allowed to have English, French etc. after Riot removed the ability to change locale. Some people that have moved from other countries to EUW may not feel as comfortable reading and hearing these languages and would prefer their first language such as Chinese, Korean, Russian etc.
ShirarezaruEiyuu2 votesafter Riot removed the ability to change locale
You can still change the language by appending " --locale=xx_XX" at the end of your LoL's shortcut target path.
For instance, if you want to change your language to Korean, it should look like this:
"X:\......\League of Legends\LeagueClient.exe" --locale=ko_KR
You can even create a new shortcut with a different locale for the language that you want. When you launch the client using that shortcut it will switch to that locale.
Beware that there's a bug which causes the game to crash if you change your locale to "ja_JP"(Japanese) when someone in either team has a team pass. This bug affects all game modes except TFT.
WHL Mythix1 votesI genuinely think this wouldn't work but I guess my point is invalid now. Thank you very much!
SEKAI2 votes[{quoted}](name=WHL Mythix,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=kRhFQeli,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2019-07-17T14:41:41.568+0000)
I genuinely think this wouldn't work but I guess my point is invalid now. Thank you very much!
You can change the game's language by the ways suggested by ShirarezaruEiyuu. Unless Riot made moves to remove it, it's how it has always worked.
The only issue is that it uniformly change both the audio and text language of the client. You can't for instance, use the English text, and French audio if that's what you prefer.
Honestly, there is no reason not to allow any of this. There is no reason why the players have to fiddle with the txt file (and gambling with your chances of being banned whenever Riot decides it's not allowed anymore and is now considered game file editing) to change the language of one of THE most played game ever made like League, and not even that, there is no separate language option for audio and text.
Apparently in 2019, Riot as one of the most successful game company to ever exist still has no concept of a language option in the game. You'd think that should only be a thing for indie devs who perhaps have not enough resource to bother with more detailed language options, but no, we're talking about League.
WHL Mythix1 votesYou can change the game's language by the ways suggested by ShirarezaruEiyuu. Unless Riot made moves to remove it, it's how it has always worked.
The only issue is that it uniformly change both the audio and text language of the client. You can't for instance, use the English text, and French audio if that's what you prefer.
Honestly, there is no reason not to allow any of this. There is no reason why the players have to fiddle with the txt file (and gambling with your chances of being banned whenever Riot decides it's not allowed anymore and is now considered game file editing) to change the language of one of THE most played game ever made like League, and not even that, there is no separate language option for audio and text.
Apparently in 2019, Riot as one of the most successful game company to ever exist still has no concept of a language option in the game. You'd think that should only be a thing for indie devs who perhaps have not enough resource to bother with more detailed language options, but no, we're talking about League.
Next update (From what I can see from the PBE) is that they've removed this as they're adding a new login cilent
Maximus Paine1 votesHonestly, there is no reason not to allow any of this. There is no reason why the players have to fiddle with the txt file
Agree
Apparently in 2019, Riot ...still has no concept of a language option in the game.
They do. Some regions, like EUW support different languages. What I don't understand is that they support on some regions and not others, when it should be simple. There may be different code versions for different region clients, but I can't imagine it would take them much work to add a dropdown for language selection and do whatever else is needed.
Maximus Paine1 votes[{quoted}](name=WHL Mythix,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=kRhFQeli,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2019-07-17T14:41:41.568+0000)
I genuinely think this wouldn't work but I guess my point is invalid now. Thank you very much!
You think, based on what? Have you tried it?
WHL Mythix1 votes[{quoted}](name=Maximus Paine,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=kRhFQeli,comment-id=000100000001,timestamp=2019-10-27T17:32:46.792+0000)
You think, based on what? Have you tried it?
Sorry, poor use of the English language there, I tried it before they introduced the new launcher and it worked but now it doesn;t.
Doncaster1 votesHow is this possible on mac please?
Power Mac1 votesNo reason not to allow it, but such cases are so rare that you're probably the first person ever pointing out this issue. Korean and Japanese immigration is basically non-existent in Europe, Russians are few while young Chinese are almost always born here (and therefore have no language-related problems, save for rare exceptions). I can't think of any other non-Western idiom.
Maximus Paine1 votes[{quoted}](name=Power Mac,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=kRhFQeli,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2019-07-11T15:25:14.520+0000)
No reason not to allow it, but such cases are so rare that you're probably the first person ever pointing out this issue.
The cases are not that rare. He's not the first person pointing out the issue.
There are tons of people looking how to do this. You probably are not in a region (or in touch) with people that have the problem. For example there are regions that support only one language, so people that travel or non-native speakers are screwed. Also, you may live closer to a server in another language with better ping, than to the one in your language. This is the case for people in the Caribbean or places near the USA/MX border. Ping to NA (Chicago) is 120ms but 70 ms to LAN (Miami) - but LAN is in Spanish, so we change it to en_US.