Language Barriers (Recommendations/Suggestions?)

Kedrona·12/7/2013, 7:18:02 PM·1 votes·661 views

I am no genius when it comes to foreign languages, and although the separation of servers has helped I still run into people who hardly speak the dominant language of the region in game. I know pings and such have made it possible to work around it a bit, but when it comes to strategic maneuvers or champion select it's near impossible to deal with language barriers.

The only solution I could imagine for this is to separate queue modes not only by server but by the language the user browses the client in, or have a system where you can select multiple languages for those who are bilingual. Obviously it's not perfect and those who don't speak the dominant language could still select it just to get into game faster, but I feel like it'd be worth it to filter out more of the problems that face the general populace.

4 Comments

FATMAN12/8/2013, 1:57:37 AM2 votes

I think riot tried enough to help people with language barrier by having servers in different regions.. English is not my first language, but is not a disadvantage in playing game because chat is not too big of a factor in playing LoL

hunnyflash12/8/2013, 4:32:59 AM2 votes

I don't think it's needed. I was mainly on EUW before playing on NA, and every game I never knew if we were going to have dominantly French, German, English, Spanish, Swedish lol

The biggest barrier is getting people to communicate at all lol

When people want to, they will find a way. And most people know a little bit of the dominant languages like English, to be effective.

HitYouInTheFace12/7/2013, 7:34:45 PM1 votes

No habla Englis.